Journalism, Gender and Power

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Journalism, Gender and Power revisits themes from the 1998 collection News, Gender and Power, evaluating progress in understanding how gender shapes journalism and democratic cultures. It explores media ownership's role in sexism, women’s employment, news culture dynamics, and the gendered nature of objectivity and impartiality. The book addresses news coverage of violence against women, sexualisation in media, workplace biases, and audience expectations, expanding feminist and gender-focused discussions in journalism, especially amid digital and interactive media influences.
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This volume is ideal for students, researchers, and professionals in journalism, media studies, gender studies, and anyone interested in the intersection of media, gender, and power in contemporary society.

Journalism, Gender and Power revisits the key themes explored by the editors in their 1998 book News, Gender and Power. This new collection takes stock of progress made to date, as well as striving to break new ground in advancing critical understandings of how and why gender matters for journalism’s democratic cultures.

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Journalism, Gender and Power revisits the key themes explored in the 1998 edited collection News, Gender and Power. It takes stock of progress made to date and also breaks ground in advancing critical understandings of how and why gender matters for journalism and current democratic cultures.

This new volume develops research insights into issues such as the influence of media ownership and control on sexism, women’s employment, and "macho" news cultures. It examines the gendering of objectivity and impartiality, tensions around the professional identities of journalists, news coverage of violence against women, the sexualisation of women in the news, and the everyday experience of normative hierarchies and biases in newswork. The book also discusses the gendering of news audience expectations, amongst other issues.

These issues prompt vital questions for feminist and gender-centred explorations concerned with reimagining journalism in the public interest. Contributors to this volume challenge familiar perspectives, extending current parameters of dialogue and debate in fresh directions relevant to the increasingly digitalised, interactive intersections of journalism with gender and power around the globe.

Journalism, Gender and Power will inspire readers to rethink conventional assumptions around gender in news reporting—conceptual, professional, and strategic—with an eye to forging alternative, progressive ways forward.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138895324

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 19 February 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 9 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Stuart Allan
Edited by Cynthia Carter
Edited by Linda Steiner

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 920g

Pages: 388

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Cynthia Carter is Reader in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University, UK. She has published widely on children, news, and citizenship; feminist news and journalism studies; and media violence. Her recent books include Current Perspectives in Feminist Media Studies (2013) and the Routledge Companion to Media and Gender (2014). She is a founding Co-Editor of Feminist Media Studies and serves on the editorial board of numerous media and communication studies journals.

Linda Steiner is Professor in the College of Journalism, University of Maryland, USA, and Editor of Journalism & Communication Monographs. Recent co-authored or co-edited books include: Key Concepts in Critical-Cultural Studies (2010), Routledge Companion to Media and Gender (2013), The Handbook of Gender and War (2016), and Race, News, and the City: Uncovering Baltimore (2017). She has published over 100 book chapters and refereed journal articles. Steiner leads the campus Keeping Our Faculty program.

Stuart Allan is Professor and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, UK. His publications include Citizen Witnessing: Revisioning Journalism in Times of Crisis (2013) and the edited collections, The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism (revised edition, 2012) and Photojournalism and Citizen Journalism: Co-operation, Collaboration and Connectivity (2017). He is currently researching the visual cultures of news imagery in war, conflict, and crisis reporting, amongst other projects.