Celebrity Love Triangles：The News Representation of Women
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Huang, Ying-Ying
Abstract
The study aims to explore the news representation of women in the love triangle. How News texts present the love triangle becomes the important bridge of reflecting and deepening the social value. When the media report the love triangle, they usually distinguish the characters into perpetrators and victims. Since two- timing in the heterosexual relationship involves two genders, when the news discourse imputes the responsibility to a guilty one, it might be dealt with the gender power. Or, a news statement may construct a female two-timer into some stereotype which may also be one device to consolidate gender power difference.
The study uses the contextual analysis to examine the implied ideology in the print media. In many two-timing news, the research only selects seven celebrity news as study objects. Since only if the news figures are celebrities, the news statement will focus on the relationship. The main considerations of selecting these news stories from all two-timing news are for several reasons. The different genders as well as the married and unmarried couples involved in the two-timing relationships are the parameters of the selection. Besides, the prominence and the publication time are considered. Also, the characters include political and entertainment celebrities. For the above reasons, the seven celebrities’ stories are chosen at last.
The research method adopts van Dijk’s theory of news discourse analysis to analyze thirty news articles of the seven two-timing events. Results of this analysis indicate that the two-timing news articles are always narrated by the male’s viewpoints. Man is always the speaking subject. Through the sexualized discourse device, the women become symbolic representations. What’s more, the responsibility of taking the guilt is attributed not to the location of the triangular relationship but the gender roles. The results of the analysis show four domains of the gender myth, the motherhood myth, the beauty myth, the chastity myth and the mistress myth.
Subjects
REPRESENTAION
TWO-TIMING NEWS
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
FEMINISM
CELEBRITY
SDGs
Type
thesis
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