Gretchen King
Biographic Data
| ID | 4932017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gretchen King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gretchen |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lebanese American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0168-4235 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The political economy of AI: A content analysis of ChatGPT outputs and anti-Palestinian media bias
Palestine represents a site of digital occupation and a laboratory for the Israeli military–industrial–communications complex that entails collaboration between Israeli military, technology and academia. Considering the current popularity of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the use of AI in the genocide in Palestine, we investigate how generative AI platforms like ChatGPT are biased towards Palestinians, and how prompting in English an…
Voiceless Migrants vs Loving Employers: Framing the Kafala System in News from Lebanon
This study analyzes how migrant workers under the Kafala or “sponsorship” system are represented in Lebanese news media during times of crisis. To investigate media representations of migrants in Lebanon, this study employs quantitative and qualitative analysis of 197 randomly sampled news headlines and 18 purposively sampled news articles published from 2020–2021. The quantitative findings reveal that during times of crisis in Lebanon, the headl…
Gender hierarchies in reporting genocide: An analysis of the dehumanization of Palestinian men in Western media
This article investigates how Western media’s coverage of the first three months of the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, specifically the language adopted by two major Western media outlets the BBC and CNN, dehumanizes Palestinian men. This research question is answered through a quantitative methodology that applies web scraping to collect 265 articles from the BBC and 4,441 from CNN to then analyze the number of articles and occurrences o…
Assessing Assumptions: Surveying Diversity within Nonprofit Radio Stations in Canada
The nonprofit radio sector in Canada includes over 180 community and Indigenous stations. Studies of nonprofit radio programming note the diversity of on-air content from news to music, which is in line with the sector’s mandate. However, does the assortment of content translate into a diversity of individuals behind the microphone? And who is taking decisions in station management and governance. To better understand the equity practices found w…
Editar la Palestina: Sesgo mediático en los manuales de estilo periodístico
Introduction. The purpose of journalistic style guides is to provide media practitioners with guidance on language to convey a neutral and objective presentation of information. This paper investigates thematic style guides published with a focus on Palestine and analyzes how these style guides construct media bias. Literature Review. In the literature reviewed a structural media bias against Palestinians that favors Israeli narratives is documen…
Gendered representations in Lebanese advertisements: Flawless white femininity, heteronormative patriarchal masculinity, and the erasure of local diversity
This study examines the representation of gender in Lebanese advertisements. By applying an intersectional feminist framework within a postcolonial country, the study examines the representation of men and women characters, the domestic or professional contexts in which they are situated, their ethnic and physiological traits, their apparent relationships and roles, and their power stances. The findings reveal differences in the pictures drawn of…
Media framing of the Intifada of the Knives
Research examining coverage of Western media on the Palestinian–Israeli conflict shows an imbalance in reporting the news and favoritism towards an Israeli government interpretation of the story. This article aims to examine how the so-called Intifada of the Knives (IK) was framed in Western print newspapers. The research also examines the representation of Palestinians and Israelis during that period. Media Framing Analysis (MFA) is deployed to …
Challenging “Apartheid” on the Canadian Airwaves: The Community Media Advocacy Centre’s Critical and Intersectional Approach to Broadcasting Policy Advocacy, Scholarship, and Education
Background: Within research and teaching concerning broadcasting policymaking, there are evident gaps in Canadian communication studies that marginalize the self-determination of people who are Indigenous, racialized, or living with disAbilities. Analysis: The scholar-activism of the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC) seeks to expand the canon of Canadian communications scholarship, especially in the area of broadcasting policy, to include Ca…
From Chiapas to Palestine: Historicizing Social Movement Media Before and Beyond the Arab Uprisings
Critical scholarship investigating media and the Arab uprisings has called for “a return to history.” This article argues that researching the contemporary constraints and opportunities of social movement media in the Arab region requires historicizing such practices. Reflecting on the role of media activism within the Arab uprisings necessitates broadening the historical context of social movement media in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)…
History of Struggle: The Global Story of Community Broadcasting Practices, or a Brief History of Community Radio
Embracing the de-Westernizing debate in communication research (Wang, 2013) and the call to decolonize media studies (Thussu, 2009), this article contextualizes the practices of contemporary community radio stations through internationalizing the history of community broadcasting. In contrast to other histories of community media (Lewis, 1984; Milan, 2013; Rennie, 2006; Rodriguez, 2001), this research reflects on the growth and spread of communit…
Can Media and Technology Help Make “Another World Possible”? Reflections from the Media@McGill Research Delegation to the 2015 World Social Forum in Tunisia
This research-in-brief summarizes activities of our research delegation to the 2015 World Social Forum (WSF) in Tunis, including our participation in two associated events: the World Forum on Free Media (WFFM) and preparatory meetings for an eventual global Internet Social Forum (ISF). The WFFM and ISF provided rich terrain for our delegation to document and study contemporary struggles around communication media and technology issues. We report …
Can Media and Technology Help Make “Another World Possible”? Reflections from the Media@McGill Research Delegation to the 2015 World Social Forum in Tunisia
Media framing of the Intifada of the Knives
Research examining coverage of Western media on the Palestinian–Israeli conflict shows an imbalance in reporting the news and favoritism towards an Israeli government interpretation of the story. This article aims to examine how the so-called Intifada of the Knives (IK) was framed in Western print newspapers. The research also examines the representation of Palestinians and Israelis during that period. Media Framing Analysis (MFA) is deployed to …
Gender hierarchies in reporting genocide: An analysis of the dehumanization of Palestinian men in Western media
This article investigates how Western media’s coverage of the first three months of the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, specifically the language adopted by two major Western media outlets the BBC and CNN, dehumanizes Palestinian men. This research question is answered through a quantitative methodology that applies web scraping to collect 265 articles from the BBC and 4,441 from CNN to then analyze the number of articles and occurrences o…
Gendered representations in Lebanese advertisements: Flawless white femininity, heteronormative patriarchal masculinity, and the erasure of local diversity
This study examines the representation of gender in Lebanese advertisements. By applying an intersectional feminist framework within a postcolonial country, the study examines the representation of men and women characters, the domestic or professional contexts in which they are situated, their ethnic and physiological traits, their apparent relationships and roles, and their power stances. The findings reveal differences in the pictures drawn of…
Can Media and Technology Help Make “Another World Possible”? Reflections from the Media@McGill Research Delegation to the 2015 World Social Forum in Tunisia
This research-in-brief summarizes activities of our research delegation to the 2015 World Social Forum (WSF) in Tunis, including our participation in two associated events: the World Forum on Free Media (WFFM) and preparatory meetings for an eventual global Internet Social Forum (ISF). The WFFM and ISF provided rich terrain for our delegation to document and study contemporary struggles around communication media and technology issues. We report …
Can Media and Technology Help Make “Another World Possible”? Reflections from the Media@McGill Research Delegation to the 2015 World Social Forum in Tunisia
History of Struggle: The Global Story of Community Broadcasting Practices, or a Brief History of Community Radio
Embracing the de-Westernizing debate in communication research (Wang, 2013) and the call to decolonize media studies (Thussu, 2009), this article contextualizes the practices of contemporary community radio stations through internationalizing the history of community broadcasting. In contrast to other histories of community media (Lewis, 1984; Milan, 2013; Rennie, 2006; Rodriguez, 2001), this research reflects on the growth and spread of communit…
From Chiapas to Palestine: Historicizing Social Movement Media Before and Beyond the Arab Uprisings
Critical scholarship investigating media and the Arab uprisings has called for “a return to history.” This article argues that researching the contemporary constraints and opportunities of social movement media in the Arab region requires historicizing such practices. Reflecting on the role of media activism within the Arab uprisings necessitates broadening the historical context of social movement media in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)…
Challenging “Apartheid” on the Canadian Airwaves: The Community Media Advocacy Centre’s Critical and Intersectional Approach to Broadcasting Policy Advocacy, Scholarship, and Education
Background: Within research and teaching concerning broadcasting policymaking, there are evident gaps in Canadian communication studies that marginalize the self-determination of people who are Indigenous, racialized, or living with disAbilities. Analysis: The scholar-activism of the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC) seeks to expand the canon of Canadian communications scholarship, especially in the area of broadcasting policy, to include Ca…
Assessing Assumptions: Surveying Diversity within Nonprofit Radio Stations in Canada
The nonprofit radio sector in Canada includes over 180 community and Indigenous stations. Studies of nonprofit radio programming note the diversity of on-air content from news to music, which is in line with the sector’s mandate. However, does the assortment of content translate into a diversity of individuals behind the microphone? And who is taking decisions in station management and governance. To better understand the equity practices found w…
Editar la Palestina: Sesgo mediático en los manuales de estilo periodístico
Introduction. The purpose of journalistic style guides is to provide media practitioners with guidance on language to convey a neutral and objective presentation of information. This paper investigates thematic style guides published with a focus on Palestine and analyzes how these style guides construct media bias. Literature Review. In the literature reviewed a structural media bias against Palestinians that favors Israeli narratives is documen…
Gendered representations in Lebanese advertisements: Flawless white femininity, heteronormative patriarchal masculinity, and the erasure of local diversity
This study examines the representation of gender in Lebanese advertisements. By applying an intersectional feminist framework within a postcolonial country, the study examines the representation of men and women characters, the domestic or professional contexts in which they are situated, their ethnic and physiological traits, their apparent relationships and roles, and their power stances. The findings reveal differences in the pictures drawn of…
Media framing of the Intifada of the Knives
Research examining coverage of Western media on the Palestinian–Israeli conflict shows an imbalance in reporting the news and favoritism towards an Israeli government interpretation of the story. This article aims to examine how the so-called Intifada of the Knives (IK) was framed in Western print newspapers. The research also examines the representation of Palestinians and Israelis during that period. Media Framing Analysis (MFA) is deployed to …
Gender hierarchies in reporting genocide: An analysis of the dehumanization of Palestinian men in Western media
This article investigates how Western media’s coverage of the first three months of the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, specifically the language adopted by two major Western media outlets the BBC and CNN, dehumanizes Palestinian men. This research question is answered through a quantitative methodology that applies web scraping to collect 265 articles from the BBC and 4,441 from CNN to then analyze the number of articles and occurrences o…
The political economy of AI: A content analysis of ChatGPT outputs and anti-Palestinian media bias
Palestine represents a site of digital occupation and a laboratory for the Israeli military–industrial–communications complex that entails collaboration between Israeli military, technology and academia. Considering the current popularity of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the use of AI in the genocide in Palestine, we investigate how generative AI platforms like ChatGPT are biased towards Palestinians, and how prompting in English an…
Voiceless Migrants vs Loving Employers: Framing the Kafala System in News from Lebanon
This study analyzes how migrant workers under the Kafala or “sponsorship” system are represented in Lebanese news media during times of crisis. To investigate media representations of migrants in Lebanon, this study employs quantitative and qualitative analysis of 197 randomly sampled news headlines and 18 purposively sampled news articles published from 2020–2021. The quantitative findings reveal that during times of crisis in Lebanon, the headl…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (4 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (4 works)