The Narratives of Moral Panics in LGBT News Reporting

DOI

10.2991/icpm-16.2016.77How to use a DOI?

Keywords

LGBT, moral panics, news media reporting, narratives

Abstract

News media reporting for 20s January to end of February 2016 about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) expressed narratives of moral panics. The headlines of LGBT issues stated that the sexuality group threatening social order. LGBT was positioned as the transgressor of social and religious norms. Media agenda also indicated that LGBT should be refused, although humanity reasoning applied in the case. Moreover, LGBT was regarded as the violator of human dignity. The claim makers, in the case, was ulama (the religious leaders), involved with the media to state that LGBT not only are mistakes on the social aspect but also sin before God. The state officials, finally, implicated by the media to legitimate policy that rejects LGBT existence.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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