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Stories of digital sexual assault: an analysis of victim positions in news media Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Signe Uldbjerg
Digital sexual assault, the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, is becoming an increasingly debated topic leaving victims and survivors to negotiate a large number of stories about and repre...
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Whose feminism is it anyway? Reinterpreting digital media and feminisms from the non-metropolitan global south Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Nithila Kanagasabai
This paper seeks to reflect on the ways in which a non-metropolitan academic feminist community engages with digital media to reimagine the discipline of Women’s Studies, and consequently feminist ...
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Censoring Iranian cinema: normalization of the “modest” woman Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Hamid Taheri
This research examines the structure of Iranian film that has normalized the image of the “modest” Iranian woman, which has little to no relation to the reality of Iranian women. This power structu...
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A historiography intervention through 90’s pop music in Turkey: an interview with İlker Hepkaner and Sezgin İnceel Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Demet Gülçiçek
Published in Feminist Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A feminist new materialism analysis of pelvic floor digital health messages Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Jennifer Vardeman, Lyric Mandell, Alaina Spiers, Natasha Saad
This interdisciplinary study examines digital communication strategies used by advocacy groups/social media influencers about a stigmatized women’s health issue. Pelvic floor disorders (PFDs) affec...
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“Born exhibitionists”: examining humorous responses to the Maidenform dreams campaign (1949-1969) Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Astrid Van den Bossche
In post-WWII United States, Maidenform’s “I dreamed I went shopping in my Maidenform bra” campaign (1949–1969) was seen as a prime example of the psychoanalytical sell: the ads seemed to tap into t...
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Memeing back at misogyny: emerging meme-feminism, visual tactics, and aesthetic world-building on Iranian social media Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Sama Khosravi-Ooryad
In this article, I examine the emergence of “meme-feminism” on Iranian social media, which adopts innovative tactics to combat gendered hate online. I propose the concept of “memeing back” at misog...
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Is feminism an asset or a burden? Media coverage of an Israeli feminist woman politician Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Einat Lachover, Sofia Haytin
In the context of the current high visibility of feminist discourse, this study focuses on the media coverage of Merav Michaeli, a female Israeli politician who led a feminist campaign during the 2...
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Reality television and the promotion of problematic behavior among cast members: a case study content analysis through the lens of feminist and media framing theories Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Karla R. Hamlen
A combination of feminist and media framing theories allows for a perspective of the world in which power structures play a role in the construction of identities. In mass media spaces, those who h...
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Fascism, nature and communication: a Discursive-affective analysis of cuteness in ecofascist propaganda Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Maria Darwish
Ecofascism—the union of fascist ideas and ecological notions—is a rising global issue. Ecofascism in the online sphere often encompasses imaginaries of utopia, love and nostalgia in concert with mi...
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Affordances and platformed visual misogyny: a call for feminist approaches in visual methods Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Suay Melisa Özkula, Patricia Prieto-Blanco, Xuanxuan Tan, Norita Mdege
With social media technologies, feminist perspectives have reached parts of society traditionally uninterested in or fundamentally opposed to them. While feminist activists and allies have employed...
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Digitalizing sexual citizenship: LGBTI+ resistance at digital spaces in pandemic times Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Onur Kilic
Drawing on a digital ethnography of Istanbul Pride events in 2020 and in-depth interviews with LGBTI+ activists from Turkey, this study examines the transformations in the sites and practices of re...
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Screaming along to mixtapes: Yellowjackets and the choral female voice as subversive noise Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 James Rendell
Engaging with collectivist voice that challenges the “communicative injustices” of neoliberal feminism, this article analyses how the TV horror series Yellowjackets’ soundscape employs unruly femal...
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Seeking and surveilled: the effects of Tumblr’s sexual content ban on sugar babies’ posts Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Rachel E. Davis
Over the last decade, there has been an increase in concern about sugar arrangements, relationships in which sugar babies, typically young women, provide romantic companionship to sugar daddies, ty...
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The politics of crisis, care, and vulnerability in “this is going to hurt (2022)” Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Jacqueline Gibbs
This article explores themes of crisis, care, and vulnerability in the 2022 BBC series This is Going to Hurt. Arguing that the series is significant within the genre of medical-themed television be...
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Prostitution adjacent: the politics and performance of mediated motherhood and sex work Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Reut Odinak
American television producers have created a slew of television series that focus on motherhood’s experience and meanings. This paper examines how SMILF (Showtime, 2017–2019) and The Deuce (HBO, 20...
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“A public orgy of misogyny”: gender, power, media, and legal spectacle in Depp v Heard Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Camilla Nelson
Possibly no other media event has given rise to the widespread ridiculing of domestic violence as the livestreaming of Johnny Depp’s defamation action against his former wife Amber Heard. This arti...
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Tackling online misogyny in political campaigns: Promise and limitations of artificial intelligence Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Sahana Udupa, Luise Koch
Studies on the resurgence of right-wing regimes in the Global South have lately offered more evidence for how misogynistic attacks against dissenting voices constitute important elements of populis...
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Self-knowledge, self-regulation and ambivalence: the production of female desire in the US-UK popular cultural imaginary Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Kate R. Gilchrist
This article examines how media texts are curbing and conditioning female desire in the contemporary US-UK cultural moment. It analyses eight popular cultural texts: fictional TV shows Sex/Life (20...
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Perils of the princess 2.0: an (auto)ethnographic study of girls playing Super Mario Bros. 2 Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Kristina Stokes
This article uses elements of both ethnography and autoethnography to evaluate the role of Princess Toadstool (aka Princess Peach) in the 1988 game, Super Mario Bros. 2. The analysis is primarily q...
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Being a positive influence(r): Exploring affective pedagogies of wellbeing and positivity on Instagram Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Octavia Calder-Dawe, Cherie Lacey, Margaret Wetherell, Michael S. Daubs
Influencers attract praise—and censure—for how they are perceived to influence followers. These discussions are strongly gendered: representations of mainstream influencers are highly feminised, an...
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Collectivizing trauma: everyday experiences, empathy, and grassroots activism in Japan’s Flower Demonstration against sexual violence Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Junxiao Leng
The Flower Demonstration is an anti-sexual violence movement launched in Japan on Twitter, 2019. By October 2023, the movement has established 67 local branches across Japan and sustained its month...
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Introduction to the mixed-up politics of disinformation, anti-feminisms, and misogyny Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Michele White
Published in Feminist Media Studies (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2024)
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Redefining counterculture: anti-feminist disinformation strategies among fundamentalist evangelical microcelebrities Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Caitlin E. Lawson
Published in Feminist Media Studies (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2024)
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Misinformation as woman: anti-feminism, news media, and disinformation’s feminized other Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Leigh Goldstein, Meenasarani Linde Murugan
Published in Feminist Media Studies (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2024)
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Platformed misogyny in Depp v Heard: #justiceforjohnny and networked defamation Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Sandra Robinson, Emily Hiltz
Published in Feminist Media Studies (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2024)
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Civil rights exploitation film promotion as anti-feminist disinformation Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Jacqueline Pinkowitz
Published in Feminist Media Studies (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2024)
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From farmer’s wife to FarmHer: representing agrarian feminism in the twenty-first century Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Lillian Nagengast
FarmHer—a weekly documentary-reality show that airs on RFD-TV (a network run by the Rural Media Group)—is one of the latest television series that attempts to capture the lives of farm women across...
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Women’s affective labor in the Red Army’s war propaganda in the early 1930s Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Ping Zhu
This paper demonstrates that women’s affective labor was widely and deeply appropriated in the Red Army’s war propaganda in the early 1930s. This appropriation allowed women to emerge as free human...
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British Muslim women in the cultural and creative industries Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Laura Mora
Published in Feminist Media Studies (Vol. 23, No. 8, 2023)
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The invisible women: uncovering gender bias in AI-generated images of professionals Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Anna M. Gorska, Dariusz Jemielniak
This study explores gender bias in AI-generated images of professionals, focusing on the visual representation of male and female professionals in law, medicine, engineering, and scientific researc...
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Femininity on trial: decoding female violence in true crime documentary Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Cassandra Dana
This article explores the treatment of criminally accused women and girls in 2000s crime documentaries. I argue that although the HBO documentaries I Love You, Now Die and Beware The Slenderman cha...
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An analysis of Josh condom commercials: perspectives on female sexuality in Pakistani culture Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Sakina Jangbar
Even though sexuality occupied a prominent place in traditional Islam, sex has become a taboo subject in Pakistan, especially female sexuality. Prudish attitudes about female sexuality have not onl...
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The Sounds of Blackness, HIP-HOP turns 50 – conference review Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Kelly Parker
This review of the 2023 Teaching Black History conference “The Sounds of Blackness, Hip-Hop Turns 50” held at Buffalo University’s Centre for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education at the...
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“Uh, unfairly targets rapists? Boo fucking hoo” : (anti-) carceral feminist discourses around sexual violence on Twitter Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Dacia Pajé, Janna MacPherson, Sienna Medina
As conversations around carceral responses to sexual violence intensify, this study investigates the phenomenon of carceral feminism on Twitter. In adopting a feminist abolitionist perspective, we ...
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Anti-feminism as anti-establishment and emancipatory: the gendered metapolitics of Incel Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Henry Price
In recent years Incel1 has become a regularly cited example of extreme contemporary misogyny and antifeminism. This paper develops existing understandings of the phenomenon and contextualises Incel...
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Traversing bodies and territories: feminist activism against digital violence Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Marcela Suárez Estrada
This article analyzes how feminist collectives approach the internet as a feminist territory to defend it from violence. Feminist media studies have recently focused on bodies as sites of oppressio...
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“Compose yourself, like Michelle or Oprah”: a focus group study of the social identity of Black women newscasters in the US Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Guy Harrison, Denetra Walker, Charli Kerns
Using social identity theory, this focus group study uses the insights of 11 Black women newscasters to explore how these women collectively shape their identity within the US broadcast television ...
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Conceptualizing academic sustainability Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Ezgi Pehlivanli, Hande Eslen-Ziya
Recently, academia has become an arena of political conflict that results in the corrosion of academic life in general. Restrictions of academic freedom and lack of research autonomy, in addition t...
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Powerful in pearls and Willie Brown’s mistress: a computational analysis of gendered news coverage of Kamala Harris on the partisan extremes Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Meg Heckman, Rahul Bhargava, Emily Boardman Ndulue
This study uses a mix of traditional and computational content analysis to track digital news coverage of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris during and immediately after the 2020 general elections. ...
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Media discourse in Canada on trans youth and parent advocacy Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Jennifer Dyer, Kimberley Manning, Julie Temple Newhook, Simerpreet Khosa, Aphrodite Salas, Jennifer Davis, Julie James, Sarah Pickett, Annie Pullen Sansfacon
News reporting on transgender youth between 2011 and 2019 in Canada is increasingly affirming of transgender identities, experiences, and needs. These news stories are also increasingly initiated b...
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Female domestic work and social changes in a Brazilian fiction film: insights about the reflective dividend Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Christianne Luce Gomes
This article aims to examine the reflexivity of the audience for the film The Second Mother, focusing on the social and gender relations constituted, in Brazil, around paid female domestic work. Th...
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Potential risk in the “contrast-field”: queer-positioning between facts and assumptions within research on incels Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Ozan Félix Sousbois
Published in Feminist Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Digital vulnerabilities and online harassment of academics, consequences, and coping strategies. An exploratory analysis Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Hande Eslen-Ziya, Alberta Giorgi, Ceren J. Ahi
Academic research is currently undergoing a wave of contestation, ranging from violent attacks and life-threatening situations to public undermining of their research and online threats and harassm...
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Belonging, responsibility and reflexivity: mediated intimacy among Finnish nonbinary and trans social media users Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Julius Hokkanen
Platforms are essential spaces for gender and sexual minorities to develop identities and build connections. However, even though social media activism has itself been a recurrent unit of analysis,...
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Intersectionality and care ethics in researching the far right Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Iris B. Segers, Tamta Gelashvili, Audrey Gagnon
Close-up research on the far right comes with inherent challenges related to issues of power, justice, and ethics, which are often gendered and intersect with other axes of inequality, like race, e...
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Distinct information ecologies? Gender knowledge production in German digital legacy and counterpublic media Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Susanne Reinhardt
This article studies the epistemic dimension of current struggles over gender and sexual equality issues by analyzing digital media as epistemic systems transferring and producing gender knowledge....
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Gendered cooking and Indian marriages: reading Tarla from a feminist viewpoint Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Rajbir Samal, Binod Mishra
Cooking and women share a discursive relationship in Indian social and cultural spheres. The culinary practices of women not only reflect the gender norms prevalent in Indian society but also in In...
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What is in a name? Alternative gender knowledge and the retrogressive worlding of radical right digital media Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Oana Băluță
The article explores the role of radical right digital media in alternative gender knowledge production during the 2018 “Referendum for Family” in Romania and critically reflects on the challenges ...
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Routini Al Yawmi: exploring taboo, risk, and the erotic gaze across Moroccan (non)digital landscapes Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Moulay Driss El Maarouf, Omar Moumni
This paper dwells into the sensitive topic of eroticism and sexuality within Islam, with a specific focus on contemporary Morocco. It explores the challenges faced by Muslims in openly discussing t...
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“My feminism is better than yours!” the lack of intersectionality in feminist digital discourses in Ghana Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Ivy M Fofie
The nomination of a strong female vice-presidential candidate—Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang—during the 2020 elections in Ghana divided some Ghanaian feminists. As they could not agree to collectively s...
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Notable enough? The questioning of women’s biographies on Wikipedia Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Franziska Martini
This study focuses on biographies nominated for deletion in the German-language Wikipedia and the encyclopedia’s core principle of notability. Results are presented from quantitative content analys...
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Reflections on feminist communication and media scholarship Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Rong Wan
Published in Feminist Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Bedroom eyes: women dressing and redressing in The Best Years of Our Lives Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Mandy Elliott
Despite the years of research scholars have undergone to discuss The Best Years of our Lives’ men, this paper takes a new approach and looks at the film’s women, their agency, and their sexuality. ...
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Locked down and locked out: mothers and UKTV work during the COVID-19 pandemic Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Natalie Wreyford, Jack Newsinger, Helen Kennedy, Rowan Aust
COVID-19 and the associated government lockdowns in the UK had dramatic impacts on the UK’s creative industries. This article explores these impacts on mothers working in UK Television (UKTV), on t...
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Empowerment through femvertising - Evidence from Mexico and Hungary Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Anna Török, Claudia L. Gomez-Borquez, Edgar Centeno-Velázquez, Erzsébet Malota
The purpose of the paper is to understand the concept of femvertising in a cross-cultural study for countries that have not been examined in previous research. Twenty semi-structured in-depth inter...
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History or vanity? The first “female” referees in the history of the FIFA World Cup and its reflections on Twitter Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Yavuz Demir, Bünyamin Ayhan
In May 2022, FIFA announced that female referees, Stéphanie Frappart, Neuza Back and Karen Diaz, would officiate at the 2022 men’s football World Cup held in Qatar that year, making them the first ...
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Networked feminism: how digital media makers transformed gender justice movements Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Feng Mao, Shili Liu
Published in Feminist Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The manosphere under the microscope: a critical discourse analysis of the news media reporting of Rowan Baxter’s murder of Hannah Clarke and her family Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Elliott Bryan, Shane Warren
This qualitative research addresses the question: how do antifeminist narratives emerge from Australian news media reporting of violence against women? Scholarship in this area is limited; however,...
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Framing women’s alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic Feminist Media Studies (IF 1.953) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Gemma Cobb
This article is a feminist framing analysis of the Anglophone media’s construction of women’s alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns of 2020–2021. The media periodically generat...