Observing gender in the newsroom: insights from an ethnographic study

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Autor(a) principal: Silveirinha, Maria João
Data de Publicação: 2023
Outros Autores: Lobo, Paula, Simões, R. B.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/106762
https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2200581
Resumo: A large body of research has documented gender bias in the news coverage of women. Despite small gains in recent years, namely on television, and the growing percentage of females in the workforce, substantial underrepresentation of women in the news has remained. To explore journalists’ social and professional world as a milieu of the lived professional and culturally grounded understandings of gender, we conducted participant observation of a television newsroom. Drawing on symbolic interactionism, our study explored daily interactions and communicative performances, focusing on how gender is built in everyday work encounters in ways that may be connected to potential changes in the practices of gender representations. The study identified three primary themes: newsroom environment, gender assumptions, and issues of language. Our findings support that gender is not given but performed mostly according to institutionalised common practices following gender expectations and presuppositions, making change more difficult and slower than necessary. Future research should complement the limitations of the cultural generalizability of our study. Recommendations include the study of gender construction in relation to other components of gender as a social institution and gender in television journalism practice.
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title Observing gender in the newsroom: insights from an ethnographic study
spellingShingle Observing gender in the newsroom: insights from an ethnographic study
Silveirinha, Maria João
Participant observation
gender
newsroom
journalists
symbolic interactionism
title_short Observing gender in the newsroom: insights from an ethnographic study
title_full Observing gender in the newsroom: insights from an ethnographic study
title_fullStr Observing gender in the newsroom: insights from an ethnographic study
title_full_unstemmed Observing gender in the newsroom: insights from an ethnographic study
title_sort Observing gender in the newsroom: insights from an ethnographic study
author Silveirinha, Maria João
author_facet Silveirinha, Maria João
Lobo, Paula
Simões, R. B.
author_role author
author2 Lobo, Paula
Simões, R. B.
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author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Silveirinha, Maria João
Lobo, Paula
Simões, R. B.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Participant observation
gender
newsroom
journalists
symbolic interactionism
topic Participant observation
gender
newsroom
journalists
symbolic interactionism
description A large body of research has documented gender bias in the news coverage of women. Despite small gains in recent years, namely on television, and the growing percentage of females in the workforce, substantial underrepresentation of women in the news has remained. To explore journalists’ social and professional world as a milieu of the lived professional and culturally grounded understandings of gender, we conducted participant observation of a television newsroom. Drawing on symbolic interactionism, our study explored daily interactions and communicative performances, focusing on how gender is built in everyday work encounters in ways that may be connected to potential changes in the practices of gender representations. The study identified three primary themes: newsroom environment, gender assumptions, and issues of language. Our findings support that gender is not given but performed mostly according to institutionalised common practices following gender expectations and presuppositions, making change more difficult and slower than necessary. Future research should complement the limitations of the cultural generalizability of our study. Recommendations include the study of gender construction in relation to other components of gender as a social institution and gender in television journalism practice.
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