Hastings Colin
Concordia University.
Can Rev Sociol. 2022 May;59(2):181-199. doi: 10.1111/cars.12374. Epub 2022 Feb 7.
For years, HIV activists in Canada have expressed serious concerns about the stigmatizing and sensational way that HIV criminalization is portrayed in the mainstream press. Discourse analyses of the content of news stories about HIV criminalization confirm that news reports of HIV criminal cases rely on sensational language and reproduce negative stereotypes of people living with HIV. This paper contributes to social justice scholarship in the area by building upon studies of news content to uncover how news reports of HIV criminalization are produced in the first place. Through institutional ethnographic interviews with journalists who produce news stories about HIV criminalization, this study brings into view that conditions of convergence journalism make it exceedingly difficult for reporters to disrupt the genre of crime stories about HIV criminalization in which stigmatizing discourses proliferate.
多年来，加拿大的艾滋病病毒感染者权益倡导者一直对主流媒体报道将感染艾滋病病毒定为犯罪行为时所采用的污名化和耸人听闻的方式表示严重关切。对有关将感染艾滋病病毒定为犯罪行为的新闻报道内容进行的话语分析证实，艾滋病病毒犯罪案件的新闻报道使用耸人听闻的语言，并重现了对艾滋病病毒感染者的负面刻板印象。本文通过在新闻内容研究的基础上进行拓展，以揭示有关将感染艾滋病病毒定为犯罪行为的新闻报道最初是如何产生的，从而为该领域的社会正义学术研究做出贡献。通过对报道将感染艾滋病病毒定为犯罪行为新闻的记者进行机构民族志访谈，本研究揭示了融合新闻的条件使得记者极难打破关于艾滋病病毒犯罪化的犯罪故事类型，而在这种类型中污名化话语大量存在。
