WOMEN AS VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE: AN ANALYSIS OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT TECHNIQUES OF BLAMING THE VICTIM USED IN ROMANIAN ONLINE MEDIA
WOMEN AS VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE: AN ANALYSIS OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT TECHNIQUES OF BLAMING THE VICTIM USED IN ROMANIAN ONLINE MEDIA

Summary/Abstract: The present work brings to attention the way Romanian online media presented cases of intimate femicide committed in the interval 2010-2015. In the category of intimate femicide there were included all the homicides committed with intention on women by the current or former partner (husbands, lovers, concubines). In the analyzed period in Romanian online media were presented 184 cases of intimate femicide in N=2282 articles. On an average, each case of intimate femicide was presented in 12.4 articles. In order to emphasize the manner Romanian journalists described the victims and the aggressors, but also to identify the presence/absence of the direct and indirect techniques pointed out by Taylor in the case of the American journalists, I decided to select the most promoted 10 cases of intimate femicide. These cases were presented on average in 49 articles (38-59 articles). The 490 articles were published in the national, regional or local online media, as well as on aggregated news sites or websites of television channels. The analysis emphasized the fact that the Romanian journalists use direct and indirect techniques to disfavor the victims identified by Taylor. As a consequence, we can impose an awareness campaign for the journalists concerning the consequences that might have the way of promoting acts of violence against women. It is necessary to elaborate a good practices guide as it happens in the USA, the UK or Canada.

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