scholarly journals Media representations of the prison

Sociologija ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-785
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Jugovic ◽  
Dragica Bogetic
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Total Institution ◽  
Sexual Assaults ◽  
Country Club ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

The objective of the paper is to scientifically analyze the media?s portrayal of the prison in the social, cultural and historical context. The method used is content analysis. The paper is based on the pluralistic theoretical orientation of the author grounded in the theory of social constructivism. The prison is most commonly depicted as a place occupied by violent and ?sinful? persons where their vicious behaviour continues, sending a message of the prison as an unparalleled and crucial means of social control of individuals not conformed to the norms of society. Media representations of the prison as a total institution range between two typical simplifying images: one, where this total institution (the ?smug hack? model) is shown as a system that is corrupted, dehumanized and incapable of conducting resocialization and where prisoners are subjected to sexual assaults, physical torture and discrimination by staff or other prisoners; other, or stereotype about ?spoiled prisoners? (the ?country club corrections? model) and prisons as places filled with undeserved privileges for criminals - pleasant work, conjugal visits, love rooms, free time filled with hedonism and fun. Typical representations of the prison as a total institution include it representing a place of social revenge, punishment for serious crimes, violence, loss of freedom, systemic torture, identity destruction, repentance, strengthening of criminal habits and convictions (?education for crime?) and corruption.

Human Rights Abuses Against Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 936-956
Author(s):  
Stephen Damilola Odebiyi ◽  
Olugbenga Elegbe
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Media Frames ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

This chapter investigates media reportage of human right abuses and sexual violence against internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nigeria. Using the social responsibility theory, it analyses how the media frames, prominence, slant and whether the Nigeria media employed investigative reports in its reportage of human rights abuses against IDPs. The chapter through a quantitative content analysis of 157 editions of two purposely selected newspapers (the Vanguard NG and the Daily Trust), found that the media failed to contextualise the stories in relation to its causes, solutions and in identifying perpetrators for justice to be served, similarly, the media took sides with victims of the violations. It also failed to accord the required prominence and necessary investigative touch to such stories. It is recommended that there should be frequent trainings for journalists so as to safeguard professionalism in the industry.

The Sprewell/Carlesimo Episode: Unacceptable Violence or Unacceptable Victim?

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Walton
Keyword(s):  
Media Representations ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Social Responses ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Violent Acts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Normalization Of Violence

NBA player Latrell Sprewell’s attack on his coach, P.J. Carlesimo, in 1997, received extraordinary attention in the media. The coverage of the incident and subsequent trial revealed the media’s attitude toward violence within cultural representations of sport. This paper focuses on the way that violence associated with sport can be understood in relationship to the normalization of violence against women in American culture. Specifically, I focus on how the violent acts of athletes and coaches elicit different social responses depending on the social status of the victim. I argue that media representations, framed within narratives that construct their importance around gendered ideas of private and public spheres, work to support current race, class, and gender hierarchies. I also offer alternative ways of understanding the incident given the peculiar work setting of professional sport.

scholarly journals PRESENTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY IN THE SERBIAN PRESS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-107
Author(s):  
Samir Ljajić ◽  
Nikola Dojčinović
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Theoretical Part ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Media Presentation ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Historical Origin ◽  
The Media

One’s attention is directed to the events, phenomena, personalities and social groups present in the media. How they are perceived depends on media presentation and representation, which implies media representations of events, phenomena, identities, social groups. Through them, the media can shape public opinion, refer to or restrict stereotypical and discriminatory attitudes in society. One of the fundamental conditions for combating discrimination is equal participation of women in the media world, i.e. the equal presence of women and men in the media. The paper investigates the presence of women in the following daily newspapers: Politika, Danas, Blic, and Večernje novosti on International Women’s Day, with special reference to the method of reporting on this holiday. The theoretical part of the paper includes a chapter on the social status of women throughout history, outlining some of the factors for the inferior position of women that contributed to the creation of stereotypes about women. Then, attention is paid to stereotypes about women, dominant patterns of reporting on women in the media, as well as the importance of the holiday and its historical origin. The interpretation of previous research in published scientific papers can also be found in the theoretical part. The second part of the paper includes the quantitative and qualitative research results. Finally, the results are summarized, which leads to the conclusion.

scholarly journals Mediated Representations of Violence Against Women

Tripodos ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 131-146
Author(s):  
Viktorija Car ◽  
Barbara Ravbar
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Social System ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Online Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Common ◽  
Women And Girls

Violence against women and girls in the 21st century remains a common and profoundly consequential violation of women’s human rights. It is part of gender inequality, an integral part of the social system, and linked to other aspects of human and economic development. When reporting about it, the media produce additional damage by continuously highlighting the hostile and violent treatment of women. Representations of gender and sexuality in the news reinforce the common perception that women are sexual objects and therefore disadvantage women, continuously reinforcing imbalances of power between women and men. This study explores media representations in Croatian online media articles about violence against women. The results of analysis show how violence against women is framed as a private problem, how women are addressed as unfaithful wives and prostitutes which gives excuses for the perpetrator while the blame for the violence is partly shifted to the woman. Also, results show how the secondary victimization is manifested in articles, and how violence against women as a topic is exploited to attract the readers’ attention.

scholarly journals Historicizing media, globalizing media research: infrastructures, publics, and everyday life

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Research ◽  
The Cold War

AbstractVisions of media spanning the globe and connecting cultures have been around at least since the birth of telegraphy, yet they have always fallen short of realities. Nevertheless, with the internet, a global infrastructure has emerged, which, together with mobile and smartphones, has rapidly changed the media landscape. This far-reaching digital connectedness makes it increasingly clear that the main implications of media lie in the extent to which they reach into everyday life. This article puts this reach into historical context, arguing that, in the pre-modern period, geographically extensive media networks only extended to a small elite. With the modern print revolution, media reach became both more extensive and more intensive. Yet it was only in the late nineteenth century that media infrastructures penetrated more widely into everyday life. Apart from a comparative historical perspective, several social science disciplines can be brought to bear in order to understand the ever more globalizing reach of media infrastructures into everyday life, including its limits. To date, the vast bulk of media research is still concentrated on North America and Europe. Recently, however, media research has begun to track broader theoretical debates in the social sciences, and imported debates about globalization from anthropology, sociology, political science, and international relations. These globalizing processes of the media research agenda have been shaped by both political developments and changes in media, including the Cold War, decolonization, the development of the internet and other new media technologies, and the rise of populist leaders.

Human Rights Abuses Against Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 180-200
Author(s):  
Stephen Damilola Odebiyi ◽  
Olugbenga Elegbe
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Media Frames ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

This chapter investigates media reportage of human right abuses and sexual violence against internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nigeria. Using the social responsibility theory, it analyses how the media frames, prominence, slant and whether the Nigeria media employed investigative reports in its reportage of human rights abuses against IDPs. The chapter through a quantitative content analysis of 157 editions of two purposely selected newspapers (the Vanguard NG and the Daily Trust), found that the media failed to contextualise the stories in relation to its causes, solutions and in identifying perpetrators for justice to be served, similarly, the media took sides with victims of the violations. It also failed to accord the required prominence and necessary investigative touch to such stories. It is recommended that there should be frequent trainings for journalists so as to safeguard professionalism in the industry.

scholarly journals Against determinism: A reassessment of Marcel Mauss’s essay on seasonal variations

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Bravo
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Variations ◽  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Physical Geography ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Alternative Reading ◽  
Prime Target

Abstract The famous “Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo” by Marcel Mauss has traditionally been understood as a text about the dominance of the social world in determining and imposing seasonal organisation on the physical world. Such interpretations of seasonality typically fail to take adequate account of contemporary European and North American debates about land and society. Paying close attention to the historical context of the essay reveals strong evidence for an alternative reading: that it was written as a polemic against anthropogeographical theory from the school of Friedrich Ratzel. The prime target was Hans-Peder Steensby, an intellectual disciple of Ratzel. Depicting Steensby as exclusively concerned with physical geography, Mauss reinterpreted his evidence within his own evidential context of social morphology. He concludes that the crucial principle governing Inuit seasonal life is the symbiosis between the social and physical worlds—and not the physical determination or technological adaptations diagnosed by the anthropogeographers. Understanding that Mauss was seeking to distance his own sociology/anthropology from geography provides an opportunity to reflect on the divergence in theoretical orientation and choice of research problems amongst the community of Inuit studies.

Othering in Media Representations of Elderly Care: Using the Social Justice Framework to Make Sense of Public Discourses on Migrants and Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Jonas Lindblom ◽  
Sandra Torres
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
The Social ◽  
Newspaper Reporting ◽  
Care Regimes ◽  
The Impact

Population ageing and international migration are two of the major societal trends challenging European elderly care regimes at present. Virtually no research has addressed how public discourses about the implications of these trends for elderly care are shaped in different countries. This article addresses this knowledge gap, examining how Swedish daily newspaper (SvD and DN) reporting on elderly care between 1995 and 2017 (N=370) depicts the impact of increased ethno-cultural diversity on this sector. Through content analysis, this article brings attention to the representations of migrants and culture that this reporting has deployed, and the rhetorical practices that the reporting has relied on (i.e. genre stratification, hegemonisation, homogenisation, normative referencing and idealisation/ diminishment). The article exposes how the ‘Othering’ of migrants is accomplished in Sweden’s daily newspaper reporting on elderly care, and problematizes the ethea of inclusiveness and equality of care with which we have come to associate this welfare sector.

scholarly journals Trends in media framing of industrial crises reporting: implication for media research in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 254-266
Author(s):  
Julius Abioye Adeyemo ◽  
Olugbenga Elegbe
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Media ◽  
Industrial Crisis ◽  
Crisis Reporting

There has been a scholarly argument among media researchers on how best media analysts should study media perspectives on industrial crisis reporting with reference to research methods, theoretical perspectives and methods of data analysis. Content analysis and meta-analytical approach were employed to gather data from published scholarly articles and theses accessed online. One hundred and fifteen (115) studies were content analyzed, collated and identified based on those that focused their issues on media framing of labour crisis. Evidence from the studies analysed shows that the content analysis and in-depth interviews were predominantly adopted for media representations of industrial crisis, the mixed method research were adopted for data collection while media framing, agenda setting and the priming theories were mostly adopted by most of the studies. It is recommended that studies should employ critical discourse analysis to compliment researchers’ effort to examine how different ideological stances are mediated in the media to reflect social-political dominance, inequality and class struggle that characterize industrial crisis. Keywords: Industrial crisis reporting, Media framing, Research trends, Discourse analysis, Nigeria

scholarly journals Media Representations of Bipolar Disorder Through the Case of Suzy Favor Hamilton

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-139
Author(s):  
Rachel Vaccaro ◽  
Ted M. Butryn
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Elite Athletes ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Sports Culture ◽  
The Media ◽  
Open Discussion

Individuals suffering from mental illness face challenges that are related to stigma and lack of education that are often reinforced by the media. Specifically, the elite athletic culture is not conducive for athletes who suffer from mental illness because there is at times a belief that mental illnesses are less prevalent in elite sport. Even though incidence of mental illness in elite athletes has gained more prominence in the popular media, there is still a lack of research in this area. Specifically, there is limited research regarding media representations of athletes who suffer from mental illness. To address this gap in the literature, an ethnographic content analysis (ECA) was done to examine Suzy Favor Hamilton’s open discussion of bipolar disorder surrounding the release of her new memoir, Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running From Madness. ECA yielded one overarching theme with three supporting sub-themes. Results indicated that even though Favor Hamilton’s book worked to spread awareness, the media attention surrounding the book release represented omission of mental illness in the environment of athletics. Overall, sports culture provides an environment that is not often willing to accept that mental illnesses exist in athletes.

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