Abstract
With much of the general public gaining information from the popular media, particularly on subjects that are sensitive, misrepresentation can be very damaging. Often utilizing experts, to reinforce their viewpoint, the popular media continues to shape our understanding positively. This can be evidenced from much of the popular media representations about adoption. It is the general public’s capacity to connect with adoption as a human-interest subject about loss, abandonment, reunification, and “otherness” that continues to fascinate and fuel the interest in these representations across a diverse range of media outlets.
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Samuels, J. (2018). Popular Media Representations. In: Adoption in the Digital Age. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70413-5_3
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