Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)

The Representation of Female College Students in Chinese Internet Media

Authors
Hanwen Ye1, *, Mengjie Liu2, Shuo Li3, Xinran Qu3
1Department of Foreign Language, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China
2School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, 100089, China
3Shenzhen International Foundation College, Shenzhen, 694041, China
*Corresponding author. Email: 743570677@qq.com
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Hanwen Ye
Available Online 30 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_344How to use a DOI?
Keywords
female college students; Internet media; women's roles
Abstract

To investigate how female college students are represented in media portrayals, the authors explore the rhetoric and reality surrounding female college students in China through a content analysis of Internet media. The study explains the potential ideologies behind the media's portrayal from 359 Chinese language news articles produced by the Chinese Internet media, including 10 Chinese mainstream media outlets , whose reporting is officially sanctioned. The findings show that media’ biased identity framing of the Chinese female college students as a negative image, which emphasizes the identity of being emotionally sensitive, vulnerable, superficial and material. The representations of female college students potentially imply the ideologies of traditional patriarchy, which reflect and shape Chinese womanhood within the Chinese sociocultural context.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
30 December 2022
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_344
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_344How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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