The portrayal of domestic violence on national television in lebanon: the cases of lbci and mtv

• Autores: Kafaa Msaed
• Directores de la Tesis: Susana Herrera Damas (codir. tes.), María Luengo Cruz (codir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ( España ) en 2021
• Idioma: español
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Juana Gallego Ayala (presid.), Clara Sainz de Baranda Andújar (secret.), Jairo Lugo-Ocando (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Investigación en Medios de Comunicación por la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• Materias:
  • Ciencia política
    • Opinión publica
      • Información
      • Prensa
  • Sociología
    • Grupos sociales
      • Posición social de la mujer
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  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: e-Archivo
• Resumen

  • This thesis provides theoretical and empirical insights for developing an ethical guide to assess the media coverage of domestic violence in Lebanon. It has two specific aims: (1) To show the way two privately owned leading Lebanese national television channels, Murr TV (MTV) and Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International (LBCI), depicted domestic violence against women in their news programs and TV shows between July 2013 and April 2014; and (2) to evaluate the strengths and shortcomings embodied in the two channels’ reporting on the issue during this period of time. To address these two aims, the thesis reviews literature on domestic violence and its relationship with social, cultural, political and legal contexts with special attention to the Lebanese case, and it also looks at literature on media representation of domestic violence. Through the literature review, the thesis develops analytical categories to understand the nature of the Lebanese media coverage of the issue. In a second step, it offers a practical way of addressing the Lebanese media reporting on domestic violence by analysing 30 international guidelines based on their adoption and compliance with major ethical journalistic principles –truth and accuracy, independence, fairness and impartiality, humanity and accountability–. It then proposes a new media guide on covering domestic violence by the Lebanese media on the basis of the selected international guides. In the empirical part, the thesis combines content analysis and in-depth-interviews to identify the biases of media coverage on domestic violence in relation to the three case studies. Finally, the thesis highlights the strengths and shortcomings of LBCI and MTV in their reporting on the issue within their news and specific TV shows (Ahmar Blkhat Elarid and Tehkik) respectively taking the proposed media guideline as a reference to evaluate the ethical performance of these two television channels.