Date of Award
Summer 2010
Degree Type
Thesis
Department
Education
First Advisor
Karen Monkman, PhD
Abstract
It is nearly impossible to escape from the influence of media in today’s world, between newspapers, magazines, radio, television and the internet. School settings are no exception to this rule and even allow the in-school distribution of publications produced by major media companies. These publications can be used for entertainment purposes or as supplements to classroom lessons, but they can also contribute to the replication of unbalanced and highly stereotypical representations of gender at a time when their readers are typically struggling to create their own identities. Four issues of two different in-school news publications were studied to gain a better understanding of what these publications might be doing to attract students and how they might be negatively influential through the constructed representations of gender.
Recommended Citation
Moran, Laura M., "WHAT'S ALL THAT NOISE?: A STUDY OF CONSTRUCTED GENDER MEANINGS IN NEWS PUBLICATIONS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS" (2010). College of Education Theses and Dissertations. 5.
https://via.library.depaul.edu/soe_etd/5