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Date of Award
2008
Document Type
Thesis - Pacific Access Restricted
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department
Intercultural Relations
First Advisor
Franki Trjillo-Dalbey
First Committee Member
Steven Dowd
Second Committee Member
Kent Warren
Abstract
This thesis explores the intercultural sensitivity of editorials in The Augusta Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and The San Francisco Chronicle as it pertains to the same-sex marriage debate. By using Bennett's Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity and seeing if sufficient points on the opposing opinions of same-sex marriage were used, editorials were identified into different levels of intercultural sensitivity depending on their overall tone and voice. Editorial coverage of same-sex marriage peaked in 1996 and 2004, with coverage ranging among the three papers from 1992 to 2007. The Augusta Chronicle was found largely in the defense stage of DM1S with its editorials saying that same-sex marriages might exist but were wrong, while both The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle were largely in the acceptance stage of DMIS saying that same-sex marriage should exist and be respected. All three newspapers were pretty consistent with the inclusion of sufficient points of the opposing viewpoint of same-sex marriage with an average of 16.57% of articles including these points. These findings, particularly the DM1S levels, indicate that newspapers play important role in influencing and being influenced by the general population that it reaches with the intercultural message that they deliver.
Pages
95
Recommended Citation
Sol, Nicole Inez. (2008). Intercultural sensitivity through the mass-mediated lens : understanding DMIS levels in newspaper editorials in regards to same-sex marriage. University of the Pacific, Thesis - Pacific Access Restricted. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/696
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