Media Construction of Moral Shaming of Women in South Korea and China

• Thesis title in Czech: Mediální konstrukce morálního ponížení žen v Jižní Koreji a Číně
• Thesis title in English: Media Construction of Moral Shaming of Women in South Korea and China
• Key words: Slut-shaming, Feminismus, Konfucianismus, Čína, Jižní Korea, sociální média, mediální konstrukce reality.
• English key words: Slut-shaming, Feminism, Confucianism, China, South Korea, social media, Media Construction of Reality.
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2023/2024
• Thesis type: diploma thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Department of Media Studies (23-KMS)
• Supervisor: Dr. phil. habil. Ulrike Lütke Notarp, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned by the advisor
• Date of registration: 16.01.2024
• Date of assignment: 16.01.2024
• Date of electronic submission: 22.04.2025

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Preliminary scope of work

Výzkumná otázka:
Jak média v Číně a Jižní Koreji konstruují téma „morálního ponížení žen“?
Cílem diplomové práce je popsat mediální zpravodajství o morálním ponížení žen v Číně a Jižní Koreji.
Hypotéza zní, že v mediálním zpravodajství o morálním zostuzování žen v Číně a Jižní Koreji existují určité podobnosti, které mohou vycházet ze širšího kontextu východoasijského konfucianismu, ale zároveň existují i rozdíly, jež jsou způsobeny odlišnými sociálními a kulturními směry vývoje obou zemí.

Preliminary scope of work in English

Research Question: How do the Media in China and South Korea construct the topic of “Moral Shaming of Women”?
The purpose of the thesis is to describe the media coverage about the moral shaming to women in China and South Korea. The hypothesis of the thesis is that there are similarities in the Chinese and South Korean media coverages about moral shaming to women that might ground in the broader context of East Asian Confucianism, but there are also differences due to the different social and cultural directions of the two countries.