Karen Ross
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5375334 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Karen Ross |
| NOMBRES | Karen |
| APELLIDO | Ross |
| FIRMA | ROSS K |
| AFILIACIONES | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1448-6051 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 410 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Special issue
This Special Issue was conceived in an important year for democracy – 2024 – when an estimated 1.5bn people headed to the polls. What we now know, and indeed could have predicted because of the way in which national elections held in the first half of the 2020s were already showing an alarming lurch to the right, was that the super-election year resulted in another significant triumph for populism which was too often accompanied by overtly anti-f…
Gendered agism in the media industry
This study aimed to understand the experiences of older women media professionals whose age and gender had prompted discriminatory behavior (gendered ageism) towards them by their line managers and/or employers. It draws on the testimonies provided by 24 women media professionals who self-identified as 'older' and who were interviewed for the work. All the participants had worked (and some still work) as journalists, presenters, producers or acto…
Gender in/and the news in the UK and Republic of Ireland
For the half-century or so in which the relationship between women and news has been researched, two of the key themes have been the underrepresentation and marginalisation of women as both subjects/sources and journalists. The latest Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) iteration – the largest international collaborative study of women and news, running since 1995 – found the pace of change regarding women’s visibility across the news landscap…
Gender, party and performance in the 2020 New Zealand general election
New Zealand’s 2020 General Election campaign was unusual, though not unprecedented, in featuring women as both Prime Minister (Jacinda Ardern, Labour) and Leader of the Opposition (Judith Collins, National). To explore the extent to which gender, party and style intersected in their social media positioning, we analysed all posts made on the two Party Leaders’ public Facebook pages. We found both quantitative (post frequency and composition, main…
Sexuality education as a moral good
Through the recent history of sexuality education as a field of its own, there have not been many strong, positive rhetorical connections between comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) and Catholicism. While other Christian denominations see value in CSE, Catholic opponents of CSE see it as harmful despite the magisterial teachings that support the same core tenants. Current Catholic sexuality curricula fail to address many important components …
Rob Boddice, Humane Professions
Humane Professions: The Defense of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914 by Rob Boddice offers a compelling account of how medical scientists from Great Britain, Germany and the USA developed a common defence of animal experimentation in the four decades following Britain’s Cruelty to Animals Act of 1876. In these decades, particularly in Britain and the USA, experimenters faced newly organised opposition from antivivisectionists, who sought to regula…
International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication
The first major reference work on gender and media—covering a broad range of gender-focused topics The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication comprises more than 250 entries by an international team of both established and emerging scholars in the field. This innovative resource explores how gender is represented in media, who produces the content, and the ways in which audiences receive and understand media messages. The …
Not all tweets are created equal
Social media platforms have become, in many respects, spaces which allow various forms of misinformation to flourish, encouraging communities of like-minded political pundits and bots who create ec
Re-booting gender in communication research and practice
The special panel “Re-booting gender in communication research and practice: a translational approach” comprised a group of colleagues who are working together on two different projects around gender equality in the media, along with a contributor from the European Institute for Gender Equality. The panel responded to the conference theme in several ways, not least by placing gender equality front and centre as an important but often neglected el…
Facebooking a different campaign beat
Social media are increasingly entrenched in politicians’ campaigning. Yet even as they become more ubiquitous, evidence suggests widely used platforms normalize rather than equalize the existing power dynamics of the political landscape. Our study of New Zealand’s 2017 general election uses a mixed-method approach including analysis of five Party Leaders’ (PLs) public Facebook wall posts, campaign coverage in four newspapers and interviews with P…
Gender, politics and the tweeted campaign
We aimed to explore the extent to which women and men politicians tweet about different issues. We captured 82,890 tweets sent by Labour and Conservative politicians during the 2017 British general election campaign, analysed 38,255 original tweets and identified 7,651 tweets that mentioned a political issue. We also qualitatively analysed 210 tweets to better understand the content, tone and orientation of content. We suggest that gender and par…
Navigating “Red Lines” and Transcending the Binary
In this article I explore the tensions that arise in the context of educational initiatives implemented by organizations that have both pedagogical and political aspirations. I draw on the work of Sadaka Reut, a veteran Jewish-Palestinian peace education organization, to highlight how the ideological commitments held by an organization working for structural equality can limit possibilities for openness to multiple perspectives and can thus serve…
Becoming Activists
Studies of youth‐focused encounter initiatives have long focused on the potential of such endeavors to shift the attitudes of participants. In recent years, scholarship has begun t'o address whether encounters can shift behaviors, as well—particularly in terms of motivating continued engagement in peacebuilding and social change initiatives. Yet studies have not addressed the question of how this shift occurs, that is, what mechanisms lead from e…
Scaling‐Up Peacebuilding and Social Justice Work
This article presents the concept of scaling up in relation to the work of peacebuilding and social justice initiatives. We propose a holistic conception of scaling up that emphasizes the need to look at the impact of peacebuilding and nonviolent movements along the processes that those actions involve. Our model proposes broadening scholars’ understanding of the success of nonviolent movements not only by analyzing the size or territorial span o…
Stereotypes in Journalistic Practice. Introduction
Stereotypes in Journalistic Practice. Introduction
Stereotypes dans l’exercice du journalisme. Introduction
Stéréotypes dans l’exercice du journalisme Introduction
Estereotipos na pratica jornalistica. Introducao
Powel H. Kazanjian. Frederick Novy and the Development of Bacteriology in Medicine
In this recent addition to the Rutgers University Press series, Critical Issues in Health and Medicine, historian and medical researcher Powel H. Kazanjian analyzes the career of Frederick Novy, an influential American bacteriologist at the University of Michigan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Novy is largely absent from histories of bacteriology from this era, which tend to focus on the practices of public health scientist…
‘Food is a Right ... Nobody Should Be Starving on Our Streets’
Black Marks
This title was first published in 2001. This text brings together a collection of empirical studies focusing on the relationships which minority ethnic audiences have with and to media texts, both mainstream and minority. The media which comprise the focus for the essays include television, film, advertising, magazines and the press. The field of media studies has moved beyond the model of media consumer as passive recipient towards individuals a…
‘Food is a Right ... Nobody Should Be Starving on Our Streets’
Journal Article 'Food is a Right ... Nobody Should Be Starving on Our Streets': Perceptions of Food Bank Usage in a Mid-Sized City in Ontario, Canada Get access Tracy Smith-Carrier, Tracy Smith-Carrier Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Karen Ross, Karen Ross Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jennifer Kirkham, Jennifer Kirkham Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Women, Men and News
In the twenty-teens, there are increasing numbers of women occupying executive positions in politics, business and the law but their words and actions rarely make the front page. In this article, we draw on data collected as part of the 2015 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) and focus on England, Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland. Since the first GMMP in 1995, there has been a slow but steady rise in the proportion of women who fea…
Competition and Cookery in a Global Cultural Format
Karen Ross and Doug Wood work for Shine Group, which holds the MasterChef format internationally and the rules and guidelines that govern the show’s production globally. The show is formatted and broadcast in over 50 countries. Shine Group produces factual and entertainment programmes via 27 production companies across 11 countries. Karen Ross is MasterChef ’s Creative Director in the UK. Doug Wood is Head of Research at Shine Group. They were in…
Tracing the Long-Term Impacts of a Generation of Israeli–Palestinian Youth Encounters
Tracing the Long-Term Impacts of a Generation of Israeli–Palestinian Youth Encounters Since the 1980s, thousands of Israeli Jews, Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians from the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) have participated in intergroup dialogues, often referred to as ‘encounter programmes’. In the same historical span, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has proved thoroughly intractable. Given this political reality, what has …
Gender and newsroom cultures
This book offers chapters on the dialectics of gender and newsroom culture, bringing a feminist analysis to that relation. The text aims to bring coherence and insight to a still relatively under-researched topic. The contributors come from a diverse range of geographies, approaches and contexts. Together, the chapters provide a timely intervention i the debates around gender and journalism, extending the analysis to produce a genuinely East-West…
Women MPs and the Media
Journal Article Women MPs and the Media: Representing the Body Politic Get access ANNABELLE SREBERNY-MOHAMMADI, ANNABELLE SREBERNY-MOHAMMADI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar KAREN ROSS KAREN ROSS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 49, Issue 1, January 1996, Pages 103–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028661 Published: 01 Janua…
The journalist, the housewife, the citizen and the press
The use of sources in news narratives is an extremely important part of not only the story's construction but also of its orientation and, ultimately, the point of view being supported in a given story. The sly deceit concealed within journalists' use of sources as apparently independent and authoritative commentators enables the journalist to masquerade as a mere conveyance of others' perspectives while actually peddling a particular viewpoint b…
The Media and the Public
Women at Work
This paper explores the salience of gender in the working lives of women journalists. It draws on data from a small-scale postal survey of members of a British network of women journalists—Women in Journalism—conducted in 1999 and suggests that gender is important in the newsroom for some women but not others and that its impact is often felt in negative ways. Journalists pointed to some of the problems associated with working in an industry stil…
Women and news
Feminist news researchers have long argued that in the macho culture of most newsrooms, journalists’ daily decisions about what is newsworthy remain firmly based on masculine news values. As such, issues and topics traditionally seen to be particularly relevant to women tend to be pushed to the margins of the news where the implicit assumption is that they are less important than those which interest men. In so doing, men’s views and voices are p…
Face to face(book)
It is undoubtedly true that social media such as Facebook and Twitter are influencing the ways in which politicians engage the public, no longer hostage to the gatekeeping proclivities of traditional media, but now able to broadcast their messages to anyone who wants to hear them. On the public’s side, we can now follow politicians who are on Twitter or have a Facebook fan page, comment on their tweets and posts, and send them messages directly. …
The Gender of News and News of Gender
In the months leading up to the 2010 British General Election, pundits were claiming that women would be specifically targeted by all political parties. However, this focus never materialized and it was just more business as usual but with the added novelty of televised leaders’ debates, which meant that coverage was more male ordered than ever. The study on which this article is based monitored articles published in the four weeks leading up to …
The rules of the (leadership) game
The abiding interest of researchers to explore the nature of political communication continues to provoke lively debates about who controls the moveable feast of the news agenda – politicians or journalists. This article argues that despite journalistic claims of impartiality, a careful, multilayered analysis of print and broadcast news of a general election (New Zealand, 2008) and, more specifically, reportage about the leaders of the Labour Par…
Women, Men and News
In the twenty-teens, there are increasing numbers of women occupying executive positions in politics, business and the law but their words and actions rarely make the front page. In this article, we draw on data collected as part of the 2015 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) and focus on England, Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland. Since the first GMMP in 1995, there has been a slow but steady rise in the proportion of women who fea…
Danse Macabre
This study aimed to explore the ways politicians characterize and think about the relationships they sustain with journalists, using a case study approach that focuses on the views and attitudes of New Zealand MPs towards members of the Press Gallery and, to a lesser extent, their local and regional news media. Undertaken over a twenty-four-month period, with two fieldwork phases, 62 of 121 MPs were interviewed. The broad findings suggest that MP…
Political talk radio and democratic participation
There has been much recent discussion about the changing nature of ‘the public sphere’ with the relatively new genre of reality TV being viewed as a space in which the public can at least perform, if not always engage in meaningful debate. This article considers the perspectives of callers to a political talk show - Election Call- in terms of why they call in, what they think about their interactions with politicians and how they regard the progr…
Paid Work in Early Adolescence
Descriptive data on paid work performed both by White and African American students in Baltimore were collected as part of a more extensive longitudinal study. More than one-half of the youth worked for pay during the school year at 13 and 14 years of age, and around 70% worked during the summers. Those who started work the earliest were those who had done more chores at home. Patterns of work by these relatively low socioeconomic status (SES) st…
Facing up to Facebook
Social media have an increasingly important place in the lives of citizens, and their potential to expand the reach of communication messages beyond individual networks is attractive to those looking to maximise message efficiency. The influence of Facebook in Obama’s 2008 campaign success galvanised many politicians into taking it seriously as a campaign tool. Our study explored the Facebook wall posts (1148 in total) of New Zealand Members of P…
Political elites and the pragmatic paradigm
This essay seeks to offer some reflections on doing research with political elites where those elites also happen to be women. It tries to show some of the excitements and frustrations of doing research with elite subjects in elite settings, when the researcher is always the stranger and the person with the least power in an otherwise very powerful and intimidating environment. It addresses some of the tensions in 'doing' feminist research with w…
Women in Media Industries in Europe
Over the past 40 years or so, the large volume of work on gender and media has mostly focused on women’s representation and there is a complementary and growing literature which considers women’s employment in media, mostly news, industries. However, there is very little work which has explored the extent to which women have achieved the top jobs in the sector. When the Presidency of the Council of Europe moved to Ireland in January 2012, they ch…
Growing old invisibly
This article discusses the findings from a qualitative study undertaken with older viewers, focusing on their perceptions of how age and age issues are covered on television. They are concerned that too many older characters are portrayed in stereotypical roles and with the marginal place of older people across all aspects of the television landscape. They worry that the generally negative way in which older age is represented has an adverse impa…
Reality television
Gender and party politics
Black Marks
This title was first published in 2001. This text brings together a collection of empirical studies focusing on the relationships which minority ethnic audiences have with and to media texts, both mainstream and minority. The media which comprise the focus for the essays include television, film, advertising, magazines and the press. The field of media studies has moved beyond the model of media consumer as passive recipient towards individuals a…
Facebooking a different campaign beat
Social media are increasingly entrenched in politicians’ campaigning. Yet even as they become more ubiquitous, evidence suggests widely used platforms normalize rather than equalize the existing power dynamics of the political landscape. Our study of New Zealand’s 2017 general election uses a mixed-method approach including analysis of five Party Leaders’ (PLs) public Facebook wall posts, campaign coverage in four newspapers and interviews with P…
But where's me in it? Disability, broadcasting and the audience
Gender in/and the news in the UK and Republic of Ireland
For the half-century or so in which the relationship between women and news has been researched, two of the key themes have been the underrepresentation and marginalisation of women as both subjects/sources and journalists. The latest Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) iteration – the largest international collaborative study of women and news, running since 1995 – found the pace of change regarding women’s visibility across the news landscap…
Introduction
Commentary and Criticism Is Fat Still a feminist Issue
Excerpt The image of the black Mammy with her turban, dark skin, and large body is a dominant icon of black womanhood in American culture, and one of her functions is as progenitor of the “big mamma” image. This derivative icon, often literally known as Big Mamma, is generally a large, older, black woman who appears throughout American popular and literary productions. She is usually a grandmother and dedicated church member, often single, and al…
Women at Work
This paper explores the salience of gender in the working lives of women journalists. It draws on data from a small-scale postal survey of members of a British network of women journalists—Women in Journalism—conducted in 1999 and suggests that gender is important in the newsroom for some women but not others and that its impact is often felt in negative ways. Journalists pointed to some of the problems associated with working in an industry stil…
Customer caring
Gender and party politics
Women MPs and the Media
Journal Article Women MPs and the Media: Representing the Body Politic Get access ANNABELLE SREBERNY-MOHAMMADI, ANNABELLE SREBERNY-MOHAMMADI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar KAREN ROSS KAREN ROSS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 49, Issue 1, January 1996, Pages 103–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028661 Published: 01 Janua…
Viewing (p)leasure, viewer pain
This essay explores the views which black audiences hold towards the representations of their various selves on British television and is informed by the findings from a qualitative research study carried out in 1995 and undertaken for BBC TV Equal Opportunities. It argues that black audiences are both irritated and worried by the largely stereotypical construction of different 'ethnic' identities which regularly pervade and persuade TV narrative…
But where's me in it? Disability, broadcasting and the audience
Playing house — gender, politics and the news media in Britain
Paid Work in Early Adolescence
Descriptive data on paid work performed both by White and African American students in Baltimore were collected as part of a more extensive longitudinal study. More than one-half of the youth worked for pay during the school year at 13 and 14 years of age, and around 70% worked during the summers. Those who started work the earliest were those who had done more chores at home. Patterns of work by these relatively low socioeconomic status (SES) st…
Unruly Theory and Difficult Practice
The importance of exploring the 'gender' dimension in political research has achieved a level of acceptability over the past few years as more women become part of the political mainstream as elected representatives. Rather than being viewed as lone mavericks who at best operate as honorary men and at worst function as idiosyncratic (but powerful) leaders guided by whimsy and their menstrual cycle, women politicians are now viewed as legitimate f…
Political elites and the pragmatic paradigm
This essay seeks to offer some reflections on doing research with political elites where those elites also happen to be women. It tries to show some of the excitements and frustrations of doing research with elite subjects in elite settings, when the researcher is always the stranger and the person with the least power in an otherwise very powerful and intimidating environment. It addresses some of the tensions in 'doing' feminist research with w…
Gender and Communication Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Singapore, 2000
Women at Work
This paper explores the salience of gender in the working lives of women journalists. It draws on data from a small-scale postal survey of members of a British network of women journalists—Women in Journalism—conducted in 1999 and suggests that gender is important in the newsroom for some women but not others and that its impact is often felt in negative ways. Journalists pointed to some of the problems associated with working in an industry stil…
Women at Work
This paper explores the salience of gender in the working lives of women journalists. It draws on data from a small-scale postal survey of members of a British network of women journalists—Women in Journalism—conducted in 1999 and suggests that gender is important in the newsroom for some women but not others and that its impact is often felt in negative ways. Journalists pointed to some of the problems associated with working in an industry stil…
Political elites and the pragmatic paradigm
This essay seeks to offer some reflections on doing research with political elites where those elites also happen to be women. It tries to show some of the excitements and frustrations of doing research with elite subjects in elite settings, when the researcher is always the stranger and the person with the least power in an otherwise very powerful and intimidating environment. It addresses some of the tensions in 'doing' feminist research with w…
All ears
This article focuses on the way radio programmes deal with issues of disability in fictional and factual programming, from the perspective(s) of disabled listeners. I argue that, for the most part, radio does not offer a diverse range of images of disability and that too many programmes continue to treat the issue in highly partial terms, using an outmoded lexicon of disablist images and language. Areas of contention include: characterization and…
Growing old invisibly
This article discusses the findings from a qualitative study undertaken with older viewers, focusing on their perceptions of how age and age issues are covered on television. They are concerned that too many older characters are portrayed in stereotypical roles and with the marginal place of older people across all aspects of the television landscape. They worry that the generally negative way in which older age is represented has an adverse impa…
Media And Audiences
Series editor's foreword Introduction Early theories of audience Measuring and moulding audiences News, politics and public opinion The cause and effect debate Fan audiences Audiences and cultural action Audience research in the 21st century Glossary Bibliography Index
Women and Media
Reality television
Political talk radio and democratic participation
There has been much recent discussion about the changing nature of ‘the public sphere’ with the relatively new genre of reality TV being viewed as a space in which the public can at least perform, if not always engage in meaningful debate. This article considers the perspectives of callers to a political talk show - Election Call- in terms of why they call in, what they think about their interactions with politicians and how they regard the progr…
Material Assistance from Families During the Transition to Adulthood
As their children enter young adulthood, parents may use their own financial advantages to support their children as they pursue higher education, to help their children establish independent households by helping them with down payments for their first homes, or to lessen the financial burden involved with having their own children. Further, other parental assets, such as home ownership or help caring for children, may be used to aid adult child…
Why ‘media’, ‘culture’ and ‘politics’ – and why now
MCP’s first edition was being put together for publication in the last week of the American presidential election of 2004, during which (in the world’s ‘greatest democracy’) political sound-bite length had dropped to a reported seven seconds, much of the US electorate was about to base its decision on the ‘fact’ that Iraq had been involved in the destruction of the Twin Towers in 2001, and both US presidential candidates had attracted unparallele…
Introduction
Commentary and Criticism Is Fat Still a feminist Issue
Excerpt The image of the black Mammy with her turban, dark skin, and large body is a dominant icon of black womanhood in American culture, and one of her functions is as progenitor of the “big mamma” image. This derivative icon, often literally known as Big Mamma, is generally a large, older, black woman who appears throughout American popular and literary productions. She is usually a grandmother and dedicated church member, often single, and al…
Condoleezza’s in the (White) House, But the Game Goes on
Women and media
Sociology (51 obras) · Political science (47 obras) · Law (30 obras) · Law (29 obras) · Politics (28 obras) · Media studies (27 obras) · Psychology (22 obras) · Gender Studies (20 obras) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (20 obras) · Gender Studies (19 obras)