Framing the Victim - Domestic Violence, Media, and Social Problems

List of contents

1: Zooming In (and Out) on Social Problems; 2: The Landscape of Domestic Violence and the Public’s Narrow Picture; 3: “I Get My Experience from the Media”: Using Media to Understand Social Problems; 4: Women’s Magazines: The Victim Empowerment Frame; 5: Social Problems As Inspiration, Entertainment, and Emotion: Women’s Magazines and Other Entertainment Media; 6: Men’s and Conservative Political Magazines: The Antifeminist Frame; 7: Liberal Political Magazines: The Social Justice Frame; 8: Framing the Victim; 9: In Search of a New Social Problem about Violence

About the author

Nancy S. Berns

Summary

Framing the Victim illustrates how victims of domestic violence are "framed" by the dominant media perspectives focused on them and falsely blamed for a crime committed by someone else. Berns critiques the stories that emerge when social problems are shaped by guidelines that promote entertainment, victim empowerment, inspiration and politics.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy S. Berns
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2017
• EAN: 9781138523760
• ISBN: 978-1-138-52376-0
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Social Problems & Social Issues
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General