Surrogatmödraskap i medierna: En diskursanalys av tidningarnas framställning
2018 (Svenska)Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hp
Studentuppsats (Examensarbete)Alternativ titel
Surrogacy in the media : A discourse analysis of representations in journalism (Engelska)
Abstract [en]
The aim of this thesis is to investigate how Swedish journalism portrays surrogacy through printed press. I used critical discourse analysis according to Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional model to explore the subject. In this study, fourteen articles where analysed. The analysis found four major discursive themes in the articles: the justifying discourse, the invisibility discourse, the hero discourse and the normalizing discourse. The study concludes that surrogacy is portrayed in a positive manner in Swedish printed press. Through the justifying discourse and the inivisibility discourse, in which the role of the surrogate is toned down, any moral implications of surrogacy are legitimatized. By describing the surrogate as a selfless and charitable person, she is constructed as a hero. By portraying surrogacy as something unproblematic, surrogacy arrangements are normalized. The study also found that the articles reproduce the idea of parenthood as something natural for women and that they constructed homosexual men as feminine to legitimize them as parents.
Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
2018.
Nyckelord [en]
Journalism, Surrogacy, Parenthood, Motherhood, Discourse analysis
Nationell ämneskategori
Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
Identifikatorer
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-84510OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-84510DiVA, id: diva2:1319909
Utbildningsprogram
Journalistik och medieproduktion, 180 hp
Handledare
Examinatorer
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