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  title info:
    title: Race, Gender, and Media Practices: A Critical Framing Analysis of the Media's Coverage of USDA Worker Shirley Sherrod
  name:
    name part: McGovney-Ingram, Rebecca Lynn
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Larke, Jr., Alvin
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: On July 19, 2010, conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart posted a story on his website claiming USDA worker Shirley Sherrod was racist in her work with farmers. The edited video included with the story as proof, showed Sherrod speaking at an NAACP banquet. Sherrod was subsequently vilified in the media and fired from her job, only to be exonerated and rehired later that week. Although the media claims their routine writing and reporting practices (such as newsworthiness, source selection, objectivity, and perpetual news cycle) make the industry better, researchers have shown that these practices lead to the use of shortcuts and stereotypes. This is especially detrimental to Black women because of the double-dose of stereotyping they are subject to when they are portrayed in the media. The purpose of this study was to understand how media practices influenced the framing of race and gender in the media coverage of Sherrod. In order to integrate key elements of critical theory (i.e. activism, intersectionality, speaking position, subjectivity) I chose a mixed-methods approach for my framing analysis. This included open-ended reading of the news stories, constant comparative analysis of possible frames, quantitative coding sheet, analysis of statistics in SPSS, and inclusion of qualitative examples. I analyzed a total of 93 news articles from 12 news sources for this study. Most of the news stories came from newer, online publications (n=67, 72.0%) and over half came from new sources with a liberal philosophy (n=47, 50.5%). I found three frames that were used to describe Sherrod in terms of race and gender: victim, good woman, and above her place. I also found that these frames were closely aligned with news values that help determine a story's newsworthiness. I found seven sources were used repetitively and selectively associated with the frames. I also found differences in frames by news source type and philosophy. Finally, I found that the frames followed an identifi…
  note: by Rebecca Lynn McGovney-Ingram.
  note: "Major Subject: Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications"
  note: Includes vita.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A & M University 2013 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149420
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications
  subject:
    topic: media practices
  subject:
    topic: journalism
  subject:
    topic: race
  subject:
    topic: racism
  subject:
    topic: critical race theory
  subject:
    topic: gender
  subject:
    topic: sexism
  subject:
    topic: feminism
  subject:
    topic: framing
  subject:
    topic: framing theory
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149420
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 140121
    record change date: 20151206091225.0
    record identifier: in00003429625
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng