Gender and Power Constructions in Visual Political Reporting

Susanne Kinnebrock; Thomas Knieper

doi:10.4471/hse.2014.03

Gender and Power Constructions in Visual Political Reporting

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Susanne Kinnebrock Department of Media, Knowledge and Communication University of Augsburg UniversitÃ¤tsstraÃŸe 10 86135 Augsburg, Germany
Thomas Knieper Department of Language, Text and Media University of Passau InnstraÃŸe 33a 94032 Passau, Germany

https://doi.org/10.4471/hse.2014.03

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journalism

gender

visual communication

content analysis

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Abstract

The analysis of visual presscoverage is still in the early stages of development, although politicalcommunication today is no longer logo-centered but mainly icon-centered. In ourpaper we first outline a method to analyze the meaning of journalistic picturesin a standardized way combining methodological insights from quantitativecontent analysis with findings from social psychology and (de-) constructivefeminist theory. In a second step we present the results of an analysis offront pages of German news magazines showing how “Cross-Sex-Typing” is appliedto mark political power or powerlessness.

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Susanne Kinnebrock, Department of Media, Knowledge and Communication University of Augsburg UniversitÃ¤tsstraÃŸe 10 86135 Augsburg, Germany

Prof. Dr. Susanne KinnebrockDepartment of Media, Knowledge and CommunicationUniversity of Augsburg

Thomas Knieper, Department of Language, Text and Media University of Passau InnstraÃŸe 33a 94032 Passau, Germany

Prof. Dr. Thomas KnieperDepartment of Language, Text and MediaUniversity of Passau

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2014-02-23

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Kinnebrock, S., & Knieper, T. (2014). Gender and Power Constructions in Visual Political Reporting. Social and Education History, 3(1), 54–77. https://doi.org/10.4471/hse.2014.03

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2014): February

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