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Conflict Representations: Analyzing the Polarization of Men’s and Women’s Images in Romanian Media Coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian War
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Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyze according to what criteria the image of woman is reflected in the news regarding the Russian-Ukrainian war in the Romanian mass media using content analysis, critical discourse analysis and imagology as research methods. The starting point of our research is the compilation of a representative corpus of 750 news texts published in 2022, from which we will analyze those containing keywords referring to the female gender in the title in order to highlight the approach used in the media discourse to frame the image of women during military conflicts. In our analysis we will consider three main directions: (1) a representation of the image of the woman using the thematic classification and the concepts of front line, respectively homefront, (2) a polarization of the image of the woman compared to the image of the man, and (3) a panorama of the way in which the two belligerent states of Ukraine and Russia are reflected in the Romanian press from an ethnic and a gender outlook.
Keywords: women, Russian-Ukrainian conflict, image, polarization, Critical Discourse Analysis
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