Medias konstruerande av våldtäktsoffer - en diskursanalys
(2014) SOPA63 20141School of Social Work
- Abstract
- Sexual violence and rape are major social problems in today’s society, the inequality between men and women is maintained by this violence. Our purpose with this thesis was to investigate how female rape victims are portrayed and created by the media. We focused on two different rape cases. Our study was based on following questions:
• How is the image of female rape victims constructed in the media?
• Are the victims ascribed any guilt or responsibility, and if so, in what way?
• What differences in the construction of the victims can be distinguished on the basis of the two cases?
• How can the construction of the victims be understood from a feminist perspective?
Our research material was based on news articles, as well as,... (More) - Sexual violence and rape are major social problems in today’s society, the inequality between men and women is maintained by this violence. Our purpose with this thesis was to investigate how female rape victims are portrayed and created by the media. We focused on two different rape cases. Our study was based on following questions:
• How is the image of female rape victims constructed in the media?
• Are the victims ascribed any guilt or responsibility, and if so, in what way?
• What differences in the construction of the victims can be distinguished on the basis of the two cases?
• How can the construction of the victims be understood from a feminist perspective?
Our research material was based on news articles, as well as, debate articles chosen from four of the biggest newspapers in Sweden. We analyzed the material using terms from both Faircloughs’ critical discourse analysis and Laclau and Mouffes’ discourse theory. By using a social constructionist perspective, we recognized how important different words can be in creating different images of the victim. There was a significant difference between the news articles and the debate articles, in regards to what focus they put on the victim. In the news articles the actions of the women were in focus and we could discern that the women therefore were ascribed responsibility for the rape. The debate articles on the other hand focused on the perpetrators acts and the legal system. By recognizing this we could see two different discourses, a rape discourse and a feminist discourse. (Less)
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- author
- Tilander, Hillevi LU and Mårtensson, Nina LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Medias’ construction of rape victims - a discourse analysis
- course
- SOPA63 20141
- year
- 2014
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- female, rape victims, mass media, discourse analysis
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 4462825
- date added to LUP
- 2014-06-11 11:46:29
- date last changed
- 2014-06-11 11:46:29
@misc{4462825,
abstract = {{Sexual violence and rape are major social problems in today’s society, the inequality between men and women is maintained by this violence. Our purpose with this thesis was to investigate how female rape victims are portrayed and created by the media. We focused on two different rape cases. Our study was based on following questions:
• How is the image of female rape victims constructed in the media?
• Are the victims ascribed any guilt or responsibility, and if so, in what way?
• What differences in the construction of the victims can be distinguished on the basis of the two cases?
• How can the construction of the victims be understood from a feminist perspective?
Our research material was based on news articles, as well as, debate articles chosen from four of the biggest newspapers in Sweden. We analyzed the material using terms from both Faircloughs’ critical discourse analysis and Laclau and Mouffes’ discourse theory. By using a social constructionist perspective, we recognized how important different words can be in creating different images of the victim. There was a significant difference between the news articles and the debate articles, in regards to what focus they put on the victim. In the news articles the actions of the women were in focus and we could discern that the women therefore were ascribed responsibility for the rape. The debate articles on the other hand focused on the perpetrators acts and the legal system. By recognizing this we could see two different discourses, a rape discourse and a feminist discourse.}},
author = {{Tilander, Hillevi and Mårtensson, Nina}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Medias konstruerande av våldtäktsoffer - en diskursanalys}},
year = {{2014}},
}