Abstract

This qualitative feminist study analyzes Egyptian women journalists’ articulations of their shifting roles, struggles, and resistances to the political, legal, socio-economic, and professional challenges in a shifting, hybrid, and digitalized journalistic field. Through analyzing 16 interviews with women journalists representing different media affiliations, experiences, and demographics, this study explores their varied perceptions of the shifts in journalistic professionalism and press freedom in Egypt, their equally shifting professional roles and struggles, and their varied resistance mechanisms. On the one hand, this study unpacks the multiple challenges facing them, such as restricted journalistic autonomy, limited access to information and technology, sexual harassment, lack of job security, and other forms of professional discrimination, in a male-dominated profession and a patriarchal culture. On the other hand, it investigates the parallel resistance mechanisms they deploy to overcome these challenges. We argue that the amalgamation of these cyclical, push-and-pull dynamics gave birth to a new “differentiated media landscape” (Schroeder 2018 Schroeder, R. 2018. “Rethinking Digital Media and Political Change.” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 24 (2): 168–183.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), representing a third space between mainstream media and citizen journalism, the online and the offline, and the old and the new, in a rapidly evolving journalistic field.

摘要

这项定性的女权主义研究分析了埃及女记者在不断变化的、混合的和数字化的新闻领域中对她们不断变化的角色、斗争和对政治、法律、社会经济和专业挑战的抵抗的表述。通过分析 16 位代表不同媒体关系、经历和人口统计的女记者的采访，本研究探讨了她们对埃及新闻专业精神和新闻自由转变的不同看法，她们同样转变的职业角色和斗争，以及她们不同的抵抗机制。一方面，本研究揭示了他们面临的多重挑战，例如新闻自主权受限、信息和技术获取受限、性骚扰、缺乏工作保障以及其他形式的职业歧视，在男性主导的职业和父权文化中。另一方面，它研究了他们为克服这些挑战而部署的平行阻力机制。我们认为，这些周期性、推拉动力的融合催生了一个新的“差异化媒体格局”（施罗德2018 施罗德，R. 2018 年。“重新思考数字媒体和政治变革。” 融合：国际新媒体技术研究杂志24 (2): 168 – 183。[Crossref], [Web of Science ®]  , [Google Scholar] )，在快速发展的新闻领域中，代表了主流媒体和公民新闻、在线和离线、新旧之间的第三空间。