Povolání novinářka: případová studie azerbajdžánských editorek

Bc. Eldar Valiyev

Master's thesis

Woman journalist in Azeri media: case study

Anotácia:

ABSTRACT This article is based upon research project “Woman journalist: case study of Azerbaijani female editors” implemented in Azerbaijan in May-November 2011 and designed to examine female editorial community that was omitted by the 2008 research “Professionalization of Azerbaijani Journalists in regard to ethical standards” where we provided typology of male editors of the largest nationwide newspapers in Azerbaijan. In this thesis we will examine developments of post-Soviet media system in Azerbaijan this time through the prism of female editors and will touch upon such processes as professionalization or respectively deprofessionalization as well as proletarization of journalists in Azerbaijan. The purpose of this research is to map ethical and value orientations of females working as editors of newspapers and magazines in Azerbaijan, provide their typology and highlight the gender based differences in Azerbaijani editorial community. The results of our research suggest that even though female editors are more experienced and professionally fit than their male colleagues they, being less lenient to break professional ethics, embrace a bystander role in political confrontation and thus select to lead independent or media outlets focusing on nonpolitical coverage of specific areas of knowledge. Another noteworthy result of the research is the finding that the extortionist journalism labeled by male editors as the product of the post-Soviet period actually existed long before the collapse of the USSR and its journalism system.

Abstract:

This article is based upon research project “Woman journalist: case study of Azerbaijani female editors” implemented in Azerbaijan in May-November 2011 and designed to examine female editorial community that was omitted by the 2008 research “Professionalization of Azerbaijani Journalists in regard to ethical standards” where we provided typology of male editors of the largest nationwide newspapers in Azerbaijan. In this thesis we will examine developments of post-Soviet media system in Azerbaijan this time through the prism of female editors and will touch upon such processes as professionalization or respectively deprofessionalization as well as proletarization of journalists in Azerbaijan. The purpose of this research is to map ethical and value orientations of females working as editors of newspapers and magazines in Azerbaijan, provide their typology and highlight the gender based differences in Azerbaijani editorial community. The results of our research suggest that even though female editors are more experienced and professionally fit than their male colleagues they, being less lenient to break professional ethics, embrace a bystander role in political confrontation and thus select to lead independent or media outlets focusing on nonpolitical coverage of specific areas of knowledge. Another noteworthy result of the research is the finding that the extortionist journalism labeled by male editors as the product of the post-Soviet period actually existed long before the collapse of the USSR and its journalism system.

Keywords

professionalization, Azerbaijanii female editors, journalistic profession, political instrumentalism, deprofessionalization, proletarization, extortionist newspapers, Press Council, Azerbaijan Journalists Union, Soviet media system, objectivity, unveiling, first Azerbaijani female journalist, mass media in Azerbaijan

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 30. 5. 2012

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 26. 6. 2012
• Vedúci: PhDr. Jaromír Volek, Ph.D.
• Oponent: Mgr. et Mgr. Marína Urbániková, Ph.D.

Masaryk University

Faculty of Social Studies

Master programme / odbor:
Media and Communication Studies / Media Studies and Journalism