Ideal Victims and Familiar Strangers: Non-Intimate Femicide in South African News Media

IF 1.1 3区文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION

African Journalism Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI:10.1080/23743670.2021.1933559

N. Brodie

引用次数: 5

Abstract

ABSTRACT Most female homicides are perpetrated by an intimate partner, but this is not reflected in news media coverage of the murders of women, which tends to focus on killings committed by family members, friends, neighbours, co-workers, and strangers. Nearly 60% of South African media coverage of female homicide profiles non-intimate killings. This study looks at multiple-year news coverage of 284 incidents of non-intimate femicide that took place in South Africa between 2012 and 2013, and compares narrative content and news frames used to report non-intimate femicides with those frames most commonly found in media coverage of intimate partner violence. This analysis reveals conspicuous differences between how the “problem” of femicide is reported and understood depending on the status of the victim and her relationship with the perpetrator, and how this distorts the reality of who is at risk of becoming a victim and who is to be feared as a perpetrator.

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理想受害者与熟悉的陌生人:南非新闻媒体中的非亲密性杀害女性

大多数女性凶杀案是由亲密伴侣实施的，但这并没有反映在新闻媒体对女性谋杀案的报道中，新闻媒体往往把重点放在家庭成员、朋友、邻居、同事和陌生人身上。南非媒体对女性凶杀案的报道中，近60%都是非亲密关系杀人。本研究考察了2012年至2013年期间南非发生的284起非亲密杀害女性事件的多年新闻报道，并将报道非亲密杀害女性的叙事内容和新闻框架与媒体报道亲密伴侣暴力时最常见的框架进行了比较。这一分析表明，根据受害者的地位及其与加害者的关系，如何报道和理解杀害妇女的“问题”，以及这如何扭曲了谁有可能成为受害者和谁作为加害者应该受到恐惧的现实，两者之间存在显著差异。

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African Journalism Studies COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

1.90

自引率

10.00%

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期刊介绍： Accredited by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training for university research purposes African Journalism Studies subscribes to the Code of Best Practice for Peer Reviewed Scholarly Journals of the Academy of Science of South Africa. African Journalism Studies ( AJS) aims to contribute to the ongoing extension of the theories, methodologies and empirical data to under-researched areas of knowledge production, through its emphasis on African journalism studies within a broader, comparative perspective of the Global South. AJS strives for theoretical diversity and methodological inclusivity, by developing theoretical approaches and making critical interventions in global scholarly debates. The journal''s comparative and interdisciplinary approach is informed by the related fields of cultural and media studies, communication studies, African studies, politics, and sociology. The field of journalism studies is understood broadly, as including the practices, norms, value systems, frameworks of representation, audiences, platforms, industries, theories and power relations that relate to the production, consumption and study of journalism. A wide definition of journalism is used, which extends beyond news and current affairs to include digital and social media, documentary film and narrative non-fiction.