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Framing Femicide: An Analysis of Online Media Reporting on Romanian Immigrant Women Killed in Germany

Framing Femicide: An Analysis of Online Media Reporting on Romanian Immigrant Women Killed in Germany

Simona Rodat
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 23
ISBN13: 9781799891871|ISBN10: 1799891879|EISBN13: 9781799891888
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9187-1.ch004
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Rodat, Simona. "Framing Femicide: An Analysis of Online Media Reporting on Romanian Immigrant Women Killed in Germany." Handbook of Research on Digital Violence and Discrimination Studies, edited by Fahri Özsungur, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 72-94. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9187-1.ch004

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Rodat, S. (2022). Framing Femicide: An Analysis of Online Media Reporting on Romanian Immigrant Women Killed in Germany. In F. Özsungur (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Digital Violence and Discrimination Studies (pp. 72-94). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9187-1.ch004

Chicago

Rodat, Simona. "Framing Femicide: An Analysis of Online Media Reporting on Romanian Immigrant Women Killed in Germany." In Handbook of Research on Digital Violence and Discrimination Studies, edited by Fahri Özsungur, 72-94. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9187-1.ch004

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Abstract

Femicides are topics frequently covered by the media, and journalists use different frames when reporting on such lethal acts of violence against women. This chapter addresses the media coverage and framing in German online press articles of two femicides with victims of Romanian ethnicity. The research presented used as methodology thematic content analysis, along with media framing analysis. In the chapter, the results of this study are discussed, that is, the characteristics of media coverage and content related to the killings of the two Romanian women in the German press are analysed, the main frames used by the media in their reporting on the femicides are pointed out, and the extent to which journalists use in their narratives techniques of blaming the victims is examined. Moreover, the chapter investigates whether the media report the crimes against women as singular facts or address them in the broader context of social problems, and contribute, in this way, to the increase of public awareness and social responsibility towards them.

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