Original title: Jak genderová diskriminace omezuje profesionální praxi žen při mediálním pokrytí konfliktních zón v Latinské Americe
Translated title: How gendered discrimination limits women's professional practice in conflict reporting in Latin America
Authors: Stricker, Annika Maria ; Němcová Tejkalová, Alice (advisor) ; Macková, Veronika (referee)
Document type: Master’s theses
Year: 2022
Language: eng
Abstract: Author: Annika Stricker, BA Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Alice Němcová Tejkalová, Ph.D. Master Thesis: How Gendered Discrimination limits Women's Professional Practice in Conflict Reporting in Latin America English Abstract As war journalism is widely regarded as a men's domain, gendered discrimination limits women's professional practice in conflict reporting in Latin America. A continent, which is not only the deadliest region for journalists worldwide but also overly sexist due to patriarchal structures deeply rooted within Latin American cultures called "machismo". Based on a feminist theoretical framework and a phenomenological approach, female journalists' experiences and coping mechanisms with gendered discrimination were examined by conducting semi-structured interviews with ten Latin American journalists. The study shows, that female journalists in Latin America are sexualized, valued for their looks instead of their journalistic skills and often denied to cover certain beats and topics. This censors and silences female journalists as they are changing the way they practice journalism by not taking on risky tasks, moving to another country or stop exercising journalism altogether. However, female journalists in Latin America also developed progressive coping mechanisms such as taking safety measures and...
Keywords: censoring and silencing journalists; conflict reporting; feminist theories; gendered discrimination; gendered violence; journalism in Latin America; journalist safety; machismo; sexual harassment; sexualization; bezpečnost novinářů; cenzura a umlčování novinářů; feministické teorie; genderová diskriminace; genderové násilí; machismus; sexualizace; sexuální obtěžování; Zpravodajství o konfliktech; žurnalistika v Latinské Americe

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
Document availability information: Available in the Charles University Digital Repository.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/176423

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