When I searched the exact meaning of the word “media”, I found that it is a means to send messages to people with an aim of increasing information or as a way of communication. Then many questions came to my mind. Message of what? Message of who? To whom? What kind of a message? Where are the messages? Who should send messages and how? Then after a while I came back to the reality and looked at the impact of media on the society and again asked myself if it is really an instrument that everybody has an access to it to send her message? A laud voice answered me from my inside: “Of course NOT”! Do you think media have helped women to send their messages to the society? Media have always been destroying women’s image about their body; it reduced their role on the life only as good cookers, the best care-givers to children and the elderly, persons that only think about polishing of their nails and their make-up…! As Xiao-hui and Min (2010) say in their article about media and women: “In the contemporary information-globalized society, with the explosion of the mass media, the status of women as the subjects in mass media, has been improving increasingly. Under the surface of the more discourse power women have got during transmission, conceal the weakness and marginalization of discourse power for women, the media subjects, especially in decision-making or hard news. Actually, the truth of gender inequality has been hidden under the apparent prosperity”.
I am going to focus on media and women.
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