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Diversity of Journalisms. Proceedings of ECREA/CICOM Conference, Pamplona, 4-5 July 2011
The project traces the history of both women representation and of gender issues in
portuguese parliament since the democratic period starting with the 25th April
Revolution and throughout three political cycles of the portuguese democracy,
spanning from 1975 to 2002.
We than aim at characterizing jornalistic mediation of women deputies and gender
issues on five major newspapers during the oulined periods drawing an analisys of
both text and images used by the press.
This particular paper will concentrate on photojornalistic coverage of women MP’s
comparing two different periods of our corpus: the PREC period, immediatly after the
democratic revolution, when gender issues were part of both political and media
agendas as the democratic rigths were at stake in the discussions conducing to the
new democratic Constitution; and the mediatization of The Paritary Parliament that
received major press coverage during the right wing liberal government conducted by
Cavaco Silva (the Paritary Parliament took place on January 1994).
Our analisys will show that women MP’s increased their political representation but
their “invisibility” (Tuckman, 1969) persisted in the media, including the
photojornalistic coverage where women MP’s, when appeared, were portrayed mostly
in a traditional frame as a “diligent domestic woman”, focusing on their social
interpersonal skills and rarely on their professional skills as members of the
paliament.
Today’s News Diversity and the Public Sphere
Mitu, Bianca-Marina
PHD Student in Communication Sciences, Faculty of Journalism and Communication
Sciences, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
The purpose of this paper is to analyze today’s construction of news, and to see the
way that media present today’s life diversity. We started with the theoretical
background and we analyzed the Tv news discourse, the storytelling forms.
Television has the greatest influence on the general public. Today television
privileges the events with the strongest impact on viewers' sensibility. The purpose of
this paper is to analyze today’s construction of news content, and to see the way that
media emphasis the live political events, events that have a great impact on the
public sphere and on the civil society. News is becoming an element of spectacle that
has to attract, to shock the viewers. The main content of the news is not the story
itself, but the show. The selection of the TV news and formats have political effects.
News reception processes are driven by partially personal knowledge and political
motivations. Differences in interpretive complexity should be related to the subject
matter reported in the news. Most analysts who dedicated their studies to news
theory seem to favor either an informational modle or a cultural one, some of them
have a critical perspective, others praise the media, but all of them seem to agree
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