The Construction Study Of Female Images In Network News

With the development of the Western feminist movement,female consciousness is constantly awakening.Up to now,the worldwide feminist movement has experienced three tides.The first wave focused on the right to vote,the second wave was aimed at equal rights and the third wave focused on the global gender equality.A series of feminist movements for women won many achievements such as the right to vote,the equal rights,at the same time,feminist research went into people's vision.In the past,the research on female image focused on what presented by traditional media,but there were few female image reported by online news.The study of female image is the connotation of feminist media research,then the study of female image based on network coverage is the extension of feminist media research,and has profound theoretical and practical significance.In this essay,female image in Sina news and Tencent news is the study object.Selecting a time period of news reports as sample collection,and then analyzing the selected samples by the content analysis and text analysis.On the basis of statistics on the occupational classification of women's social roles,the frequency of family roles,the coverage of reports and the distribution of reports,it is concluded that the female image of Tencent News and Sina News did not get rid of the shackles of stereotypes and even strengthen.Then,through analyzing the samples selected from the Tencent News and Sina news,the author summed up the four typical female role image:demonized old women,selfish and selfless mother,injured female students,Struggling working girl.The author using these four typical female image as examples for gender role analysis,found that the female image reported in Tencent News and Sina News was distorted and alienated.The first reason is the interests of the network media driving.The second reason is that the traditional gatekeeper effect is weak in the network communication.The fundamental reason is that the network media is still under the dominance of male values,lack of correct gender awareness.The purpose of this paper is to study the deep reasons and give some constructive suggestions.