MEANING
Controlling who can gain access to resources, opportunities, information or membership.
Use it for
describing who controls entry to a profession; examining exclusion from opportunities; analyzing editorial selection and access; showing how an institution filters participationNames control over access to resources, opportunities or participation, including the power to exclude. Writing functions: Analysis / Interpretation.
Words that belong together
- institutional gatekeeping
- editorial gatekeeping
- gatekeeping practices
On the page
Unpaid internships can function as gatekeeping when only affluent applicants can afford to participate.
The study compares editorial gatekeeping with the less visible ranking decisions of online platforms.
Word forms
- Base
- gatekeeping
Usage notes
Usually uncountable as a process noun. Established noun referring to control of access; not a newly added ordinary inflection of a matching verb. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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