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Explaining Gang Rape in a “Rough Town”: Diverse Voices in Gender Violence News Online†
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This article examined online news about the gang rape of a teenage girl after she left her homecoming dance in Richmond, CA and found that framing implicated social structures by referencing gender socialization as a cause of rape.Abstract:
This study examines online news about the gang rape of a teenage girl after she left her homecoming dance in Richmond, CA. I analyze news framing in the 49 relevant stories that appeared on SFGate.com from 2009 to 2011, when 7 suspects were ordered to stand trial individually. My goals were to determine the dominant meanings in online news about gang rape and to illuminate how coverage invoked identity discourse. Findings suggest that frames debated the crime's causes, with a variety of sources offering competing explanations, many of which invoked identity discourses tying intersections of gender, race, and class with place. In contrast to previous research, some framing implicated social structures by referencing gender socialization as a cause of rape. Language: enread more
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Victim Blaming in Twitter Users’ Framing of Eric Garner and Michael Brown:
TL;DR: Using a critical race lens, the authors examined representations of Black males killed by White police officers and explored tweets that emergent from victim-blaming literature. But their analysis focused on the representation of black males.
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Rape in the news: on rape genres in Swedish news coverage
TL;DR: In this article, the authors dealt with narratives of rape in Swedish newspapers between 1990 and 2015, and the main argument is that the narratives perpetuating myths and stereotypes about rape, rapists and rape victims.
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Victimized On Plain Sites
TL;DR: The authors employed a content analysis of the Steubenville (Ohio) sexual assault case to explore the mainstream media characterization of the victim and perpetrators, and found that new technologies are being employed as sources by traditional media sources.
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The agency factor: neoliberal configurations of risk in news discourse on the Steubenville, Ohio rape case
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the need for more research on news media representations of sexual assault within Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), focusing on the discursive links between victim-blaming in mainstream news coverage, on the one hand, and a neoliberal ideology that backgrounds structural issues while implicitly emphasizing an ethic of "personal responsibility" for risk-management.
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Narrating the moral geography of rape in Swedish newspapers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlighted how a moral geography is evoked in news narratives of rape and argued that location, and narratives of women and men crossing boundaries, walking in line, being in place or invading space are used as proxy for the socio-spatial dimensions of power and morality.
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
TL;DR: In this article, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe and provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.
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Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses
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Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality
TL;DR: Newsworkers decide what news is, why they cover some items but not others, and how they decide what Inand others want to know as discussed by the authors, and the role of consciousness in the construction of social meanings and the organization of experience.