Poor Relations: Australian News Media Representations of Ethnic Minorities, Implications and Responses

Ewart, Jacqui; Beard, Jillian

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-59631-4_9

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“…Yet journalism organisations have been critiqued for how little (or poorly) they cover identity groups on society's margins. This includes disparities related to gender, disability, and race and ethnicity (Ewart & Beard, 2017; Romano, 2021). These disparities sadly extend to age, too, and are reflected in the lower proportion of stories on aged care and ageing compared to other topics (Gilbert, 2021).…”

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Visibility and invisibility in the aged care sector: visual representation in Australian news from 2018–2021

Thomson

Miller

Holland-Batt

et al. 2022

Media International Australia

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The skyrocketing number and severity of issues in Australian aged care led to the establishment of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety in 2018. Yet, compared to other Royal Commissions, media coverage has been relatively muted, and public awareness and engagement with aged care issues has been uneven. Journalists bear a significant responsibility for shaping the national conversation about aged care, and ensuring this demographic is reflected in the news Australians consume. Due to their unique properties, images are especially important in giving visibility to this historically marginalised topic, and to emotionally engaging an often apathetic public. As such, this study focuses on the aged care visuals accompanying Australian news coverage during the period of the Royal Commission's announcement through to four weeks after the government's response. Drawing on the lens of symbolic annihilation, it does this through a visual analysis that examines who or what is represented and the role of news values in shaping the selection of images included with news reports over this period.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visibility and invisibility in the aged care sector: visual representation in Australian news from 2018–2021

Thomson

Miller

Holland-Batt

et al. 2022

Media International Australia

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“…Other studies show that marginalized minorities are more often criminalized and less likely to be depicted as victims (Dukes and Gaither, 2017). Other studies pondered on the role of marginalization being a significant feature when covering minority-related events (Ewart and Beard, 2017). The case of Roma is no different from that of African Americans, Muslims, or Maori.…”

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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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“…Studies such as those by Ewart and Beard (2017) or Nunn (2010) find that the problematic media in which ethnic minorities are portrayed by the Australian media reflects the manner of representation found in other Western countries with multicultural populations-for example, in associating specific cultural, religious or ethnic groups with crime, and situating groups externally to the dominant culture. Lack of representation as 'Australian', and the media's use of discourses of otherness, as outlined by Dunn, Klocker and Salabay (2007), reproduces racist and discriminatory sentiment against ethnic and religious minorities.…”

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1950s vibe, 21st century audience: Australia’s dearth of on-screen diversity

Bahfen

2019

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The difference between how multicultural Australia is ‘in real life’ and ‘in broadcasting’ can be seen through data from the Census, and from Screen Australia’s most recent research into on screen diversity. In 2016, these sources of data coincided with the Census, which takes place every five years. Conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, this presents a ‘snapshot’ of Australian life. From the newest Census figures in 2016, it appears that nearly half of the population in Australia (49 percent) had either been born overseas (identifying as first generation Australian) or had one or both parents born overseas (identifying as second generation Australian). Nearly a third, or 32 percent, of Australians identified as having come from non-Anglo Celtic backgrounds, and 2.8 percent of Australians identify as Indigenous (Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander). Nearly a fifth, or 18 percent, of Australians identify as having a disability. Screen Australia is the government agency that oversees film and TV funding and research. Conducted in 2016, Screen Australia’s study looked at 199 television dramas (fiction, excluding animation) that aired between 2011 and 2015. The comparison between these two sources of data reveals that with one exception, there is a marked disparity between diversity as depicted in the lived experiences of Australians and recorded by the Census, and diversity as depicted on screen and recorded by the Screen Australia survey.

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Poor Relations: Australian News Media Representations of Ethnic Minorities, Implications and Responses

Cited by 8 publications

References 38 publications

Visibility and invisibility in the aged care sector: visual representation in Australian news from 2018–2021

Visibility and invisibility in the aged care sector: visual representation in Australian news from 2018–2021

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

1950s vibe, 21st century audience: Australia’s dearth of on-screen diversity

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