Mediatization of Politics or Politicization of Media: Women's Perspective
Journal Title: Global Social Sciences Review - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
In accordance with the phased and meta process of mediatization, politicians have grown dependent on media at the cost of their own independence. As a result, politics has become synonym with something negative. Little research in Pakistan has been done to explore perspective of women politicians and journalists on negative perception about politics. To fill up the gap, we constituted focus groups in Multan, Lahore and Islamabad, comprising mostly women politicians (local and national), rights activists and journalists. It has been found that the respondents are mindful of the fact that there has been an increase in representation of women politicians on media since former President Pervez Musharraf allowed private electronic media to operate in 2002. Female participants in Multan feel encouraged by the increase in representation of women on media but those in Lahore and Islamabad believe that media has added to the challenges women politicians are facing. However, all focus groups opined that this situation is reflective of politicization of media, which shows that they have internalized the negative image that media construct of politicians and that they lack the understanding about the process of mediatization of politics.
Authors and Affiliations
Hassan Shehzad, Farish Ullah Yousafzai
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP603193
- DOI 10.31703/gssr.2017(II-I).08
- Views 43
- Downloads 0
Perception of Transition on Assessment and Learning at Postgraduate level
This study explores the students and teachers’ perceptions of transition in assessment from annual to semester system at university level. For collection of data two research tools i.e. questionnaire (students) and inter...
Teaching Mathematics at High School: A Comparison of Public and Private School Teachers’ Practices
This paper compares the mathematics teaching practices of private and public high school teachers in Punjab. Two hundred public and 180 private school teachers were selected by using random sampling technique from distri...
Analysis of Reading Preferences of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Teachers’ Educators
English is a global language and it plays its role as the second and official language in many countries. Untrained teachers, rote learning, grammar translation method and overcrowded classrooms are the factors which aff...
Possibilities of Agricultural Education for Secondary Level in Pakistan
Agricultural education is the main component to promote development and production of agriculture. In Pakistan, higher education institutes are offering agricultural education at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate...
Political Factors and Sectarian Identities in Tribal Areas of Pakistan
The study titled “political factors and sectarian identities in tribal areas of Pakistan” was carried out in tribal district Kurram under positivistic tools of the data collection. A sample size of 300 respondents was ra...