Abstract
Socio-economic problems had triggered agitations, that confronted with methods of repression and social control. On 27/4/2012 during police operations was found the first woman with HIV and by prosecutor’s order, personal information was promulgated. In May, other 16 women found with HIV and the procedure was repeated. Women were officially acquitted by the court in 2016. At the same time, organizations reacted to the promulgation of personal information. The aim of the survey was the investigation of the way that the events were shown by the media. Additionally, the researcher correlated the events about women with HIV with the socio-economic conditions prevailing in 2012. For the investigation of the case, was utilized a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodology in the research part of the survey. The case presented by the media with elements of moral panic. Women belonged to a vulnerable social group, that face up social stigma. The promulgation of personal information stigmatized women because media presented them as the cause of HIV increase. However, there were samples of good practices, such as cooperation of social scientists and journalists, initiative of signing collection aimed at withdrawing of photographs and women’s IDs from the Internet and visibility of their opinion through interviews. Consequently, interdisciplinarity is beneficial as is achieved the promotion of a substantiated scientific point of view. In addition, there should be some guidelines for journalists on how to manage and transmit current events with social implications.
Presenters
Maria Panagiota MoraitiStudent, Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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KEYWORDS
HIV, MEDIA, MORAL PANIC, SOCIO-ECONOMIC CRISIS, SEROPOSITIVE WOMEN
