Sloping "Tombstones": A Gender Studytudy Of Five Media Obituary Reports

In the scandal report,do different gender groups have a fair and balanced discourse resource? Inheriting the tradition of gender and media research,this paper takes gender as the core concept and examines the gender discourse performance of the anecdote report by means of content analysis and discourse analysis.Based on the research on the "The Paper" "JIE MIAN","The Beijing News","Southern Metropolis Daily" and "Caixin Weekly" anecdote,as a "life note",like the tombstone's anecdote report shows a tilted imbalance,its gender expression is complicated: there are both the reflection of traditional gender discrimination and stereotypes and the awakening of female subject consciousness,and there are still some divisions and distortions that reproduce and construct the image of female deceased.Specifically,there are significant differences in the opportunities for different gender groups to appear in the media.Women are regarded as marginalized minority,male deceased are “absent” in the education and medical industries,and female deceased“disappeared” in business and politics.At the same time,women's professional achievements and prestige receive less attention and presentation than men,women's social values ??and honors are more obscured;female deceased are presented with more dimensions and aspects of family life,tied to "good wife and good wife" The social expectation and gender stereotypes of the mother;the rumor report is more focused on the social commonsalization of the male deceased,and the male deceased shows more positive practice.In the title setting,the female anecdote report title more clearly highlights the gender characteristics,and more emphasis on the presentation of kinship;the rumor report discourse is relatively equal and balanced in reappearing the social value of the deceased,but "Iron Lady" The title refers to the female independent independence as the “masculine temperament” of “de-feminization”.At the same time,compared with the male deceased,it pays more attention to the appearance and body of the female,and the female deceased is absent from the connection with the narrative discourse of the national state.The private sector represented by the family and the public sphere represented by professional work form the two axes of the image of the female deceased.The women in the scandal report can be divided into the “rose” and “beauty” who are biased towards the family,while shouldering the family.Women who are burdened with business and creators of social achievements that focus on careers.As a news report,the scandal report is influenced by the reality and the value of the news value,but its differential treatment of male and female deceased in the professional field,family field,social relations field and gender discourse is still It shows its traditional gender stereotypes and stereotypes.