User:VickyZu101/Evaluate an Article

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Media and gender

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
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This article is closely related to my research topic, online news and gender disparity, for CS 115. Representation matters because the media shapes the world’s perception of gender by either reinforcing or challenging the stereotype. When I first paid attention to this issue and performed my own research, I interpreted gender only in a binary way and focused the underrepresentation of women in news media both as the subjects and the employees. However, when I read this article on Wikipedia, I discover that there are actually more underrepresented groups worthy of attention. Also, the mass media includes more formats such as film and advertisement other than online news. Therefore, this article serves as a kind of literature review and provides me with more perspectives to explore my research topic.

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In terms of the content, the leading section did not cover the part effects on youth. And this subtitle was out of my expectation and a little bit confusing when I skimmed through the content table. Instead, this section was meaningful and deserved to be introduced at the beginning. More specifically, some paragraphs or sentences may need further considerations on layout to be well-structured and coherent. For example, in the section Gender disparity in media careers, the second sentence shifts the focus from the gender proportion in media careers to the representation of men and women in media coverage. And the following sentences go back to the discussion about "media workplace." Therefore, I would recommend removing this sentence or adding more background information to strengthen its relationship to the gender inequality in the media industry. Similarly, in the part Domestication, the third paragraph was loosely related to the topic of domestication and blurred the previous concentration on professional and personal portrait by gender. In this case, I prefer to have an individual section regarding aging.

Admittedly, when the title of the article referred to "gender," the content heavily focused on women. It only briefly mentioned the representation of men and other gender minorities, which was far from enough. It was understandable that men, as the dominators and overrepresented groups, took up very little space here, because they were discussed merely for comparison. However, the representation of other minorities truly required higher notability on this page. Wikipedia also put a banner over that section to appeal for expansion. Besides the imbalance of certain sections, the page was overall pointing out the underrepresentation of women in media as a fact. Since the tone was basically calm and objective, I would not consider the content as biased. Among all of the cited sources, four links were not working. In the reference list at the bottom, the sources were cited in different ways: some put the name of author and the published date before the titles of articles while others left the publishers behind or missed out the dates, which were in fact available when I traced the source.

When I navigated to the view history and talk page, I felt surprised to find several recent edits. A detailed story about representation of transgenders was just added a month ago. This offered me strong confidence that this section would be expanded soon to address the concerns of imbalanced content. On the talk page, this article was listed in three projects, basically the gender studies and the media. Moreover, a bunch of students were working on this page as a part of their assignment. The up-to-date discussion was worth celebrating as it would finally bring gender issues in mass media to more people.