Gender and Media : how the TV portray gender ?

Thèmes abordés

Gender, Media, TV, gender, gender stereotypes, TV shows, TV News

Résumé du document

It exists many way in the society to influence the view of men and women. Nowadays, media seems to be the most relevant and powerful. David Gauntlett clearly considers the fact that it's impossible to think that media doesn't affect people and their way to perceive and consider the world. Media can be define as being a technological process which make easier the communication between the message transmitter and its recipient. This definition include TV and press but we can also include the new way of communication like the social networks. As the definition says : "Norms, practices and ideas with a regulative function which are not written down in any law. As for the formal institutions, the disobedience is sanctioned but not by the law. It is socially sanctioned here. Powerful and difficult to change.", we can consider media as an informal institutions because even if it doesn't exist a specific regulation which says what is available or not, some rules have to be respected.

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[...] Historically, women aren't linked to the political universe. A woman can do politics but (instead of men) she has to prove by the media that she can take care of her social life. It's the reason we can notice a movement in the link between private life of politician women and media : women can push their life forward to communicate through media. However, can we consider this movement only for women ? Nowadays, it's difficult to answer this question by saying yes because many politician men do the same process. [...]

[...] It proves the idea that the under- representation of women in media is a phenomenon on the screen and also outside the screen The under-representation of women on TV News Twenty years ago, a study made by the institution Media Watch about women's portrayal in the news media was established in seventy-one countries and the analysis is alarming. The average of the study said that only 17% of the world's news subject were women. The highest rates are in United States and in Sweden Contrary to men who appear in news stories about politics, business or economy, women feature in subject which deals with feminine domains of health or social. [...]

[...] Why women are under-represented on TV News ? The reason is linked about what we said previously. The fact that the subject about politics, business or economy feature mainly men than women make more difficult a women journalist to present these subjects according program directors. For instance of french political experts on TV News are men but when the subject is a social subject, it decreases to 60% for men. If channels seems to prefer men journalist than women, any study mention the fact that a men who present TV news means better audience. [...]

[...] Of course, some aspects of media can help or disturb the process of gendered media. Some feminist researchers consider that media offer only a traditional role model which make more difficult the process. Nonetheless, if we focus on Greer's thought in the introduction, we can notice a real evolution of gender representation in forty years and we can suppose that the best is for the future and as David Gauntlett said “Challenges is what contemporary media, like gender and modern life, is all about”. [...]

[...] Gender and Media : how the TV portray gender ? 1. Introduction It exists many way in the society to influence the view of men and women. Nowadays, media seems to be the most relevant and powerful. David Gauntlett clearly considers the fact that it's impossible to think that media doesn't affect people and their way to perceive and consider the world[1]. Media can be define as being a technological process which make easier the communication between the message transmitter and its recipient. [...]