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Lesbisk och (o)trygg. En kritisk diskursanalys över mediediskursen i Sydafrika utifrån fallet Duduzile Zozo

Dahlberg, Maria LU (2016) STVK02 20152
Department of Political Science
Abstract
This paper highlights the news media's reflection of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi, trans) -people in South Africa. Although South Africa in 1994 implemented a protection in the Constitution against discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation it is constantly reported on violence and harassment against LGBT- persons. Given that previous research highlights the causal factors such as South Africa's history of institutionalized racism, patriarchy culture and segregation, I wanted to find out whether there may be other underlying factors.
   I therefor looked at the state of media discourse to see if I could find patterns and common themes regarding LGBT- persons. I focused on one case, the corrective rape of the lesbian girl Duduzile Zozo.... (More)
This paper highlights the news media's reflection of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi, trans) -people in South Africa. Although South Africa in 1994 implemented a protection in the Constitution against discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation it is constantly reported on violence and harassment against LGBT- persons. Given that previous research highlights the causal factors such as South Africa's history of institutionalized racism, patriarchy culture and segregation, I wanted to find out whether there may be other underlying factors.
   I therefor looked at the state of media discourse to see if I could find patterns and common themes regarding LGBT- persons. I focused on one case, the corrective rape of the lesbian girl Duduzile Zozo. With the help of critical discourse analysis and Faircloughs three-dimensional model, I have analyzed the following major newspapers; The Mail & Guardian, The Star, The Sunday Times and News24. My results shows that the papers did have a common discourse regarding LGBT-persons and in the reporting of Duduzile Zozo. The results also shows that newspapers with many readers share common values; they all want to work against discrimination of LGBT-persons and maintain a supportive attitude towards LGBT-persons in their discourse. (Less)
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author
Dahlberg, Maria LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
En kritisk diskursanalys över mediediskursen i Sydafrika utifrån fallet Duduzile Zozo
course
STVK02 20152
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
diskursanalys, CDA, Sydafrika, Fairclough, corrective rape, gay, hbqt
language
Swedish
id
8514294
date added to LUP
2016-02-02 13:49:07
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2016-02-02 13:49:07
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  abstract     = {{This paper highlights the news media's reflection of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi, trans) -people in South Africa. Although South Africa in 1994 implemented a protection in the Constitution against discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation it is constantly reported on violence and harassment against LGBT- persons. Given that previous research highlights the causal factors such as South Africa's history of institutionalized racism, patriarchy culture and segregation, I wanted to find out whether there may be other underlying factors.
   I therefor looked at the state of media discourse to see if I could find patterns and common themes regarding LGBT- persons. I focused on one case, the corrective rape of the lesbian girl Duduzile Zozo. With the help of critical discourse analysis and Faircloughs three-dimensional model, I have analyzed the following major newspapers; The Mail & Guardian, The Star, The Sunday Times and News24. My results shows that the papers did have a common discourse regarding LGBT-persons and in the reporting of Duduzile Zozo. The results also shows that newspapers with many readers share common values; they all want to work against discrimination of LGBT-persons and maintain a supportive attitude towards LGBT-persons in their discourse.}},
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  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Lesbisk och (o)trygg. En kritisk diskursanalys över mediediskursen i Sydafrika utifrån fallet Duduzile Zozo}},
  year         = {{2016}},
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