"In this chapter, international, regional and State-level legal and normative frameworks for responding to online violence against women journalists are examined, while exemplar judgements are catalogued, and gaps in law enforcement are highlighted. Here, insights gleaned from 184 in-depth interview
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s, and responses to the relevant survey questions in the main data corpus are supplemented by relevant examples from other countries, surfaced through extensive desk research. Additionally, the 15 country case studies underpinning the broader study are drawn on to contextualise the discussion." (Pages 4-5)
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"This Technical Document is the result of a collaboration between EU DisinfoLab and #ShePersisted. It offers a short and practical toolbox of what should be considered when speaking of gender-based disinformation." (Page 3)
"In 0 of 17 markets [in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia] did the percentage of women holding top business positions exceed 25%. The highest performer was the Philippines with 22%. In 2 of 17 markets, the percentage of women holding top editorial positions was skewed in favour of women. In
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the Philippines, 78% of Chief Editor positions were held by women, followed by Zambia with women holding 57% of the top editorial positions. In 5 of the 17 countries, zero women held the highest business position: Somalia, Rwanda, Kenya, Palestine and Jordan. In Somalia, no woman held the top editorial position as of 2022, followed by Egypt, where only 9% of the top editorial positions were filled by women." (Slide 1)
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"Die Medien spielen eine zentrale Rolle bei der Normalisierung von Gewalt gegen Frauen und unterstützen zum Teil schädliche Einstellungen, Verhaltensweisen und Stereotypen, die diese Gewalt begünstigen. Gleichzeitig können Medienakteur*innen dabei mitwirken, das Blatt zu wenden und aktiv zum Abb
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au von Gewalt gegen Frauen und Femiziden beizutragen. Gemäß der Richtlinie 11.2 des Pressekodex sollten Medien bei der Berichterstattung über Gewalttaten das Informationsinteresse der Öffentlichkeit stets mit den Interessen der Opfer und Betroffenen sorgsam abwägen und dabei die Vorgänge unabhängig und authentisch beschreiben." (Seite 1)
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"How did that impact the media's ability to tell this story? Did this period of protest have coverage that centred on survivors and the rights of women, or did the media fixate on voyeuristic representations of violence? Did the reports challenge rape myths and the culture of shame that demonstrator
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s spoke up against, or did they repeat sexist stereotypes that end up reinforcing gender inequality? And finally, how can media coverage of sexual violence be made more gender-sensitive and trauma-informed? These are some of the questions that the author attempted to answer in this paper." (Introduction)
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"The gains made by African women publishers need to be safeguarded and consolidated, however it is still not straightforward for women to publish. We shall no doubt see more women publishers establishing and heading publishing houses. …There are issues, relevant across the board in Africa, includi
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ng traditions, cultures and prejudices mitigating against women’s participation in decision making. This includes the publishing field. … Women writers and publishers, we are well aware that nothing is given, and we have to keep demanding and putting one foot in front of the other in the publishing world. I see women like me who began to publish to fill a gap and are now bringing in other people as changing ways‘things have always been done’, and giving new vocabulary to define a new world of ‘this is the way things are now being done." (Abstract)
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"Uzbekistan faces socio-political changes in the last years and the impact of these turnouts are reflected in the media landscape of the country. Several cases show that the issues of gender equality and the safety of journalists are becomingmore threatening. Some journalists suffer from political p
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ressure, harassment, and physical or psychological threats. The analysis of the most discussed real cases can be the authentic example reducing of the freedom of the press in the country." (Abstract)
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"Reports of the online harassment of journalists have continued to increase as more newsrooms place higher emphasis on social media engagement with audiences. However, this harassment is subject to gendered dynamics, as women journalists are most often the target of online abuse, and the attacks the
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mselves are often gender-centric. This study employs a mixed-method approach to explore how gender influences broadcast journalists’ social media interactions with audiences. Qualitative interviews with US broadcast journalists, along with a social media discourse analysis of the journalists’ Twitter pages, reveal the sexist nature of these interactions. Specifically, findings show that women journalists are treated not only as sexual objects, but also as non-serious journalists. In response to this treatment, women journalists adjust their social media strategies by limiting what they post and blocking certain users. This puts women journalists in a difficult position: increase coveted audience engagement and deal with online harassment or block abusive social media users and suffer the career impacts of low audience engagement. Implications are discussed." (Abstract)
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"Digital platforms quickly became prevalent over physical public space, allowing debates, interactions, and activism to flourish. With women journalists contributing significantly to the formation of a vibrant digital public space, offline violence has adapted and evolved with digital platforms. Sin
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ce 2015, the safety of journalists has profiled as an object of research in the field of communication sciences. Researchers identify, explore, and analyze the nature, prevalence, mediums of support and impacts, both personal and journalistic, of new aggressions specific to the digital environment, which aim to discredit, condition, and silence female participation. However, the wide diversity of terms and definitions used by academics has made it difficult to identify the phenomenon of digital violence against journalists and what would be the appropriate way to legislate it, to guarantee a protection of rights adapted to the digital environment. Based on scientific papers that have carried out a systematic review of terms used in previous research to characterize digital violence against women journalists, we intend to identify the best way to conceptually characterize the phenomenon and which issues need to be considered for a legislation of journalists' safety in digital arena." (Abstract)
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"This book discusses the role of television drama series on a global scale, analyzing these dramas across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Contributors consider the role of television dramas as economically valuable cultural products and with their depictions of gender roles, sexua
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lities, race, cultural values, political systems, and religious beliefs as they analyze how these programs allow us to indulge our innate desire to share human narratives in a way that binds us together and encourages audiences to persevere as a community on a global scale. Contributors also go on to explore the role of television dramas as a medium that indulges fantasies and escapism and reckons with reality as it allows audiences to experience emotions of happiness, sorrow, fear, and outrage in both realistic and fantastical scenarios." (Publisher description)
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"This independent, solutions-based report, the third in the Missing Perspectives series, focuses on how to break down two fundamental barriers, previously identified, that women face: their underrepresentation and cultural exclusion in news leadership at the top of news organizations/in the highest-
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profile beats (the subject of Part 1); and their invisibility in news coverage/storytelling (the subject of Part 2)." (Executive summary)
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"All respondents had experienced online violence. Misogynistic hate speech, sexists’ comments, body shaming as well as slut shaming was common among the women journalists and WHRDs interviewed. These threats were also extended to their families, friends, relatives and networks. Another frequently
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mentioned attack was the attempted hacking into women’s email. Most of the women interviewed reduced their online activity and presence in response to online violence whereas others deactivated some of their online accounts. The story theme most often identified in association with increased attacks was gender, followed by politics and elections, human rights and social policy. Anonymous or unknown attackers are the most frequently noted source of attacks according to the women respondents. Facebook was mentioned as the least safe among social media platforms/apps used by women participants, with most of the respondents saying it was “very unsafe” compared to Twitter. Most of the women journalists did not report incidents of online violence to their employers or security personnel."
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"Las 23 historias de vida y profesionales contenidas en este libro reflejan la riqueza y multiplicidad de abordajes y temas que la comunicación como disciplina permite investigar, así como algunas de las necesidades pendientes de abordar. En la diversidad también hay elementos compartidos que nos
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permiten articular una visión sobre la comunicación en México desde las mujeres cuya obra, aportes y reflexiones están contenidos en el texto. Cuando invitamos a las autoras a participar propiciamos la reflexión en torno a tres temas transversales. El primero es la comunicación misma: ¿Cómo entiendes la comunicación, desde dónde la has mirado, estudiado? El segundo tema transversal es el género: ¿Cómo tu experiencia de vida y profesional como mujer ha influido en la forma en que miras o entiendes la comunicación? El tercer tema es el de los fenómenos sociales que enfrentamos en México: ¿Qué problema o fenómeno debemos abordar desde la comunicación? A partir de los capítulos enviados emergió un cuarto tema transversal, el de la historia del campo de estudio de la comunicación en el país y los desafíos que enfrenta en la actualidad. Varios de los capítulos narran el inicio de los estudios de la comunicación en México en la década de 1970, cuando la Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México fundó la primera licenciatura en comunicación en el país. Posteriormente, el Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO), universidad jesuita junto con la IBERO, llevó el campo a la ciudad de Guadalajara donde dio pie a un nodo importante para la formación de académicas e investigadoras que se ha mantenido a lo largo de los años. Otra sede que contribuyó a la creación y consolidación de programas de estudios en comunicación fue la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, donde convergieron académicas y académicos del cono sur quienes abonaron a la formación de docentes y a la construcción de una mirada sobre los estudios de la comunicación." (Introducción, página 5-6)
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