Essays about: "The Seattle Times"

Found 1 essay containing the words The Seattle Times.

  1. 1. It’s a Man’s Weed : Mainstream Online News and Visibility During America’s New Marijuana Legalization Era

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Kasey Hariman; [2016]
    Keywords : feminism; celebrity studies; journalism studies; gender; critical discourse analysis; content analysis; cannabis; marijuana; news sources; The Seattle Times; Snoop; Bill Clinton; Barack Obama; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to shed some light on the emerging mainstream news discourses connected to marijuana’s legalization in parts of the United States by asking who is most involved in these discourses, what connections involvement may have to social status and social factors, most significantly gender, as well as what a few discursive themes in marijuana-related coverage might be, and what further research could be most needed. The literature review focused on critical theory, as well as feminist journalism studies, celebrity studies, and other research connected to emerging discourses, in an effort to approach a topic with limited prior social scientific research from a social scientific viewpoint. READ MORE