"Are You a Victim for sure?" Media Framing on Sexual Violence and Secondary Victimization in Korea
(2022) MRSM15 20211Human Rights Studies
- Abstract
- Sexual violence is ubiquitous. It occurs everywhere. Due to the very nature of sex crimes, however, victim-survivors from sexual violence are much more vulnerable from ‘secondary victimization’ which is also known as ‘post crime victimization’ or ‘double victimization.’ Given that people get common knowledge on human rights issues from newspapers, in particular online articles today, I focused on the role of media framing on this issue. Therefore, in this paper, I strived to answer two main research questions: (1) How do the Korean media coverage, especially newspapers, conceptualize sexual violence and frame public awareness towards victim-survivors? (2) How do they give a secondary victimization to victim-survivors? By conducting a... (More)
- Sexual violence is ubiquitous. It occurs everywhere. Due to the very nature of sex crimes, however, victim-survivors from sexual violence are much more vulnerable from ‘secondary victimization’ which is also known as ‘post crime victimization’ or ‘double victimization.’ Given that people get common knowledge on human rights issues from newspapers, in particular online articles today, I focused on the role of media framing on this issue. Therefore, in this paper, I strived to answer two main research questions: (1) How do the Korean media coverage, especially newspapers, conceptualize sexual violence and frame public awareness towards victim-survivors? (2) How do they give a secondary victimization to victim-survivors? By conducting a thematic analysis of media coverages on three high-profile cases in Korea– Ahn Hee-jung; Oh Keo-don; Park Won-sun –, this paper identifies newspapers selectively choose specific types of headlines, specific language use for descriptors in describing perpetrators/victims, and the style of description for the case, which is based on their own focus and aims. Here, one important finding is that the ‘power imbalance’ derived from the sexual violence continues to the media coverage as illuminated in certain types of headlines, positive (+)/downgrading (–) descriptors for perpetrators/victims, and ‘perpetrator-centered’ highly detailed description of the case. It should be careful in a way that the media itself cannot be free from giving severe secondary suffering to victims. The media should report sex crimes with more carefulness with recognizing its great power enough to conceptualize and shape public awareness towards sexual violence and victim-survivors. (Less)
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- author
- Choi, Hyokyung LU
- supervisor
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- Olof Beckman LU
- organization
- alternative title
- A thematic analysis of the Korean news paper coverages for three high-profile cases
- course
- MRSM15 20211
- year
- 2022
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Sexual violence, power-based sexual violence, victim-survivors, media framing, secondary victimization, #Me, Too, Korea
- language
- English
- id
- 9074405
- date added to LUP
- 2022-09-19 09:21:51
- date last changed
- 2022-09-19 09:21:51
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abstract = {{Sexual violence is ubiquitous. It occurs everywhere. Due to the very nature of sex crimes, however, victim-survivors from sexual violence are much more vulnerable from ‘secondary victimization’ which is also known as ‘post crime victimization’ or ‘double victimization.’ Given that people get common knowledge on human rights issues from newspapers, in particular online articles today, I focused on the role of media framing on this issue. Therefore, in this paper, I strived to answer two main research questions: (1) How do the Korean media coverage, especially newspapers, conceptualize sexual violence and frame public awareness towards victim-survivors? (2) How do they give a secondary victimization to victim-survivors? By conducting a thematic analysis of media coverages on three high-profile cases in Korea– Ahn Hee-jung; Oh Keo-don; Park Won-sun –, this paper identifies newspapers selectively choose specific types of headlines, specific language use for descriptors in describing perpetrators/victims, and the style of description for the case, which is based on their own focus and aims. Here, one important finding is that the ‘power imbalance’ derived from the sexual violence continues to the media coverage as illuminated in certain types of headlines, positive (+)/downgrading (–) descriptors for perpetrators/victims, and ‘perpetrator-centered’ highly detailed description of the case. It should be careful in a way that the media itself cannot be free from giving severe secondary suffering to victims. The media should report sex crimes with more carefulness with recognizing its great power enough to conceptualize and shape public awareness towards sexual violence and victim-survivors.}},
author = {{Choi, Hyokyung}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{"Are You a Victim for sure?" Media Framing on Sexual Violence and Secondary Victimization in Korea}},
year = {{2022}},
}