Media Bound Culture of Women’s Identity and Desire

As the first female president in Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen’s actions and words are crucial to the advancement of gender equality within the Chinese patriarchal society. Likewise, the media also have a role in shaping gender discourse which may or may not support the president’s attempt at empowering women in politics and other sectors of life. This paper examined the linguistic strategy used by President Tsai to represent herself as a strong female leader through her official statements and how the media represented her in their reports. The data were collected from local news reports and international news portals, and from her speeches as quoted by the media, starting from the year she was elected in 2016 to 2018. Using Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis, it was apparent that President Tsai struggled with her role as a female leader in politics, with critics from persisting patriarchal society and pressure from emerging new values in Taiwan. The media, on the other hand, was divided in making representations for and against Tsai. The conclusion of this research is hoped to give a general description of gender and political dynamics under the new era of Tsai Ing-wen.

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Das várias linguagens do poder contemporâneo: feminismos, neoliberalismo e jornalismos * From the various languages of contemporary power: feminisms, neoliberalism and journalism

História e Cultura ◽

10.18223/hiscult.v4i1.1488 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 96

Author(s):

JULIANA SOUZA

Keyword(s):

Gender Studies ◽

Media Discourse ◽

Social Phenomenon ◽

Institutional Discourse ◽

Power Structures ◽

Patriarchal Society ◽

Neoliberal Economics ◽

The Media ◽

And Gender ◽

Representations Of Women

Resumo: No presente artigo, busco problematizar a reflexão sobre os feminismos, tal como hoje se encontram organizados na economia neoliberal, na difusão de seus referenciais emancipatórios e na desconstrução das representações convencionais das mulheres. Procurarei identificar em que medida os feminismos e as identidades das mulheres vêm sendo (re)produzidas e reforçadas pelo discurso institucional. Em particular, esta análise permitir-nos-á também refletir como a “linguagem do pós-feminismo”, apropriada, sobretudo, pela mídia, pode ser observada e interpretada como um fenómeno social que envolve tanto as estruturas de poder como as lógicas identitárias de uma sociedade patriarcal de consumo.Palavras-chave: Linguagem; Estudos das Mulheres e de Género; Identidades e Representações; Neoliberalismo; Discurso Mediático. Abstract: In this article, I discuss the reflection on feminisms, as today are organized in neoliberal economics, in disseminating their emancipatory frameworks and in the deconstruction of conventional representations of women. I will seek to identify the extent to which feminism and women's identities are being (re)produced and reinforced by institutional discourse. In particular, this analysis allows us to also reflect how the "language of post-feminism", appropriate, especially by the media, can be observed and interpreted as a social phenomenon involving both power structures as the logical identity of a patriarchal society of consumption.Keywords: Language; Women's and Gender Studies; Identities and Representations; Neoliberalism; Media Discourse.

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Dance Activism and Media Market: Jampi Gugat

Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings ◽

10.1017/cor.2016.46 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2016 ◽

pp. 344-354

Author(s):

Sekar Sari

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Developing Country ◽

Campaign Strategy ◽

Global Era ◽

Key Points ◽

Art And Culture ◽

The Media ◽

Cultural Movement ◽

Media Market

Jampi Gugat is a case study of dance activism particularly through flash mob. The movement configuration and music accompaniment clearly reflect the idea and concept of local wisdom as an alternative trend and solution in the global era. One of the key points for the success of Jampi Gugat is related to the campaign strategy regarding the media market in Indonesia, the world's third largest democracy and a developing country that tends to prioritize political-economy development rather than art and culture, including dance. Hence, the involvement of stakeholders: government, event organizers, artists, and communities, as well as their interaction, to formulate and deliver some value to society are deemed essential to create a sustainable cultural movement.

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Women in the media

Pacific Journalism Review – Te Koakoa ◽

10.24135/pjr.v1i1.517 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 23-29

Author(s):

Anna Solomon

Keyword(s):

Papua New Guinea ◽

Work Force ◽

New Guinea ◽

Senior Management ◽

The Media ◽

Male Dominated ◽

Media Work

As with everything else in Papua New Guinea, the media work force is male-dominated. However, this pattern is now changing with many more women making a career in communication and gradually moving into middle and senior management.

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Islamic Education in Qom

Acta Orientalia ◽

10.5617/ao.7370 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 69 ◽

pp. 35-75

Author(s):

Frida A. Nome ◽

Kari Vogt

Keyword(s):

Structural Changes ◽

Work Force ◽

Islamic Education ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

Islamic State ◽

Islamic Theology ◽

Modern Learning ◽

The Media ◽

Learning Institutions ◽

Islamic Society

This article examines contemporary developments within the sector of Islamic education in Qom since the establishment of the Islamic state in 1979. It concludes that the structural changes have been wideranging, encompassing a bureaucratization of the houze (Islamic seminaries) as well as a strengthening of the cooperation and competition between 'traditional' and 'modern' learning institutions. The ancient houze system has been supplemented with a diversified body of new Islamic teaching centres, officially aiming at a modernized education for contemporary Islamic society. The changes have increased the institutional capacity to educate both male and female tollab (students of Islamic theology), and to furnish them with academic degrees. This has contributed to shaping a work force which takes up positions within the media, judiciary, bureaucracy, and the educational institutions of the Islamic state. It has furthermore shaped a generation of preachers and propagators, who work to spread thestate's vision of Islam.

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The digital carceral: Media infrastructure, digital cultures and state surveillance in post-Arab Spring Morocco

International Journal of Cultural Studies ◽

10.1177/1367877919842575 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 245-263

Author(s):

Annemarie Iddins

Keyword(s):

Arab Spring ◽

Subsequent Evolution ◽

Digital Rights ◽

Global Era ◽

State Surveillance ◽

The Media ◽

Media Systems ◽

Media And Communication ◽

Digital Cultures ◽

Important Site

This paper analyzes Moroccan discourses around media infrastructures and their intersection with carceral culture, taking up Mamfakinch’s responses to state-sponsored spyware attacks and judicial harassment as symbolic of shifting imaginaries of the digital. This work is situated within a growing subset of the media and communication literature on media infrastructures, which works to connect the materiality of media systems with everyday media cultures, practices and power. Mamfakinch’s experience with spyware and subsequent evolution into a digital rights organization are indicative of attempts to transfer a lingering carceral culture into digital spaces and a shift in state and activist internet imaginaries. In a global era and as part of a hypersurveillant state, Mamfakinch demonstrates how the digital becomes an increasingly important site for the surveillance and policing of dissent while presenting new modes of publicness and activism that directly challenge those endeavors.

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Suicide in older adults: a comparison with middle-aged adults using the Queensland Suicide Register

International Psychogeriatrics ◽

10.1017/s1041610216001848 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 419-430 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Yu Wen Koo ◽

Kairi Kõlves ◽

Diego De Leo

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Age Groups ◽

Work Force ◽

Middle Aged ◽

Suicide Rates ◽

Gender And Age ◽

Somatic Illness ◽

The Media ◽

Psychiatric Conditions ◽

Middle Aged Adults

ABSTRACTBackground:Globally, suicide rates increase with age, being highest in older adults. This study analyzed differences in suicides in older adults (65 years and over) compared to middle-aged adults (35–64 years) in Queensland, Australia, during the years 2000–2012.Methods:The Queensland Suicide Register was utilized for the analysis. Annual suicide rates were calculated by gender and age group, and odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals were examined.Results:In Queensland, the average annual rate of suicides for older adults was 15.27 per 100,000 persons compared to 18.77 in middle-aged adults in 2000–2012. There were no significant changes in time trends for older adults in 2002–2012. Suicide methods differed between gender and age groups. Older adults who died by suicide were more likely to be male, widowed, living alone or in a nursing home, and out of the work force. The prevalence of untreated psychiatric conditions, diagnosed psychiatric disorders, and consultations with a mental health professional three months prior to death was lower in older adults than middle-aged adults. Somatic illness, bereavement, and attention to suicide in the media were more common among older adults than middle-age adults. Older females were particularly more likely to pay attention to suicide in the media.Conclusion:Our findings show older adults who died by suicide were more likely to experience somatic illnesses, bereavement, and pay attention to suicide in the media compared to middle aged. Preventing suicide in older adults would therefore require holistic and comprehensive approaches.

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Pola Pemahaman Hadis Partisipan Kegiatan One Day One Hadis dalam Whatsapp

ISLAM TRANSFORMATIF Journal of Islamic Studies ◽

10.30983/it.v4i1.2661 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Jendri Jendri

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Empty Space ◽

Global Era ◽

Library Research ◽

Deductive Method ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The Media ◽

The Many ◽

The Impact

The purpose of this study is to find out and explain the concept of understanding of hadith in one day one hadith in whatsap which includes the understanding of hadith material. The emergence of One Day One Hadith (ODOH) itself only exists in contemporary times now, because it is the effect of the rapid development of technology and information and communication that is increasingly sophisticated. Especially in the media of Whatsaap there is a textualist (closed), hermeneutic, and contextualist understanding of the Prophet's hadith, so that the message or message conveyed can be disseminated and practiced. Whatsaap is one of the many social media that can communicate anything to humans in various regions, especially information about the hadith. This study is based on the assumption that the dynamics of hadith studies in the global era and social media dias are at least the impact of the emergence of traditions contained in whatsaap. The birth of one day one hadith effort itself is at least not departing from an empty space. Socially the system adopted in one day one hadith (ODOH) has given its own color for Indonesia, especially Muslims. With the step of spreading the hadith one day one hadith, the point is to make it easier to find and understand the hadith. Therefore, further analysis and study of the concept of understanding in one day one hadith in whatsap in the current era. This research uses a type of library research (lebrary research) that is research by collecting data and studying books or library literature related to this discussion. Then in data management using descriptive and analysis methods (content analysis). Whereas in drawing conclusions using the deductive method in which the collected data is processed systematically and selectively, then conclusions are drawn which are the results of the study. The results of this study indicate that the hadith lives up to the end of time, in understanding it it is necessary to use various concepts of understanding including textual, hermeneutic, and contextual, so that in understanding the hadith is not confusing when dealing with problems in contemporary times now.

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Menjadi Perempuan Tambak Lorok: Konstruksi Gaya Hidup Perempuan Muslim Pesisir

JSW Jurnal Sosiologi Walisongo ◽

10.21580/jsw.2018.2.2.2731 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 149

Author(s):

Ririh Megah Safitri

Keyword(s):

Cultural Values ◽

Muslim Women ◽

Influential Factors ◽

Influential Factor ◽

Adaptation Process ◽

Crucial Issue ◽

Religious Background ◽

Women's Identity ◽

The Media ◽

Physical Elements

Identity and existence become a crucial issue lately, both in the factual context even cyberspace (cyber society). In this context lifestyle construction is the main issue to analysis the coastal Muslim women's identity. The study of the lifestyle construction of coastal Muslim women uses qualitative methodologies to obtain a comprehensive meaning regarding lifestyle. There are several influential factors in the process of forming individual lifestyles. The first one is the cultural, social and religious background that has been internalized in each individual through cultural values and social norms. The second factor is the environment where individuals live and socialize with the other society. In this context, the physical elements which include geographical, topographic and climate appearance are the main influences on the construction of individual lifestyles related to the adaptation process. Another influential factor is the media that the content is a lifestyle preference. Based on these factors, this study will focus on three points, there is the perception of coastal women on lifestyle, factors that influence the process of lifestyle construction and the meaning of coastal Muslim women’s lifestyle. There are three conclusions in this study regarding the hidden goals in consumption activities refer to saving material, representation of social status through lifestyle and indicators of self-existence.

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The Construction of Terror Communicating of ISIS News In Social Media

ESENSIA Jurnal Ilmu-Ilmu Ushuluddin ◽

10.14421/esensia.v19i1.1490 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 97

Author(s):

Ellys Lestari Pambayun

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Spoken Language ◽

Physical World ◽

Advanced Technology ◽

Economic Pressure ◽

Global Era ◽

Terrorist Groups ◽

The Media ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

Global era with its advanced technology has provided small terrorist groups a powerful instrument—social media which is intentionally or unintentionally used to serve their interest. As believed, the terrorist does their action by giving significant impact to publicity. As a terrorist organization, ISIS realized the potentials of social media-oriented terror, in terms of its effectiveness in reaching huge audiences. The spread of the ideology, which is called jihadi virus, is limited in the physical world, however it is possible to spread within social media regardless of time and space. Discursive framework method in constructivism paradigm has led to a conclusion that reality constructed in social media such as twitter, facebook, whatsApp, BBM, path, and other applications are carefully planned in a form of disinformation tactics (propaganda), economic pressure, socio-cultural, and ideology. The impact of social media reveals interesting results that ISIS has formed symbolizations and image changes and raised attention towards the issue. In communication terrorism Joseph Turman’s approach, as one of constructionist approach, it analyzed that ISIS actions are rhetorical actions (such what messages are conveyed, whether it is a persuasive meaning and symbols that appear; acts of terrorism that is produced and delivered to the wider world; elements of rhetoric including labels, definitions, and symbolism in terrorism; public orator about terrorism; and the relationship between terror and the media), in both written and spoken language, there is always possibility for manipulation and receptive communication.[Era global dengan perkembangan teknologinya seakan telah memberi kelompok teroris suatu instrumen yang kuat- media sosial secara sengaja atau pun tidak sengaja untuk melayani hasrat mereka. Bahkan diyakini lebih dari itu, tindakan teroris sendiri tidak akan berdampak bila tidak terpublikasi secara luas. Organisasi teroris ISIS sangat menyadari potensi media sosial sebagai sarana yang dapat diorientasikan pada aksi-aksi teror mereka, dengan kata lain secara efektif untuk meraih audiens yang besar. Media sosial seperti tweeter, facebook, whatsapp, BBM, path, ipad, dan aplikasi jaringan lainnya tampaknya memang mampu mempromosikan perbuatan-perbuatan mereka secara efektif. Dampak lintas media sosial mengungkapkan hasilnya bahwa ISIS mampu memainkan simbolisasi dan citra dan meningkatkan tensi kepentingan pada isu-isu seputar mereka. Melalui “teori Communicating Terorrism” yang dilahirkan Joseph Turman (2010) menjelaskan bahwa aksi-aksi ISIS bisa dikatakan lebih dari tindakan retorika (sebagai suatu simbol-simbol dan pesan-pesan), yang mereka tuliskan dan ungkapkan melalui bahasa yang penuh makna, yang berpotensi selalu manipulatif dan komunikasi yang reseptif. Penyebaran ideologi, sebagai apa yang kita sebut sebagai virus jihad, yang terbatas pada dunia nyata, tapi melalui media sosial isa menjadi keluarga dan teman tanpa batas ruang dan waktu, membantu memperluas landasan dan percepatan radikalisasi dan perekrutan angota teroris.]

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