- Title
- “Face the music!”: the Daily Sun's representation of adolescent sex in the Jules High sex scandal
- Creator
- Boshoff, Priscilla A, Prinsloo, Jeanne
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143483
- Identifier
- vital:38250
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2013.834660
- Description
- Rather than being merely a physiological stage, adolescence is variously constructed through social institutions. The media plays a significant role in such constructions, including that of adolescent sexuality. In the recent past there have been several cases of sexual acts involving adolescents that have received prominent media coverage as they have been considered shocking. The Jules High School sex scandal related to sex acts between a single adolescent girl and two adolescent boys. It was recorded on mobile phones by their peers and circulated on their mobile networks, or ‘went viral’ as the media continuously noted. The press coverage surrounding this incident and the legal process that ensued is the focus of this Article which undertakes a critical textual analysis of the coverage in the popular tabloid, the Daily Sun, in order to make explicit the contesting sets of discourses around adolescence and sexuality that were articulated in this popular public sphere. The Article uses a Foucauldian framework in order to probe the discourses of sexuality that are articulated and contested in this space. As the most widely read newspaper in South Africa it serves as a powerful site of definition of teen sexuality. The analysis suggests that, rather than allowing for teen sexuality, it is disavowed by villainising teen sex and responsibility for such ‘deviance’ is directed to various adult and social adult actors.
- Format
- 11 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Agenda, Boshoff, P. and Prinsloo, J., 2013. “Face the music!” The Daily Sun's representation of adolescent sex in the Jules High sex scandal. Agenda, 27(3), pp.39-49., Agenda volume 27 number 3 39 49 September 2013 2158-978X
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Prinsloo, Jeanne (Prof)
Gender Action Forum (GENACT)
Boshoff, Priscilla A (Dr)
SDG 05. Gender Equality
RU School of Journalism and Media Studies
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
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