This critical discourse analysis of Canadian news media examines the differences in racial representation in recent coverage of opioid deaths. I pay particular attention to the ways in which White opioid users are portrayed as innocent victims while other users, such as those from Indigenous ...
This study employs critical discourse analysis to explore the construction and representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identities in 'gay' media in Cape Town. The study critically engages with intersecting notions of 'gay space', the 'gay village', 'gay community', 'wes...
Media exposure, particularly television (TV), is a pervasive source of sexualizing messages yet little work has quantified sexualization in children’s media, particularly in media popular with minority youth. The current research examines the prevalence of sexualization in children’s TV programs ...
representationracewhitenessThe last decade has witnessed an increased visibility of grassroots feminist activism in Britain. This article concerns the representation of such activism in the left-leaning newspaper The Guardian, and focuses on issues related to race and whiteness. Drawing on anti-racist ...
‘Cruel Intentions’ Remake Bosses on Movie’s Influences, Casting Their Love Triangle and Putting the Mean Back Into YA Dramas Sara Goodman and Phoebe Fisher discuss setting their Prime Video series in the world of college Greek life and why they don’t want fans to see their drama as a ...
Clearly, this media representation sways the conversation about whether or not the police were justified in killing the unarmed teenager. A one-dimensional representation of a victim as a criminal makes us more likely to believe that the killers’ actions were necessary. 3. They Empathize With th...
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Lower perceived social class is a source of stigma within communities of sexual minority men (Coston & Kimmel,2012). A tension centered on popular community representation has led to marked stratification, particularly between middle-class and working-class sexual minority men (Gluckman & Reed,2012;...
MEDIA REPRESENTATION/ROLE MODELS: Connie Chung, Amy Tan, Lisa Ling, Margaret Cho, Sheryl Wu Dunn, any of The Joy Luck Club protagonists (except the one who married an Asian dude). NATURAL COUNTERPARTS: Asiaphiles...who else?
This paper is about abject skin and passionate disavowals in reviews of Patty Jenkins’s 2004 film Monster, starring Charlize Theron. I focus upon how troubling knowledge about the life story of Aileen Wuornos, unaffectionately dubbed America’s “most..