ABSTRACT

This paper reports on print media coverage of the Safe Schools Coalition Australia (SSCA) in the two years until its federal review and loss of funding. Through applying Altheide’s theories of the ‘problem frame’ in mass media, articles from the 13 national and capital cities papers were analysed to ascertain the dominant productions surrounding the SSCA, and how these framed gender and sexuality diversity within and outside schooling environments. Analyses illustrated that print media dominantly constructed the programme using three ‘problem frames’. These relied on fear productions of the possible threat towards childhood innocence, heteronormativity, and cisnormativity. Depictions of threats to ‘freedom of speech’ also emerged. These findings produce new evidence that in this context, gender and sexuality diversity at school was overwhelmingly constructed as problematic. We argue that these constructions contributed to broader national discourses of gender and sexuality diversity as being dangerous or risky, especially for young people.

摘要

本文报道了澳大利亚安全学校联盟 (SSCA) 在联邦审查和失去资金之前的两年内印刷媒体的报道。通过在大众媒体中应用 Altheide 的“问题框架”理论，分析了来自 13 份国家和首都城市报纸的文章，以确定围绕 SSCA 的主导作品，以及这些作品如何在学校环境内外构建性别和性取向多样性。分析表明印刷媒体主要使用三个“问题框架”构建程序。这些依赖于对童年纯真、异规范性和顺规范性可能受到威胁的恐惧产生。还出现了对“言论自由”威胁的描述。这些发现产生了新的证据，表明在这种情况下，学校的性别和性多样性绝大多数被认为是有问题的。我们认为，这些建构促成了更广泛的关于性别和性多样性的全国性讨论，认为它们是危险的或有风险的，尤其是对年轻人而言。