Indonesia Mass Media Are Males: The news coverage of "Bakmi Janda" noodle eatery

DOI

10.2991/icss-18.2018.70How to use a DOI?

Keywords

male gaze; sexual objectification; women and media; Indonesia mass media

Abstract

This research focuses on how male gazing are practiced by Indonesia mass media when they report the opening of “Bakmi janda”, a noodle eatery that is identically with separated women or widows. The author observed, it should be culinary genre that is supposed to discuss a lot of culinary products and processes, but they are distracted because the word widow is use as a commodity by the stall owner. The media in its coverage actually builds discourse on widows and sexual pleasure offered. The author uses a discourse analysis tool developed by Teun A. Van Dijk to see how the media builds it up. The result showed that three online news portal Indonesia: Jawapos.com, tribunnews.com using the perspective of men (male gaze) in the news production process, which ultimately led to the sexual objectification of women widows.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Putri Aisyiyah Rachma Dewi
AU  - Vinda Maya Setianingrum
AU  - Ms Mutiah
PY  - 2018/10
DA  - 2018/10
TI  - Indonesia Mass Media Are Males: The news coverage of "Bakmi Janda" noodle eatery
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 344
EP  - 346
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icss-18.2018.70
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