Samenvatting

In today’s media environment, the medium television regained more popularity, due to the rise of the third golden age of television. The trend introduced and adopted internet streaming and high quality content to the audiences viewing behavior. Series like House of Cards, Game of Thrones or Orange is the New Black are easily accessible and feature qualities such as in Hollywood movie productions. In regard to the topic gender study in media, the role of women and their on-screen presentation mostly does not add up with their complexity in real life. This thesis is aiming to find out about the presentation of women in television, investigating the extent of empowerment of female characters within the popular television show Game of Thrones. The results are contributing to the constantly changing media and entertainment environment, which also adapts to the standpoints and priorities of the society.