Year
2015
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
School of the Arts, English and Media
Recommended Citation
Jones, Dianne M., Gendered coverage and newsroom practices in online media: a study of reporting of the 2008 Olympic Games by the ABC, BBC AND CBC, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of the Arts, English and Media, University of Wollongong, 2015. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/4683
Abstract
Legacy media have been shown to routinely marginalise women in the sports news and to devalue their athletic achievements in language and images that stereotype, sexualise and trivialise them. This study provided the first known investigation of digital media sports coverage and reporting practices at three national public service broadcasters – the ABC, BBC and CBC. It examined how and why their online representation of sportswomen offered little change to how sports news has traditionally been defined, reported and framed by the media. A content analysis was conducted during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Using online reports of women’s and men’s sporting events as its context, written portrayals of athletic performances as the texts, and hegemonic masculinity and framing as its theoretical framework, this study identified differences in how women’s and men’s sports were framed on the three broadcasters’ websites. The primary conclusion was that online sports journalism’s male hegemonic agenda remained largely unaltered.
FoR codes (2008)
1903 JOURNALISM AND PROFESSIONAL WRITING
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.