Constructing the Other: News media representations of a predominantly ‘brown’ community in New Zealand

Allen, Jean M.; Bruce, Toni

doi:10.24135/pjr.v23i1.33

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“…Thus, when the media underlined the presence of isolated conflicts in some localities inhabited by Roma, they rearticulated and refreshed the "cultural convention of violence" as features characteristic to the Roma. Studies show that institutions and the media typically depicts minorities as the criminal others involved in crime (Allen and Bruce, 2017;Creţan and O'brien, 2019;Creţan and Powell, 2018). The same strategy was noticed by Erjavec et al, in Slovenia during a situation of crisis.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 54%

The Representation of Roma in the Romanian Media During COVID-19: Performing Control Through Discursive-Performative Repertoires

Chiruta

2021

Front. Polit. Sci.

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This article investigates the narratives employed by the Romanian media in covering the development of COVID-19 in Roma communities in Romania. This paper aims to contribute to academic literature on Romani studies, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, by adopting as its case study the town of Ţăndărei, a small town in the south of Romania, which in early 2020 was widely reported by Romanian media during both the pre- and post-quarantine period. The contributions rest on anchoring the study in post-foundational theory and media studies to understand the performativity of Roma identity and the discursive-performative practices of control employed by the Romania media in the first half of 2020. Aroused by the influx of ethnic Romani returning from Western Europe, the Romanian mainstream media expanded its coverage through sensationalist narratives and depictions of lawlessness and criminality. These branded the ethnic minority as a scapegoat for the spreading of the virus. Relying on critical social theory, this study attempts to understand how Roma have been portrayed during the Coronavirus crisis. Simultaneously, this paper resonates with current Roma theories about media discourses maintaining and reinforcing a sense of marginality for Roma communities. To understand the dynamics of Romanian media discourses, this study employs NVivo software tools and language-in-use discourse analysis to examine the headlines and sub headlines of approximately 300 articles that have covered COVID-19 developments in Roma communities between February and July 2020. The findings from the study indicate that the media first focused on exploiting the sensationalism of the episodes involving Roma. Second, the media employed a logic of polarization to assist the authorities in retaking control of the pandemic and health crisis from Romania. The impact of the current study underlines the need to pay close attention to the dynamics of crises when activating historical patterns of stigma vis-à-vis Roma communities in Eastern Europe.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 54%

The Representation of Roma in the Romanian Media During COVID-19: Performing Control Through Discursive-Performative Repertoires

Chiruta

2021

Front. Polit. Sci.

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“…Previous literature (Allen & Bruce, 2017;De Coninck et al, 2018;Jacobsen et al, 2012;Lecheler et al, 2015;Schemer, 2013) suggest that media framing affects people's perceptions about social issues and subsequently builds biased public opinion about minority groups. The findings of this study show that news framing is capable of building social constructions of reality through constant images of selected reality.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Limited and biased coverage of ethnic minorities also contributes to the phenomena. Studies show that repetitive news reporting of crime and violence connected to ethnic minorities can build antagonistic images of marginalised groups (Allen & Bruce, 2017;Hannis, 2009).…”

Section: Ethnic Minoritiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Papua and the public: News framing of the 2019 Asrama Papua conflict

Harsa

Rofil

2021

PJR

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The 2019 Asrama Papua conflict in Surabaya initiated many discourses on racial discrimination and police brutality towards Papuan students in Indonesia. The question arises as to how the public perceive news framing and its effects on public opinion. This question will be answered by examining reports in the newspapers Kompas (published in Jakarta) and Jubi (Jayapura, Papua) which display quite different thematic and rhetorical structures. As secondary research, this article aims to assess the public opinion on the framing of the incident based on Berger and Luckmann’s Social Construction of Reality. Through qualitative focus group discussion, this study examines people’s perceptions of news media framing and its effect on the shaping of public opinion towards an ethnic minority group. The results show that media framing reinforces a certain idea of public opinion towards minority groups through various factors such as Perspective of Reporting and Depth of Reporting, both of which differ in Kompas and Jubi as a result of differences in their audiences. Differences were also found in such factors as the thematic structure between lens of sympathy and lens of antagonism. Ultimately, this research suggests that the public possess an awareness of news framing, thus giving them the capability to construct their own critical viewpoints towards media and the incident.

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“…Their experience reflected the distrust that had built up between Pacific Islanders and the Police, to the point where Pasifika children were suspicious of the police (Fridkin, Winterseick, Courey & Thompson 2017). As Allen and Bruce (2017) noted, Pacific Islanders were two times more likely to be stopped by New Zealand's police than Pākehā.…”

Section: Dawn Raid and Polynesian Panthersmentioning

confidence: 98%