Journalistikkforskningen i Skandinavia
har tradisjonelt vært dominert av menn. I de siste årene har kvinnelige
forskere markert seg stadig sterkere på dette feltet. På hvilken
måte har dette påvirket forskningen? Kvinnelige forskere har andre prioriteringer
enn sine mannlige kollegaer og bidrar i så måte både til fornyelse
og større bredde. Dette ser imidlertid ikke ut til å påvirke menns
prioriteringer eller true den mannlige normen om hvilke forskningstemaer
som er viktigst eller har størst prestisje.
The Ambiguous Difference – the
Impact of Gender in Scandinavian Journalism Research
Over the last decade or so, we have witnessed a significant growth
in Scandinavian journalism research, a field that has been, and
still is, dominated by men. In the same period, however, the relative
proportion of publications on journalism written by female researchers
has increased. Based on a quantitative content analysis of journalism
research in the three Scandinavian countries from 1995 to 2009,
the paper asks whether this increase has affected the gendered patterns
of journalism research.
Although the main trends of this research are largely unchanged,
the study reveals certain noticeable changes over time, some of
which can be linked to the increase in research by women. Female
researchers are generally more empirical, they look more closely
at practices and are more qualitative and broader in their thematic
orientation than men, which clearly affects the research. But this
does not seem to have any marked impact on the research orientation
among male researchers or on the dominant position of men in the
field. The changes revealed by the study with respect to male research
can best be seen as an extension of a traditional male orientation,
which also seems to maintain its status quo.