Research On Media Violence From The Perspective Of Gender

The concern for the issue of media violence began in the1960s of the last century. With the popularity of television and mass media, people began to worry about that media violence could cause violent behavior in reality; the extent to which the influence of media violence exerted on children and adolescents became the focus of attention. During this period, researches on the effect of media violence became the dominant paradigm. When media increasingly penetrate into our daily lives and affected our perception, attitude and behavior, an important relevance between the media and public life has been constructed at the level of concepts and systems."Media survival" has become a new way of life, thus, we entered the "media society". As a result, the connotation of media violence has been expanded. Media itself, as the presenter of violent content which is considered objectified existence, has developed into a perpetrators, and the connotation of "media violence" extends to the hegemonic discourse and symbolic power (symbolic violence).The existing research mainly focuses on the negative impact of media violence on children or adolescents, as well as the argumentation whether there is correlation between media violence and real violence, but little research is conducted for other groups. In fact, media violence is often associated with gender, class, ethnicity, or a certain group. In modern society, almost everyone is subject to the discipline of the symbolic power of media and become a potential victim of media discourse/power. As a form of power implementation, media violence has become a kind of recessive violence against women and other vulnerable groups and classes.Typically, sex and violence are the content media go to great pains to present, and thus become one of the manifestations of media violence. Woman is often the ultimate object to whom sex and violence direct. Therefore, by studying the reproduction and representation of female image, this paper tries to reveal media violence reflected in power manipulation and competition, and reveals gender discipline, domination and "symbolic annihilation" implemented in the form of symbolic violence against women. Moreover, since women is a relatively weak social gender and class, and due to the stratum differentiation within women themselves, symbolic violence composed of media products and media culture imposes double oppressions of gender and class on women from the aspects of social consciousness and the symbolic power. This issue is especially worthy of academic consideration.This research is conducted mainly from three levels of the media texts (micro) media institutions (middle) and political field (macro) to analyze the gender stereotypes about women reproduced in media contents, the mechanism of gender power structure that media institutions reproduce. This dissertation also studies how media constructs a social gender order and implements the patriarchal culture and gender politics through the "agenda setting" function. Based on the critical stance of the media, social and cultural field, this article examines the impact on women and vulnerable segments of society imposed by media violence and ideological bias in the current media culture, and thus the replication and reproduction of social power structure and mainstream ideology are realized. By independent thinking, this study aims to trigger the reflection on the issues of gender equality and social justice from the critical perspective of cultural studies, in the hope that personal insights and views may promote the construction of gender communication and feminism theory in China, and have some implications for the realization of gender justice and cultural democracy.