Media Representation of Women Parliamentary Candidates in Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-160
Author(s):  
Amanda Coffie ◽  
Peace A. Medie
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Women Politicians ◽  
General Election ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
The Media ◽  
Election Studies ◽  
Women's Appearance

Chapter 6 focuses on how women candidates are portrayed in the media. The chapter analyzes the coverage of women candidates in Ghana’s Daily Graphic, one of the country’s largest newspapers, during the December 2016 general election. Studies of how the media cover women politicians are quite rare in Africa. In this study, Coffie and Medie find that women candidates do not face bias in the quantity or quality of media coverage. Instead, women candidates are somewhat more likely to be covered by the Daily Graphic and articles on women are slightly longer than articles on men. Moreover, the coverage of women is not disproportionately focused on women’s issues, nor is it disproportionately negative and focused on women’s appearance. To explain these surprising findings, Coffie and Medie draw on interviews with reporters and elected women representatives.

Signs of change in media representation of women in Israeli politics: Leading and peripheral women contenders

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Einat Lachover
Keyword(s):  
Women Politicians ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
High Exposure ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Interpretive Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
Traditional Patterns

The study seeks to examine gender portrayal of Israeli women politicians, and specifically that of candidates for Israel’s parliament on televised news and in print in the elections of 2013. The study is based on an interpretive analysis of all news items wherein the women candidates are mentioned during the month preceding the elections. This study joins recent studies that point to a change in how women politicians are portrayed in the media. Leading contenders succeed in influencing their coverage, and commensurately usually enjoy nonstereotypically gendered portrayal. Moreover, they occasionally seek to make use of hegemonic cultural norms to benefit what they perceive as structuring their positive gendered portrayal. In contrast, the coverage of peripheral contenders suffers from traditional patterns of sidelining. It emerges that peripheral contenders who gain relatively high exposure are portrayed as exceptional based either on their extraordinary other-ness or on the newsworthiness of their campaigns.

The Role of Mass Media in Women's Participation in 2013 Kenya General Election

2016 ◽  
pp. 250-270
Author(s):  
Thomas Ibrahim Okinda
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
General Election ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Free Media

This chapter assesses the role and performance of the Kenyan media in women's participation in 2013 Kenya general election with particular emphasis on radio, television and newspapers. Kenya has a diverse, vibrant and largely free media whose coverage of the election was useful in informing, educating and mobilizing women to vote. However, limited and biased media coverage of women candidates, inadequate civic and voter education may have inhibited women's electoral participation as few women contested and won electoral seats in the 2013 Kenyan polls. Therefore, the media should enhance the visibility of women, political rights and issues of women as the country endeavours to enhance gender equality in political representation. To achieve this, the media should partner with women, the electoral body, government, political parties and other stakeholders in Kenya in order to improve women's media coverage and political participation.

The Role of Mass Media in Women's Participation in 2013 Kenya General Election

2020 ◽  
pp. 528-548
Author(s):  
Thomas Ibrahim Okinda
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
General Election ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Free Media

This chapter assesses the role and performance of the Kenyan media in women's participation in 2013 Kenya general election with particular emphasis on radio, television and newspapers. Kenya has a diverse, vibrant and largely free media whose coverage of the election was useful in informing, educating and mobilizing women to vote. However, limited and biased media coverage of women candidates, inadequate civic and voter education may have inhibited women's electoral participation as few women contested and won electoral seats in the 2013 Kenyan polls. Therefore, the media should enhance the visibility of women, political rights and issues of women as the country endeavours to enhance gender equality in political representation. To achieve this, the media should partner with women, the electoral body, government, political parties and other stakeholders in Kenya in order to improve women's media coverage and political participation.

scholarly journals The Don and Helen New Zealand election 2005: A media a-gender?

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Devere ◽  
Sharyn Graham Davies
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
International Research ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Women Politicians ◽  
News Story ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
The Media ◽  
Maternal Status

The media uses the technique of framing to process and package information in order to make sense of the material and present a news ‘story’ which is accessible to the audience. International research reports demonstrate a consistent ‘gendered’ framing of media coverage. ‘Gendering’ refers to the highlighting of a person’s gender, when this is not particularly relevant to the context. Usually gendering involves seeing the male as the norm, and the female as the remarkable. In terms of the media and politics, this gendering includes the under-representation of women politicians, an emphasis on their appearance, marital and maternal status, and personality rather than the policies and issues of debate. More recently, however, there is evidence that in some contexts the media is becoming less overtly biased in its representation of women politicians. While there are still many ways in which women are presented differently from their male counterparts, there is also some evidence that an emphasis on gender is initiated by the party campaigns rather than being a result of media agenda-setting.

scholarly journals Quem cuida das crianças? A representação das mulheres do alto escalão político pelos media

Compolítica ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Holtz-Bacha
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Women Politicians ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Public Image ◽  
The Political ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Angela Merkel ◽  
The Media

Abstract: The essay reflects on the media representation commonly associates with women politicians. Starting with a critique of media coverage about some political leaders in several countries, such as Angela Merkel, Michelle Bachelet, Ségolène Royal, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Hillary Clinton, the paper discusses the phenomenon of the double bind to which women are subjected in politics: if a woman presents herself as being cool, calculating and aggressive as it is expected in the political business she risks to be rejected as a virago. If she recommends herself with allegedly female traits, she will be regarded as not being viable for the serious challenges of the political business. There is no easy formula for how women should represent themselves. Since there are only few opportunities for direct contact between politicians and the electorate, it is necessary to deal with public image reported by media.Key-words: Political Communication; Election ; Gender; Representation.Resumo: O ensaio reflete sobre as representações mediáticas comumente associadas às mulheres na política. A partir da crítica à cobertura midiática sobre algumas líderes políticas em diversos países, a exemplo de Angela Merkel, Michelle Bachelet, Ségolène Royal, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner e Hillary Clinton, o trabalho discute o fenômeno do duplo vínculo ao qual as mulheres estão submetidas na política: elas estão em situação desfavorável na competição política quando assumem uma postura fria, calculada ou agressiva e lidam com hard issues, mas também quando se dedicam a questões tradicionalmente vistas como femininas, soft issues, que as caracterizam como inviáveis para a administração pública. Não há formula a ser reproduzida, e, uma vez que há poucas oportunidades para um contato direto entre políticos e eleitores, há que se lidar com a construção da imagem pública produzida pelos media.Palavras-chave: Comunicação Política; Eleições; Gênero; Representação.

scholarly journals Women's Participation in the Presidential Elections in Russia: Value Aspects of Mass Media Discourse

2018 ◽  
pp. 277-280
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Women Politicians ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Women's Participation

The paper presents the results of the analysis of media coverage concerning the election campaigns for the presidential elections in Russia in 2012 and 2018. The emphasis is made on analyzing the representation of women candidates for top positions. The research is based on discourse analysis which revealed the holistic image of politicians, including explicit and hidden meanings. The analysis showed that the images of women politicians are devoid of a gender component. They are either commonplace, or include purely masculine features and actions. The paper explains that this representation of female characters in the electoral process corresponds to the essence of the modern sensual culture based on the domination of power, success and individualism significance, and moral atomism. The paper notes that a demand for moral values and moral authority of politicians has matured in the society. The results of the all-Russian sociological survey are given, according to which respondents expressed distrust and rejection of women candidates in the 2018 elections, because they did not possess the qualities necessary for the president. These trends can be described as a manifestation of the crisis of modern sensory culture and the forerunner of spiritual culture.

scholarly journals Media Representation of Women Politicians from a Gender to an Intersectionality Perspective

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Fiig
Keyword(s):  
Women Politicians ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
Analytical Point ◽  
The Media ◽  
Representations Of Women

Media Representations of Women Politi- cians from a Gender to an Intersectionality Perspective. This article investigates media representation from a perspective of intersectionality defined as one that deconstructs the category ‘woman’ by looking at different social divisions such as class, ethnicity, gender, race and sexuality. An intersectionality perspective is constructive in broadening the debate on the media as a powerful political site for different groups of men and women politicians. The analytical point of the article is that a perspective of intersectionality deepens the understanding of the ways that the media organize power through stereotypical representation and homogenization of social categories.

Media Representation of the Pandemic: a Metaphorical Image of War (based on American Newspapers)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
N. S. Dankova ◽  
E. V. Krekhtunova
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
War Zone ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
The Media ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The article is devoted to the study of the media representation features of the situation of coronavirus infection spread. The material was articles published in American newspapers. It is shown that the metaphorical model "War" is widely used in media coverage of the pandemic. The relevance of the work is due to the ability of the media to influence the mass consciousness. The methodological basis of the research is formed by critical discourse analysis, which establishes the connection between language and social reality. The article provides an overview of works devoted to the study of metaphor. The theoretical foundations for the study of metaphorical modeling are given. In the course of the analysis, the linguistic means of updating the metaphorical model "War" were revealed. The authors note that this metaphorical model is represented by such frames as “War and its characteristics”, “Participants in military action”, “War zone”, “Enemy actions”, “Confronting the enemy”. It is shown that modern reality is presented in the media as martial law, the coronavirus is positioned in the media as a cruel and merciless enemy seeking to take over the world, the treatment of the disease is represented as a fight against the enemy. It is concluded that the use of the metaphorical model "War" is one of the ways to conceptualize the spread of coronavirus.

scholarly journals Indonesia: Train journalists to write about reproductive health

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Project Staff ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Training

After government control over the media was liberalized in 1998, Indonesian journalists had a new mandate to explore new issues and foster public debate. Several studies had found evidence that women’s health worsened from 1997–99, yet media coverage of this topic was limited. To increase press coverage of reproductive health (RH) topics, the Population Council conducted an 18-month media project in collaboration with the State Ministry for Women’s Empowerment and other key agencies. The project focused on improving RH knowledge and reporting skills among 22 print journalists. Project staff monitored RH coverage in 22 major newspapers, magazines, and tabloids. After Indonesian journalists received background information and training on RH issues, the quality of their coverage improved. However, as noted in this brief, continued efforts are needed to provide media representatives with ideas for news stories and feature articles and training in use of research findings.

scholarly journals Media Representation of Children’s Privacy in the Context of the Use of “Smart” Toys and Commercial Data Collection

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 6-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tijana Milosevic ◽  
Patricia Dias ◽  
Charles Mifsud ◽  
Christine W. Trueltzsch-Wijnen
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
The Media ◽  
Children’S Voices ◽  
Privacy Risks

The growing use of “smart” toys has made it increasingly important to understand the various privacy implications of their use by children and families. The article is a case study of how the risks to young children’s privacy, posed by the commercial data collection of producers of “smart” toys, were represented in the media. Relying on a content analysis of media coverage in twelve European countries and Australia collected during the Christmas season of 2016/2017, and reporting on a follow-up study in selected countries during the Christmas season of 2017/2018, our article illustrates how the issue of children’s privacy risks was dealt with in a superficial manner, leaving relevant stakeholders without substantive information about the issue; and with minimum representation of children’s voices in the coverage itself.

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