Tag: Media coverage
We blurred the gender of soccer players and had people rate...
Carlos Gómez González, University of Zurich and Cornel Nesseler, University of Stavanger
During the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup,...
Taylor Swift and the end of the Hollywood writers strike –...
Aarushi Bhandari, Davidson College
This fall, I’ve been starting my sociology classes by asking my students to share some...
Rainbow fentanyl – the newest Halloween scare
Joel Best, University of Delaware
Every year around the middle of October, reporters start contacting me wanting to talk...
In 2020, TV and film still couldn’t get abortion right
Stephanie Herold, University of California, San Francisco and Gretchen Sisson, University of California, San Francisco
According to decades of research, abortion is an incredibly common...
‘I still get tweets to go back in the kitchen’ –...
Michael Serazio, Boston College
The story of the 2019 U.S. women’s national soccer team is not yet written, but its opening chapter – a 13-0...
As a young reporter, I went undercover to expose the Ku...
Dick Lehr, Boston University
Spike Lee’s powerful new film, “BlacKkKlansman,” tells the true story of Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer who infiltrates a local...
Race of mass shooters influences how the media cover their crimes,...
Laura Frizzell, The Ohio State University; Sadé L. Lindsay, The Ohio State University, and Scott Duxbury, The Ohio State University
On Jan. 24, 2014, police...
Can transgender TV characters help bridge an ideological divide?
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Erica L. Rosenthal, University of Southern California and...