Drag i debatten
En kvantitativ innehållsanalys av medierapporteringen om Sverigedemokraternas motstånd till Drag Story Hour
Abstract
This quantitative content analysis, with a theoretical framework based on framing theory and
Hallin’s Spheres, studies how Swedish newspapers reported on a debate surrounding Drag
Story Hour (DSH) and the Sweden Democrats (SD) wanting to stop it, during a one-year
period. This study analyzes news articles, as well as opinion-based publications in
newspapers, to study the representation of different actors and their opinions, as well as the
authors’ opinions and framing of DSH and SD’s aim to stop it. After a pre-study of the
material and grounds in studies of homophobic arguments, we chose to study the frequency
of six different frames of DSH, and three frames of SD’s aim to stop it. The results show an
over representation of SD in the material, as they are quite alone with their opinion, but are
more represented than any other actor. Moreover, the most common framing of DSH was a
sexual framing, which was the most common frame overall. The most common framing of
SD’s aim to stop DSH, was that it is undemocratic. Despite a sexual frame of DSH being the
most frequent, and SD being the most represented in news articles, the opinion-based
publications show that a significant majority of the authors of opinion-based articles are
against what SD wants. Our results suggest that SD more or less owns the argument to stop
DSH, and argues that it is sexual and/or inappropriate for children. Most other actors,
journalists and other article authors either have a positive view on DSH, or do not care about
it. The study ends with a discussion on how SD single handedly putting this debate on the
agenda may or may not be a ploy for a shift in the general view of drag queens and other
LGBTQIA+ events, or a populist political strategy, to polarize the debate on drag queens
reading stories to kids.
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Student essay
Student essay
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Date
2024-03-01Author
Abrahamsson, Lina
Mäkinen, Wilma
Rosén, Ellen
Series/Report no.
KH23-14
Language
swe