Linda Steiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 147871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Steiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Steiner |
| SIGNATURE | STEINER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8429-6317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 241 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Implications of a Decreasing Sense of Safety on Lebanese Journalists’ Role Perceptions
Rape as a weapon of war” in Ethiopia and Sudan: A decolonizing feminist ethics critique of international media coverage
Middle-aged old mothers” on Chinese social media: Humorous motherhood counter-discourse
MeToo Academia: News Coverage of Sexual Misconduct at U.S. Universities
An analysis of 201 academic sexual misconduct cases between 2017 and 2019 in which a United States university employee was named as alleged perpetrator showed that 80% were publicly broken by a legacy journalistic news outlet. The analysis demonstrates that journalism, especially local and student journalism, remains a successful method for exposing sexual misconduct of university employees. In 97 cases, news stories did not mention the #MeToo mo…
Covering a Complicated Legacy with a Sledgehammer: Metajournalistic and Audience Discourse After Kobe Bryant’s Death
This research analyzes journalists’ and audiences’ responses to a critical incident: the coverage of Kobe Bryant’s death, including whether it included accusations against Bryant, and of the Washington Post’s brief suspension of reporter Felicia Sonmez, who, at his death, retweeted an old storey about rape charges filed against Bryant. Findings are that journalists focused on the complexity of Bryant’s legacy and emphasized the journalistic value…
Newswork and Precarity
Front Pages, Front Lines: Media and the Fight for Women's Suffrage
Front Pages, Front Lines: Media and the Fight for Women's Suffrage
This book addresses the role of media, particularly periodicals, in the American women’s suffrage movement, and in public understandings of the campaign for a Constitutional amendment enfranchising women. Chapters deal with the rhetoric of pro- and antisuffrage activists as covered in the mainstream regional and national press; several chapters deal with suffragists’ own periodicals, as well as with other non-mainstream periodicals, including the…
Sprachliche Integration: Mittelalterliche Ortsnamen im Kontaktgebiet des Kantons St. Gallen
The article deals with toponyms in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland with regard to language contact. Since the emergence of the Romance language in late antiquity (3rd-6th century AD) and until the Germanisation in the early Middle Ages (ca. from the 9th century until ca. the 14th century) St. Gallen has functioned in an interaction of two languages: Old Romansh and Old High German. This sequence can still be identified in a considerable n…
Gender, Sex, and Newsroom Culture
This chapter shows that journalism is practiced by “journalists” and “women journalists” ignores ideological formations both inside and outside newsrooms that misleadingly assess people’s potential by virtue of a single feature of identity. In the late 19th century, women began entering UK and US newsrooms in great numbers, usually to support themselves and their families. The ancient history of gender in the newsroom begins with initial consensu…
Sexual Harassment in Media Education
Since October 2017, the #metoo movement has encouraged women to speak out about workplace sexual harassment. In the US more than 200 men have already been publicly accused of sexual misconduct, with more than 50 of them working in media/journalism; the list of accused men keeps growing. Harassers have especially targeted young women with little work experience as they have fewer resources to defend themselves and are less likely to complain. Give…
Solving Journalism’s Post-Truth Crisis With Feminist Standpoint Epistemology
This essay proposes using feminist standpoint epistemology (FSE) to help journalists and scholars who increasingly find their credibility, authority, knowledge, and even their sincerity undermined. FSE foregrounds particularity and experience, arguing that the ways that bodies of knowledge are socially situated and embodied limits but also enables what one can know. I first outline some of the relevant principles of FSE, in order to suggest its a…
News of Baltimore: Race, Rage and the City
Women war reporters’ resistance and silence in the face of sexism and sexual violence
Women began reporting on war in the mid-nineteenth century, covering, among other wars, Europeans revolutions and the US Civil War. The numbers of women reporting on war increased over the twentieth century with the First and Second World Wars and especially the Vietnam War. This increased again more recently, when many news organizations needed journalists in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Nonetheless, war reporting remains widely regarded as …
Leave a comment: Mommyblogs and the everyday struggle to reclaim parenthood
“Mommyblogs” are significant for feminist media theory, given how these give mothers a public venue to voice their experiences and anxieties at a stage of life that often generates new feminist insight. Whereas previous generations of mothers relied on interpersonal communication and books authored by professional experts, contemporary mothers are more likely to seek parenting information and offer advice by reading and responding to blogs. These…
The mommy wars: On the home front and waged abroad
Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” published in 2012, generated huge response, well beyond what already has become typical in the intensifying mommy wars in the United States. It also drew considerable attention globally. Within one week of publication, Slaughter’s “lament” attracted a million readers. Slaughter’s explanation of why she quit her high powered job, and then Yahoo’s choice of the then-pregna…
Handbook on Gender and War
Serving the Needs of the Latina Community for Health Information
Latinos remain the largest US population with limited health literacy (Andrulis D.P. & Brach, 2007). Concerned with how local media can meet the information needs of underserved audiences, we interviewed Latinas who were pregnant or mothers of young children living in a Spanish speaking community, and surveyed 33 local health professionals. Findings are that Latina women’s most common source of health information was family and friends. They said…
Weighing Mothers Down: Diets, daughters, and maternal obligation
This study analyzes online reader responses to Dara-Lynn Weiss, whose controversial Vogue article and subsequent memoir, The Heavy, described how she put her seven-year-old daughter on a strict diet. Readers responded to Weiss in the context of ideas about the "tiger mother" approach to success-oriented parenting; and of beauty ideals. The research revealed how expectations around mothers'—but not fathers'—responsibilities for controlling their d…
The Potential And Limitations Of Citizen Journalism Initiatives: Chhattisgarh’s CGNet Swara
The challenges faced by rural communities in India in both access to mainstream media and coverage by it have major implications for democracy and civic participation. CGNet Swara, a citizen journalism initiative, attempts to address this problem by enabling rural or tribal communities to obtain and report news, and, to facilitate coverage of their concerns, by acting as “a bridge” between those communities and professional news outlets. Our rese…
(Re)triggering Backlash: Responses to News About Wikipedia’s Gender Gap
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, has been enormously successful. But while it is read nearly equally by women and men, women are only 8.5 to 12.6% of those who edit or write Wikipedia articles. We analyzed coverage of Wikipedia’s gender gap by 42 U.S. news organizations and blogs as well as 1,336 comments posted online by readers. We also interviewed Wikimedia Foundation executive director Sue Gardner. Commentators questione…
Failed Theories: Explaining Gender Difference in Journalism
This essay reviews major theories, concepts, and perspectives that have been used to ground and defend arguments about the difference that gender makes in media professions and workplaces, particularly journalism. After recalling claims about sex stereotyping, this essay summarizes two kinds of direct effects explanations based on presumed sex/gender differences, including the claim that women's skills and natural talents are complementary to or …
The Wire and repair of the journalistic paradigm
The last season of The Wire drew particular attention from journalists given its setting at a fictional version of the Baltimore Sun, where show creator David Simon once worked. The concept of paradigm repair was used here to explain journalists’ responses to The Wire. Our qualitative analysis of articles from 44 newspapers, as well as radio transcripts, dealing with the 2008 season shows that a fictional challenge can precipitate vigorous effort…
Key Concepts in Critical Cultural Studies
Contributors are: Stuart Allan, Jack Zeljko Bratich, Clifford Christians, Norman Denzin, Mark Fackler, Robert Fortner, Lawrence Grossberg, Joli Jensen, Steve Jones, John Nerone, Lana Rakow, Quentin J. Schultze, Linda Steiner, Angharad N. Valdivia, Catherine Warren, Frederick Wasser, and Barbie Zelizer
Disambiguating the `media' and the `media plot
Invisibility, homophobia and heterosexism: Lesbians, gays and the media
1993). Invisibility, homophobia and heterosexism: Lesbians, gays and the media. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 395-422
Failed Theories: Explaining Gender Difference in Journalism
This essay reviews major theories, concepts, and perspectives that have been used to ground and defend arguments about the difference that gender makes in media professions and workplaces, particularly journalism. After recalling claims about sex stereotyping, this essay summarizes two kinds of direct effects explanations based on presumed sex/gender differences, including the claim that women's skills and natural talents are complementary to or …
Oppositional decoding as an act of resistance
This essay, based on a reading of 10 years of the “No Comment” feature of Ms. magazine, argues that when submitting insulting advertisements and clippings from various mass media for republication in Ms. , readers are engaging in oppositional decoding. That is, the readers are resisting the “preferred readings,” to use Stuart Hall's term. The essay speculates why such oppositional decoding is a satisfying group process for the Ms. readership; it …
Public journalism: A Reply to Critics
This article analyzes and responds to the most significant criticisms of public journalism made by scholars. After discussing public journalism advocates’ alleged failure to define public journalism clearly, we examine more specific criticisms. Among other issues, few advocates have taken seriously the likely impact of commercial imperatives on public journalism's modes of operation. We argue, however, that public journalism projects show that re…
Public journalism as a journalism of publics: Implications of the Habermas–Fraser debate for public journalism
This article addresses the alleged gap between academic scholarship on the public sphere and journalistic work in the public sphere by demonstrating how Fraser's (1990) four-part critique of Habermas’ (1989) theory of the public sphere bears on the theory and practice of public journalism. Fraser's work not only directs attention to theoretical issues regarding ‘publicness’ that have received too little attention, but also implies pragmatic guide…
The Wire and repair of the journalistic paradigm
The last season of The Wire drew particular attention from journalists given its setting at a fictional version of the Baltimore Sun, where show creator David Simon once worked. The concept of paradigm repair was used here to explain journalists’ responses to The Wire. Our qualitative analysis of articles from 44 newspapers, as well as radio transcripts, dealing with the 2008 season shows that a fictional challenge can precipitate vigorous effort…
The Potential And Limitations Of Citizen Journalism Initiatives: Chhattisgarh’s CGNet Swara
The challenges faced by rural communities in India in both access to mainstream media and coverage by it have major implications for democracy and civic participation. CGNet Swara, a citizen journalism initiative, attempts to address this problem by enabling rural or tribal communities to obtain and report news, and, to facilitate coverage of their concerns, by acting as “a bridge” between those communities and professional news outlets. Our rese…
Solving Journalism’s Post-Truth Crisis With Feminist Standpoint Epistemology
This essay proposes using feminist standpoint epistemology (FSE) to help journalists and scholars who increasingly find their credibility, authority, knowledge, and even their sincerity undermined. FSE foregrounds particularity and experience, arguing that the ways that bodies of knowledge are socially situated and embodied limits but also enables what one can know. I first outline some of the relevant principles of FSE, in order to suggest its a…
Investment Decisions by Individuals and Groups in `Sunk Cost' Situations: The Potential Impact of Shared Representations
Past research has shown that individuals prefer to continue investing resources into a failing endeavor once a considerable investment has been made, even when abandoning the project would be more rational economically. This phenomenon has been labeled the sunk cost effect (Arkes & Blumer, 1985). Since investment decisions are often made by groups, we compared individual and group propensities for falling prey to the sunk cost effect. We also var…
Leave a comment: Mommyblogs and the everyday struggle to reclaim parenthood
“Mommyblogs” are significant for feminist media theory, given how these give mothers a public venue to voice their experiences and anxieties at a stage of life that often generates new feminist insight. Whereas previous generations of mothers relied on interpersonal communication and books authored by professional experts, contemporary mothers are more likely to seek parenting information and offer advice by reading and responding to blogs. These…
Scholars in the public sphere: Making things more public: On the political responsibility of the media intellectual
(Re)triggering Backlash: Responses to News About Wikipedia’s Gender Gap
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, has been enormously successful. But while it is read nearly equally by women and men, women are only 8.5 to 12.6% of those who edit or write Wikipedia articles. We analyzed coverage of Wikipedia’s gender gap by 42 U.S. news organizations and blogs as well as 1,336 comments posted online by readers. We also interviewed Wikimedia Foundation executive director Sue Gardner. Commentators questione…
Do You Belong in Journalism: Definitions of the Ideal Journalist in Career Guidance Books
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLinda SteinerThe author is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Media, Rutgers University
Women war reporters’ resistance and silence in the face of sexism and sexual violence
Women began reporting on war in the mid-nineteenth century, covering, among other wars, Europeans revolutions and the US Civil War. The numbers of women reporting on war increased over the twentieth century with the First and Second World Wars and especially the Vietnam War. This increased again more recently, when many news organizations needed journalists in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Nonetheless, war reporting remains widely regarded as …
Fears of Corporate Colonization in Journalism Reviews' Critiques of Public Journalism
This article examines almost a decade of reporting on public journalism published in the two largest and most widely read US journalism reviews: Columbia Journalism Review and American Journalism Review . It argues that instead of examining its historical underpinnings, theoretical claims, and practical manifestations, these two publications treated public journalism at best as just another manifestation of the increasing profit orientation of ne…
Ethics and academic politics
Rape as a weapon of war” in Ethiopia and Sudan: A decolonizing feminist ethics critique of international media coverage
Covering a Complicated Legacy with a Sledgehammer: Metajournalistic and Audience Discourse After Kobe Bryant’s Death
This research analyzes journalists’ and audiences’ responses to a critical incident: the coverage of Kobe Bryant’s death, including whether it included accusations against Bryant, and of the Washington Post’s brief suspension of reporter Felicia Sonmez, who, at his death, retweeted an old storey about rape charges filed against Bryant. Findings are that journalists focused on the complexity of Bryant’s legacy and emphasized the journalistic value…
Sexual Harassment in Media Education
Since October 2017, the #metoo movement has encouraged women to speak out about workplace sexual harassment. In the US more than 200 men have already been publicly accused of sexual misconduct, with more than 50 of them working in media/journalism; the list of accused men keeps growing. Harassers have especially targeted young women with little work experience as they have fewer resources to defend themselves and are less likely to complain. Give…
The mommy wars: On the home front and waged abroad
Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” published in 2012, generated huge response, well beyond what already has become typical in the intensifying mommy wars in the United States. It also drew considerable attention globally. Within one week of publication, Slaughter’s “lament” attracted a million readers. Slaughter’s explanation of why she quit her high powered job, and then Yahoo’s choice of the then-pregna…
Weighing Mothers Down: Diets, daughters, and maternal obligation
This study analyzes online reader responses to Dara-Lynn Weiss, whose controversial Vogue article and subsequent memoir, The Heavy, described how she put her seven-year-old daughter on a strict diet. Readers responded to Weiss in the context of ideas about the "tiger mother" approach to success-oriented parenting; and of beauty ideals. The research revealed how expectations around mothers'—but not fathers'—responsibilities for controlling their d…
Disambiguating the `media' and the `media plot
A Manifesto for a Genderless Feminist Critique
Journal Article A Manifesto for a Genderless Feminist Critique Get access Linda Steiner Linda Steiner 1University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7111 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2008, Pages 8–19, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-9137.2007.00002.x Published: 29 February 2008
Rereading the classics: The uses of science: On rereading Thomas Kuhn
Oppositional decoding as an act of resistance
This essay, based on a reading of 10 years of the “No Comment” feature of Ms. magazine, argues that when submitting insulting advertisements and clippings from various mass media for republication in Ms. , readers are engaging in oppositional decoding. That is, the readers are resisting the “preferred readings,” to use Stuart Hall's term. The essay speculates why such oppositional decoding is a satisfying group process for the Ms. readership; it …
Propaganda and war: Propaganda and the gulf war
Critical thinking: Critical thinking for mass communications students
Race and cultural production: Responses to the birth of a nation
Invisibility, homophobia and heterosexism: Lesbians, gays and the media
1993). Invisibility, homophobia and heterosexism: Lesbians, gays and the media. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 395-422
Information and culture as commodity: From culture to information and back again: Commoditization as a route to knowledge
Public opinion paradigms: Positive constructs of public opinion
(1994). Public opinion paradigms. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 274-287
Visual literacy and manipulation: Visual literacy vs. visual manipulation
(1994). Visual literacy and manipulation. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 180-203
Gendered Domains: Rethinking Public and Private in Women's History
Journal Article Gendered Domains: Rethinking Public and Private in Women's History. Ed. by Dorothy O. Helly and Susan M. Reverby. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. xvi, 349 pp. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-8014-2444-5. Paper, $13.95, ISBN 0-8014-9702-7.) Get access Linda Steiner Linda Steiner Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 8…
Scholars in the public sphere: Making things more public: On the political responsibility of the media intellectual
Do You Belong in Journalism: Definitions of the Ideal Journalist in Career Guidance Books
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLinda SteinerThe author is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Media, Rutgers University
Critical challenges to mass communication scholarship: Why communications policy is passing “mass communication” by: political economy as the missing link
A half‐century of childhood as market: Electric Toyland and the structures of power: An analysis of critical studies on children as consumers
Competing memories: Reading the past against the grain: The shape of memory studies
Investment Decisions by Individuals and Groups in `Sunk Cost' Situations: The Potential Impact of Shared Representations
Past research has shown that individuals prefer to continue investing resources into a failing endeavor once a considerable investment has been made, even when abandoning the project would be more rational economically. This phenomenon has been labeled the sunk cost effect (Arkes & Blumer, 1985). Since investment decisions are often made by groups, we compared individual and group propensities for falling prey to the sunk cost effect. We also var…
Ethics and academic politics
Public journalism as a journalism of publics: Implications of the Habermas–Fraser debate for public journalism
This article addresses the alleged gap between academic scholarship on the public sphere and journalistic work in the public sphere by demonstrating how Fraser's (1990) four-part critique of Habermas’ (1989) theory of the public sphere bears on the theory and practice of public journalism. Fraser's work not only directs attention to theoretical issues regarding ‘publicness’ that have received too little attention, but also implies pragmatic guide…
Fears of Corporate Colonization in Journalism Reviews' Critiques of Public Journalism
This article examines almost a decade of reporting on public journalism published in the two largest and most widely read US journalism reviews: Columbia Journalism Review and American Journalism Review . It argues that instead of examining its historical underpinnings, theoretical claims, and practical manifestations, these two publications treated public journalism at best as just another manifestation of the increasing profit orientation of ne…
Women and Journalism
Women and Journalism offers a rich and comprehensive analysis of the roles, status and experiences of women journalists in the United States and Britain. Drawing on a variety of sources and dealing with a host of women journalists ranging from nineteenth century pioneers to Martha Gellhorn, Kate Adie and Veronica Guerin, the authors investigate the challenges women have faced in their struggle to establish reputations as professionals. This book …
Claiming Feminist Space in Korean Cyberterritory
This paper analyses two Korean feminist webzines. We use the two cases to investigate the conditions under which feminist online media can survive, express alternative and feminist voices, and build a feminist community. The research is based on interviews with people involved in the zines’ production, and on qualitative and quantitative analyses of the zines’contents, with particular attention to spaces provided for audience interactions. We con…
James W. Carey‘s Cultural Approach to the Communion of Students
James W. Carey nurtured a community of educators and students. Students came together to participate in learning, first with Jim Carey, but then with fellow students and later generations of students. Just as Carey (1988) noted in “A Cultural Approach to Communication” that the archetype for the ritual view of communication was a sacred ceremony drawing persons together in communality, his teaching inspired a form of fellowship
In Memoriam: James W. Carey
To say that James W. Carey had a profound impact on journalism, media, and communication scholars and scholarship is not hyperbole; it's not a grand claim merely asserted in mourning. In the deepes
Public journalism: A Reply to Critics
This article analyzes and responds to the most significant criticisms of public journalism made by scholars. After discussing public journalism advocates’ alleged failure to define public journalism clearly, we examine more specific criticisms. Among other issues, few advocates have taken seriously the likely impact of commercial imperatives on public journalism's modes of operation. We argue, however, that public journalism projects show that re…
A Manifesto for a Genderless Feminist Critique
Journal Article A Manifesto for a Genderless Feminist Critique Get access Linda Steiner Linda Steiner 1University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7111 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2008, Pages 8–19, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-9137.2007.00002.x Published: 29 February 2008
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