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Journal

Res Rhetorica

2022 | 9 | 2 | 6-20

Article title

Who’s the ‘real’ transgender? The representation and stereotyping of the transgender community on YouTube

Authors

Michaela Fikejzová , Martin Charvát

Content

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Title variants

PL
Kto jest „naprawdę” transpłciowy? Reprezentacja i stereotypizacja społeczności transpłciowej na YouTube

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Abstracts

PL
Artykuł ma na celu analizę wprowadzającą do sposobów reprezentacji mniejszości transpłciowej w nowych mediach. Poprzez analizę retoryczną wybranych treści związanych z dwoma głośnymi transpłciowymi youtuberami, zidentyfikowano pięć elementów składowych dyskursu na ich temat. Są to: redukcja problemu strukturalnego do osobistego, redukcja indywidualnej rzeczywistości do uczuć, tokenizacja, psychiatryzacja tożsamości transpłciowej i ingroup gatekeeping, czyli selekcja informacji w obrębie danej grupy. Wymienione aspekty dyskursu funkcjonują jako siły ograniczające i formujące medialną reprezentację tego, co w danym dyskursie uznawane jest za transpłciową tożsamość i transpłciowe doświadczenie. W związku z tym osoby transpłciowe nie są w stanie wyrazić własnego doświadczenia, ponieważ jest ono z góry wpisane w stereotyp poprzez strukturę debaty publicznej i wywiadów oraz poprzez określoną reprezentację medialną.
EN
The aim of this article is to provide an analytical introduction upon the ways of representation of transgender minority in new media. Through rhetorical analysis of selected content related to two high-profile transgender YouTubers, we identified five building blocks of given discourse: reduction of a structural problem to a personal one, reduction of a person’s reality to feelings, tokenization, psychiatrization of transgender identity, and ingroup gatekeeping.

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Publisher

Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne

Journal

Res Rhetorica

Year

2022

Volume

9

Issue

2

Pages

6-20

Physical description

Dates

published
2022

Contributors

author
Michaela Fikejzová
  • Charles University, Faculty of Humanities, Czech Republic
author
Martin Charvát
  • Metropolitan University in Prague, Department of Media Studies, Czech Republic

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Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

DOI
10.29107/rr2022.2.1
Biblioteka Nauki
2232092

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_29107_rr2022_2_1
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