TY - CHAP
T1 - Gender, media, and populism
T2 - The vilification of first lady Ani Yudhoyono in the Indonesian online news media
AU - Ahlstrand, Jane
PY - 2024/12/31
Y1 - 2024/12/31
N2 - Women in politics invariably attract heightened levels of attention due to their marked difference from the masculine political norm. With the rise of social media and online news, political women can achieve visibility, but also experience more intense scrutiny. Former first lady, Ani Yudhoyono, became an iconic figure in the lead-up to the 2014 Indonesian presidential election, through association with her husband's flailing presidency and as a high-profile political woman on social media. Using critical discourse analysis, specifically social actor analysis, this paper examines the discursive strategies deployed by the mainstream Indonesian online news media to malign Ani Yudhoyono and draw a wedge between her and the Indonesian public, in turn undermining her husband's presidency. The analysis highlights the role of online news media discourse in shaping power relations and ideological groupings, as well as the role of first lady as an enduring source of political contestation.
AB - Women in politics invariably attract heightened levels of attention due to their marked difference from the masculine political norm. With the rise of social media and online news, political women can achieve visibility, but also experience more intense scrutiny. Former first lady, Ani Yudhoyono, became an iconic figure in the lead-up to the 2014 Indonesian presidential election, through association with her husband's flailing presidency and as a high-profile political woman on social media. Using critical discourse analysis, specifically social actor analysis, this paper examines the discursive strategies deployed by the mainstream Indonesian online news media to malign Ani Yudhoyono and draw a wedge between her and the Indonesian public, in turn undermining her husband's presidency. The analysis highlights the role of online news media discourse in shaping power relations and ideological groupings, as well as the role of first lady as an enduring source of political contestation.
UR - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003160014
U2 - 10.4324/9781003160014-24
DO - 10.4324/9781003160014-24
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780367701857
T3 - Indo-Pacific in Context
SP - 288
EP - 301
BT - The Routledge Handbook of Populism in the Asia Pacific
A2 - Subedi, D B
A2 - Brasted, Howard
A2 - Strokirch, Karin von
A2 - Scott, Alan
PB - Routledge
CY - London, United Kingdom
ER -