Gender And Patterns Of Access To Media Discourse

Résumé: Power is a central concept in critical discourse studies. Researchers in this field tend to focus on the negative uses of power that are articulated through and within discourses and that result in dominance and oppression. Power may be linked to access to discourse. The patterns of access depend on social domains, institutions, professions, situations, and genres. In mass media, those who have access to journalists—those who are interviewed, quoted, and described in news reports—are those whose opinions are more likely to influence the public's opinion. This study is devoted to an investigation of the relationship between gender and access to discourse. It employs Van Dijk's (1996) suggested patterns of access to discourse to measure women's and men's involvement as subjects and actors in the news. This study has significant implications for understanding how the media empowers or disempowers women.

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