北大社會學門人社標竿5/17"Explaining Gender Inequalities in Media Coverage"演講
2024-05-16
【國立臺北大學社會學門人社標竿計畫學術演講】
題目：Explaining Gender Inequalities in Media Coverage
講者：Prof. Eran Shor（McGill University）
主持：梁展章（北大社會系副教授）
時間：2024年5月17日(五) 12:00-14:00
地點：國立臺北大學三峽校區社會科學院8F07會議室
※本演講以英語進行。
【演講簡介】
Women receive substantially less media coverage than men. However, the reasons for these disparities are not always clear. While some theories point to societal-level structural and occupational gender inequalities, others suggest explanations that focus on the role of news reporters or editors and on news sources catering to public demand. In this talk I discuss more than a decade of research, utilizing computational analyses of millions of male and female names in more than 2,000 news sources. My analyses provide insights on the relative strength of these different explanations in accounting for persistent gender inequalities in the media.
【講者簡介】
My work spans several major research and teaching interests. First, I examine the causes and effects of political conflict and violence. More specifically, I study state counterterrorist policies, relying on a combination of longitudinal time-series cross-national analyses and case studies. My work demonstrates the importance of social and cultural processes in determining state policies and challenges more traditional theoretical approaches, which emphasize atomized actor-oriented and cost-benefit motivations.
Second, I am leading two separate research projects that examine inequality in the media coverage of ethnic minorities and women, using both qualitative content analysis and various statistical analysis methods. I critically explore the policing and silencing of political discourses by ethnic minority groups in Israeli media and the reaffirmation of national and collective boundaries through the exclusion of these ethnic minority groups.
Third, I am conducting a large-scale statistical meta-analysis project, which explores the effect of different social stressors and of social relationships on mortality in different countries and under varying conditions. This project has already produced analyses of the effects of unemployment, war exposure, widowhood, divorce, lifetime non-marriage, participation in voluntary organizations, and social support, as well as a methodological paper on the use of meta-analysis in sociology. In addition, I plan to conduct analyses on the effects of social networks, immigration, and cumulative stressors on mortality.
Finally, pursuing my interests in gender and sexuality, I have completed a study on attraction between same-group members in Israeli kibbutzim. Relying on in-depth interviews with people who grew up in the communal education system of Israeli kibbutzim, I questioned the reigning psychological and biological views and offered alternative sociological explanations to the classic debate over the origins of incest avoidance and the incest taboo. I plan to extend this research by studying sexual attraction and avoidance in other small groups.
題目：Explaining Gender Inequalities in Media Coverage
講者：Prof. Eran Shor（McGill University）
主持：梁展章（北大社會系副教授）
時間：2024年5月17日(五) 12:00-14:00
地點：國立臺北大學三峽校區社會科學院8F07會議室
※本演講以英語進行。
【演講簡介】
Women receive substantially less media coverage than men. However, the reasons for these disparities are not always clear. While some theories point to societal-level structural and occupational gender inequalities, others suggest explanations that focus on the role of news reporters or editors and on news sources catering to public demand. In this talk I discuss more than a decade of research, utilizing computational analyses of millions of male and female names in more than 2,000 news sources. My analyses provide insights on the relative strength of these different explanations in accounting for persistent gender inequalities in the media.
【講者簡介】
My work spans several major research and teaching interests. First, I examine the causes and effects of political conflict and violence. More specifically, I study state counterterrorist policies, relying on a combination of longitudinal time-series cross-national analyses and case studies. My work demonstrates the importance of social and cultural processes in determining state policies and challenges more traditional theoretical approaches, which emphasize atomized actor-oriented and cost-benefit motivations.
Second, I am leading two separate research projects that examine inequality in the media coverage of ethnic minorities and women, using both qualitative content analysis and various statistical analysis methods. I critically explore the policing and silencing of political discourses by ethnic minority groups in Israeli media and the reaffirmation of national and collective boundaries through the exclusion of these ethnic minority groups.
Third, I am conducting a large-scale statistical meta-analysis project, which explores the effect of different social stressors and of social relationships on mortality in different countries and under varying conditions. This project has already produced analyses of the effects of unemployment, war exposure, widowhood, divorce, lifetime non-marriage, participation in voluntary organizations, and social support, as well as a methodological paper on the use of meta-analysis in sociology. In addition, I plan to conduct analyses on the effects of social networks, immigration, and cumulative stressors on mortality.
Finally, pursuing my interests in gender and sexuality, I have completed a study on attraction between same-group members in Israeli kibbutzim. Relying on in-depth interviews with people who grew up in the communal education system of Israeli kibbutzim, I questioned the reigning psychological and biological views and offered alternative sociological explanations to the classic debate over the origins of incest avoidance and the incest taboo. I plan to extend this research by studying sexual attraction and avoidance in other small groups.
Topic : Explaining Gender Inequalities in Media Coverage
Speaker : Prof. Eran Shor（McGill University）
Speaker : Prof. Eran Shor（McGill University）
Host : Dr. Mario Liong（National Taipei University）
Time : 2024/5/17(Fri) 12:00 PM-2:00 PM（GMT+8）
Venue : Conference Room 8F07, College of Social Science Building
* The talk is conducted in English
Abtract :
Women receive substantially less media coverage than men. However, the reasons for these disparities are not always clear. While some theories point to societal-level structural and occupational gender inequalities, others suggest explanations that focus on the role of news reporters or editors and on news sources catering to public demand. In this talk I discuss more than a decade of research, utilizing computational analyses of millions of male and female names in more than 2,000 news sources. My analyses provide insights on the relative strength of these different explanations in accounting for persistent gender inequalities in the media.
Biography of Speaker ：
Time : 2024/5/17(Fri) 12:00 PM-2:00 PM（GMT+8）
Venue : Conference Room 8F07, College of Social Science Building
* The talk is conducted in English
Abtract :
Women receive substantially less media coverage than men. However, the reasons for these disparities are not always clear. While some theories point to societal-level structural and occupational gender inequalities, others suggest explanations that focus on the role of news reporters or editors and on news sources catering to public demand. In this talk I discuss more than a decade of research, utilizing computational analyses of millions of male and female names in more than 2,000 news sources. My analyses provide insights on the relative strength of these different explanations in accounting for persistent gender inequalities in the media.
Biography of Speaker ：
My work spans several major research and teaching interests. First, I examine the causes and effects of political conflict and violence. More specifically, I study state counterterrorist policies, relying on a combination of longitudinal time-series cross-national analyses and case studies. My work demonstrates the importance of social and cultural processes in determining state policies and challenges more traditional theoretical approaches, which emphasize atomized actor-oriented and cost-benefit motivations.
Second, I am leading two separate research projects that examine inequality in the media coverage of ethnic minorities and women, using both qualitative content analysis and various statistical analysis methods. I critically explore the policing and silencing of political discourses by ethnic minority groups in Israeli media and the reaffirmation of national and collective boundaries through the exclusion of these ethnic minority groups.
Third, I am conducting a large-scale statistical meta-analysis project, which explores the effect of different social stressors and of social relationships on mortality in different countries and under varying conditions. This project has already produced analyses of the effects of unemployment, war exposure, widowhood, divorce, lifetime non-marriage, participation in voluntary organizations, and social support, as well as a methodological paper on the use of meta-analysis in sociology. In addition, I plan to conduct analyses on the effects of social networks, immigration, and cumulative stressors on mortality.
Finally, pursuing my interests in gender and sexuality, I have completed a study on attraction between same-group members in Israeli kibbutzim. Relying on in-depth interviews with people who grew up in the communal education system of Israeli kibbutzim, I questioned the reigning psychological and biological views and offered alternative sociological explanations to the classic debate over the origins of incest avoidance and the incest taboo. I plan to extend this research by studying sexual attraction and avoidance in other small groups.
