Journalistic deontology on violence against women. Who produces the documents? A longitudinal disaggregated study by sex on authorships

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https://doi.org/10.31921/doxacom.n28a14

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Violence against women, deontology, journalism, guidelines, authorship

Abstract

The article focuses on the study of the authorship of deontological production on violence against women and the media in Spanish and Latin American contexts from 1999 to 2018, based on a sample of 58 guidelines. Objectives: to analyse the specific authorship by gender to identify men’s and women’s degree of involvement and whether there is a relationship between the gender of the authors’ of the guidelines and their level of commitment to them. Methodology: the use of empirical research techniques for the study of the authorship, from which five types have been established, women or majority of women, men or majority of men; mixed; a women’s collective; and institutional authorship (unknown). Results: 60% of the guidelines were written with women’s advice, while 9% has been attributed to men. In 10% of them men and women have participated equally, 7% presumably belongs to women’s collectives, and the remaining 14% of authorship is unknown. Moreover, this quantitative difference is related to the degree of commitment of the guidelines, that is, the guidelines attributed to women present higher levels of commitment than those produced by men.

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  • Aurora Edo, Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU, Spain

    Degree in Journalism from CEU University Cardenal Herrera (UCH CEU). She is currently a researcher in training at the CEU International School of Doctoral Studies (CEINDO) and a recipient of a Training University Professors grant (FPU) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport. She is a member of the R&D project of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) Ref FFI2013-42443-R and the project of the UCH CEU Ref. Indi 18/01. She is also a member of the research group “Deliberative democracy, Communication, and Citizenship.” She teaches Communication Ethics in Journalism and Advertising and PR degrees at the UCH CEU. She has participated in several international congresses. Journalism deontology, violence against women, the presence of women in communications and social journalism stand out among her lines of research. She has worked as a journalist in the Communication Department of the Municipal Institute of Culture and Youth of Burjassot (Valencia).

  • Belén Zurbano-Berenguer, University of Sevilla, Spain

    Ph.D. in Journalism with an international mention from the University of Seville. Her P.h.D was awarded by the Spanish Society of Journalism and the City Council of Seville. She is a member of the Communications & Social Sciences research group and the Gender, Economy, Politics, and Development Observatory (GEP&DO). She has lectured both nationally and internationally and has had several articles published in prestigious journals. She has taught at the University of the Basque Country/EHU, Moulay Ismail University (Meknès, Morrocco), the University of Colima (Mexico), Pablo de Olavide University, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University (Morrocco) and the University of Malaga, among others. She is currently a professor at the University Centre EUSA, affiliated with the University of Seville. Her main lines of research are communications and gender violence, social media and feminist movements, journalistic discourse and feminist social theory.

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Published

21-06-2019

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Edo, A., & Zurbano-Berenguer, B. (2019). Journalistic deontology on violence against women. Who produces the documents? A longitudinal disaggregated study by sex on authorships. Doxa Comunicación. Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication Studies and Social Sciences, 28, 261-284. https://doi.org/10.31921/doxacom.n28a14
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