1st Edition
Same-Sex Marriage and Social Media How Online Networks Accelerated the Marriage Equality Movement
List of Figures, Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations, Introduction, Chapter 1 Social media, social networking, and social movements Chapter 2 The history of marriage in the U.S.Chapter 3 Inside the newsroom: Shifting attitudes about how to cover same-sex marriage Chapter 4 Media framing of the marriage debate Chapter 5 The proponents: Making the case for marriage equality Chapter 6 The opponents: The Religious Right fights to save traditional marriage Chapter 7 The opponents within: Queer resistance to the marriage movement Chapter 8 From pariah to cause célèbre: Corporate evolution on the issue of same-sex marriage Chapter 9 Social media and the inevitability of same-sex marriage, Index
Biography
Rhonda Gibson is Associate Professor and Program Director of the Master of Arts in Technology and Communication in the School of Media and Journalism at the University North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Her research focuses on the media portrayal of sexual and gender minorities.
"Rhonda Gibson has produced a work of cutting-edge scholarship that is both readable and rigorous. While many scholars have investigated and written about the issue of marriage equality, this book moves the topic forward by focusing on how social media impacted the passage of same-sex marriage and equal rights for members of LGBT communities. Rhonda Gibson provides a comprehensive history of marriage equality, the religious right’s fight against same sex marriage, how newsrooms covered the issue, as well as queer resistance to same sex marriage. She analyzes various messaging strategies used throughout the years, then tackles how social media networks helped produce a social climate that helped convince citizens that the time was right for same sex marriage."
Laura Castañeda, Professor of Professional Practice, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, USA
