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Mediated Social Hierarchies and Gender & Sexuality in the Russian Federation

Rowe, Randall James, II
http://orcid.org/0009-0005-0895-8509
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1704482473242864

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2024, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures.
Aided by Media and Cultural studies, specifically Stuart Hall’s Reception theory, I analyze social power dynamics in media through the lenses of gender, sexuality, and race. Media frames narratives and representations through implicit subjectivity and explicit rhetoric as well as more technical strategies like gatekeeping and topic associations. In part I, I reveal competing modernities in human rights discourses on queerness in the Russian Federation in documentary films, television and web docuseries, and a reality television competition show. In part II, I expose competing modernities in narratives and representations of gender and sexual deviation in the Russian Federation in animated television series for children and melodrama television series for adults. Popular media representations communicate continua of modernity, which is defined by Western neoliberal or Russian neoliberal civilizational progress. The continua articulate competition as linear progression or as concentric circles depending on the society’s dominant perspective and marginalized population. Discourse forms in responses to the media. I analyze the discourse and categorize negotiation as acceptance, neutrality, or rejection of the mediated hierarchies. Collective responses like public recognition and media critique as well as individual viewer responses form a discourse in favor of a one universalization against others. sl Parts I & II are three-fold: 1) I contextualize hierarchies of modernity, which are validated by Western or Russian neoliberal thinking on gender and sexual comportment, in chapters 1 & 4; 2) I analyze examples of popular media framing that articulate competing modernities in non-fiction and fiction genres in chapters 2 & 5; and, 3) I analyze discourses and negotiation in the collective and individual responses to the media in chapters 3 & 6. The analytical timeframe of this dissertation is January 2000 to September 2023, which incorporates significant attitude changes, cultural production, and violent events involving the marginalized subjects of parts I & II of this dissertation.
Yana Hashamova, PhD (Advisor)
Jennifer Suchland, PhD (Committee Member)
Sunnie Rucker-Chang, PhD (Committee Member)
Morgan Liu, PhD (Committee Member)
251 p.
Slavic Studies

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  • Rowe, II, R. J. (2024). Mediated Social Hierarchies and Gender & Sexuality in the Russian Federation [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1704482473242864

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Rowe, II, Randall. Mediated Social Hierarchies and Gender & Sexuality in the Russian Federation . 2024. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1704482473242864.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Rowe, II, Randall. "Mediated Social Hierarchies and Gender & Sexuality in the Russian Federation ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1704482473242864

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