AIDS and Heterosexuals in the Australian Essay -- homosexual, health,

Study OverviewThe study entitled From complacency to dread support and heterosexuals in the Australian express, July 1986 to June 1988 (Lupton, 1992) reports on the preliminary findings from a content analysis of AIDS news coverage in Australian press from June 1986 to July 1988. When revealing the preliminary varying ideologies in press, Lupton stresses the importance of evaluating how the popular media selects and presents news correspond to societal interests. Lupton (1992) seeks to point out the common situation in Australia that close people lies on information reported by the media rather than by wellness professionals. She continues to use this study to illustrate if media reporting has a important impact on shaping public attitudes and behaviour. Her study expresses a carry on that the popular press has increasingly resorted to publishing false and sensational stories cerebrate to human health without factual evidence that often results in create panic within audie nces. In order to create AIDS into a media sensation for the audiences, newspapers have long inclined to entertain and misinform readers by putting its blame on promiscuous heterosexuals, homosexual men, and intravenous do drugs users. The view of Lupton (1992) is in accord with this idea and she further seeks to explore if it applies to the Australian press in this study.The study undertakes a content analysis with entirely articles mentioning AIDS in Australian newspapers published between 1986 and 1988. The research demonstrates that the press generally helps the amplification to reporting AIDS as a mobilize to heterosexual population by supporting the first public health information campaign called the Grim reaper campaign (Ibid). The Grim Reaper campaign used horrible... ...er concern towards heterosexuals in press reporting and adversity of increased level of hostile treatment are worth cosmos applied to Luptons study in particular (Goode and Ben-Yehuda, 1994).Bibliograp hyHansen, A., Cottle, S, Negrine, R., Newbold, C. (1998) Mass parley Research Methods. Basingstoke and London Macmillan Press LtdGoode, Erich and Nachman Ben-Yehuda (1994) Moral Panics The Social Construction of Deviance. Oxford, UK Blackwell.Lupton, D. (1992) From complacenct to panic AIDS and heterosexuals in the Australian press, July 1986 to June 1988 in Helath Education Research surmise and Practice. 7(1) pp9-20.Lupton, D. (1994) Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires AIDS in the News Media. New York Taylor & Francis Ltd.Summer, C. (1979) interpreting ideologies an investigation into the Marxist theory of ideology and law. London Academic Press.