The project concept

Since September 2013, I have been working on a project entitled Attitudes towards confessional and sexual minorities in the changing Latvian, Lithuanian and Polish media discourse, as a postdoctoral fellow of the Zukunftskolleg (see website) at the University in Konstanz, Germany. This long title is actually a chain of "keywords" that reflect all the different approaches and perspectives employed in the project: from social psychology (where the concept of attitudes comes from), through (media) discourse analysis, to history (hence the word changing in the title). 
Only recently have I noticed that the total number of these keywords is six - like the six colours of the rainbow flag:

Attitudes towards
(confessional and) sexual minorities
in the discourse
of the media
in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland
from a historical perspective

The title in the flag differs slightly from the original. Some keywords have changed places to reflect the degree of generality/specificity: now the flag also represents a cline from the most general/abstract to the most specific. Confessional minorities are in brackets because I have been focusing on the sexual minorities so far.

Each post which I have published here since November 2013 falls under one of these themes. Below, they are all ordered according to the corresponding colour, which I find much more useful than using labels or other tools.

Attitudes (towards)

confessional and sexual minorities

in the discourse

of the media

in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland

from a historical perspective

These are the introductory posts, describing the theoretical and methodological foundations of the project. They are going to be followed by short essays based either on the examination of relevant literature or my own empirical research.

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