(In)visibilities of Men and Aging in the Media: Discourses from Germany and Portugal

Amaral, Inês; Santos, Sofía José; Daniel, Fernanda; Filipe, Filipa

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“…Most European societies exhibit a gradually ageing demographic, which we can expect to be reflected in the media through increasing visibility given to older people, as the media simultaneously reflect and construct societal changes (Amaral et al, 2019). In this way, the salience of certain issues (e.g.…”

Section: Media Representations Of Older Peoplementioning

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(Non-)Stereotypical representations of older people in Swedish authority-managed social media

2020

Ageing and Society

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Social media facilitates the sharing of ideas, thoughts and information about older people and later life through online networks and communities in contemporary society. Social media content about older people has become important for understanding media representations of older people, but it has not been sufficiently studied. Recent studies suggest that older people are predominantly represented as a disempowered, vulnerable and homogeneous group on social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter. Because local authorities in many countries have begun using Facebook to reach out to and interact with citizens, they are seen as a significant producer of media content about older people and later life. The purpose of this study is to examine the ways in which Swedish local authorities have visually portrayed older people in their use of Facebook compared with other age groups. This research performed a visual content analysis of 1,000 Facebook posts posted by 33 Swedish local authorities, employing ten analytical aspects to describe and interpret the signs, activities and contexts associated with older people and other age groups (infants, children, adolescents and adults). The study found that the representations of older people on the Facebook pages of local authorities appeared to be not very diverse; specifically, older people (including those in residential care homes) were mainly portrayed as remaining socially engaged and moderately physically capable. This media representation destabilised the prevalent negative stereotypes of older people as being out of touch and dependent; however, it collided with the reality of older individuals with care needs. Additionally, this study argues that older people are represented as inferior to the young in terms of physical and technological competence, based on the connotations of the signs. Given that local authorities have progressively incorporated social media into their daily work, it is expected that this study will contribute to a greater understanding of the ways in which local authorities produce (non-)stereotypical representations of older people on social media.

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(Non-)Stereotypical representations of older people in Swedish authority-managed social media

2020

Ageing and Society

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“…rationality, toughness, leadership, strength -and cultural dynamics through which men claim and perpetuate a position of power in the existing gender hierarchy [4,13]. It is, thus, a normative proposal which represents an ideal to which men and boys should look up, offering guidance on how boys and men should be, think, feel, express themselves and behave [2,3]. Men who adopt attributes commensurate with the ideal of hegemonic masculinity can assert their (alleged) superiority over women (and non-hegemonic men) and consolidate their general position of domination over them [14].…”

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“…Masculinities and femininities represent, thus, culturally and socially constructed ideals of what a boy/man and a girl/woman should be, express themselves and behave. These have been built within patriarchy and on a relational and binary basis [2,3]. Although there is a prevailing conception of what it means to be a boy/man and a girl/woman, femininities and masculinities are multiple (depending on context, ideology, experiences, and sense of self) and, at times, even contradictory [2,4].…”

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Gender identities and roles do not stand alone but rather evolve while intersecting with other traits, namely age, resulting in cross and hybrid (gender and age) identities. Media are one of the pivotal formative spaces where audiences learn role models and the way they should express and behave: Therefore, media environments influence the way one perceives and understands age and gender identities as well as expresses them publicly. Media also promote (inter)generational contexts given that different age groups organize their technological experience in their own specific ways and interact with different other generations. This article explores how masculinities are represented in the digital realm, shedding light on intergenerational dynamics and collective hashtag narratives. Specifically, this article will analyse collective narratives on Instagram through a hashtag stream, focusing specifically on representations of masculinities and how different generations interact and represent how to be, behave and express as "a man".

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“…Partindo do pressuposto de que é também pelas representações mediáticas que o poder social flui (Simões 2017;Amaral et al 2019), neste artigo, analisamos o modo como os principais media informativos portugueses representaram a candidata do LIVRE JKM durante o período de campanha eleitoral das últimas eleições legislativas portuguesas. A partir de uma abordagem interseccional ancorada numa perspetiva feminista, e recorrendo à análise temática crítica, identificamos os padrões de representação e os discursos ideológicos prevalecentes na cobertura mediática da candidata e problematizamos as suas implicações para o acesso igualitário à tomada de decisão política e para a real e efetiva promoção da igualdade de género na sociedade em geral.…”

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(In)visibilities of Men and Aging in the Media: Discourses from Germany and Portugal

Cited by 10 publications

References 22 publications

(Non-)Stereotypical representations of older people in Swedish authority-managed social media

(Non-)Stereotypical representations of older people in Swedish authority-managed social media

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