Women, Media, and Power in Indonesia

Title
Women, Media, and Power in Indonesia
Publication Date
2022
Author(s)
Ahlstrand, Jane
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1987-5099
Email: jahlstra@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jahlstra
Editor
Editor(s): Louise Edwards
Type of document
Book
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
London, United Kingdom
Edition
1
Series
Asian Studies Association of Australia: Women in Asia Series
DOI
10.4324/9781003083252
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/53120
Abstract

This book demonstrates the crucial link between gender and structures of power in democratic Indonesia, and the role of the online news media in regulating this relationship of power. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a theoretical framework, and social actor analysis as the methodological approach, this book examines the discursive representation of three prominent female Indonesian political figures in the mainstream Indonesian online news media in a period of social-political transition. It presents newfound linguistic evidence in the form of discourse strategies that reflect the women's dynamic relationship with power. More broadly, the critical analysis of the news discourse becomes a way of uncovering and evaluating implicit barriers and opportunities affecting women's political participation in Indonesia and other Asian political contexts, Indonesia's process of democratisation, and the influential role of the online news media in shaping and reflecting political discourse.

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ISBN
9781003083252
9780367537647
9780367537678

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