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- Title
A straight gay wedding? News images of same-sex marriage in the mainstream and alternative New Zealand press.
- Authors
Kenix, Linda-Jean
- Abstract
New Zealand was the first country in Oceania and the fifteenth in the world to allow same-sex marriage. This research explores whether the visual re-presentations of same-sex marriage in newspaper coverage surrounding the Parliamentary vote coalesced to form a heteronormative or homonormative 'image' of gay marriage through an examination of 654 articles about gay marriage in the mainstream, New Zealand Herald, and the alternative publication, GayNZ. This research asks whether there was a difference in that re-presentation across 'alternative' and 'mainstream'news media outlets given that visual codes of reference have been suggested to shift within an alternative communicative space.
- Subjects
NEW Zealand; SAME-sex marriage; PRESS; LGBTQ+ people in mass media
- Publication
Communication, Politics & Culture, 2016, Vol 49, Issue 2, p25
- ISSN
1836-0645
- Publication type
Article