Sara De VuystGhent University | UGhent · Department of Languages and Cultures
Sara De Vuyst
PhD Communication Studies
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Narratives on ageing are deeply entangled with discourses on happiness. This article draws on Sara Ahmed’s critique on the disciplinary dynamics of the promise of happiness to explore how happiness scripts make certain ‘happy objects’ such as beauty aspirations, sexual desires, and life choices seen as ‘right’ for older women and others as ‘wrong’....
Media are a key site for the construction, negotiation and opposition of gender, sexual identities and performances at a social and cultural level. This chapter focuses on diverse expressions of sexuality in media reception, production and representation. It explores, on the one hand, aspects of the changing social and sexual landscape; and on the...
DiGeSt 9(1) General Issue - Ageivism Roundtable
During the past two decades or so, the emergence and ever-accelerating development of digital media have sparked scholarly interest, debates, and complex challenges across many disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. Within this diverse scholarship, the research on digitality, gender, sexuality, and embodiment has contributed substan...
Gender, sexuality and embodiment in digital spheres have been increasingly studied from various critical perspectives: From research highlighting the articulation of intimacies, desires, and sexualities in and through digital spaces to theoretical explorations of materiality in the digital realm. With such a high level of (inter)disciplinarity, the...
This article explores representations of ageing femininities and later-in-life intimacies based on a critical, contextualised reading of two graphic novels. Narratives on later life are deeply entangled with ideas on happiness. While ageing was typically associated with decay, loss, and an irreversible path to unhappiness, in recent years, there ha...
This study focusses on discourses on menopause through a critical reading of a selection of nine self-help books on the topic in the context of Dutch-speaking Belgium and the Netherlands. The aim is to explore whether self-help books constrain or facilitate the development of emancipatory discourses on menopause. We combine feminist critiques that...
Narratives on ageing are deeply entangled with discourses on happiness. This article draws on Sara Ahmed’s critique on the disciplinary dynamics of the promise of happiness to explore how happiness scripts make certain ‘happy objects’ such as beauty aspirations, sexual desires, and life choices seen as ‘right’ for older women and others as ‘wrong’....
The present study explores gendered representations in Belgian electoral news coverage. Compared to other Western countries, Belgium has consistently reported a small share of female politicians in the news, offering limited insights into the ways they are portrayed. Starting from the observation that the (mainly Anglo-Saxon) body of work on women...
Hoe is het gesteld met het gender(on)evenwicht in het nieuws wereldwijd? Dat is het perspectief van het Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), een vijfjaarlijks onderzoek naar de representatie van vrouwen en mannen in nieuwsmedia. De zesde studie werd in 2020 gelanceerd en mobiliseerde teams van wetenschappers, journalisten en activisten in 116 la...
Hacking Gender and Technology in Journalism addresses the question of whether journalism’s new digital spaces suffer from the same gendered structures as traditional media organisations, or whether they go beyond such bias.
This book offers insights into the challenges that women journalists face in relation to technological innovation, as well as...
Cet article examine le harcèlement en ligne des journalistes d’un point de vue intersectionnel. Des re cherches ont montré que le harcèlement en ligne est un problème lié au genre. Les femmes journalistes sont confrontées de manière disproportionnée à des insultes, des menaces et des commentaires sexistes indésirables dans la sphère numérique. Cela...
Research has repeatedly found an unequal representation of women compared to men in the news. Yet most research until now has focused on traditional news media including newspapers, radio, and television even though the arrival of the Internet has often been linked with democratization of news production and news distribution. This study intends to...
Wie maakt onze informatie? Hoe ziet de loopbaan van een journalist eruit? Wat vinden ze van hun verloning en werkomstandigheden? En hoe kijken ze naar de recente verschuivingen in het medialandschap? Een team van onderzoekers van de Universiteit Gent (Center for Journalism Studies), de Université Libre de Bruxelles (ReSICULB), en de Université de M...
Gender inequalities have been at the core of debates and studies about media and communication for a long time. The media – as meaning-making institutions, and as an important economic sector – have been recognized as both a hindrance to advancements in gender equality across societies, and a possible solution to persisting stereotypes and discrimi...
De gemiddelde Belgische journalist is een hoogopgeleide, blanke man en politiek linksgeoriënteerd. Dat blijkt uit de vijfjaarlijkse enquête bij de Belgische beroepsjournalisten. 1.302 journalisten namen daar in het voorjaar van 2018 aan deel, dat is een kwart van alle leden van de Nederlandstalige (VVJ) en Franstalige (AJP) beroepsverenigingen. De...
Websites zijn voor Belgische journalisten de belangrijkste bron van informatie, maar sociale media hebben in vijf jaar tijd enorm aan belang gewonnen – ook voor de verspreiding van artikels. Dat blijkt uit de vijfjaarlijkse enquête bij de Belgische beroepsjournalisten. 1.302 journalisten namen daar in het voorjaar van 2018 aan deel, dat is een kwar...
This article examines the construction of gender in data journalism from a field theory perspective. It focuses on the internal logic of data journalism as well as on its relationship with the computer field. Our research question explores how male and female data journalists accumulate capital and build careers in data journalism. We conducted 26...
This study explores whether recent technological changes in journalism have confirmed traditional gender segregation or created new gender divides. Our first research question focuses on the representation of male and female journalists in online and cross-media journalism that has emerged in the increasingly converged media landscape. Our second q...
In feminist media studies, the growing body of research on media production has indicated that journalism remains divided along gender lines. The purpose of this study is to address the lack of relevant multi-method research on gender inequality in journalism. To assess the structural position of women in the journalistic workforce, the authors con...
This paper examines the role of digitalisation in shaping and reproducing gender relations in journalism. It builds on the concepts of Bourdieu’s field theory and its feminist appropriations to study how journalists construct the value of digital capital in this rapidly changing professional field. The journalistic work environment has been changed...
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Dit artikel onderzoekt de aanwezigheid en hoedanigheid van vrouwen en mannen in Vlaamse nieuwsverhalen op basis van een kwantitatieve inhoudsanalyse. We focussen in eerste instantie op de representatie als nieuwsactoren en nieuwsmakers. Daarnaast zoomen we in op verschillen tussen de berichtgeving van vrouwelijke en mannelijke...
This paper examines the presence and portrayal of women and men in Flemish news stories based on a study that was conducted within the framework of the Global Media Monitoring Project. Our central hypotheses focused on representation of men and women as news actors (H1), visible news producers (H2) and possible differences in the coverage of male a...
Gender divides in transition? A study on the gender-related consequences of the changing working conditions in journalism
Gender divides in transition? A study on the gender-related consequences of the changing working conditions in journalism.
This paper sets out to examine recent changes in the journalistic profession from a gender perspective. T...
Deze studie focust op de jobtevredenheid van Vlaamse beroepsjournalisten. Aan de
hand van een survey die in 2003 (N = 1026), 2008 (N = 682) en 2013 (N = 751) aan de
journalisten is voorgelegd, brengen we de evoluties in jobtevredenheid in kaart. Daar‐
naast segmenteren we ook de totale populatie van journalisten naar gender, leeftijd,
statuut en fu...
Job satisfaction of journalists in the changing media landscape
Job satisfaction of journalists in the changing media landscape
This study focuses on the job satisfaction of Flemish professional journalists. On the basis of a comparative survey research conducted in 2003 (N = 1026), 2008 (N = 682) and 2013 (N = 751), we identified shifts in job sat...
This paper sets out to examine recent changes in the journalistic profession from a gender perspective. Technological and economic changes have altered the working conditions of journalists. The study explores gender-related transitions in journalism. The research was based on three waves of survey research with Flemish professional journalists (20...
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It is generally assumed that growing older is bad for women’s sexuality and desirability. Widespread negative assumptions about ageing and female sexuality are also reflected in the lack of research interest in the topic and a predominantly medicalized view. There is a critical need for alternative models to the negative conceptions of 50+ women’s sexuality. LiLI aims to address this significant gap in the research by exploring experiences and viewpoints that have the capacity to change the way we look at ageing and female sexuality. A multidisciplinary team with expertise in anthropology, social geography, cultural studies and philosophy will investigate the ‘unruly’, counterhegemonic knowledge of 50+ women from diverse social positions to develop a radically new, affirmative theory of 50+ women’s sexuality.
