Gendered Media Framing of Women Politicians in South African Presidential Elections

Tigere Paidamoyo Muringa created a dataset analyzing news coverage of women in South African presidential elections. The 18.4 KB DOCX file contains a content analysis of Independent Online, using framing and feminist theory to examine how media narratives portray female candidates. The dataset was last updated on June 1, 2026, and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing media bias and patriarchal gatekeeping based on the described framing of female candidates as culturally unfit to lead.
• Studying the application of cultural essentialism in political reporting based on the case study of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
• Training NLP models for detecting gendered framing in political news articles based on the described content analysis methodology.
• Comparative research on media representation of women in leadership across different African societies based on the described theoretical context.

Strengths

• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0, permitting broad reuse and adaptation.
• The analysis is grounded in specific theoretical frameworks (framing theory and feminist theory) as described.
• Focus is on a specific geographic and political context: South African presidential elections.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 18.4 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The data source is limited to a single news outlet (Independent Online), which may not represent the full media landscape.

Provenance

Source

Tigere Paidamoyo Muringa

Collection Method

Content analysis of news articles from Independent Online.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 05:36:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South Africa