GENDER DOMINATION IN LOCAL NEWSPAPERS

Abstract

<p>This study was held at Fajar and Tribun Timur offices in Makassar. This research is described<br />through texts, discourse practice, and socio-cultural practice by using CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis) from<br />Norman Faircloughs’ model. The model includes textual level, discourse practice level, and socio-cultural<br />practice level. The type of this research is qualitative approach. This approach tries to get closer to what is being<br />studied, that is gender domination in Fajar and Tribun Timur daily newspapers. It aims at in-depth and holistic<br />understanding of gender domination in newspapers. Its flexibility is well suited to make interpretation to<br />describe the facts and the phenomena of gender in newspapers as the way they are based on the data found. The<br />research aims; to identify the domination of gender in Fajar and Tribun Timur daily newspapers, to analyse how<br />gender dominations are expressed in those daily newspapers, and to analyse the effect of gender domination on<br />news stories in those newspapers. The result of this research shows that Fajar and Tribun Timur daily are still<br />male dominated discourse in the news-making process which influences the news stories printed in those<br />newspapers. Gender domination in Fajar and Tribun Timur daily newspapers as a discourse has been proven to<br />affect our views on news stories text, news stories production, and socio-cultural practices.</p>