Media and Marginalized Communities - Media discourses and discrimination against members of marginalized groups (drug users, sex workers, LGBT, people living with HIV)

Publisher : Coalition “Sexual and Health Rights of Marginalized Communities”

Date: 2011

Volume: 85 pages , pdf

Description

The media reproduces part of the daily discriminatory practices against members of marginalized communities, whether in derogatory, offensive and abusive texts or speeches, or by way of other strategies employed for marginalization and exclusion from media discourses. On the other hand, the media also produce discourses that strive to identify the problems regarding discrimination and social exclusion of members of marginalized communities.