Power to the women? Viennese Journalism in the interwar Period
With the emergence of the mass press in late nineteenth-century Austria, newspapers provided the main forum for public discourse, and journalism became a source of power. Thus, investigating the participation of women in journalism can also be seen as an analysis of power in the sense of control ove...
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| author | Tarik Sabry |
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| description | With the emergence of the mass press in late nineteenth-century Austria, newspapers provided the main forum for public discourse, and journalism became a source of power. Thus, investigating the participation of women in journalism can also be seen as an analysis of power in the sense of control over (information) resources. Based on one of Foucault’s concepts, the study differentiates between changes in the distribution of power inside journalism (‘power to’) and those forces that had sufficient power (‘power over’) to promote the involvement of women in the business of daily journalism in Austria during one of its heydays in the 1920s. The editorial line, which provides the central rationale for journalistic action, and market orientation, which provides the main rationale for entrepreneurial action, are considered as the two main factors capable of influencing the participation of women in journalistic power. Furthermore, we ask for biographical circumstances, which promoted women’s career opportunities within this male-dominated business. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3ac8d77f412a4c61ace2673fb6f2e8102022-12-21T19:18:11ZengUniversity of Westminster PressWestminster Papers in Communication and Culture1744-67162017-06-018310.16997/wpcc.134Power to the women? Viennese Journalism in the interwar PeriodTarik Sabry0Communication and Media Research Institute University of WestminsterWith the emergence of the mass press in late nineteenth-century Austria, newspapers provided the main forum for public discourse, and journalism became a source of power. Thus, investigating the participation of women in journalism can also be seen as an analysis of power in the sense of control over (information) resources. Based on one of Foucault’s concepts, the study differentiates between changes in the distribution of power inside journalism (‘power to’) and those forces that had sufficient power (‘power over’) to promote the involvement of women in the business of daily journalism in Austria during one of its heydays in the 1920s. The editorial line, which provides the central rationale for journalistic action, and market orientation, which provides the main rationale for entrepreneurial action, are considered as the two main factors capable of influencing the participation of women in journalistic power. Furthermore, we ask for biographical circumstances, which promoted women’s career opportunities within this male-dominated business.https://www.westminsterpapers.org/article/id/175/women in journalismmedia historyinterwar periodFirst Austrian Republic |
| spellingShingle | Tarik Sabry Power to the women? Viennese Journalism in the interwar Period Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture women in journalism media history interwar period First Austrian Republic |
| title | Power to the women? Viennese Journalism in the interwar Period |
| title_full | Power to the women? Viennese Journalism in the interwar Period |
| title_fullStr | Power to the women? Viennese Journalism in the interwar Period |
| title_full_unstemmed | Power to the women? Viennese Journalism in the interwar Period |
| title_short | Power to the women? Viennese Journalism in the interwar Period |
| title_sort | power to the women viennese journalism in the interwar period |
| topic | women in journalism media history interwar period First Austrian Republic |
| url | https://www.westminsterpapers.org/article/id/175/ |
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