(Re)victimization, misinformation, and naturalization of gender-based violence in the news coverage of femicide: an integrative review of literature analyzing evidence from 38 countries

Studies on news reporting of femicide have consistently found discriminatory discourses. This work is an integrative literature review aiming at theory development, providing a comparative analysis of the literature analyzing news media in 38 countries. We propose a concept of discursive (re)victimization, incorporating the notion of misinformation, and creating a typology. The corpus for analysis consists of 119 research articles indexed in databases Scopus, Web of Science, and EBSCOHost. The methodology used Latent Dirichlet Allocation and qualitative content analysis. The results advance the understanding of how patriarchal mainstream discourses work at transnational and multicultural levels, benefiting the naturalization of gender-based violence. Hence, it provides sound evidence that discursive (re)victimization is frequent in global journalism practices.