Research Reports
Research Reports are indepth, often quantitative reports around our various programme areas.
Category: Children [REMOVE]
- Children’s Views Not in the News: Portrayal of Children in South African Print Media 2009
-
Monitoring conducted by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) in 2003 as part of the Empowering Children & the Media (ECM) strategy showed that only 6% of all news included children. The latest data to emerge from the ECM reveals that representation of children has improved, marginally, to 8.4% of all news monitored in 2009. The monitoring shows that not only are children’s issues frequently sidelined, but un-careful and unethical reporting often leads to further violations of their rights.
- Deadly silence - Media election coverage confirms disinterest in the welfare of children
-
With the exception of a handful of articles by some journalists, election coverage highlighting the serious issues faced by South African children has been extremely disappointing for its absence. In the previous weekly report, it was noted that in media’s role of holding government to account and informing citizens, it was particularly important for media to give voice to the concerns and opinions of the marginalised in society, as so often they remain silenced through powerlessness and political disinterest. It is even more important that media fulfil this role during an election period, when the need for information and potential for influence and change is the greatest.
- Media and the 16 Days Campaign 2006
-
The coverage of The 16 Days Campaign in Gauteng media coverage, including e-tv and SABC 3 prime time news, was reasonable good in most aspects. Some improvements could be made in terms of reporting on woman and child abuse.
- Media wise - children make the difference
-
The comprehensive research study proposed by the MMP, the first of its kind in South Africa, aimed to address the representation of children and children’s rights in the news media. The ECM project took place over a three-month period in 2003. A group of monitors reviewed print, radio and television media to identify trends in the portrayal of children in the news. In an exciting and innovative research approach, the MMP also sought the active participation of children, in order to understand their views and perceptions of children’s representation in the media. The MMP, together with Clacherty & Associates, an organisation that specialises in participatory work with children, co-developed the content and methodology of the participatory workshops. Clacherty & Associates facilitated the workshops, which were run with the children. As part of the process, the children engaged in a parallel monitoring project where they monitored the media for a two-week period. This was done so that the children could express their views directly and see for themselves how they are represented by the
- The Children’s Media Mentoring Project (CMMP) Report
-
The Media Monitoring Project pioneered a best practice approach to working with children as monitors and with journalists as mentors in a project called the Children’s Media Mentoring Project. MMP worked together with the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ) and Agência de Notícas dos Direitos da Infância (ANDI: a Brazilian news agency focused on children’s rights). This report describes the project activities and looks at The Star newspaper as a case study on the effectiveness of the MMP’s approach.
- Getting the best out of the media: Analysis of media coverage of the 16 Days of No Violence Against
-
The Media Monitoring Project (MMP) found an increase in the amount of coverage provided to the16 Days of Activism Campaign No Violence Against
Women and Children during 2005. The majority of South African media performed particularly well, in some crucial respects the media performed
better in comparison to the 16 Days of Activism Campaign in 2004.
- What Children Want: Children’s choices in programming
-
The Media Monitoring Project (MMP)’s research with children and media challenges a number of preconceived ideas about children’s programming, how it is understood, and how it should be regulated. The study aimed to give practical realisation to children’s right to participate in all matters that affect them, as outlined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The research was conducted as part of the MMP’s submission on the draft licence conditions of the SABC, and was supported by Save the Children Sweden. The findings have potentially far-reaching implications for ICASA, in line with the best interests of the child.
- Children: Dying to Make the News
-
The overall aim and objective of Empowering Children and Media project is to analyse the representation of children and children’s rights in the South African news media. This report serves as a baseline study that will enable the development of policies and strategies to address strengths and weaknesses in the coverage of children, as well as further the development of a human rights culture in the media, through training and advocacy initiatives.
Page 1 of 1 pages
Categories
Subscribe
Keep up to date with the latest MMA news and resources, delivered to your email inbox.
