Framing the Victim: Domestic Violence, Media, and Social Problems [Paperback]

Whether you are drawn to this book because of an interest in media, social problems, or domestic violence, reading it will help you better understand the impact media stories have on our perceptions of social problems. That is how Nancy Berns introduces her book. It is a work that unabashedly examines not only domestic violence, but also the larger picture of how politics and processes shape our responses to social problems. Framing the Victim also distinguishes serious research from media, which promote entertainment, empowerment, and drama.Framing the Victim illustrates how victims of domestic violence are framed by the dominant media perspectives focused on them and falsely blamed for a crime committed by someone else. Berns critiques the stories that emerge when social problems are shaped by guidelines that promote entertainment, victim empowerment, inspiration and politics.1: Zooming In (and Out) on Social Problems; 2: The Landscape of Domestic Violence and the Publics Narrow Picture; 3: I Get My Experience from the Media: Using Media to Understand Social Problems; 4: Womens Magazines: The Victim Empowerment Frame; 5: Social Problems As Inspiration, Entertainment, and Emotion: Womens Magazines and Other Entertainment Media; 6: Mens and Conservative Political Magazines: The Antifeminist Frame; 7: Liberal Political Magazines: The Social Justice Frame; 8: Framing the Victim; 9: In Search of a New Social Problem about ViolenceUSCopyright ? 2004 Taylor & Francis.