Framing the Victim

Waterhouse-Watson, Deb

doi:10.1080/08164649.2012.648260

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“…In producing our guidelines, we wanted to offer concrete advice on how to handle the very different weight of publicly-reportable information about the accused and complainers typical in all sexual assault trials, albeit exacerbated in cases involving public figures. This is something other feminist media critics have grappled with (Oldfield & McDonald, 2021;Waterhouse-Watson, 2012), and we appreciate the difficulties journalists face in reporting responsibly whilst still producing readable copy. We suggest that journalists try to ensure equal weight is given to accused and complainer across the reporting of the trial as a whole and do not give details about one party which cannot be given about the other (Boyle and Jessie, 2020).…”

Section: (Ir)responsible Reporting Of Sexual Assault Trialsmentioning

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“…We do not want reporting to cast doubt on an acquittal, but rather -throughout the reporting of trial and verdict -we urge that both accused and complainer are granted a presumption of innocence. As it stands, trial reporting too often asserts the presumption of the accused's innocence at the expense of the complainer, so that for him to be presumed innocent, she must be assumed to have lied (Waterhouse-Watson, 2012). This reinforces the sense that many complainers report that they are the ones who are actually on trial.…”

Section: (Ir)responsible Reporting Of Sexual Assault Trialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Rape in the News

Boyle¹,

Jessie²,

Strickland³

2022

Rape

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The media have an important role to play in constructing, maintaining or challenging a rapesupportive culture. In this chapter, we discuss news reporting of rape and sexual assault in Scotland, drawing on a variety of research and advocacy projects we have been involved in, as workers in Rape Crisis Scotland (RCS) and as academic researchers. This includes studies of media representation, work with media organisations in relation to trial reporting, and a focus group exploring survivors' thoughts about news media. We identify two key challenges for contemporary news reporting: the difficulty of translating a feminist analysis into incident-driven, justice-oriented news; and of constructing and understanding experience and expertise. We argue that the news media's emphasis on criminal trials produces a limited understanding of the continuum of sexual violence, and limits the range and nature of stories which can be told. We consider the contexts in which survivors -and those who work with them -could be used as experts rather than to report specifically on personal experience.

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Section: (Ir)responsible Reporting Of Sexual Assault Trialsmentioning

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Rape in the News

Boyle¹,

Jessie²,

Strickland³

2022

Rape

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Sexual Violence

Boyle¹

2020

The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication

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This entry is concerned with the relationship between feminist media studies and broader feminist activism against sexual violence and harassment. Feminist scholarship and activism in this area frequently exhibits concern about the role that the media play in creating a “conducive context” for sexual violence, but there is also a long‐standing interest in how activists, bystanders, victims, and survivors can engage with the media, as well as in the stories the media tell about what sexual violence is and who its perpetrators and victims are. This entry surveys these debates through the lens of the #MeToo movement: focusing on victim/survivor/activist engagement with the media; feminist theories of sexual violence and rape culture; and the in/visibility of men.

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#MeToo, Weinstein and Feminism

Boyle

2019

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Framing the Victim

Abstract: This paper analyses the (re-)presentation of rape complainant testimony on three

Cited by 16 publications

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Rape in the News

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