Phillips Mark, Mostofian Fargol, Jetly Rajeev, Puthukudy Nazar, Madden Kim, Bhandari Mohit
Department of Life Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, 293 Wellington St. N, Suite 110, Hamilton, ON, L8L 8E7, Canada.
BMC Womens Health. 2015 Jan 22;15:3. doi: 10.1186/s12905-015-0161-x.
On December 16, 2012 a 23 year old female was gang-raped on a bus in Delhi. We systematically reviewed professional online media sources used to inform the timing, breadth of coverage, opinions and consistency in the depiction of events surrounding the gang-rape.
We searched two news databases (LexisNexis Academic and Factivia) and individual newspapers for English-language published media reports covering the gang-rape. Two reviewers screened the media reports and extracted data regarding the time, location and content of each report. Results were summarized qualitatively.
We identified 534 published media reports. Of these, 351 met our eligibility criteria. Based on a time chart, the total number of reports published increased steadily through December, but plateaued to a steady rate of articles per day by the first week of January. Content analysis revealed significant discrepancies between various media reports. From the 57 articles which discussed opinions about the victim, 56% applauded her bravery, 40% discussed outrage over the events and 11% discussed cases of victim-blaming.
The global media response of the December 16th gang-rape in India resulted in highly inconsistent depiction of the events. These findings suggest that although the spread of information through media is fast, it has major limitations.
2012年12月16日，一名23岁女性在德里的一辆公交车上遭到轮奸。我们系统地回顾了用于了解轮奸事件相关报道的时间、报道范围、观点及事件描述一致性的专业在线媒体来源。
我们在两个新闻数据库（LexisNexis Academic和Factivia）以及各报纸中搜索关于此次轮奸事件的英文媒体报道。两名审阅者筛选媒体报道并提取每份报道的时间、地点及内容相关数据。结果进行定性总结。
我们识别出534篇已发表的媒体报道。其中，351篇符合我们的纳入标准。根据时间图表，12月期间发表的报道总数稳步增加，但到1月的第一周，每天发表的文章数量趋于稳定。内容分析显示不同媒体报道之间存在显著差异。在57篇讨论对受害者看法的文章中，56%赞扬了她的勇敢，40%讨论了对事件的愤怒，11%讨论了指责受害者的情况。
全球媒体对印度12月16日轮奸事件的反应导致对该事件的描述高度不一致。这些发现表明，尽管通过媒体传播信息速度很快，但存在重大局限性。
