Sex Trafficking in the Media: How U.S. Newspapers Narrate This Social Issue

The media has a large influence in the way the public perceives social issues, and has the ability to influence public discourse among these issues. This study aims to analyze U.S. media coverage of sex trafficking and examine the ways in which sex trafficking narratives have shifted between two time periods, 1995-2005 and 2015-2022. A qualitative content analysis was performed on newspaper articles from The Washington Post and The New York Times to better understand how the issue of sex trafficking was being narrated during these two time periods and what it can tell us about media coverage.

Author

• Valianatos, Cristina

Language

• en

Date created

• 2023

Type of Work

• Master's Thesis

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Criminology

Degree

• M.A.

Advisor

• Schwartz, Martin

Committee Member(s)

• Ken, Ivy
• Schwartz, Martin

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/bn9997587