Advances in Social Behavior Research
ASBR ICEIPI 2022, 03 March 2023
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A Framing Analysis of the Stigma on Chinese Internet towards Feminism: A Case Study on "Yang Li Incident" on Weibo
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Abstract
With the increasing number and development of social media platforms, more and more women begin to express their voices on these platforms. The voices on the internet are gradually considered to stir up confrontation between men and women. These voices have also becoming the evidence of view that "feminism attacking all male people". However, there is a lot of people are gaining advantage in the chaotic situation, or some of the events should not have risen to the issue of male-female confrontation or the "feminist" agenda. The orginal standpoint of "feminism" is for women to pursue equality, so that women can participate in social life equally and change the male hegemony, which is the embodiment of emancipating the mind. However, on social media, "feminism" has been once stigmatized as “female terrorism”. Therefore, this paper took the popular search text with the entry "Yang Li" on Weibo as an example to deconstruct how the confrontation framed and anti-framed “Yang li” and “feminism”. Based on the deconstuction, the paper concluded how the "feminism" on Weibo is stigmatized and what might the "feminism" do on the Internet in China.
Keywords
Stigma, Framing, Feminism., Internet
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