Getting to Great. How young women in Singapore experience depictions of sex in youth television
2019 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
Sex scenes in a movies and TV-series are nothing new, actually quite the opposite. Depictions of sex often present it as steamy, easy and pleasurable. But what consequences can this limited portrayal have on young audience expectations of sex? With our thesis we want to research how sex is portrayed in modern youth TV shows and how these portrayals are received by the audience. As researchers from two different parts of the world we are still fed with the same notion of sex in contemporary culture - that everyone is having it, and it is great. With this thesis we aim to understand how audiences experience these depictions of sex. We will focus specifically on TV that targets young adults as audience and we will critically examine media constructions of sexuality and sexual pleasure. Our main research question for this thesis is: How do young women in Singapore experience representations of youth sexuality on contemporary TV?
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle , 2019. , p. 78
Keywords [en]
Postfeminism, feminism, Singapore, Interviews, Visual Content Analysis, Television, young adults, Sex
National Category
Humanities and the Arts
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23562Local ID: 29337OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-23562DiVA, id: diva2:1483528
Educational program
KS K3 Media and Communication Studies (master)
Supervisors
Examiners
2020-10-272020-10-272021-04-28Bibliographically approved