Bethany Pitchford

ORCID: 0000-0002-2637-6933
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Research Areas
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Mind wandering and attention
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Sports, Gender, and Society
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Art Therapy and Mental Health
  • Psychiatric care and mental health services

Texas Tech University
2019-2020

This article reports the results of a qualitative media framing analysis news coverage about #MeToo in four national contexts: United States, Japan, Australia, and India. Comparing woman who became associated with each country reveals frames: brave silence breaker, stoic victim an unjust system, recovered or reluctant hero, hysterical slut. By identifying these frames, their cultural variations, we add to understanding as international social movement that has crossed barriers.

10.1177/0196859919865254 article EN Journal of Communication Inquiry 2019-08-13

Adolescents with a diagnosable mental health disorder must often first disclose their problems to parent in order obtain professional treatment. The decision private, personal information is the result of successful progression through disclosure decision-making processes fraught barriers that can discourage disclosure; therefore, current study explored adolescents' perceptions factors facilitate or parents. Thematic analysis series focus groups adolescents and without discovered several...

10.1080/10410236.2020.1839201 article EN Health Communication 2020-10-26

This constructionist framing analysis identified media frames in news coverage of four tenured professors, two men and women, accused sexual harassment at research-intensive universities: Jorge Dominguez (Harvard), Coleman Hutchison (University Texas), Avital Ronell (New York University), Teresa Buchanan (Louisiana State University). The following frames, some which were distinctly gendered, the professors: Little Boys Being Bad; Academic Power Players; Treacherous Stay-Away-Froms; Eccentric...

10.1177/0196859920977118 article EN Journal of Communication Inquiry 2020-12-06

This study identified the dominant frames in news coverage of three lawyers – Lisa Bloom, Susan Estrich, and Tina Tchen who have repeatedly self-identified as feminists yet sided with accused harassers abusers trying to smear names women sharing their stories. In our analysis how journalists constructed meaning around this apparent contradiction, we found four frames: Traitors, Gears Factories Complicity, Sellouts, Blemished Justice Warriors. These showed that journalists' making mostly...

10.1080/15456870.2024.2344458 article EN Atlantic Journal of Communication 2024-04-22
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