GENDER AND JOURNALISM EDUCATION: UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS RESPONSES TO THE GLOBAL MEDIA MONITORING PROJECT

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Basílio Simões ◽  
Inês Amaral ◽  
Sílvio Santos
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Media Monitoring

Women and news: A long and winding road

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 1148-1165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Ross ◽  
Cynthia Carter
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Implicit Assumption ◽  
Global Media ◽  
News Values ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Media Monitoring ◽  
The Uk

Feminist news researchers have long argued that in the macho culture of most newsrooms, journalists’ daily decisions about what is newsworthy remain firmly based on masculine news values. As such, issues and topics traditionally seen to be particularly relevant to women tend to be pushed to the margins of the news where the implicit assumption is that they are less important than those which interest men. In so doing, men’s views and voices are privileged over women’s, thereby contributing to the ongoing secondary status of women’s participation as citizens. In this article, we draw upon data we collected from the UK and the Republic of Ireland as part of the larger, 108-country study, which comprised the 2010 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). We argue that while there have been some positive improvements in women’s representation as news actors, sources and journalists in the British and Irish news media since the first GMMP day of monitoring in 1995, women’s voices, experiences and expertise continue to be regarded by news industries as less important than those of men. Such a situation undermines and under-reports women’s contribution to social, economic and cultural life and in so doing, diminishes democracy.

scholarly journals Who makes the news? Promoting gender equality in and through the news media

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Turley
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Global Media ◽  
International Media ◽  
Heart Attacks ◽  
The Third ◽  
Media Monitoring ◽  
International Initiative

Women in bikinis posing on a beach, heart attacks and snoring. What’s the connection? Well, to most of us none. Yet one Turkish television news report on 1 February 2000 deemed it appropriate to illustrate a serious story on scientific research into the link between heart attacks and snoring in women with footage of scantily clad women posing on a beach! It is stories like these that have come under the microscope in three international media monitoring projects over the last 10 years. When the first Global Media Monitoring Project (or GMMP as it has come to be known) was conducted in 1995, few of those involved could have imagined that it would develop in the way that it went on to do. Ten years later, with the third such project now complete, the enormous significance of this international initiative is clear. These three projects constitute the most extensive global research of gender in news media ever undertaken and as such they provide an enlightening example of the importance of media monitoring as a tool for change.

scholarly journals Running on the spot: NZ’s record in news media gender equity

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margie Comrie ◽  
Kate McMillan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
News Media ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Media Monitoring ◽  
Almost All

This article reports New Zealand’s performance in the latest, 2010 round of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) covering 108 countries. Using quantitative and qualitative content analysis the GMMP measures the representation and participation of women in the news media. The findings demonstrate that gender inequality remains a defining characteristic of daily news content around the world. It is concerning that in 15 years of the GMMP, New Zealand has generally stood still while overall GMMP results show a continuing steady increase in the number of women featuring as news subjects and reporters. Indeed, despite more women working as reporters in New Zealand, the lack of progress was evident in the number of female news subjects. The picture emerging from data in 2010 is of increasingly feminised newsrooms in which women’s experiences and views are still seen and heard much less frequently than male voices in almost all news topics. Worse, women are virtually absent in sports and politics, areas dominating the Kiwi news agenda. We ask why women remain so consistently under-represented in mainstream news and review some suggested solutions to that under-representation.

scholarly journals Current Trends in Journalism Education as Responding to Professional Journalistic Standards and Demands of Media Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 558-572
Author(s):  
Tatyana Novikova ◽  
Lyudmila Makarova ◽  
Andrej Bureev ◽  
Larisa Zhukovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Research University ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Master's Degrees ◽  
Executive Staff ◽  
Educational Standard ◽  
Journalism Students

In this study, we discuss the training of mass communication specialists in terms of competence approach and compliance with professional standards. The relevance of the topic of the study is due to changes in journalism education in Russia and abroad, the emergence of organizational innovations in higher education, and the development trends of the system of professional journalism. The study examined the formation of professional competencies, job responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and abilities in students as a result of mastering the basic educational curriculum for Bachelor's and Master's degree programs in journalism. The study was based on the educational standard and the basic educational program for Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Journalism at the Institute of Philology and Journalism of the National Research University Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod. The methodology allowed us to study effective strategies in contemporary media education and a comparative typological analysis of the types of professional journalistic activities. To evaluate the quality of education and the professional standing of future journalists on the labor market, journalism students of the Institute of Philology and Journalism of Lobachevsky University were asked to fill out a questionnaire. The survey participants were 2nd–4 year undergraduate students and first-year graduate students. The experience of the Institute of Philology and Journalism of Lobachevsky University in developing and implementing self-established educational standards illustrates one of the vectors of modernizing the basic educational program for Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Journalism, which represents a balanced combination of the needs of employers, the traditions of classical education, and an awareness of the social, cultural and educational role of journalism in society. The authors concluded that it is necessary to continuously work on improving the process of training future specialists in the field of mass communication, in accordance with the opportunities for further professional self-fulfillment of graduates. The results of this study may be of interest to the developers of educational programs in the field of journalism, the staff of educational and methodological commissions, and the executive staff of educational institutions of higher education.

scholarly journals The Global Media Monitoring Project

1970 ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Maria del Novo
Keyword(s):  
Global Media ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Monitoring

An international day of monitoring took place on Tuesday February I, 2000 when groups in some 70 countries studied the representation of women in the news on TV, radio and in newspapers. The first GMMP, organized by Media Watch Canada, was held in January 1995 and this second study aims to analyze changes in the media situation in half a decade.

scholarly journals Subtle Gender Stereotypes in the News Media and Their Role in Reinforcing a Culture Tolerating Violence Against Women

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monia Azzalini
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
News Media ◽  
Extensive Study ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Media Monitoring

This paper examines how news media play a crucial role in tolerating gender-based violence by constantly reinforcing ‘subtle’ gender stereotypes. After presenting the institutional background in which media, gender stereotypes and gender-based violence have been studied over the last 30 years, subtle gender stereotypes are defined as those stereotypes that are less evident than the obvious ones and are not usually correlated to gender violence. Nevertheless, they can be detected in the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in the news, as measured by the GMMP (Global Media Monitoring Project), which is the longest and most extensive study on the representation of women in news media.

Read, Understand, Learn, & Excel: Development and Testing of an Automated Reading Strategy Detection Algorithm for Postsecondary Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1257-1267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priya Kucheria ◽  
McKay Moore Sohlberg ◽  
Jason Prideaux ◽  
Stephen Fickas
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Expository Text ◽  
Reading Strategy ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Expository Texts ◽  
Human Observer ◽  
Behavioral Strategies ◽  
Periodic Review ◽  
Wide Range

PurposeAn important predictor of postsecondary academic success is an individual's reading comprehension skills. Postsecondary readers apply a wide range of behavioral strategies to process text for learning purposes. Currently, no tools exist to detect a reader's use of strategies. The primary aim of this study was to develop Read, Understand, Learn, & Excel, an automated tool designed to detect reading strategy use and explore its accuracy in detecting strategies when students read digital, expository text.MethodAn iterative design was used to develop the computer algorithm for detecting 9 reading strategies. Twelve undergraduate students read 2 expository texts that were equated for length and complexity. A human observer documented the strategies employed by each reader, whereas the computer used digital sequences to detect the same strategies. Data were then coded and analyzed to determine agreement between the 2 sources of strategy detection (i.e., the computer and the observer).ResultsAgreement between the computer- and human-coded strategies was 75% or higher for 6 out of the 9 strategies. Only 3 out of the 9 strategies–previewing content, evaluating amount of remaining text, and periodic review and/or iterative summarizing–had less than 60% agreement.ConclusionRead, Understand, Learn, & Excel provides proof of concept that a reader's approach to engaging with academic text can be objectively and automatically captured. Clinical implications and suggestions to improve the sensitivity of the code are discussed.Supplemental Materialhttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.8204786

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