| With the rapid development of science, technology and social productivity, human society is stepping into the information age at very fast speed, with the network as its representative. The traditional media, like newspaper, broadcasting, TV, are losing their monopoly status in the press under the impact of the Internet, which is a new medium as a combination of words, sounds and images. The dignitarial status and discursive supremacy of the cultural elite is being deconstructed and shared, and the Internet is becoming the plaza of "raznorechie, heteroglossia". Under such circumstances, is the tradition of "men, the centre; women, the other" changing with the advent of the Internet?Just based on the situation mentioned above, the thesis tries to make a parallel comparative study of the different representations of women's discursive power and subjectivity in the traditional media and on the new medium, the Internet, respectively. Through expatiating the different roles of women as the disseminators, the audience, and the images in media, the thesis tries to execute a lengthways study of the fact that with the development of the age, and with the appearance of the Internet, the status of women is being elevated. At the same time, the thesis discloses that women marginalization online still exists. Nevertheless, the particularities of the Internet have also provided women with some spheres overlooked by the patriarchal culture. And the Internet thus becomes the platform of women pursuing their own discursive power and improving their own subjectivity, which ensures women de-marginalization a little auroral light of hope. Following the transition from the traditional media to the Internet, the thesis puts great emphasis on women marginalization and de-marginalization online and discloses that the Internet not only offers women a platform to pursue freedom and equality, and to seek for female independence in the sense of technology, but makes women succeed in contributing...
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