Identifier

15

Date

2013

Document Type

Honors Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Major

Communication

Concentration

Communication

Committee Member

Craig Leake

Abstract

This thesis sought to examine the local Memphis news media for the visibility of gay men and their accompanying representations. The study intends to note the visibility of gay men within the local media and analyze what these representations communicate about male homosexuality and its acceptance within Memphis-area society. Drawing on scholarship involving lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) visibility and representations of groups of people in the media, specifically those involving gay men, this study posed a content analysis of the local Memphis news media for the inclusion of representations of gay male individuals. One daily broadcast from each of the four local networks and the daily issue of the city's most popular newspaper were surveyed for three separate, one week periods. The results of this study yielded a small number of contentious, but mostly unsurprising implications about the visibility of gay men within the local Memphis news media.

Comments

Undergraduate Honor's Thesis

Library Comment

Honors thesis originally submitted to the Local University of Memphis Honor’s Thesis Repository.

Notes

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