University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Supervised Undergraduate Student Research Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects and Creative Work 5-2016 Media Representation of Gender: Startup Publications’ Coverage of 2016 Presidential Campaigns Emily Elizabeth Isaacs
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[email protected]. !1 Media Representation of Gender: Startup Publications’ Coverage of 2016 Presidential Campaigns Chancellor’s Honors Program Thesis Project University of Tennessee Spring 2016 Emily Isaacs !2 Introduction In an era dominated by technology, people can access information frequently and efficiently. Though content is readily available, accuracy is not guaranteed. The mass media, responsible for distributing most of the population’s news, are often accused of having one viewpoint. Because the images these major corporations produce become commonplace in society, it becomes important that the media produce a variety of content. As the mass media provide information to a diverse nation, the depictions of the population should correspond accordingly.