Female Voices in the News: Structural Conditions of Gender Representations in Norwegian Newspapers

Autor: Helle Sjøvaag, Truls Pedersen
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 96:215-238
ISSN: 2161-430X
1077-6990
DOI: 10.1177/1077699018789885
Popis: The article presents a hybrid analysis combining manual content analysis of 9,131 sources in 5,544 news stories across 75 publications, with computational gender recognition producing 551,102 names from 320,228 articles across 125 newspapers. The article investigates the significance of structural features for the presence of women in the news. Results show female sources are only equal to men as ordinary citizens and children, and only in lifestyle content. Among the structural features examined, only local distribution and a circulation less than 5,000 exhibit improvements in female representation. Ownership, distribution frequency, market position, and direct press support had little or no effect.
Databáze: OpenAIRE