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Health Safety-Net Crisis: A Case Study Of News Discourse, Cecilia F. Mitchell
Health Safety-Net Crisis: A Case Study Of News Discourse, Cecilia F. Mitchell
Communication Theses
This study is the first to analyze news coverage of a hegemonic struggle over a crisis that threatened to close a Southern safety net hospital. Such closure could have left indigent, African American men and women without health care access. The study utilizes critical discourse analysis to focus on news portrayals of patients and the struggle over whether the hospital would continue to be governed by a majority-Black, public board of directors or a nonprofit, private board recommended by a majority-White civic group. Results indicate that newspaper coverage privileged the elite, White view, while stereotypically representing indigent, Black patients as …
Disney's Portrayal Of Nonhuman Animals In Animated Films Between 2000 And 2010, Oana Leventi-Perez
Disney's Portrayal Of Nonhuman Animals In Animated Films Between 2000 And 2010, Oana Leventi-Perez
Communication Theses
This paper used the constant comparative method to examine the 12 animated features released by Disney between 2000 and 2010 for: (1) their representation of nonhuman animals (NHAs) and the portrayal of race, class, gender, and speciesism within this representation, (2) the ways they describe the relationship between humans and NHAs, and (3) whether they promote an animal rights perspective. Three major themes were identified: NHAs as stereotypes, family, and human/NHA dichotomy. Analysis of these themes revealed that Disney’s animated features promote speciesism and celebrate humanity’s superiority by justifying the subordination of NHAs to human agency. Furthermore, while Disney’s representation …