Reporting Homophobia in the Zimbabwean and Nigerian media (original) (raw)

Homosexuality in the Ghanaian Media

This paper examines how homosexuality is represented in the Ghanaian media. More specifically, it focuses on newspaper articles from GhanaWeb for the years 2008-2011. The Ghana Web is an online news portal, which serves as repository and clearing house for current news from the major news outlets in Ghana. It also carries and publishes opinion and analytical articles from freelance writers, bloggers, and interviews from the major radio and television stations in the country. This research shows the prevalence of negative stereotypes of homosexuality in the Ghanaian media.

NIGERIA'S MEDIA STRUGGLE IN GLOBAL CULTURE: ISSUES OF LGBTQ IN LOCAL MEDIA PORTRAYAL

Rsearched paper, 2023

There is scanty literature on Nigeria's broadcast media portrayal of global cultural homosexuality and its activities in Nigeria. This paper, Nigeria's Media Struggle in Global Culture: issues of LGTBQ in Local Media Portrayal, contextually discusses the issues including stringent media laws and regulations, uneasy anti-gay law, religion, culture and social factors. These issues, however, give newspapers, social media, the internet and entertainment media, the ample opportunity to give different accounts of the struggles pro-gay groups are facing in Nigeria, including denial of their human rights, segregation, intimidation, lynching, harassment, arrest and detention. The paper, therefore, adopted and was anchored on the framing theory, whose tenets assume that media practitioners choose issues of public concern to present in a manner that triggers responses or actions from members of the public. The explanatory research method was employed in the study. It concludes that despite Nigeria's media struggle to represent homosexuality as a global culture, those identified as LGBTQ in Nigeria are still surviving and this is partly because global news organisations like CNN, BBC, and the internet and social media, are showing positive support by way of representing their interest.

‘Gays are the New Jews’: Homophobic Representations in African Media versus Twitterverse Empathy

In Wain, V. & Pimomo, P, (eds) (2015) Encountering Empathy- Interrogating the Past, Envisioning the Future. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, pp 151 - 162, ISBN: 978-1-84888-390-1

In 2006 columnist Danny Miller stated in The Huffington Post that gays are the new Jews, and questioned whether it was his imagination or our ability to accept people who are different from ourselves that was plummeting to dangerous levels. ‘With all the misery that's going on in this world, I cannot understand why some people are so fixated on preventing loving people from committing to each other and receiving the legal protections that heterosexual couples enjoy.’ The world since then has altered substantially, for better and worse. Meanwhile, studies on empathy in journalism maintain that although, historically, emotion has been generally considered inferior to reason, a single concept – empathy – serves as the principle for emotional development and decision making. Some philosophers employ empathy’s synonym, ‘sympathy’, instead, and assert that ‘through learning to empathize with other sentient creatures, human beings develop morally.’ In this chapter I explore the relationship between homophobic representations in African mainstream news media and the resultant and unfettered Twitter representations of empathy directly in response to these acts of active homophobia. By examining the ways in which African mainstream media and Twitter users relate to this definition of empathy – compassionate modes of relating with others – I shed light on the role the Twitter[uni]verse plays in providing a voice to the marginalised, while simultaneously nurturing the development of emotion, thus empathy, in the Twitterverse’s constituents. My chapter suggests that Twitter – contrasted with examples of state-controlled African media – provides a platform for some of its users to make an ethical decision to retaliate against state-sanctioned homophobia and hatred, thus fulfilling the liberal pluralism media theory that the free exchange of ideas is crucial to a democracy’s health. Key Words: Empathy, African media, Twitter, homophobia, liberal pluralism, sympathy, gay, emotivism, ethics, compassion, the other, African journalism students.

CONSTRUCTION OF HOMOPHOBIA IN THE PRESS

Basında Homofobinin İnşası, 2023

This study details the construction and pumping of homophobia in a country (Turkey). After analysing the concepts related to homophobia, it gives an example of a country where masculinity is constantly constructed, and this is a state policy. The first chapters and the conclusion have been translated into English.

Understanding Homophobia in contemporary Africa as an Identity Crisis

This paper seeks to explain the nature and expressions of homophobia in contemporary Africa. I have adopted an empirical approach that crosses data and literature focusing on LGBT in Africa. My work is essentially a cross analysis of a variety of quantitative data crossed with existing literature (mostly in social sciences) treating the subject of homosexuality and homophobia in Africa.