How the media reports on violence against women and girls has real life consequences – shaping our collective attitudes and influencing behaviors. Poor journalism can reinforce harmful stereotypes and beliefs that tolerate and normalise sexual violence. But good journalism can raise awareness, inform the public and help shift these attitudes. This presentation will discuss the findings of a quantitative and qualitative linguistic analysis of twelve years of rape coverage in the British press, showing how rape myths survive in subtler forms in media discourse. The discussion will include ideas about how we can move towards responsible reporting of sexual violence that drives social change.

Moderation: Maria João Faustino (CES)

Bio note

Alessia Tranchese is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Applied Linguistics at the University of Portsmouth and currently Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Internet Studies, Germany. Her areas of research are violence against women in the media, online misogyny, and pornography. Her latest book on the representation of VAW in the British press was published by Palgrave in March 2023.

Activity within the research project UnCoveR “Sexual Violence in Portuguese Mediascape” DOI 10.54499/2022.03964.PTDC (https://doi.org/10.54499/2022.03964.PTDC)

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