Was Anastasia Victim of Partner Violence? Media Coverage of Femicide in Romania and Moldova

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12908841
AutoresEcaterina Balica (0000-0001-6085-2019, Romanian Academy, autor correspondente), Valentina Marinescu (0000-0002-9882-5902, University of Bucharest), Mariana Balica (Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București)
Ano2020
Volume16
Fascículo1
Páginas178-199
Data de publicação2020-08-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournalism Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17512786.2020.1799236
OpenAlexW3047101406
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas36

The article presents the way in which online media from two South-Eastern European and former communist countries (Romania and the Republic of Moldova) have covered a case of femicide-suicide. We chose to analyse the case of Anastasia Cia, a celebrity from the Republic of Moldova that was well-known in both countries and who was killed by her husband, a Moldavan citizen. she had worked as a model, actress and singer in Romania. The online media analysis had highlighted the presence mainly of the episodic frames and victim-blaming techniques identified by other studies. Also the analysis has pointed out the use of content from the social media profiles of the victim and aggressor (especially the photos) as a source of victim-blaming techniques. The results point out also the need to find a solution to the ethical problems raised by the use of social networks’ the content in the traditional media coverage of violence against women and femicide

Communism · Content analysis · Criminology · Domestic violence · Femicide · Media coverage · Media studies · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Medicine · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence