International Comics

From what I can see it looks like this one is from the Dominican Republic I would say it is negative as it gives a bunch of other things that his friend is for. The guy on the left asks, "Diognes are you alright with homosexual marriage" and the guy on the right says "yes" and then goes off on other types of marriages like one to get married to animals, and even one to get married to a panty. If you want a full translation let me know.

coded cartoons

GAY RIGHTS (same sex marriage, gays in military, Prop 8, gay adoption, etc.)
• Cartoon Analysis Worksheet: Attach to cartoon.
Team Member Name: Spencer Wright
Publication: The Scranton Times-Tribune Date: 7/19/2011
Cartoonist: John Cole U.S./International (circle)
Title of cartoon: Gay marriage rights BW Cartoon#: 95647
What action is taking place in the cartoon? While performing the marriage vows for a gay couple the person doing it says “’til death or crossing the Pennsylvania state line do you part?”


Tone of the cartoon:
1) positive or negative framing of sexual minorities (circle answer)
2) framing is supportive or opposed to rights for sexual minorities (Circle answer)
What “reality” is constructed/framed about sexual minorities and their rights?

The reality constructed is that while New York has granted same-sex couples the right to marry, once they leave the state they are not guaranteed those same rights.

GAY RIGHTS (same sex marriage, gays in military, Prop 8, gay adoption, etc.)
• Cartoon Analysis Worksheet: Attach to cartoon.
Team Member Name: Spencer Wright
Publication: The Buffalo News Date: 7/22/11
Cartoonist: Adam Zyglis U.S./International (circle)
Title of cartoon: Same sex marriage vows Cartoon# 95885
What action is taking place in the cartoon? A man with a NY State briefcase says “I promise to honor and obey you from this point forward,” to Lady Justice


Tone of the cartoon:
1) positive or negative framing of sexual minorities (circle answer)
2) framing is supportive or opposed to rights for sexual minorities (Circle answer)
What “reality” is constructed/framed about sexual minorities and their rights? The reality constructed is that New York hadn’t been giving same-sex couples equal justice before they began allowing same-sex marriages.

GAY RIGHTS (same sex marriage, gays in military, Prop 8, gay adoption, etc.)
• Cartoon Analysis Worksheet: Attach to cartoon.
Team Member Name: Spencer Wright
Publication: MSNBC.com Date: 7/16/2004
Cartoonist: Daryl Cagle U.S./International (circle)
Title of cartoon: Gay matrimonies Cartoon# 6634
What action is taking place in the cartoon? A man is saying to a woman that he wants to marry her, but says he can’t because the “moral foundation of marriages has crumbled” because Massachusetts started to allow gay marriages.


Tone of the cartoon:
1) positive or negative framing of sexual minorities (circle answer)
2) framing is supportive or opposed to rights for sexual minorities (Circle answer)
What “reality” is constructed/framed about sexual minorities and their rights? It’s framing that some people are against same-sex marriage because it will destroy the “moral foundation of marriage.”

GAY RIGHTS (same sex marriage, gays in military, Prop 8, gay adoption, etc.)
• Cartoon Analysis Worksheet: Attach to cartoon.
Team Member Name: Spencer Wright
Publication: Salt Lake Tribune Date: 8/5/2010
Cartoonist: Pat Bagley U.S./International (circle)
Title of cartoon: Gay marriage Cartoon# 81524
What action is taking place in the cartoon? A religious leader is saying that the government shouldn’t tell him and his congregation what to believe but that it should tell a gay couple what to believe


Tone of the cartoon:
1) positive or negative framing of sexual minorities (circle answer)
2) framing is supportive or opposed to rights for sexual minorities (Circle answer)
What “reality” is constructed/framed about sexual minorities and their rights? It’s framing that religions are allowed to believe and act as they want, but that many times religion doesn’t want same-sex couples to believe or act as they want

GAY RIGHTS (same sex marriage, gays in military, Prop 8, gay adoption, etc.)
• Cartoon Analysis Worksheet: Attach to cartoon.
Team Member Name: Spencer Wright
Publication: Salt Lake Tribune Date: 10/14/2008
Cartoonist: Pat Bagley U.S./International (circle)
Title of cartoon: Proposition 8 Cartoon# 56523
What action is taking place in the cartoon? Two missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say “weirdos” to each other while looking at a man and a boy holding “no on Prop 8” signs.


Tone of the cartoon:
1) positive or negative framing of sexual minorities (circle answer)
2) framing is supportive or opposed to rights for sexual minorities (Circle answer)
What “reality” is constructed/framed about sexual minorities and their rights? This cartoon is constructing that in the same ways people misjudge LDS missionaries as “weird” the LDS people and others judge those against Prop 8, and for same-sex marriage in general as “weird.”

GAY RIGHTS (same sex marriage, gays in military, Prop 8, gay adoption, etc.)
• Cartoon Analysis Worksheet: Attach to cartoon.
Team Member Name: Spencer Wright
Publication: Salt Lake Tribune Date: 11/14/2008
Cartoonist: Pat Bagley U.S./International (circle)
Title of cartoon: Gay mormon Cartoon# 57689
What action is taking place in the cartoon? Religious leaders on top of the Salt Lake Temple are saying “on the other hand, it is nice to face a crowd that isn’t nodding off” while looking down on protesters who want to vote no on prop 8.


Tone of the cartoon:
1) positive or negative framing of sexual minorities (circle answer)
2) framing is supportive or opposed to rights for sexual minorities (Circle answer)
What “reality” is constructed/framed about sexual minorities and their rights? This is framing the people who were against Prop 8 as being unjustly hard done and judged by the LDS church.

My Coding

Here is the comics I coded
http://travispessetto.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/EditorialCartoons.pdf

These are the cartoons i will be using:

If you guys find any international cartoons let me know so that i can use those instead. the only international cartoons i have are from Canada.

I thought I would contribute to the decoding of this image. In the poster in the above image I believe the person depicted is Boyd K. Packer one of the 12 apostles of the Church of Jesus-Christ of later day saints. check the next image to see what you think.
The red and blue come from one of president Obama's campaign poster for hope seen in the next image.

Which could mean that this editorial cartoon is saying that there is hope for gay people if they change the way they think or it implies that gays have a choice if they are gay or not. Which is somewhat true considering that the church's view is that one may have more thoughts about same sex attraction but, does not think you have to act on it and that in essence everyone is heterosexual at their root.

It is also interesting to note that the pose of Elder Packer is similar to that of Uncle Sam's, "I want you" poster, shown below. So, does this mean that he is saying, "I want you to change and there is hope?" Maybe, maybe not. Leave your opinions in the comments.

10/25 Page Set-up

Here's the work that I did on the blog yesterday. Let me know if you think anything needs to be changed, adjusted, fixed or added. Also, if anyone needs help on anything let me know and I'd be glad to assist!

Introduction

Welcome to the Cooper's Troop blog on Gay Marriage -- where all false misconceptions on
the issue will be dissolved and truth will be revealed, through the depiction and analysis of
 editorial cartoons.

Why Gay Marriage?

Our group decided to do our project on gay marriage because it was a topic that we had all heard about but didn't know the facts on. As a topic, it caught our interest because of the heated debate following it in the United States. For this project we decided to take the many different subjects that gay marriage entails (such as: religion and gay marriage, proposition 8, national gay marriage hot spots, and international gay marriage policies), find the facts on these issues, and analyze how each subject is portrayed through editorial cartoons.

Mission Statement

To bring to light the truths about gay marriage and to help viewers better understand
 the tools used by editorial cartoonists in their drawings to represent an opinion.

Important Things to Understand

Before proceeding to the rest of the blog, here's a few things that you should know:

Media Effects Theories

1. Framing: a theory used by the media to present information to viewers in a certain "framed" way in order to effect the audience's way of thinking about a certain issue. Framing includes adding emphasis to certain things, leaving details out, and can be used to develop a person/organization's biased agenda. However, in the case of editorial cartoons, framing is an acceptable tool as it expresses a certain opinion on an issue. Because the frame of the picture is limited, as viewers, we must think about not only the message and opinion being portrayed, but also the context surrounding the issue - What is going on in this situation? Who and what are being portrayed in what particular way? What are the actual facts? Without all the facts, either in a cartoon or a news story, framing can cause biased misconceptions about topics that hinder our ability to think critically about both sides of an issue before making a judgement. This is why understanding framing is so important and vital to our project.

2. Cultivation: the theory that a stable set of images portrayed throughout the media have a long term effect on the way we see the world, because of how media frame an issue. With editorial cartoons, this isn't too much of a problem because there are many different cartoonists, each with their own opinion. However, cultivation could affect a person in that it could result in biased opinion if only cartoons were looked at without any outside context.

Understanding the Basics of Editorial Cartoons

1. Humor: The use of wit, satire and humor to convey meaning in a cartoon should be understood. Almost all cartoons without fail use some sort of humor in their cartoons. Depicted images and words in cartoons, therefore, should not be taken seriously. Rather the viewer should ask why humor is being used and in what way to convey what meaning. This will help unveil what the artist is actually trying to say not only about the issue, but also about people in our society.

2. Fact: While editorial cartoons depict opinion in a comedic manner, they must still be based on fact so as not to present false information. It is these facts that readers must know in order to understand the opinion expressed in the cartoon.

3. Inform: Editorial cartoons must encourage critical thinking and try to inform readers. They are not only for pleasure. In order to fully understand editorial cartoons, the reader must look beyond the comedic content and understand what message the artist is really trying to convey. The underlying message can be revealed by analyzing what type of humor is being used and for what purpose. What meaning lies beyond the humor and why is such humor used? What people/places/things/ are depicted and why are they depicted that way? What is the background for this issue and how is it depicted in the cartoon? If the editorial cartoon does not raise such questions as well as provide factual, informational content with a comical aspect to it, the cartoon is ineffective.

Keep this in mind as you tour the rest of our blog and enjoy!

Project Blog

Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know that when you go about editing, saving and publishing your pages to be sure to click "No Gadget" when it brings up 3 different options after clicking "Publish Page". If you click any of the other options it messes up the page(which it's an easy fix, just easier if it never has to be fixed). Other then that, have at the pages.

Thanks,

Bradley

Also this might be a lot of work but i think for the religion one, we should do subpages on different religions: Like christianity, Islamic, Jewish...etc
And for the proposition 8 page, we should do subpages on like other laws that resemble proposition 8 in the United states and stuff like that.
what do you think???

Can you name mine

North America
South America
Western Europe
Northern Europe

Found a video on same-sex marriage
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/393041/july-25-2011/y2-gay

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Team Meeting 10/18

Yesterday our team met to discuss what we wanted to focus on for our project on same sex marriage and delegate research/different tasks. The emphases we picked to focus on are 1. Proposition 8 in California 2. The Hot Spots of same sex marriage in the U.S. 3. Same sex marriage policies in other countries in comparison with the United States' policy 4. Same sex marriage and religions, plus an introduction page.


We all came into the meeting with specific editorial cartoons that we had picked and we went through each cartoon together and decided if it was positive or negative and what section it would fit under. However, we decided not to go through and code/analyze the cartoons this time as our background knowledge in these areas still needs to be built up.

After we went through each cartoon together we delegated certain topics to each group member as follows:
-Allie: Blog introduction page and assembly of the team notebook/scrapbook
-Ami: Same sex marriage policies in different countries blog page
-Bradley: Proposition 8 blog page
-Spencer: Hot spots blog page
-Travis: Same sex marriage and religion blog page.

We decided that by the time we have the next group meeting to have all of our research done and each of our individual pages up and running. The next time we meet we will then go through and code and analyze each cartoon together. This was the extent of our meeting but we got a lots done!

More Cartoons.....yay!

Ok this should be all of the cartoons that we looked at together. Let me know if there's anymore, or if you find a new one don't hesitate to post it. Also let me know as soon as possible what cartoons you'll be using in your sections so that I can print them out and get the book started. Good luck in the research and let me know if you guys need anything!

More Editorials to Consider

Positive Framing Cartoons

Negative Framing Cartoons

Editorials

Here are some interesting editorials. I also liked Ami's idea of looking at other countries gay rights and laws.

Proposition 8

Election results
Yes or no	Votes	Percentage
Yes	7,001,084	52.24%
No	6,401,482	47.76%
Valid votes	13,402,566	97.52%
Invalid or blank votes	340,611	2.48%
Total votes	13,743,177	100.00%
Voter turnout	79.42%
Electorate	17,304,428

http://www.protectmarriage.com/prop8

      For proposition 8

http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/past/2008/general/title-sum/prop8-title-sum.htm

      Voter guide for proposition 8

http://www.rcbo.org/site/images/stories/respect_life/myths_and_facts_about_proposition_8.pdf

http://www.whatisprop8.com/

Hey Guys!

I thought it would be really cool if we had a page on the blog about other countries' laws about gay marriage. I think that would be really unique. So here is a list of countries and some information about each of them. There are about 16 countries here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Argentina : Argentina

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Belgium: Belgium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Canada: Canada

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_partnership_in_Iceland: Iceland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_Netherlands: Netherlands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Norway: Norway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_South_Africa: South Africa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Spain: Spain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Sweden: Sweden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Mexico_City: Mexico City

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacte_civil_de_solidarité: France

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_unions_in_New_Zealand: New Zealand

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_of_same-sex_unions_in_Germany: Germany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_of_same-sex_unions_in_Ireland: Ireland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_partnership_in_the_United_Kingdom: United Kingdom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_partnership_in_Switzerland: Switzerland

These are the pictures are found

Welcome, Welcome Everyone

Alrighty team! Our work blog is now up! Wahoo! Just remember to document any work/research that you do on the project so that you can be get credit for doing your part, other than that...knock yourselves out!