Women’s Representation and Subjectivity in Zine as an Alternative Media

Chandra Eka Privandani, Sri Hastjarjo

2017

Abstract

Nowadays, mainstream mass media has become the main source of information in society. Therefore, the mass media often becomes the reference and source of representation for many things, one of which is gender; where it often informs gender unequally like placing men higher than women who are often represented as marginal people and described as powerless. As a form of resistance against the mainstream mass media with all of its hegemony, there arises an alternative media phenomenon, one of which is called zine. As an alternative media, it is used by marginal people to convey uncommon issues, including women to speak up their aspirations about equality. This article aims to describe the representation of women in zine as an independent alternative media and emerges as a counterculture to the mainstream mass media. The method used in the writing is the literature review, in which the authors gathered data from papers that have been published previously, including scientific journal articles, books, zine itself, and other supporting documents. The findings obtained are how women regain their subjectivity in the message-producing process of zine making, so there is a difference of women’s representation in zine and mainstream mass media.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Eka Privandani C. and Hastjarjo S. (2017). Women’s Representation and Subjectivity in Zine as an Alternative Media.In Proceedings of the International Post-Graduate Conference on Media and Communication - Volume 1: IPCOMC, ISBN 978-989-758-337-7, pages 443-449. DOI: 10.5220/0007331104430449

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ipcomc17,
author={Chandra Eka Privandani and Sri Hastjarjo},
title={Women’s Representation and Subjectivity in Zine as an Alternative Media},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Post-Graduate Conference on Media and Communication - Volume 1: IPCOMC,},
year={2017},
pages={443-449},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007331104430449},
isbn={978-989-758-337-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Post-Graduate Conference on Media and Communication - Volume 1: IPCOMC,
TI - Women’s Representation and Subjectivity in Zine as an Alternative Media
SN - 978-989-758-337-7
AU - Eka Privandani C.
AU - Hastjarjo S.
PY - 2017
SP - 443
EP - 449
DO - 10.5220/0007331104430449