Missing white woman syndrome

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Missing white woman syndrome (Mwws) literally means missing white woman syndrome. This phrase describes the disproportionately intensive reporting of the mass media , especially television, in which missing cases of young, white women or girls from the middle class are treated. The syndrome can be assigned to the field of social psychology . The PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill is considered to be the founder of the phrase that found its way into US media sociology.

literature

  • Emeline Fort, Dakota Stevens: Missing White Woman Syndrome (Mwws) Cases in the UK, Japan, and the Iraq War . 6 Degrees Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-240-05931-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Goede: Journalistic story-telling on the test bench. TELI eV, February 26, 2011, accessed on January 6, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Tara McKelvey: Cleveland abductions: Do white victims more attention get? BBC News Magazine, May 9, 2013, accessed January 6, 2014 .
  3. ^ Cory L. Armstrong: Media Disparity: A Gender Battleground . Lexington Books, 2013, ISBN 978-0-7391-8188-1 , pp. 21 ( google.com ).
  4. ↑ Keno Verseck : Murder of a Policewoman: New Wave of Roma Hate in Hungary. SPIEGEL Online, August 27, 2012, accessed January 6, 2014 .