Sanz López Josep Maria
a Leicester Media School , De Montfort University , Leicester , UK.
J Homosex. 2018;65(13):1817-1837. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2017.1390812. Epub 2017 Nov 7.
A growing academic discussion has focused on how, in a globalized world, LGBTQ identities are shaped and influenced by different and international actors, such as the media. This article analyzes how LGBTQ people from a rural region of a Western country-Spain-feel toward their representations on TV series from English-speaking countries. Employing a qualitative approach, this research aims to depict whether the academic conceptualizations to analyze these identity conformation processes are accurate. In addition, it explores how dominating media representations are being adapted in a region that, although within the West, can serve a context of a very different nature. The results found that a major rejection of the TV series representations among participants can suggest both an inaccuracy of the conceptualizations used by some scholars to understand LGBTQ flows and a problematic LGBTQ representation in media products that goes beyond regions and spaces.
一场日益激烈的学术讨论聚焦于，在全球化的世界中，女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、跨性别者及酷儿（LGBTQ）身份认同是如何被不同的国际行为体（如媒体）塑造和影响的。本文分析了来自西方国家（西班牙）农村地区的LGBTQ群体对英语国家电视剧中其形象的看法。本研究采用定性研究方法，旨在描述用于分析这些身份形成过程的学术概念是否准确。此外，它还探讨了在一个虽属于西方但情况却大不相同的地区，主流媒体形象是如何被调整的。研究结果发现，参与者对电视剧形象的主要排斥既可能表明一些学者用于理解LGBTQ群体流动的概念不准确，也可能暗示媒体产品中存在超越地区和空间的有问题的LGBTQ形象。
