Karen Ro
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3797277 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Karen Ro |
| NOMBRES | Karen |
| APELLIDO | Ro |
| FIRMA | RO K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3952-5149 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 379 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Mapping the US Bridgebuilding Field
This article explores the ecosystem of bridge‐building initiatives in the United States. Drawing on an original database of 223 organizations, interviews with 7 staff across 6 organizations, and a literature review related to bridge‐building, polarization, and collective action, we first describe the range of existing initiatives and their areas of focus. We then explore the work of these organizations in terms of their contributions to scaling t…
Roadblocks to Cultivating Change
In this article, we explore challenges to the creation of restorative universities. Drawing upon interviews with staff, faculty, and administrators at one US university campus, we discuss how loose coupling in higher education (Weick, 1976), and the nature of higher education as a porous institution (Ellis, 2021), make establishing a restorative campus difficult. In our analysis, we explore how divergent understandings of restorative justice, cha…
Beyond Reflexivity
In this manuscript, we develop the concept of recognition as a methodological concept, with a particular focus on its inter-subjective dimensions. Departing from the way recognition is used in much contemporary social theory and socio-political discourse, we suggest that recognition is a foundational methodological concept, related to but transcending methodological discussions of reflexivity, and with implications for meaning and validity. We gr…
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…
Building peace through dialogic teaching
Solidarity as methodological praxis
In this article, we explore the concept of solidarity in the context of empirical social inquiry, a concept that is underdeveloped in the research methodology literature. We do so by drawing connections and contrasts to other more established methodological concepts such as reflexivity and positionality. We draw upon existing literature as well as reflection and analyses of our personal experiences and research endeavors to illustrate the nature …
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 …
How can we use language to help build peace
Possibilities of prison-based restorative justice
Research on restorative justice in prison settings has focused largely on the relationship between restorative and criminal justice, or on the potential of such programs to reduce recidivism rates among participants. Little research focuses on possible other transformations that restorative justice can engender among incarcerated individuals. We address this gap by describing the outcomes of an evaluation of Mending Bridges, a restorative justice…
Validity of Transformative Experiences
In this article, we explore the concept of validity as it applies to transformative experiences, asking how can we know when individuals are transformed as the result of some experience? What criteria or principles might be used to assess the validity of claims made about transformation? We suggest that validity in this context—what we call transformative validity—must transcend existing understandings that emphasize validity as a “thing” to be “…
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…
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
Struggling with/against the unintentional reproduction of power structures in participatory research
Shared power and democratic decision making are core epistemological commitments of participatory action research. Scholars who engage in participatory action research with youth seek to share ownership and disrupt adult/child or knower/learner binaries traditional in the Global North, in which adults are the active agents who own and transfer knowledge to children, who remain in a passive role. Yet, we have noticed during several of our projects…
Acknowledging and transcending ‘failure’
In this article, we interrogate the concept of methodological ‘failures’ as they arise during fieldwork, in the process of collecting empirical data. We highlight how the techniques of validity horizon matrices and power analysis can be used as methodological tools to illustrate moments in the fieldwork process where these ‘failures’ occur and to illustrate what makes them ‘failures’ rather than just opportunities for learning. Drawing on example…
Scaling Social Movements Through Social Media
In this article, we explore the potential role of social media in helping movements expand and/or strengthen themselves internally, processes we refer to as scaling up. Drawing on a case study of Black Lives Matter (BLM) that includes both analysis of public social media accounts and interviews with BLM groups, we highlight possibilities created by social media for building connections, mobilizing participants and tangible resources, coalition bu…
As mulheres nas estruturas de tomada de decisão nos meios de comunicação europeus
O reduzido número de mulheres que ocupam altos cargos nas organizações dos media tem sido motivo de preocupação há já várias décadas. Este artigo resume os principais resultados de uma investigação que teve por objetivo analisar e refletir sobre a situação neste domínio na Europa, explorando o grau de entrada das mulheres na gestão a níveis mais elevados num amplo leque de grandes organizações mediáticas, públicas e privadas, da UE e da Croácia. …
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…
Peacebuilding through inter-group encounters
Scholars have long examined the role inter-group encounters can play in contributing to the creation of more peaceful and just societies in existing conflict contexts. Within Israel, these encounters provide a unique opportunity for Jewish and Palestinian citizens to counteract the segregation present in most aspects of their lives and to interact in a positive manner. Yet despite an abundance of scholarship on these programmes, it remains unclea…
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…
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 …
Interrogating Boundaries and Acknowledging Fluidity
In this article we problematize the taken-for-granted nature of the dichotomy between Palestinian and Israeli, or Arab and Jew by illustrating how these identity categories are referenced and navigated by Israelis and Palestinians (Arabs and Jews) in their daily life. Using examples from our observations and conversations with individuals in the region, we argue that while the categories of Jewish/Arab and Israel/Palestine serve as dichotomous or…
Youth Encounter Programs in Israel
A comparative analysis of Jewish-Palestinian encounter programs in Israel
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
Scaling Social Movements Through Social Media
In this article, we explore the potential role of social media in helping movements expand and/or strengthen themselves internally, processes we refer to as scaling up. Drawing on a case study of Black Lives Matter (BLM) that includes both analysis of public social media accounts and interviews with BLM groups, we highlight possibilities created by social media for building connections, mobilizing participants and tangible resources, coalition bu…
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…
Negotiating Fluid Identities
This article emerges from struggles we, two American-Israeli women, have encountered while conducting research in Israel on issues related to Jewish-Arab dynamics. Since beginning our research we have faced a single question in nearly every interview: "Where are you from?" Embedded in this question are a whole host of other queries: "Are you American? Israeli? Jewish? Arab?" "What is your native language?" This article engages in the methodologic…
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…
Struggling with/against the unintentional reproduction of power structures in participatory research
Shared power and democratic decision making are core epistemological commitments of participatory action research. Scholars who engage in participatory action research with youth seek to share ownership and disrupt adult/child or knower/learner binaries traditional in the Global North, in which adults are the active agents who own and transfer knowledge to children, who remain in a passive role. Yet, we have noticed during several of our projects…
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…
Solidarity as methodological praxis
In this article, we explore the concept of solidarity in the context of empirical social inquiry, a concept that is underdeveloped in the research methodology literature. We do so by drawing connections and contrasts to other more established methodological concepts such as reflexivity and positionality. We draw upon existing literature as well as reflection and analyses of our personal experiences and research endeavors to illustrate the nature …
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…
Reality television
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…
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…
Acknowledging and transcending ‘failure’
In this article, we interrogate the concept of methodological ‘failures’ as they arise during fieldwork, in the process of collecting empirical data. We highlight how the techniques of validity horizon matrices and power analysis can be used as methodological tools to illustrate moments in the fieldwork process where these ‘failures’ occur and to illustrate what makes them ‘failures’ rather than just opportunities for learning. Drawing on example…
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…
Beyond Reflexivity
In this manuscript, we develop the concept of recognition as a methodological concept, with a particular focus on its inter-subjective dimensions. Departing from the way recognition is used in much contemporary social theory and socio-political discourse, we suggest that recognition is a foundational methodological concept, related to but transcending methodological discussions of reflexivity, and with implications for meaning and validity. We gr…
Stereotypes in Journalistic Practice. Introduction
Stereotypes in Journalistic Practice. Introduction
Interrogating Boundaries and Acknowledging Fluidity
In this article we problematize the taken-for-granted nature of the dichotomy between Palestinian and Israeli, or Arab and Jew by illustrating how these identity categories are referenced and navigated by Israelis and Palestinians (Arabs and Jews) in their daily life. Using examples from our observations and conversations with individuals in the region, we argue that while the categories of Jewish/Arab and Israel/Palestine serve as dichotomous or…
Quality as critique
In this manuscript, I interrogate the concept of ‘quality’ encounter programs for youth in conflict zones. I focus on two Israeli organizations implementing encounters for Jewish and Palestinian citizens, and draw upon narratives of former participants as articulated during life history narratives to illustrate divergent emphases in each organization’s goals and implementation strategies. Through my comparison of the organizations and their work,…
Customer caring
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Gendered media
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…
The Media and the Public
Linking Process to Outcome
This paper examines the link between dialogue mechanisms and potential outcomes. Using the “Soliya Connect Program” as a case study, I focus specifically on dialogue norms, distinguishing between explicit and implicit norms of dialogue, and examine how these norms shape the dialogue space. My analysis suggests that as dialogue mechanisms, these norms both enable and constrain participants’ comfort in expressing themselves, and thus can significan…
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…
Negotiating Fluid Identities
This article emerges from struggles we, two American-Israeli women, have encountered while conducting research in Israel on issues related to Jewish-Arab dynamics. Since beginning our research we have faced a single question in nearly every interview: "Where are you from?" Embedded in this question are a whole host of other queries: "Are you American? Israeli? Jewish? Arab?" "What is your native language?" This article engages in the methodologic…
Quality as critique
In this manuscript, I interrogate the concept of ‘quality’ encounter programs for youth in conflict zones. I focus on two Israeli organizations implementing encounters for Jewish and Palestinian citizens, and draw upon narratives of former participants as articulated during life history narratives to illustrate divergent emphases in each organization’s goals and implementation strategies. Through my comparison of the organizations and their work,…
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…
Narratives of belonging (and not)
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 …
Interrogating Boundaries and Acknowledging Fluidity
In this article we problematize the taken-for-granted nature of the dichotomy between Palestinian and Israeli, or Arab and Jew by illustrating how these identity categories are referenced and navigated by Israelis and Palestinians (Arabs and Jews) in their daily life. Using examples from our observations and conversations with individuals in the region, we argue that while the categories of Jewish/Arab and Israel/Palestine serve as dichotomous or…
Peacebuilding through inter-group encounters
Scholars have long examined the role inter-group encounters can play in contributing to the creation of more peaceful and just societies in existing conflict contexts. Within Israel, these encounters provide a unique opportunity for Jewish and Palestinian citizens to counteract the segregation present in most aspects of their lives and to interact in a positive manner. Yet despite an abundance of scholarship on these programmes, it remains unclea…
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