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Gender-Based Online Harassment & Sexual Threats
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Social Media in Political Communication
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Female News Sources
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence
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Election Reporting
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Political Reporting
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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Internet & Social Media Use: Women
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Election Campaigns
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Female Film Actors, Directors & Producers
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Graffiti, Wall Paintings, Street Art
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Conflict-Sensitive & Peace Journalism
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LGBT & Communication / Media
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Gendered Disinformation
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Humour, Parody, Satire
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Gender and Media, Gender and Communication
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence: Media Representation & Reporting
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Gender-Sensitive Journalism
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Media Assistance: Gender Focus
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Women's Magazines, Women's Press
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Popular Music
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Election Campaigns: Social Media
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Political Parties: Communication Strategies
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Kompas (Newspaper, Indonesia)
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No Women, no Peace: Media's Role in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
International Media Support (IMS) (2025), 43 pp.
Image-centrism in Africa’s political communication: A social semiotic analysis of self-presentation practices by women political candidates in Kenya’s social media space
Information, Communication & Society, volume 27, issue 8 (2024), pp. 1687-1711
"This study explores self-visual presentation practices by female political candidates on Facebook during Kenya’s political campaigns that culminated in the national elections of 2022. The unit of analysis is the Facebook profile image of the women leaders. Image-centrism is operationalized as the
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Metavoicing, trust-building mechanisms and partisan messaging: A study of social media usage by selected South African female politicians
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 13 (2023), pp. 2575-2597
"This study investigates social media usage patterns, Twitter’ frequency use and message typologies of selected South African female politicians’. Using the digital public sphere theory as a lens, the study considers six hundred Twitter posts from six female politicians from the African National
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The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Media and Communication in the Middle East and North Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxiii, 590 pp.
"The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Media and Communication in the Middle East and North Africa stands as an authoritative and up-to-date resource on the critical debates, research methods and ongoing reflections on how gender and communication intersect with the economic, social, political, and cultu
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What Limits Tanzanian Women’s Participation in Political Leadership? An Investigation of Discriminatory Social Norms
London: BBC Media Action (2023), 9 pp.
Identity, Social Media and Politics: How Young Emirati Women Make Sense of Female Politicians in the UAE
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 27, issue 4 (2022), pp. 789-807
"Social media offered new opportunities for politicians to engage with the public. However, little research has explored public perceptions of women politicians and their role in women’s empowerment, especially in non-Western contexts. This study used a qualitative methodology to explore how young
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Women, Media, and Power in Indonesia
London; New York: Routledge (2022), ix, 168 pp.
"This book demonstrates the crucial link between gender and structures of power in democratic Indonesia, and the role of the online news media in regulating this relationship of power. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a theoretical framework, and social actor analysis as the methodological
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Threats Against Public-Facing Women in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Association of Women in Journalism (SLAWIJ); Internews (2022), 49 pp.
"This research presents findings and recommendations about the nature, scale, and impact of threats faced by select categories of public-facing women in Sierra Leone. Specifically, by women human rights defenders (HRDs) and women journalists." (Research methodology)
A Dark Place for Women Journalists & Women Human Rights Defenders: Documenting the Experiences of Online Violence in Anglo & Francophone Countries
Internews; Pollicy (2022), 46 pp.
"All respondents had experienced online violence. Misogynistic hate speech, sexists’ comments, body shaming as well as slut shaming was common among the women journalists and WHRDs interviewed. These threats were also extended to their families, friends, relatives and networks. Another frequently
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Mujeres libres en política: Guía para combatir el acoso y la violencia política digital (AVP)
La Paz: Órgano Electoral Plurinacional (OEP); Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) (2021), 37 pp.
FrauENTscheiderinnen bewegen die Welt
Weltzeit (Deutsche Welle), issue 1 (2021), 43 pp.
Malign Creativity: How Gender, Sex, and Lies are Weaponized Against Women Online
Washington, DC: Wilson Center (2021), 61 pp.
"This report strives to build awareness of the direct and indirect impacts of gendered and sexualized disinformation on women in public life, as well as its corresponding impacts on national security and democratic participation. In an analysis of online conversations about 13 female politicians acr
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Programming for Democracy: A How-To Guide for Supporting Democratic Governance
Brussels: European Partnership for Democracy (EPD) (2020), 32 pp.
Violence Against Women in Elections Online: A Social Media Analysis Tool
Washington, DC: International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES); USAID (2019), 72 pp.
"Around the world, women frequently experience harassment and violence when they decide to exercise their civil and political rights. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have created new vehicles for violence against women in elections (VAWIE), including violence that takes place on so
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Gendering Leadership in Vietnamese Media: A Role Congruity Study on News Content and Journalists’ Perception of Female and Male Leaders
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 95, issue 3 (2018), pp. 565-587
"This study combines two research methods to explore how female leaders are portrayed in the news in Vietnam, and Vietnamese journalists’ perception of female and male leaders. Content analysis indicated that female leaders are under- and misrepresented. Female leader sources seldom appear in the
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Polígrafo de género
Bogotá: Linterna Verde; Colnodo; Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) (2018), 34 pp.
"Como parte de un proyecto sobre desinformación, el centro de Internet y Sociedad Linterna Verde, en asocio con la Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa, presenta un informe que monitorea los discursos de género –tanto de candidatos presidenciales como de sus fórmulas– a través del análisis
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Women Into Politics! Greater Female Participation in Cambodia: A Best-Practice Handbook 2016–2018
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2018), 35 pp.
"Women are a great untapped potential in Cambodia. That is the driving idea behind the EU-funded project “Women into Politics! Greater female participation in Cambodia”. This three-year project reached women from different regions in Cambodia and gave them the communications skills they needed t
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Gender Stereotypes Against Female Leaders in the Vietnamese Media
Oxfam (2017), 52 pp.
"The frequencies of female leaders being sourced in the news were far lower than those of male leaders, especially in the government sector. This demonstrates that female leaders are disappointingly under-represented in the news despite their contribution and participation in the workforce. Female l
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Chile: Female Journalists Without Access to Power
In: The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism
Carolyn M. Byerly (ed.)
Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), pp. 226-237
"In March 2006, socialist politician Michelle Bachelet became not only the first woman to assume the presidency of Chile, but also the first female president in South America. Bachelet appointed a cabinet with an equal number of men and women. Although there were several other changes to her cabinet
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