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.

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