Open AccessRepresentation of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Swedish News Media: A Discourse Analysis
Author(s) -
Nadja Karlsson,
Marisol Lila,
Enrique Gracia,
Maria Wemrell
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
violence against women
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.807
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1552-8448
pISSN - 1077-8012
DOI - 10.1177/1077801220940403
Subject(s) - newspaper , framing (construction) , individualism , public discourse , discourse analysis , representation (politics) , gender studies , critical discourse analysis , news media , poison control , suicide prevention , human factors and ergonomics , media coverage , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , political science , sociology , media studies , medicine , geography , politics , law , environmental health , ideology , archaeology , philosophy , linguistics
Despite being rated as some of the world's most gender equal countries, Sweden and neighboring Nordic nations show high rates of intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW). As the news media contribute to the shaping of public attitudes, this article pursues a two-step discourse analysis of how IPVAW was represented in seven Swedish newspapers during 2018. Although an individualistic discourse on IPVAW was found to be most prevalent, articles where perpetrators were presented as non-Swedish more frequently contained a structural framing of IPVAW. This confirms previously noted tendencies toward individualization and othering of IPVAW in Sweden.
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