"Wealthy gay couples buying babies produced in India by poor womb-women": Audience interpretations of transnational surrogacy in TV news
Surrogacy is beginning to generate public debate, and the way the media approach it may have negative effects on social attitudes toward gay parenting. The news media play a key role in informing society, especially about topics such as sur- rogacy, of which most audiences have no direct experience....
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:10459.1/466952 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2017.1422947 https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/466952 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Estudios gais, lesbianos y trans Estudis LGBT TV studies TV news Audience Studies |
| Sumario: | Surrogacy is beginning to generate public debate, and the way the media approach it may have negative effects on social attitudes toward gay parenting. The news media play a key role in informing society, especially about topics such as sur- rogacy, of which most audiences have no direct experience. The aim of our research is to explore opinion formation of surrogacy and gay parenting by analyzing the audience inter- pretation of a TV news story in Spain. To do this we conducted four focus groups that were analyzed using a qualitative con- tent analysis based on the discourse produced by the partici- pants. The results show that the framing strategies used in the news story contribute to advocating an attitude of repudiation toward surrogacy, with an adverse sentiment also extending to homosexual couples who wish to become parents. This leads us to discuss the role of media in shaping public opinion and the resulting potential consequences in the case of surrogacy and gay parenting. |
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