MEDIA REPRESENTAIONS: SEXUALTIY 5 Flashcards
what is sexuality?
sexual feelings and behaviours of a person, who they are attracted to
sexual behaviour: media rep:
women
demonised for sexual activity, reasonable for cotnracpeitona and unplanned pregnancy, rep as virgin or slut, interested in relationships
sexual behaviour: media rep:
men
status gained for sexual prowess, focus on sex
sexual behaviour: media rep:
age
young people ar ehypersexaalised int he media, seen as motivated by sex, engaging in underage and unprotected sex
sexual behaviour: media rep:
disability
rarely shown as sexual people and when shown it is for comedic value
Batchelor et al- 2004
content analysis: media has made positive changes with more discussion around sexual health/ contrapceiton and consent with newspaper providing negative messages- focused on sex crimes and concerns around teen sexual health, some advice pages and articles
dyer 2002
med rep of sexuality are shown through hetronormanative lens, media uses stereotypical characterisations of gayness to make what’s invisible - visible
criag- 3 types of gayness used in media
camp, mancho, divient
symbolic annialaiton of LGBT- lgbt.co.uk + stonewall 1992
content anyasli of over 126 hours of film/tv= found 5h 43min focused around issues lgbtqai faed and only 46mins of realistic portables of LGBT people. lesbians and bisexuals almost completely invisible. the result of institutional bias in media industry
glaad> us gay right activist 2015
looks dat the top 100 films 2024, 17 films featured lgbtqai characters and 7 where their sexuality wasn’t defining feature of their character
media rep of sexuality- news and advertising: the pink economy
advertises have realised the spending power over lgbtai community, higher costs eg rainbow stores
media rep of sexuality: right wing press
still portal LGBT as sinful and unatural, news focuses on sexuality of person often when its irrelevant in the story
media rep of sexuality : new media :)
new media have provided a more positive rep of LGBT people because it is user generated so gives a voice to LGBT. organs ions have been able to set up support sites, social media have been used to progress lbgt issues such as same sex marrige act 2014. support from social media companies
media rep of sexuality: new media :(
university of Alberta content analysis of posts 2014-15
tracked 4 particular negative words related to the LGBT community, recorded 56.5 m public posts were homophobic in nature, in 2015 bt critised as provided parents with a filter to block children access to LGBT sites along with sites that discussed contraction abortion sti
