A5106591771- Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Intelligence, Security, War Strategy
- Media Influence and Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2024
This paper uses critical disinformation studies to analyze claims that LGBTQ+ communities "groom" children at "Drag Queen Story Hour" (DQSH). We identify anti-homosexual narratives in previous moral panics: the 1950s sexual psychopathy laws, Anita Bryant's 1977 Save Our Children campaign, and 1980s Satanic ritual abuse panic. Using discourse analysis, we find all disinformative from panics present DQSH discourse, while new themes center transgender people parental rights. consider concerns...
This paper uses critical disinformation studies to analyze claims that LGBTQ+ communities “groom” children at “Drag Queen Story Hour” (DQSH). We identify anti-homosexual narratives in previous moral panics: the 1950s sexual psychopathy laws, Anita Bryant’s 1977 Save Our Children campaign, and 1980s Satanic ritual abuse panic. Using discourse analysis, we find all disinformative from panics present DQSH discourse, while new themes center transgender people parental rights. consider concerns...
This study sought to investigate the prominence of U.S. birth control pioneer and eugenicist Margaret Sanger in social media discourse through a critical disinformation studies lens. Using computational qualitative analysis techniques, 60 months public Facebook posts Google search data were analyzed explore scope, reach, engagement with messages that reference examine how injustice frames utilizing Sanger’s historical ties eugenics are being used today misinform disinform on abortion other...