Women's Hidden Agency in the News Coverage of the Tibetian Riots
In: Nordlit, 2012
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This mixed methods case study on the international newspaper coverage of women inthe Tibetan riots in March 2008 analyses to what extent women are representedaccording to prevailing gender stereotypes in conflict news. The study largely confirmsnews media’s gender bias, in that news media hides women’s agency. Women are eithernot included in the studied 62 articles from International Herald Tribune, China Daily,and the Tibet Post International, or represented according to prevailing genderstereotypes, namely as passive feminine objects.Interestingly, Chi-square testing reveals that the Tibet Post International, an onlinenewspaper run by Tibetan exiles, deviated from the general tendency by representingremarkably frequent images of active Tibetan women. Around one-third (32 percent) ofthe Tibet Post International’s articles included press photos featuring women and theclear majority (88 percent) of these images represented them as active. However, thequalitative part of the study tells that text associated with the newspaper’s images ofactive Tibetan women reduced these women’s perceived agency. When introducing textinto the interpretation of these images, the women in many cases were turned intopotential victims. This points out that text-image interaction is an often overlooked, yetintegral part of assigning meaning in conflict news.
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Women's Hidden Agency in the News Coverage of the Tibetian Riots
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Vuontela, Suvimarja |
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Zeitschrift: | Nordlit, 2012 |
Veröffentlichung: | Septentrio Academic Publishing, 2012 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
DOI: | 10.7557/13.2376 |
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