The media have given the depiction of female-instigated violence a partial coverage, and the belief has been otherwise. In fact, the reporting and the perception of the society have been oriented to male- instigated violence and this construed thought has had a place in the media reporting parlance. Based on this desertion, I have realized a series of shortfalls that have often marred reporting and coverage of female instigated violence. Therefore, I can attest that the partiality in this reporting has construed the social mindsets that male propagates most violence, and the public belief has been that female aggressions are the least possible cases of gender violence (Friedan, 2013).
Perhaps this contrast in reporting has what deciphered the attention of the media from covering cases of female-instigated violence against males, or it is something that has been progressively adopted by the media fraternity. I sought to analyze contextually this issues based on documented reports regarding media biases in reporting cases of female-instigated violence in the society, and how this has construed the mindset of the society to believe that the vice is one-sided and that it solely emanates from the male, and but rarity from the female gender. In fact, this contextual analysis seeks to reverberate on this issue based on the theoretical and historical attributes of my dissertation, and how the right media coverage can be done to ensure accuracy or information to the public. The recent twists in the social perception of violence are the worst case scenario in a series of crimes that have been committed against the male gender. Even though the violence happens across all gender lines, the biases in the leading British media sectors has led to misguided perceptions and notion of this vice in a society that experiences gender violence in almost equal accord along all gender lines.
The historical paradigm about gender violence shows a biased viewpoint of what the reality stands. The rarity in revealing the actual incidences and statistics about gender violence is the core subject of this criticism. Besides, the media fraternity has been tasked to exonerate the real statistical facts about gender violence and outline the extent that the female-instigated violence is prone in the British society, and the world in entirety (Collins, 2008).
Statistical count of female-instigated violence against male reveals an otherwise result, and it’s contrary from the truth based on the understanding of the media coverage and reporting on such issues. For example, it is well documented by the Office of the National Statistics that 6.5% of and another 11.1% of men have been victims of gender violence in the twenty-first century; however, the media coverage and reporting shows a different statistics. So one would ask, why the public has titled been to believe that gender violence is highly associated with the male gender, and why women have been so much deciphered from violence? These two questions are critical towards unraveling the disparity that the media has created to the public about gender violence in Britain.
On the other hand, the depiction of female-instigated violence has been given a lighter note, and the impacts of such occurrence have been reported as mild, and not as severe as male-instigated gender violence in the society. This trend and the embedded notion about gender violence is one-sided, and the community risk assuming this perception to the detriment of men, who are sometimes subjected to severe impacts of violence in the society. Indeed, the media has authenticated its reporting paradigm, which puts the female on the receiving end, while men have been branded as core perpetrators of this violence.
For example, up to three cases of media reported and coverage, two are automatically caused by males, while just one case is reported to be associated with females. This description shows the extent of media statistics about gender violence in the society, and the incident has gone beyond this to influencing men about their ability to report some cases of violence generated by women against them.
The journalistic depiction of controversial to the reality of statements regarding gender violence is a subject of public opinion, and various theoretical frameworks of journalistic reporting have given clearer details of how such incidences have changed the public perception of gender violence in the society. The far-fetched unpopular perspective is that gender violence is a tool for males to suppress females, and the society has been made to believe that female-instigated violence is a rarity course and that men have triggered most violence. This point is a critical notion that my report covers to unearth the truth of the matter, which is controversial to the media coverage about female-instigated violence, which has often been given a lighter note. Media organization like the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Mirror, and the Telegraph are all enjoined in this controversy, where they have been openly misrepresented facts on gender violence, and created a false perception about female-instigated violence as a rare situation, and non-causal factor to social brutality and violence in British.
Mackenzie Rod explicitly reiterates a similar viewpoint that the media and the government organs and actors have been reluctant to highlight the plight of men who experience female-instigated violence in their families. In his article, Rode states that it is a usual occurrence for the British police to arrive at the incidence scene, where the perceived abuse is the male character (Mackenzie, 2009). The aggression, by which the public service providers like the police and the media reports and handles gender violence cases, is what construes the public mindset about this menace in the society.
In yet another interesting case, the police would rush to the crime scene, and the first notion that they would develop is that the violence was committed against a female, and they will be quick to enter the details of the case to press charges against the male aggressor. However, this situation will change when the informed perception is confirmed, and it is found out that the aggressor was the female to the male character. In such a case, the police will hold their next move, and perhaps, ignore the incidence or attribute it to something less severe, than if it were the case where the male was the perpetrator.
Rode’s revelation about media and its intrigues in reporting and covering female-instigated violence is very shocking, and it’s nothing but the truth of the matter. The society could be said to be in a systematic charm offensive to deceive its people on issues of gender violence, which seems to injure male sex, but appears very appealing to the female gender. Besides, statistics shows that men in their early 20’s are more vulnerable and easy target to female-instigated, but their cases or the plight to gender violence go unreported. The subject of female-instigated violence is not much-talked about and has completely been snubbed by the media. I attest that the latest cases of salient brutalities on men have been on the increase due to perceived notion that reporting and coverage of such situations are one-sided, and gender violence is only considered serious when it is male-instigated. On the other hand, the masculinity has been exploited as a basis for concealing certain abuses such as emotional bullying, as well as less severe physical force.
The journalistic biases in reporting female-instigated violence have been given a vivid coverage in the dissertation, and it is as a result of bad publicity by the media, which has significantly contributed to weak notion about its prevalence and occurrence in the public domain. Consequently, statistical records have it that women are more abused than men, but the partiality of media or journalistic coverage is a worrying trend to this incident. Research by Rode reiterates that men in their early 20’s are mostly on the receiving end, but none of cases, or just a few of them get reported to the media.
The media being one of the closest actors in public events, it is ideal to have the right champion and reporting about contingent social issues to the people in the UK. In fact, the UK media is the most consumed, and the majority of the public is tuned to these media like a certain course for providing information. Both the social and print media have the greatest coverage in the UK, and it is imperative to have clear reporting on gender violence instigated by the females against men. For example, one could imagine the massive influence that the media can spur to the public by either inducing an accurate or biased recording. Interpretation of the recent trend by the media is biased on informing the public about gender violence. \
The dominant practices of female-instigated violence is a typical incident in the late twentieth and twenty-first century and has led to massive incidences of violence targeting men (Collins, 2008). In fact, the male gender has been exposed to more vulnerability as a result of partial coverage and reporting by the media regarding their plight on domestic violence.
There are varied scholarly reviews that have been done regarding the partial coverage and reporting of female-instigated violence in the society. Thus, my dissertation pays keen attention to these literary works and given a common point of convergence about journalistic coverage to this issue with biases and complete partiality. The viewpoints provided by these scholarly articles reverberates the key areas where the media has failed to provide the informative report and attribute about social issues, and one them relates to the coverage of gender violence spearheaded by women against the men.
A journalistic depiction of gender violence is a topic that has sparked outrage and controversy in the public parlance, and as reiterated before, the dissertation gives standard viewpoints regarding the partiality perpetrated by the media. Naylor is one such scholar whose work is very impactful in the dissertation, and the author’s contribution forms a stronger point of reliance upon which I would generalize the issue about female-instigated violence, and how the media has spearheaded poor reporting and misinformation to the public about this issue. In fact, Naylor’s point of the argument is that the media in the twentieth and the twenty-first century has been behind the wrong notion that most domestic violence is male-instigated. I highly exonerate this source due to its view about media recording on gender violence, and the reality of the matter.
Therefore, in as much as the press might be giving misleading and partial coverage of these incidences, the truth remains that female-instigated violence is on the verge of increment, and the records about these occurrences are recorded in the government’s documents. The point of reliance to this author attributes to the good coverage of the hot topic about the impacts that media predisposes with regards to domestic violence in the UK. This statement depicts a definite undertone of media reporting on female-instigated violence.
The strength of my dissertation is not only anchored on the author above, but depends on several other scholarly attributes inherent to this study. The literature review is so captivating and enlists major areas of concerns that attribute to media reporting in the UK regarding female-instigated violence. As an overview to the scholarly strength, I would wish to express my sincere trust on Berns’s article regarding this topic. Berns discusses the notion of media tilt regarding gender violence, and in most cases notes that the media is so much to men, and favors the plight of women to such incidences. Besides, the author notes that biases and distortions of information is a common problem with the UK media while covering or reporting about gender violence. Once again, the media tilt is for females, who the media portrays as weak, feeble, and vulnerable to men, who might just be the innocent recipient of women brutality and anguish.
The authenticity and accuracy of the academic, scholarly reviews point out the fact on the ground, and of course concur with the dissertation research. The first pointer that authoritatively establishes the strength of these sources and their associated authors relates to the national statistics about gender violence against either gender. According to the reports on domestic violence, the rate of female-instigated violence is on the rise, which is contrary to the portrayals by the media that most violence in the UK is male-instigated.
Therefore, putting a reliance on these authoritative sources enabled me to make a generalization of my research based on the ideological concepts. In fact, the reasons behind my position regarding is attributed or heavily influenced by the details enlisted in the scholarly reviews. The two references are just a few of many sources that are employed in investigating the depiction of media reporting on gender violence, especially regarding female-instigated violence.
Based on the research about gender violence and the mainstream media representation of this matter, I made a generalization that my research is accurate and well supported by documented research. In fact, media in the UK has a special treat and consideration to women regarding gender violence, and in most cases, incidences of female-instigated violence go unreported or are apparently given a lighter touch. I celebrate this finding since it is very consistent with the information entailed din the core academic sources that I reviewed during the research. Therefore, the media is seemingly oriented to one side, and mostly depicts males as the main perpetrators of the gender violence in the UK families. This point marks a cornerstone to the dissertation, and it clearly establishes a very proper consent of the research.
Other than the literature review, my dissertation draws its strength from the methodology that articulates various methods of collecting report about partiality by media reporting to female-instigated violence in Britain. The methodology applied to this research had a very authentic perspective to generating an accurate result. Principally, the reliability of a research methodology determines the overall capability of research to capture most points and deliver on its objectives. Since the aim of this research was anchored on finding the depiction of the UK media on female-instigated violence, the method adopted enhanced the achievement of this objective.
For example, the two-pronged approach enabled for easier collection of both quantitative and qualitative data through positivistic and critical theory; which is grounded on carrying out an evaluation to the data established through a quantitative approach. Indeed, the core strength of this dissertation is invoked from a carefully thought and well-mainstreamed methodology. Besides, the research design articulated core precepts of this study, whose objective was aimed at establishing the depiction of the media to female-instigated violence in the UK.
In overall dimension, my dissertation meets the professional standards, as well as its set objectives. This dimension is often the most important element of a quality and standard dissertation. For example, the introduction is well –captivating, and gives a brief of all discussions that is to occur in the body of the dissertation. Besides, the introduction signified a critical platform to the main objective of the dissertation; depiction of the media with regards to female-instigated violence in the Britain. This is a critical lens to the success of a dissertation, whose other sections are deeply dependent upon the hook created in the introductory part.
Besides, this dissertation merits the quality standard for a dissertation, which relates to its firm caption at the theoretical attributes of analyzing media depiction in the society. Integration of classical theories is a professional stake that takes the dissertation a notch higher, and rates it among the best dissertations. In fact, a properly-formulated dissertation must be able to assess and integrate theoretical attributes of research, which bolsters primary prospects and findings. This statement implies that my dissertation is well-poised as it meets the demands of research. For example, the adoption of media ecology is an expressive perspective that has greatly exonerated this research in the highest esteem and capability. Based on this paradigm, I was able to integrate various lenses presented by the research.
Thus, relating media with modern technology is an impactful view that helps to outline critical issues of media reporting, and why certain views bear heavier impacts to the society. Principally, this context of interpretation is important since it provides details of how media impacts the perception of the audience. For example, by relying on this interpretive paradigm, we can explain the causal effects of media biases on female-instigated violence to the society. The consequence of such tilt by the media leads to construing effects to the mindsets and the perception of the society regarding an issue.
Despite the strengths alluded to the dissertation, there are some weaknesses that I must endear to correct in the future. The first element is the literature review, which is shorter than the usual length. In fact, the literature review is the main component of a dissertation, and it should have the most details and points of the dissertation. Thus, by adjusting the length and the short caption in my literature review, I will be able to meet the diverse needs of such section. The scholarly reviews under the literature reviews will give an informed consent and viewpoints of the dissertation. Therefore, the literature review should be somehow adjusted to exhaustively capture details of the main topic. Other than the literature review, the conclusion should be truncated a bit to match the size of the dissertation. This statement implies that the conclusion should just be a brief of at hand been discussed in the dissertation, not a new platform for making current discussions.
Finally, the methodology and research design should be incepted a clear data analysis practicum. There is no clear point where my data has been analyzed but has just been theoretically stated. Thus, having a platform for data analysis in the in the dissertation is a clear roadmap to ensuring the positive outcome to the dissertation. With the points adjusted in my dissertation, I believe that it will be captivating and shall hold most of the points. Therefore, aligning the research to these stipulations gives the best outcome to a dissertation.
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References
Collins, R. (2008). Violence: A micro-sociological theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Friedan, B. (2013). The feminine mystique. New York : W. W. Norton & Company
Mackenzie, R. (2009). Men who face domestic abuse. Newsbeat Publishers
