1 CONTENT ANALYSIS OF VIOLENCE AND GENDER IN MEDIA AIMED AT YOUNG PEOPLE IN ICELAND
For the last year I have been part of an interdisciplinary research team in Iceland involved in a research project called “Gender, youth and violence”1. The overall foci of this research can be divided into two parts. On one hand we are interested in what kind of violence young people (14 to 20 year...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.557.6046 2023-05-15T16:48:12+02:00 1 CONTENT ANALYSIS OF VIOLENCE AND GENDER IN MEDIA AIMED AT YOUNG PEOPLE IN ICELAND Annadís G. Rúdólfsdóttir The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.557.6046 http://www.iiav.nl/epublications/2003/Gender_and_power/5thfeminist/paper_350.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.557.6046 http://www.iiav.nl/epublications/2003/Gender_and_power/5thfeminist/paper_350.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.iiav.nl/epublications/2003/Gender_and_power/5thfeminist/paper_350.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T11:51:14Z For the last year I have been part of an interdisciplinary research team in Iceland involved in a research project called “Gender, youth and violence”1. The overall foci of this research can be divided into two parts. On one hand we are interested in what kind of violence young people (14 to 20 years old) encounter and what constitutes as violence in their minds. On the other hand, we are interested in exploring the effects violence has on young people’s experiences and how they construe the relation between gender and violence. This is still work in progress but I want to present you here with part of the results from our analysis of the media. Moore argues that “violence of all kinds is engendered in its representation, in the way it is thought about and constituted as a social fact ” (1994: 70). In our research we are concerned with the gendered ways violence speaks to its audience in the public sphere which, in an ideal feminist world, should belong equally to every individual (Kappeler, 1995:32). Not that we have any illusion that this is the case agreeing with Nancy Fraser (1990, quoted in Kozol, 1995) when she points out that the public sphere is neither neutral nor apolitical but rather is shaped by hierarchies of power. The knowledge produced and reproduced takes its cue from Text Iceland Unknown |
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For the last year I have been part of an interdisciplinary research team in Iceland involved in a research project called “Gender, youth and violence”1. The overall foci of this research can be divided into two parts. On one hand we are interested in what kind of violence young people (14 to 20 years old) encounter and what constitutes as violence in their minds. On the other hand, we are interested in exploring the effects violence has on young people’s experiences and how they construe the relation between gender and violence. This is still work in progress but I want to present you here with part of the results from our analysis of the media. Moore argues that “violence of all kinds is engendered in its representation, in the way it is thought about and constituted as a social fact ” (1994: 70). In our research we are concerned with the gendered ways violence speaks to its audience in the public sphere which, in an ideal feminist world, should belong equally to every individual (Kappeler, 1995:32). Not that we have any illusion that this is the case agreeing with Nancy Fraser (1990, quoted in Kozol, 1995) when she points out that the public sphere is neither neutral nor apolitical but rather is shaped by hierarchies of power. The knowledge produced and reproduced takes its cue from |
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