This macrolevel study employs a social constructionist approach to analyze AIDS-HIV coverage in the 1990s by 5 transnational wire services: the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, Telegrafnoye Agenstvo Sovetskovo Soyuza, and Inter Press Service. Content was mainly analyzed for prominent themes, news makers, and representations of various world regions. Notions of news framing, characteristics of AIDS-HIV news discourse, and the politics of international news flow provided theoretical guidance. The findings indicate a slight shift away from the biomedical discourse foregrounded in AIDS news in the 1980s. Socioeconomic, public policy, and human-rights themes have gained ground. Prevention and education, and the projection of AIDS-HIV as a globally interrelated phenomenon receive peripheral treatment. Coverage assumes mostly Western cultural perspectives, and the volume of stories has declined through the 1990s. Ideation of AIDS as a moral tale has diminished. Strategies for sociopolitical contestation of mainstream global AIDS news discourse are discussed.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Nilanjana Bardhan (2001) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: