This paper is also available from the Department of Media and Communication website at http://www... more This paper is also available from the Department of Media and Communication website at http://www.le.ac.uk/mc/research/papers.html
4 Women Framed: The Gendered Turn in Mediated Politics Karen Ross Introduction This chapter is co... more 4 Women Framed: The Gendered Turn in Mediated Politics Karen Ross Introduction This chapter is concerned with exploring the relationship between women, politics, and the media, both focusing on the ways in which news media cover stories about women politicians and rehearsing ...
... http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/17/3/499 The online version of this article can be found at: D... more ... http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/17/3/499 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/016344395017003009 1995 17: 499 Media Culture Society Karen Ross campaign, 1994 Gender and party politics: how the press reported the Labour leadership ...
Notwithstanding the recessions experienced by the UK economy over the last two decades, manufactu... more Notwithstanding the recessions experienced by the UK economy over the last two decades, manufacturing (engineering) industries continue to account for a larger segment of Gross Domestic Product in the West Midlands region than elsewhere in the country and in 1990 ...
... They've got things from the West Indies. On English TV, I don't mind watching Cathe... more ... They've got things from the West Indies. On English TV, I don't mind watching Catherine Cookson on a Sunday afternoon or tuning in to Emmerdale now and then, but I wish there was a bit more for us. ('Geraldine', Coventry) 245 Black audiences and British TV Page 14. ...
The use of sources in news narratives is an extremely important part of not only the story's... more The use of sources in news narratives is an extremely important part of not only the story's construction but also of its orientation and, ultimately, the point of view being supported in a given story. The sly deceit concealed within journalists' use of sources as apparently independent and ...
... credibility and competence to take on very senior political portfolios, as happened, argu-abl... more ... credibility and competence to take on very senior political portfolios, as happened, argu-ably, in successive US campaigns with candidates such as Elizabeth Dole, Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin. Whilst this is not everywhere the case – and Mary McAleese, Angela Merkle and ...
International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2001
This essay seeks to offer some reflections on doing research with political elites where those el... more This essay seeks to offer some reflections on doing research with political elites where those elites also happen to be women. It tries to show some of the excitements and frustrations of doing research with elite subjects in elite settings, when the researcher is always the ...
... of politicians with citizens, (potentially at least) reducing the former's dependency on... more ... of politicians with citizens, (potentially at least) reducing the former's dependency on the mass media for visibility and voice, although there are competing views on the Internet's real ability to enhance political participation (Coleman and Blumler 2008; Hindman 2008). ...
ABSTRACT In the months leading up to the 2010 British General Election, pundits were claiming tha... more ABSTRACT In the months leading up to the 2010 British General Election, pundits were claiming that women would be specifically targeted by all political parties. However, this focus never materialized and it was just more business as usual but with the added novelty of televised leaders’ debates, which meant that coverage was more male ordered than ever. The study on which this article is based monitored articles published in the four weeks leading up to election day across twelve newspapers, comprising a mix of dailies and weekend editions, broadsheets and midmarket, and tabloid titles. The study concentrated on articles that had the election as the main story and which mentioned or sourced one or more candidates, both MPs seeking reelection, and Parliamentary Candidates. We were interested in exploring (any) differences in the news coverage of women and men candidates, looking at both frequency and content. Our findings suggest that women were much less likely to feature in news stories than men, even when controlling for Party Leader coverage. Women were much more likely to be mentioned or quoted in feature articles focused explicitly on gender issues, made interesting because of their sex and couture rather than their political abilities and experience.
This paper is also available from the Department of Media and Communication website at http://www... more This paper is also available from the Department of Media and Communication website at http://www.le.ac.uk/mc/research/papers.html
4 Women Framed: The Gendered Turn in Mediated Politics Karen Ross Introduction This chapter is co... more 4 Women Framed: The Gendered Turn in Mediated Politics Karen Ross Introduction This chapter is concerned with exploring the relationship between women, politics, and the media, both focusing on the ways in which news media cover stories about women politicians and rehearsing ...
... http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/17/3/499 The online version of this article can be found at: D... more ... http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/17/3/499 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/016344395017003009 1995 17: 499 Media Culture Society Karen Ross campaign, 1994 Gender and party politics: how the press reported the Labour leadership ...
Notwithstanding the recessions experienced by the UK economy over the last two decades, manufactu... more Notwithstanding the recessions experienced by the UK economy over the last two decades, manufacturing (engineering) industries continue to account for a larger segment of Gross Domestic Product in the West Midlands region than elsewhere in the country and in 1990 ...
... They've got things from the West Indies. On English TV, I don't mind watching Cathe... more ... They've got things from the West Indies. On English TV, I don't mind watching Catherine Cookson on a Sunday afternoon or tuning in to Emmerdale now and then, but I wish there was a bit more for us. ('Geraldine', Coventry) 245 Black audiences and British TV Page 14. ...
The use of sources in news narratives is an extremely important part of not only the story's... more The use of sources in news narratives is an extremely important part of not only the story's construction but also of its orientation and, ultimately, the point of view being supported in a given story. The sly deceit concealed within journalists' use of sources as apparently independent and ...
... credibility and competence to take on very senior political portfolios, as happened, argu-abl... more ... credibility and competence to take on very senior political portfolios, as happened, argu-ably, in successive US campaigns with candidates such as Elizabeth Dole, Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin. Whilst this is not everywhere the case – and Mary McAleese, Angela Merkle and ...
International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2001
This essay seeks to offer some reflections on doing research with political elites where those el... more This essay seeks to offer some reflections on doing research with political elites where those elites also happen to be women. It tries to show some of the excitements and frustrations of doing research with elite subjects in elite settings, when the researcher is always the ...
... of politicians with citizens, (potentially at least) reducing the former's dependency on... more ... of politicians with citizens, (potentially at least) reducing the former's dependency on the mass media for visibility and voice, although there are competing views on the Internet's real ability to enhance political participation (Coleman and Blumler 2008; Hindman 2008). ...
ABSTRACT In the months leading up to the 2010 British General Election, pundits were claiming tha... more ABSTRACT In the months leading up to the 2010 British General Election, pundits were claiming that women would be specifically targeted by all political parties. However, this focus never materialized and it was just more business as usual but with the added novelty of televised leaders’ debates, which meant that coverage was more male ordered than ever. The study on which this article is based monitored articles published in the four weeks leading up to election day across twelve newspapers, comprising a mix of dailies and weekend editions, broadsheets and midmarket, and tabloid titles. The study concentrated on articles that had the election as the main story and which mentioned or sourced one or more candidates, both MPs seeking reelection, and Parliamentary Candidates. We were interested in exploring (any) differences in the news coverage of women and men candidates, looking at both frequency and content. Our findings suggest that women were much less likely to feature in news stories than men, even when controlling for Party Leader coverage. Women were much more likely to be mentioned or quoted in feature articles focused explicitly on gender issues, made interesting because of their sex and couture rather than their political abilities and experience.
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