Original scientific paper
Media, Identity, and Gender: Tracking Feminist Media and Journalism Theories and Methodologies
Zala Volčić
; Post Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies,
Abstract
This article attempts to illustrate some general theoretical and methodological
approaches to journalism and media coming from feminist perspective. The
research questions raised by media feminists scholars relate not only to the
key issue of representation, but also to wider examination of the place of
women in the media industries, to women as producers and as audiences, and
women’s reflections of their own situation in relationship to the media spaces.
At the heart of this article lies a case-study. It asks whether there are any gender
differences in a general perception held in a newsroom of a small Australian
newspaper – that female journalists work differently to male journalists.
On the basis of qualitative methodologies (participant observation, and indepth
interviews) the study explores the question whether there are observable
differences in the way female journalists and male journalists work in that
particular newsroom. Put it simple, we are interested here in whether Australian
female journalists in the studied newspaper newsroom conform to a traditional,
patriarchal style of journalism?
Keywords
identity; media; gender; journalism; interviews; femininity
Hrčak ID:
26317
URI
Publication date:
25.6.2008.
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