Hegemony Masculinity in Online Media News Coverage

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10.2991/assehr.k.200818.057How to use a DOI?

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Abstract

The role of the mass media in the dissemination of information has become very important in this digital era, including news about sports competitions. However, sport still has gender issues which then distinguish the presence of male athletes and female athletes. This problem also occurs regarding to the coverage of athletes in the mass media. Framing by the media can influence readers about their views on certain athletes. Thus, the researcher wants to do a content analysis of male and female athletes’ news in online media to find out whether the media encourages gender issues, namely hegemony of masculinity. In addition, researchers also want to find out whether there is a difference in the amount of news between male athletes and female athletes. Using quantitative methods, researchers analyzed a sample of 62 news of Indonesian male and female athletes who won the Indonesia Masters 2020 gold medal on the Indonesian news portal sites. The results showed that even though the gender description categories tended to be the same, 14 of the 26 gender-specific descriptors used indicated that there was still a tendency of the hegemony of masculinity in the media.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Puti Nadhira
AU  - Fitria Angeliqa
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/19
TI  - Hegemony Masculinity in Online Media News Coverage
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Jogjakarta Communication Conference (JCC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 245
EP  - 248
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200818.057
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200818.057
ID  - Nadhira2020
ER  -