Impact Of Social Media On The Issue Of Gender Bias Essay

Being a woman in the sciences has already proven to be a struggle in some aspects. For instance, guys often double check my work or do not take me seriously because “girls don’t do science”. It makes it hard to feel confident in what I do and its sad that men often get all the credit. Shetterly’s story reiterated to me even more how men are those recognized, and even though the events of Hidden Figures were many decades ago, the same phenomenon persists

The words “ally,” “promise,” and “egalitarian” have no place in science. Virtuous though they may be, these words, all of which Janet Kourany uses to describe her ideal socially responsible science, besmirch science’s fundamental and essential impartiality. Though the argument that science has slighted women is undeniably true at certain points throughout our nation’s history, it does not justify the radical redefinition of science that Kourany proposes.

Questions for Rhetorical Analysis 1. What historical occasion gives rise to the need for investigation and the creation of this text? Gender Bias is being taught and occurs unintentionally in our schools. Teachers challenge boys more than girls. Sexism is so elusive, it is being taught every day and educators are not even aware they are doing it.

62% of people get their news off social media, but does social media give you all the information that news anchors do? Some news cast gives you everything on Black Lives Matter and some news cast gives you their opinion which can sometimes be biased. Most people read one news article and go on about their opinion on the subject, but if they went out and explored different news articles would they still have the same opinion?

The way in which information is presented to us is what leads to the comprehension and the understanding of a topic, but it can also affect the things we view as facts. Our main source of information comes from the media and it is what helps us gain a sense of the world we live in and the happenings around it, but sometimes it clouds our perception giving us a false sense of reality when it comes to news.

While the nation today is plagued with many a social injustice, one that continues to boggle my mind is that misogyny and the objectification of women is somehow still present. Barely 60 years ago (yes, your own grandmother probably was a victim of this overt sexism), gender bias was a completely acceptable, and often encouraged office practice. While this sort of sexism is not as prevalent in today’s work environment, it is important to remember that young men at work in the 1960’s who experienced and practiced this overt gender bias are the men who grew up to found and run companies that many young people work at today. It is completely ignorant to even say that these sorts of biases are extinct, as they died out due to fear of lawsuits

Science knows no gender as predominant, yet some astute minds believe that women are inferior, acting solely as the men’s impuissant counterpart. During the Scientific Revolution in the 17th and 18th century, women’s contributions to science were largely overlooked by supposedly more radical male scientists such as Galileo and Newton. The controversy circumventing their revelations drew more attention than lesser-known scientists, especially women. Women who scour evidence for their findings remain disputed for inaccuracies not for their content, but for their gender. The stigma against women in scientific fields during the Scientific Revolution revolved around a domestic, passive lifestyle behind their husbands. Thus, women’s participation

Gender bias, also known as sexism, is a full of attitudes, laws, taboos, preferences, and behaviors that differentiates and discriminates against either sex. These may be a position of which male dominance and female subjugation in the modern society. It could also be a form of sexual stereotypes between men and women, these are commonly experienced in employment versus other positions. A final place that discrimination is faced is the academic environment, the female to male ratios are not in sync in certain programs and courses because of this and it is pressuring men and women to not go into certain fields and do what they love and please. Most advertisements on Television, magazines, newspapers, online ad’s, use a charged sexually image with a female as the star. Women are to be a pleasure for men, and nothing else. Many people have different opinions on genders and sexuality and that is okay, but sometimes you just need to keep them to yourselves.

Control Room places an emphasis on an Arab news network’s coverage of the war between Iraq and the United States that began in 2003; the news network is known as Al Jazeera. This news network was founded in 1996, and had been called by the Bush administration “the mouthpiece of Osama bin Laden” (Noujaim, 2004). From what this film had depicted, the viewer can see that Al Jazeera is a news network worthy of attention, and not only because of its controversial topics, but because of the information it releases to the rest of the world that most do not regularly see due to biases within news media outlets. Because it appears clear that biases are imminent within the film, I had become more interested in how and why Al Jazeera had become such a tainted name within the industry and under fire for the information they bring to the masses.

Three things happen when they are in the lab; You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticize them, they cry.” His comments were tweeted by Connie St Louis, who directs the science journalism program at City University, London. She commented, “Really, does this Nobel laureate think we are still in Victorian times?” (Ratcliff). Despite numerous education initiatives, the number of women in science laboratories has remained low, only 13%. However, the researchers in the following pictures show that female biologists are as competent as male biologists and they research harder than them to break through the old perceptions like Tim Hunter’s.

As our generation has been exposed by “fake news” it has caused misconception of racism, deception and controversies. We are so dependent on social media on a daily basis, so called “fake news”, has deceived us by informing us with inaccurate information so they are able to make us to look at things that will benefit them or support their side on controversial topics. By doing so our society is unable to identify what is “real news” or “fake news.”

The internet is an amazing outlet to receive media and news. But that has come at the cost of the credibility of the news as well. News is so rapid and expansive at this point, anyone can become involved with journalism. You can become knowledgeable on events in places you have never heard of or visited before in your life. Like with any technology, the internet can be abused. People can gain access to the internet and technology to produce content on the internet easily now. I see both sides of the issue and why both sides have concerns about the other. Some journalist is concerned because they want the integrity of the news to remain high. They want to make sure that nothing, but the facts are being reported. While others think that its people buying into the medias paranoia. Well let’s look at both sides of the issue

News media, the most influential tool in modern society, is ethically required to produce fair depictions of issues and events, however, they often fail to convey unbiased reporting. In an attempt to manipulate and evoke specific reactions from the audience, text structures and language features are utilised to express perceptions and this presentation will explore how these have been incorporated into a media text. The article, Rebel Wilson wages war against Kendall and Kylie Jenner by Jessica Hickam, was published in sheknows on the 11th of November 2015 to deliver details of the ‘war’ between Australian Comedian, Rebel Wilson, and the Jenner sisters.

In his article, “Does Gender Matter?”, Ben A. Barres writes about the apparent absence of women in the science, technology, engineering, and math fields. He starts out the article by informing the reader about a few of the hypotheses that aim to explain this difference in presence, hypotheses that Barres aims to disprove. Barres explains, and at a few points depicts with charts and graphs, the significance of the gap between the amount of white men in the STEM majors and fields of studies and the amount of women and minorities in these same areas. He tell the readers the misconceptions such as the idea that women are inferior in these fields are untrue, and the fact is that woman and minorities are discouraged from entering into these areas

Gender affects every aspect of our life, from how we feel about ourselves and set our goals in educational, recreational and work opportunities as well as the the nature and extent of our participation in social and civic life. It has a strong impact on the way we practice our religion, the way we dress, the way we express our feelings and the nature of all of our relationships with others.