Add to ORKGMedia portrayals of emerging diseases reflect contemporary prejudices, sway public opinion and, in turn, have the power to shape history. My research focuses on the controversy concerning HIV-infected blood in American blood banks from 1982 through 1985. My analysis of articles from national news sources and queer media illuminates stark differences in the interpretations of scientific research. Most popular media representations of HIV/AIDS paradoxically interpret science as objective truth and perpetuate unsubstantiated claims about risk and transmission. U.S. media coverage must be viewed within its capitalist environment—fear sells, and the accuracy of scientific information suffers as a result
The interest of health communication scholars hover on relationships between HIV/AIDS message exposu...
Media plays an important role in the social landscape that helps to shape audience perceptions and i...
Why is there so much anxiety today about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome? Nine out of ten people...
HIV/AIDS disproportionately affects African Americans and has throughout the majority of the epidemi...
As a news topic, the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa is not a just health story. It is an amalgamation o...
This dissertation explores the acceptance and criticism of medical authority and perspectives in ear...
In recent years, AIDS has become an epidemic of dire proportions, and has hit the region of sub-Saha...
This article examines the AIDS discourse that emerged in the United States in the early 1980s. It an...
In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist ins...
What do people think of the media coverage of AIDS; how do they interpret what they hear and see? Th...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-194)The purpose of this study was to analyze the qual...
When discovered for the first time in America in 1981, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) posed a se...
People living with HIV who perceive high levels of HIV-related stigma are more likely to abstain fro...
HIV/AIDS is a heavily mediatised disease. In this article, we test whether media attention is affect...
Abstract Background The media play an important role ...
The interest of health communication scholars hover on relationships between HIV/AIDS message exposu...
Media plays an important role in the social landscape that helps to shape audience perceptions and i...
Why is there so much anxiety today about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome? Nine out of ten people...
HIV/AIDS disproportionately affects African Americans and has throughout the majority of the epidemi...
As a news topic, the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa is not a just health story. It is an amalgamation o...
This dissertation explores the acceptance and criticism of medical authority and perspectives in ear...
In recent years, AIDS has become an epidemic of dire proportions, and has hit the region of sub-Saha...
This article examines the AIDS discourse that emerged in the United States in the early 1980s. It an...
In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist ins...
What do people think of the media coverage of AIDS; how do they interpret what they hear and see? Th...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-194)The purpose of this study was to analyze the qual...
When discovered for the first time in America in 1981, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) posed a se...
People living with HIV who perceive high levels of HIV-related stigma are more likely to abstain fro...
HIV/AIDS is a heavily mediatised disease. In this article, we test whether media attention is affect...
Abstract Background The media play an important role ...
The interest of health communication scholars hover on relationships between HIV/AIDS message exposu...
Media plays an important role in the social landscape that helps to shape audience perceptions and i...
Why is there so much anxiety today about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome? Nine out of ten people...