Mediating Suicide: Print Journalism and the Categorization of Queer Youth Suicide Discourses.
This article undertakes textual analysis to examine some of the ways in which knowledge around sexuality-related youth suicide and its causes are produced and made available through news media discourses and news-making processes. Four categories of sexuality-related suicide discourses were identifi...
| Published in: | Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 41; no. 5; pp. 1173 - 1184 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2012
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