Welcome to a K3 seminar with Florencia Enghel,\nSenior Lecturer in Communication for Development and Docent in Media and\nCommunication Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The title of the talk is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prime-time protest? Screening the news coverage of transnational women\u2019s\nprotests in global TV networks (2017-2019).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n It will take place on Wednesday, October\n30 at 10.15-12.00 in The\nK3 Open Studio, NIC 0541, Niagara. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Below\nyou will find an abstract for the talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On 8\nMarch 2017, 2018 and 2019, women\u2019s protests were held in various parts of the\nworld to coincide with International Women’s Day. These actions were spurred to\na significant extent by Latin American feminist collectives that have mobilized\nregularly since late 2015, seeking to coordinate efforts regionally and\ninternationally within a framework of transnational solidarity (Campillo, 2018;\nKr\u00f3l & Pustu\u0142ka, 2018). Emerging studies suggest that protests have been\nprofusely documented by activists themselves via social media and covered in\nvarying ways by national news outlets (Matos, 2019). But have they been\ntelevised globally? Based on footage from the flagship news programs of eight\nglobal newsrooms (BBC, CNN, Deutsche Welle, Euronews, France24, Al Jazeera,\nRussia Today and China Central Television), I analyse how the protests, which\nhave grown in extent and in digital\/local visibility, were covered by\ninternational TV networks news year-on-year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Although\nthe prime-time news broadcasts of global television networks are arguably one\namong other sites where meaning regarding protest movements is produced and\ncirculated in digital times, understanding how these outlets have recorded and\nrepresented the international women\u2019s strike in the past 3 years is nonetheless\nimportant given their sustained symbolic power. Moreover, unpacking their\npolitics of representation regarding ongoing women’s struggles can serve to\ninform the strategic design of counter-strategies for the feminist movement to\nstrengthen its appeal for international solidarity (Sarikakis & Shaed,\n2007; Gallagher, 2014). <\/p>\n\n\n\n To\nthis effect, this study takes a qualitative descriptive-interpretative\napproach. Building on the analytical framework developed by the Robertson\n(2018), I screen the 2017-2019 data in three senses: 1) by focusing on\nrepresentations of women\u2019s protest on television screens; 2) by comparing\ncoverage across global broadcasters, identifying which (and how) made the protest\nvisible and which screened it out, as well as similarities and differences in\ntheir journalistic narratives; and 3) by providing insights into how global TV\nnetworks are meeting (or failing to meet) the challenge of representing the\nincreasing number of women who find that political representation has failed\nthem, and are taking to the streets of the world to seek justice (Fraser,\n2008). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Developed\nwith data provided by the Screening Protest Project (funded by the Swedish\nResearch Council and based at Stockholm University’s Dept. of Media in Sweden;\nsee http:\/\/screeningprotest.com\/<\/a>),\nthe study contributes to updating existing indicators for the analysis of\ngender portrayals in the news (in particular by problematizing earlier\npropositions according to which misrepresentation could be addressed by\nincorporating female journalists into newsrooms) and examines how the\nprime-time coverage of global TV news networks between 2017 and 2019 may have\npromoted or hindered greater understanding of, and solidarity with, the claims\nof women’s movements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n References<\/p>\n\n\n\n Campillo,\nIn\u00e9s (2019) \u2018If we stop, the world stops\u2019: the 2018 feminist strike in Spain.\nSocial Movement Studies, 18:2, 252-258, DOI: 10.1080\/14742837.2018.1556092<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fraser,\nNancy (2008) Scales of Justice \/ Reimagining Political Space in a Globalized\nWorld Polity Press, Cambridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gallagher,\nMargaret (2014) \u201cReframing Communication Rights: Why Gender Matters\u201d in\nPadovani, Claudia and Calabrese, Andrew (2014) Communication Rights and Social\nJustice. London:\nPalgrave MacMillan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kr\u00f3l,\nAgnieszka & Pustu\u0142ka, Paula (2018) Women on strike: mobilizing against\nreproductive injustice in Poland. International Feminist Journal of Politics,\n20:3, 366-384, DOI: 10.1080\/14616742.2018.1460214 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Matos,\nCarolina (2019) Feminist Media Studies Across Borders: Re-visiting Studies\nwithin the Brazilian National Context. Journal of International Women’s\nStudies, 20(2), 11-25. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Available\nat: https:\/\/vc.bridgew.edu\/jiws\/vol20\/iss2\/2<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Robertson,\nAlexa (ed.) (2018) Screening protest. London: Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sarikakis,\nKatharine and Shade, Leslie (2007) Feminist Interventions in International\nCommunication: Minding the Gap. 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