Determinants of women legislators’ media coverage in a male-dominated Kenya political landscape

IF 2.7 2区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Journalism Pub Date : 2024-07-20 DOI:10.1177/14648849241264103

Kioko Ireri, Jimmy Ochieng

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Abstract

This research explores visibility of Kenyan women Members of Parliament (MPs) in newspapers news between 2013 and 2017 – a non-election period. Within the backdrop of coverage based on news values, the study examines whether non-institutional characteristics (ethnic group size and seniority), and institutional attributes (party size and political leadership) predicted the coverage of 68 female legislators. And under the context of media as a mirror of political reality, it investigates if criticizing national government, commenting on corruption and devolution determined their appearance in national newspapers’ news. Findings indicate that commenting on corruption, criticizing national government, and seniority were the main predictors of the MPs’ newspapers reportage.

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在肯尼亚男性主导的政治格局中，女议员媒体报道的决定因素

本研究探讨了 2013 年至 2017 年（非选举期间）报纸新闻中肯尼亚女议员（MPs）的能见度。在基于新闻价值的报道背景下，本研究探讨了非机构特征（族群规模和资历）和机构属性（政党规模和政治领导力）是否会预测对 68 名女议员的报道。在媒体是政治现实一面镜子的背景下，研究还探讨了批评国家政府、评论腐败和权力下放是否决定了她们是否会出现在全国性报纸的新闻中。研究结果表明，对腐败的评论、对国家政府的批评和资历是预测国会议员报纸报道的主要因素。

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Journalism COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

7.90

自引率

10.30%

发文量

123

期刊介绍： Journalism is a major international, peer-reviewed journal that provides a dedicated forum for articles from the growing community of academic researchers and critical practitioners with an interest in journalism. The journal is interdisciplinary and publishes both theoretical and empirical work and contributes to the social, economic, political, cultural and practical understanding of journalism. It includes contributions on current developments and historical changes within journalism.