Emily Boardman Ndulue is a Senior Researcher with the Media Cloud project the place she works to understand how stories move through the web media ecosystem. Sexist patterns of protection will proceed and ought to be referred to as out by politicians and the industry itself. That said, the media and politicians alike must adapt to a context where thoughtful reporting on fashion is acceptable and distinguishable from the normally sexist tropes.
As half of a bigger analysis project that appears at stories about the new Vice President in online news sources throughout the political spectrum, we particularly dug into how fashion was covered. Using the Media Cloud platform, we collected roughly 17,000 stories about Harris from 1,200 online news outlets published between Aug. 19, 2020, and April 30, 2021. (That’s the day President Biden introduced her as her running mate via the top of Biden’s first one hundred days …