GMMP. Women and News in Romania. Twitter Analysis
GMMP. Women and News in Romania. Twitter Analysis

Summary/Abstract: The topic of role distribution on a gender basis remains a constant of our society even at present, regardless of the development in mentality that naturally took place along with the technological innovations that grant access to an impressive amount of information from various sources and people. The constant news flow that are easily accessible from almost any device makes us both witnesses and participants to a redefinition of the world as we know it, setting up the premises for breaking the glass ceiling that separates women and men. However, the research conducted on social media platforms, with a particular emphasis on Twitter, reveals a different reality that perceives women based on stereotypes, and reduces their activity as reporters and news anchors to a limited amount of subjects that are considered as suitable for them only based on their gender, and with little to no consideration for their intellectual or professional capacities. This reality is the direct consequence of successive decades portraying women as inferior to men, which progressively lead to the internalization of such behaviours even by the new generations, through the propagation of gender stereotypes by the media.

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