The representation(s) of Saudi women pre-driving era in local newspapers and magazines: a critical discourse analysis

Elyas, Tariq; Al-Zhrani, Kholoud Ali; Mujaddadi, Abrar; Almohammadi, Alaa

doi:10.1080/13530194.2020.1744427

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“…Coverage of the issue in the two newspapers, which was relatively polarized and frequently negative prior to 2017, became uniformly positive once the rulership announced its intention to lift the ban. Corroborating our analysis, Elyas et al (2020, 20), who studied Saudi newspapers and magazines through critical discourse analysis, evaluate this polarization of media portrayals of women's empowerment in the context of driving as a sign of social change in Saudi society.…”

Section: Empirical Results and Discussionmentioning

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Between Uniformity and Polarization: Women’s Empowerment in the Public Press of GCC States

Müller

Camia

2022

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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have increased their promotion of women in public life. The expansion of women's rights in these states functions as a central policy tool to stimulate modernization processes. This article investigates how the Gulf governments steer women's empowerment through the press. Regulated by the state, media outlets in GCC countries primarily serve to affirm and amplify the legitimacy of the government. Focusing on 15 English-language newspapers from 2008 to 2017, this article analyzes the degree to which women's empowerment in various arenas of society was addressed and the valence with which it was reported. Moreover, it analyzes whether foreign and domestic news were addressed differently. The article finds that once nondemocracies focus on women's rights, positive media portrayals, especially of domestic news, become central for legitimizing both women's empowerment and the regime. The article contributes to the growing literature on women's rights legislation and the state-media nexus in autocracies.

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Section: Empirical Results and Discussionmentioning

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Between Uniformity and Polarization: Women’s Empowerment in the Public Press of GCC States

Müller

Camia

2022

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“…The results reveal that women were represented in a positive way both linguistically and visually in the chosen newspapers with the exception of El‐Khabar which has negatively portrayed women on the visual level. Elyas et al (2020) have attempted to investigate how Saudi women were being represented in online Saudi local media before the lifting of the driving ban. They employed van Leeuwen's (1993) analytical framework to explore 17 articles from Saudi newspapers and magazines.…”

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Colors and Orientalism as associations: Exploring the semiotic (re)presentation of Saudi women in British and Saudi newspapers

Elyas

Aljabri

Alharbi

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Digest Mid East Studies

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Media representations can have significant influence in shaping opinions and influence public response to certain communities or gender and ethnic representations around the world. Investigating semiotic representation in linguistic discourse as vehicles for meaning in culture has been a fruitful area of research over the past decades. This study explores how stereotypes of women feed into the representations of Saudi women in contemporary press in Britain and Saudi Arabia. The focus is on the newspaper genre. Data for this study have been gleaned from a particular set of British and Saudi newspapers. Using the Color Image Scale (CIS) as a research tool, this study yielded a number of findings, the main one of which is the discrepancy in Saudi women's representation in the journalistic discourse under study. In addition, variances in color choice and usage between the newspapers in the present study were apparent. The study provides an important opportunity to advance our understanding of Saudi women's representation in British versus Saudi newspapers. The present study also makes a major contribution to research on critical discourse analysis by demonstrating how power as well as orientalism impact Saudi women's representation. The findings of this study are important for scholars of gender, religion, media, and cultural diversity.

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“…Over the last 50 years, Saudi women's position has developed significantly in various respects (Elyas et al, 2020). They have witnessed tremendous growth of their activities in several domains; for instance, there has been an increase of opportunities for women in terms of education and employment due to social development (Elyas et al, 2020). Education is the domain in which Saudi women have experienced the most improvement (Almunajjed, 1997).…”

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Representations of Saudi Male’s Guardianship System and Women’s Freedom to Travel in Western Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Elyas

Aljabri

2020

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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There has been a tremendous interest in the Western media concerning the status of women in Saudi Arabia. The recent reform in women’s rights and guardianship system has Western media gone into motion frenzy. A few research has been done on the representation of Saudi women in Arabic newspapers, but there is a scarce of research in Western English newspapers to date. This article exercises a critical discourse analysis approach to investigate the language used in three famous Western newspapers to uncover the hidden ideologies behind the representation of Saudi women’s guardianship system. To this end, van Dijk’s (2004) analytical framework was employed to reveal the underlying ideologies of six reports by The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Toronto Star. The findings show that the three newspapers have expressed the notion of “otherness” in their descriptions of Saudi Arabia and Saudi women. Furthermore, the newspapers have shared the employment of consensus and negative other-presentation to portray Saudi women as being oppressed and subordinate.

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The representation(s) of Saudi women pre-driving era in local newspapers and magazines: a critical discourse analysis

Cited by 12 publications

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Between Uniformity and Polarization: Women’s Empowerment in the Public Press of GCC States

Between Uniformity and Polarization: Women’s Empowerment in the Public Press of GCC States

Colors and Orientalism as associations: Exploring the semiotic (re)presentation of Saudi women in British and Saudi newspapers

Representations of Saudi Male’s Guardianship System and Women’s Freedom to Travel in Western Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis

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