TY - JOUR
T1 - Female journalists covering the Hong Kong protests confront ambivalent sexism on the street and in the newsroom
AU - Luqiu, Rose Luwei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2022/4/3
Y1 - 2022/4/3
N2 - Verbal, physical, and online attacks on journalists who cover protests around the worldhave been increasing in recent years, resulting in a decrease in both the amount ofreporting that is being done and the accountability that reporting provides. Journalists have been targeted by demonstrators, counter-demonstrators, and police while covering nationalist, xenophobic, and anti-government protests in both democratic and non-democratic counties. This study explores these issues through an analysis of the results of a survey of Hong Kong journalists who covered the 2019 anti-extradition bill protests and of interviews with specifically female journalists who did so. The aim of the study is to explain, using a phenomenological approach and from a feminist perspective, the ambivalent sexism encountered by women journalists.The study also sheds light on the complexities involved in discussing gender-based violence against journalists since this problem relates not only to gender but also to politics, state power, and media ownership.
AB - Verbal, physical, and online attacks on journalists who cover protests around the worldhave been increasing in recent years, resulting in a decrease in both the amount ofreporting that is being done and the accountability that reporting provides. Journalists have been targeted by demonstrators, counter-demonstrators, and police while covering nationalist, xenophobic, and anti-government protests in both democratic and non-democratic counties. This study explores these issues through an analysis of the results of a survey of Hong Kong journalists who covered the 2019 anti-extradition bill protests and of interviews with specifically female journalists who did so. The aim of the study is to explain, using a phenomenological approach and from a feminist perspective, the ambivalent sexism encountered by women journalists.The study also sheds light on the complexities involved in discussing gender-based violence against journalists since this problem relates not only to gender but also to politics, state power, and media ownership.
KW - ambivalent sexism
KW - benevolent sexism
KW - feminist perspective
KW - gender in the newsroom
KW - Gender-based violence
KW - hostile sexism
KW - phenomenology
UR - https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rfms/2022/00000022/00000003/art00013
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85095754136&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14680777.2020.1842481
DO - 10.1080/14680777.2020.1842481
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85095754136
SN - 1468-0777
VL - 22
SP - 679
EP - 697
JO - Feminist Media Studies
JF - Feminist Media Studies
IS - 3
ER -