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

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 h...

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Autores principales: Heather Devere, Sharyn Graham Davies
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b422a835725e475aa6de341a2a496b312021-12-02T10:34:34ZThe Don and Helen New Zealand election 2005: A media a-gender?10.24135/pjr.v12i1.8461023-94992324-2035https://doaj.org/article/b422a835725e475aa6de341a2a496b312006-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/846https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035 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. Heather DevereSharyn Graham DaviesAsia Pacific Networkarticlegender imbalancemedia framingagenda-settinggenderCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96Journalism. The periodical press, etc.PN4699-5650ENPacific Journalism Review, Vol 12, Iss 1 (2006)
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topic gender imbalance
media framing
agenda-setting
gender
Communication. Mass media
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Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
PN4699-5650
spellingShingle gender imbalance
media framing
agenda-setting
gender
Communication. Mass media
P87-96
Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
PN4699-5650
Heather Devere
Sharyn Graham Davies
The Don and Helen New Zealand election 2005: A media a-gender?
description 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.
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