Media Disparity

Cory L. Armstrong

doi:10.5771/9780739181881

Summary

For decades, scholars have repeatedly found the inequity of gender representations in informational and entertainment media. Beginning with the seminal work by Gaye Tuchman and colleagues, we have repeatedly seen a systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in media. Examining the latest research in discourse and content analyses trending in both domestic and international circles, Media Disparity: A Gender Battleground highlights the progress—or lack thereof—in media regarding portrayals of women, across genres and cultures within the twenty-first century. Blending both original studies and descriptive overviews of current media platforms, top scholars evaluate the portrayals of women in contemporary venues, including advertisements, videogames, political stories, health communication, and reality television.

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Copyright year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-8187-4
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-8188-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 292
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Tables and Figures No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Preface: Media, Gender, Niche No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Chapter One: Women’s (mis) Representation in News Media No access
3. Chapter Two: Gendered Sexual Scripts in Music Lyrics and Videos Popular among Adolescents No access
4. Chapter Three: Women in Health News and Communication No access
5. Chapter Four: Newspaper Coverage of Women Running for the U.S. Senate in 2012: Evidence of an Increasingly Level Playing Field? No access
6. Chapter Five: From Annihilation to Ambivalence: Women in Sports Coverage No access
1. Chapter Six: Wikipedia’s Gender Gap No access
2. Chapter Seven: The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: How Gender is Represented on Reality Television No access
3. Chapter Eight: Adverting the Gaze: Advertisers’ Construction of Female Masculinity through the Athleticism of Olympians Abby Wambaugh, Lindsey Vonn, and Marlen Esparza No access
4. Chapter Nine: Gendered Performance in Virtual Environments No access
1. Chapter Ten: Bic for Her and Crisps for Him: Contemporary Gendered Targeting and Representation in Advertising around the World No access
2. Chapter Eleven: Women Making News (or Not) in Uganda No access
3. Chapter Twelve: Blame Narratives: News Discourses of Sex Trafficking No access
4. Chapter Thirteen: Gender Differences in Covering Public Health Crises in China No access
1. Chapter Fourteen: Media and Public Discourse: The Limits of Feminist Influence No access
Conclusion: The Next Frontier in Gender Representation No access Pages 217 - 226
Bibliography No access Pages 227 - 268
Index No access Pages 269 - 286
About the Contributors No access Pages 287 - 292