TY - JOUR
T1 - Australian Media Messages: Critical Discourse Analysis of Two Intimate Homicides Involving Domestic Violence
AU - Easteal, Patricia
AU - Holland, Kate
AU - Breen, Michelle Dunne
AU - Vaughan, Cathy
AU - Sutherland, Georgina
N1 - Funding Information:
Kate Holland is a senior research fellow in the News and Media Research Center, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra, and recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for a project (grant number DE140100100) examining media discourse on mental health issues, journalists’ reporting practices, audience reception, and the media-oriented practices of mental health consumers/service users, advocates, and professionals. She has published research on media and public discourses about mental distress, obesity, alcohol and pregnancy, the swine flu pandemic, and on pro-ana online communities and anti-stigma campaigns.
Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was produced with funding from the Australian Government and the Australian state and territory governments through Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS). ANROWS gratefully acknowledges the financial and other support it has received from these governments, without which this work would not have been possible. The findings and views reported in this article are those of the authors and cannot be attributed to the Australian Government, or any Australian state or territory government.
Funding Information:
This work was produced with funding from the Australian Government and the Australian state and territory governments through Australia?s National Research Organisation for Women?s Safety (ANROWS). ANROWS gratefully acknowledges the financial and other support it has received from these governments, without which this work would not have been possible. The findings and views reported in this article are those of the authors and cannot be attributed to the Australian Government, or any Australian state or territory government.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2018/7
Y1 - 2018/7
N2 - This study uses critical discourse analysis to examine news reporting of two cases of intimate partner violence in Australia. The fine-grained analysis of newswriting and news-editing practices focuses particularly on the lexical features and referential strategies used to represent the perpetrator and the victim, the crime, and the location of the crime. Findings show that reporting often omits social context, sensationalizes, and acts to shift blame in ways that do not increase public understanding of the nature of domestic violence. These results build on international findings and add to the evidence base about media reporting of violence against women.
AB - This study uses critical discourse analysis to examine news reporting of two cases of intimate partner violence in Australia. The fine-grained analysis of newswriting and news-editing practices focuses particularly on the lexical features and referential strategies used to represent the perpetrator and the victim, the crime, and the location of the crime. Findings show that reporting often omits social context, sensationalizes, and acts to shift blame in ways that do not increase public understanding of the nature of domestic violence. These results build on international findings and add to the evidence base about media reporting of violence against women.
KW - Australian media and intimate partner homicide
KW - Australian media and violence against women
KW - violence against women
KW - media and critical discourse analysis
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UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/australian-media-messages-critical-discourse-analysis-two-intimate-homicides-involving-domestic-viol
U2 - 10.1177/1077801218780364
DO - 10.1177/1077801218780364
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85049858591
SN - 1552-8448
VL - 25
SP - 441
EP - 462
JO - Violence Against Women
JF - Violence Against Women
IS - 4
ER -