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Media and the representation of gender

2013
In many respects the contemporary field of feminist media scholarship looks vastly different from the relatively straightforward terrain occupied by the “women and media” studies of the 1970s and 1980s. The inadequacies of studies that conflate the condition of white, heterosexual, middle-class women with the condition of all women are now acknowledged ...
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Media Representations of ADHD

2018
In this chapter, Mary Horton-Salway reviews the role of media discourse in representing ADHD as a controversy and maps out some relevant research on ADHD in the media. The chapter discusses how the media frame the ADHD debate as a polemic, how representations of ADHD are produced and how they are gendered to produce stereotypes.
Mary Horton-Salway, Alison Davies
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Representations of Play: Pachinko in Popular Media

2021
This chapter argues that there are at least three phases of the pachinko industry in Japan; popular media such as films and novels reflect how filmmakers and novelists saw the game differently in these three phases. The first phase commenced after the end of WWII, at that time pachinko was a family; the game was seen as idle pursuits, contrasting the ...
Keiji Amano, Geoffrey Rockwell
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Media Representations: Politics

2016
Representations of politics in mass media are a central source of citizens' experiences with and perceptions of politics. This entry discusses key aspects that have evolved in the literature on mediated representations of politics and their possible influences on the public. Focusing specifically on mass media coverage of political actors, it considers
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Media Representations of Domestic Violence

2017
Though it is generally given less attention than sexual assault, domestic violence is quite often depicted in corporate media products, including news broadcasts, television shows, and films. Mediated depictions of domestic violence share many of the same problems as those of sexual assault.
Nicholas Chagnon, Meda Chesney-Lind
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Popular Media Representations

2018
With much of the general public gaining information from the popular media, particularly on subjects that are sensitive, misrepresentation can be very damaging. Often utilizing experts, to reinforce their viewpoint, the popular media continues to shape our understanding positively.
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Representations of Gender in the Media

2013
AbstractIndividuals young and old can learn a great deal from the ways in which men and women and boys and girls are depicted in the media. Alongside other socializing influences such as family and peers, the media help form perceptions of gender roles, and can shape the behaviors that stem from those perceptions.
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Representations of Parental Responsibility in the Media

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 2010
This article presents the results of a study that investigated how the Australian media represents the issue of parental responsibility, specifically when a child is accused of breaking the law. A sample of 95 news articles from a total of 116 articles that appeared in the Australian newsprint media from January 2001 to December 2005 was qualitatively ...
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Media representations of Ngarrindjeri women

Journal of Australian Studies, 1996
(1996). Media representations of Ngarrindjeri women. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 20, No. 48, pp. 73-82.
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The Media and Representation of Leadership

2013
The expanded role of the media in the political arena has produced many changes in the political process. Even those who do not hold radical views regarding the intrusion of the media into the political field recognize that politics has become “mediatized” in the sense that it “has lost its autonomy, has become dependent in its central functions on ...
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