scholarly journals The suitcase, the samurai sword and the Pumpkin: Asian crime and NZ news media treatment

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-204
Author(s):  
Sarah Baker ◽  
Jeanie Benson
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
News Media ◽  
Chinese Student ◽  
High Profile ◽  
First Case ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Young Daughter

In 2005 and 2007, two high profile crimes were reported in the New Zealand media. The first case invovled the murder of a young Chinese student, Wan Biao, whose dismembered body was discovered in a suitcase. The second case involved domestic violence in which a Chinese man murdered his wife and fled the scene with their young daughter— who the press later dubbed 'Pumpkin' when she was found abandoned in Melbourne, Australia. The authors discuss how news and current affairs programmes decontextualise 'Asian' stories to portray a clear divide between the 'New zealand' public and the separate 'Asian other'. Asians are portrayed as a homogenous group and the media fails to distinguish between Asians as victims of crimes as a separate category to Asians as perpetrators of crimes. This may have consequences for the New Zealand Asian communities and the wider New Zealand society as a whole. 

Challenges to Press Freedom in India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalyani Chadha ◽  
Sachin Arya
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Government Data ◽  
The Right ◽  
Annual World

Since the late 1990s, the news media landscape in India has experienced widespread and arguably transformative shifts that are manifest in the explosive growth of media outlets and consumption at both national and regional levels. As of 2021, the country has over 100,000 registered periodicals and newspapers, with 17,000 dailies that report a combined circulation of over 240 million copies according to government data, as well as an estimated 400 news and current affairs channels and numerous news-related websites. Yet despite the existence of a seemingly dynamic and expansive news landscape, many observers have expressed significant concerns about the independence of the Fourth Estate in the world’s largest democracy. According to the annual World Press Freedom Index, compiled by the media watchdog group Reporters without Borders, India has experienced a steady decline in press freedom since 2015, slipping from a position of 135/180 in 2015 to 140/180 in 2019, and 142 in the 2020 report. At present, India ranks behind most of its neighbors, including Afghanistan (122), Bhutan (67), Nepal (112), and Sri Lanka (127). Thus, even though the writers of India’s constitution clearly recognized the right to the freedom of the press as an essential part of the freedom of speech and expression as guaranteed in Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution, and this right has generally been upheld in court, the space for the free expression of views and critique by the press—widely recognized as crucial to democratic functioning—has been shrinking consistently in the Indian context due to a variety of threats ranging from physical violence and intimidation of journalists, and government pressure on news outlets to structural economic forces.

scholarly journals REVIEW: Unchallenged bible of NZ media law

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-253
Author(s):  
Alan Samson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
News Media ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Media Law ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Privacy Law ◽  
The Press ◽  
Developing Area ◽  
Legal And Ethical Issues

Review of Media Law in New Zealand (5th ed.), by John Burrows and Ursula Cheer and The Journalist's Guide to Media Law: Dealing with Legal and Ethical Issues (2d ed.), by Mark PearsonBurrows and Cheers have provided a greatly expanded analysis of the developing area of privacy law, an area watched with trepidation by the news media after several high profile court cases, both in New Zealand and overseas.  Pearson also deserves praises for his clear chapter on the freedom of the press, a fundamental concept that is too easiy glossed over in benevolent democracies. 

How to Tell the Truth without Outraging the Press?

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Li Xiguang
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Chinese News Media

The commercialization of meclia in China has cultivated a new journalism business model characterized with scandalization, sensationalization, exaggeration, oversimplification, highly opinionated news stories, one-sidedly reporting, fabrication and hate reporting, which have clone more harm than good to the public affairs. Today the Chinese journalists are more prey to the manipu/ation of the emotions of the audiences than being a faithful messenger for the public. Une/er such a media environment, in case of news events, particularly, during crisis, it is not the media being scared by the government. but the media itself is scaring the government into silence. The Chinese news media have grown so negative and so cynica/ that it has produced growing popular clistrust of the government and the government officials. Entering a freer but fearful commercially mediated society, the Chinese government is totally tmprepared in engaging the Chinese press effectively and has lost its ability for setting public agenda and shaping public opinions. 

scholarly journals Mediatisation, Marginalisation and Disruption in Australian Indigenous Affairs

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry McCallum ◽  
Lisa Waller ◽  
Tanja Dreher
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Indigenous Australians ◽  
Constitutional Change ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Indigenous Media ◽  
Indigenous Participation ◽  
The Media

This article considers how changing media practices of minority groups and political and media elites impact on democratic participation in national debates. Taking as its case study the state-sponsored campaign to formally recognise Indigenous people in the Australian constitution, the article examines the interrelationships between political media and Indigenous participatory media—both of which we argue are undergoing seismic transformation. Discussion of constitutional reform has tended to focus on debates occurring in forums of influence such as party politics and news media that privilege the voices of only a few high-profile Indigenous media ‘stars’. Debate has progressed on the assumption that constitutional change needs to be settled by political elites and then explained and ‘sold’ to Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Our research on the mediatisation of policymaking has found that in an increasingly media-saturated environment, political leaders and their policy bureaucrats attend to a narrow range of highly publicised voices. But the rapidly changing media environment has disrupted the media-driven <em>Recognise</em> campaign. Vigorous public discussion is increasingly taking place outside the mainstream institutions of media and politics, while social media campaigns emerge in rapid response to government decisions. Drawing on a long tradition in citizens’ media scholarship we argue that the vibrant, diverse and growing Indigenous media sphere in Australia has increased the accessibility of Indigenous voices challenging the scope and substance of the recognition debate. The article concludes on a cautionary note by considering some tensions in the promise of the changing media for Indigenous participation in the national policy conversation.

scholarly journals KAJIAN LINGUISTIK FUNGSIONAL SISTEMIK PADA PEMBERITAAN KEKERASAN GENDER DALAM MEDIA CETAK LOMBOK POST DAN RELEVANSINYA TERHADAP PEMBELAJARAN WACANA DI PERGURUAN TINGGI

MABASAN ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-67
Author(s):  
Irma Setiawan ◽  
Muhammad Sukri
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
News Media ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Contemporary Issue ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University ◽  
Media Data

Gender violence is a contemporary issue often discussed by the community in social interactions. In this case, the form of gender violence more easily found in the news media text with a variety of cases, such as: marriage, divorce, rape, molestation or sexual abuse, assault, robbery, sexual gratification or prostitution, and even murder motivated revenge romance. Therefore, the purpose of  this study is to describe the representation of gender violence through transitivity system, modalities, and its relevance to discourse study in the  university as well. The theory which is used in this study is the theory  LFS presented by  Halliday in which it  focuses on the text , in this case the text of gender violence in the media. Data collection are performed by the method of literature analysis and note-taking. Sources of data obtained only on the text of gender violence in the media Lombok Post news. The collected data were analyzed by using both qualitative and quantitative method. The intended of those methods are to describe the research systematically, well organized, and patterned. The results of data analysis showed are domination of male’s action toward women in cases of domestic violence and non-domestic violence in the NTB area which had previously been analyzed through the system of transitivity and modality system. Women are more often represented as victims, whereas men often positioned as the doer in the act of gender violence, therefore the women are the aggrieved object in the cases of domestic violence and non-domestic violence.

scholarly journals Media-Analytics.org: A Resource to Research Language Usage by News Media Outlets

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 03004
Author(s):  
David Rozado
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Language Usage ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
The Media ◽  
Human Skills ◽  
Textual Content ◽  
Strength Of Association

Most citizens in modern liberal democracies regularly consume news media content to inform themselves about current affairs. Thus, content analysis of news and opinion articles from popular media outlets can provide rich insight about the cultural milieu where such textual artifacts originated. Combining computational tools for content analysis with human led finesse can help an analyst exploit the capabilities of scalable computational methods while also leveraging human skills and expertise to guide the analysis. This work introduces an online tool, the http://media-analytics.org website, that empowers researchers by providing modern analytics tools to study language usage in textual content from news and opinion articles of major media outlets. Due to the diachronic nature of news articles, the Media-Analytics.org website allows the exploration of temporal dynamics in word frequency usage and strength of association between word pairs. It is the hope of the author that these tools can help other researchers gain insights about the temporal flux in language usage by major news media organizations.

scholarly journals Pacific Journalism Monographs No 2: Coups, conflicts and human rights

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
News Media ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
The Press ◽  
Media Credibility ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Peace Journalism ◽  
Corporate Integrity

At the heart of a global crisis over news media credibility and trust is Britain’s so-called Hackgate scandal involving the widespread allegations of phone-hacking and corruption against the now defunct Rupert Murdoch tabloid newspaper News Of The World. Major inquiries on media ethics, professionalism and accountability have been examining the state of the press in New Zealand, Britain and Australia. The Murdoch media empire has stretched into the South Pacific with the sale of one major title being forced by political pressure. The role of news media in global South nations and the declining credibility of some sectors of the developed world’s Fourth Estate also pose challenges for the future of democracy. Truth, censorship, ethics and corporate integrity are increasingly critical media issues in the digital age for a region faced with coups, conflicts and human rights violations, such as in Fiji and West Papua. In this monograph, Professor David Robie reflects on the challenges in the context of the political economy of the media and journalism education in the Asia-Pacific region. He also engages with emerging disciplines such as deliberative journalism, peace journalism, human rights journalism, and revisits notions of critical development journalism and citizen journalism.

Coverage of Women’s Issues by Urdu and English Press: A Comparative Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1and2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. G. K. Sahu ◽  
Shah Alam
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media

We are living in a mediated world where every aspect of human life is getting affected by images of media. Consciously or unconsciously, knowingly or unknowingly our attitudes, values and belief systems are getting increasingly influenced by media. Some media critics expressed serious concern over the influence of the media in our everyday life. In the contemporary media saturated world, the agenda of the media becoming the public agenda. It is in this context, the news media play an important role in shaping public opinion and creating consciousness on different issues. Keeping in view of the importance of the news media in the contemporary society, the paper makes an attempt to ascertain the agenda setting role of the press towards women’s issues. For the purpose two mainstream dailies- one from the English and the other from the Urdu language newspapers purposively taken and their contents related to women’s issues have been subjected to detailed analysis.

scholarly journals “Go NZ YAS!!”: Children’s news media texts as curriculum resources in Aotearoa New Zealand

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-349
Author(s):  
Alexandra C Gunn ◽  
Nicola Surtees
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
News Media ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Media Content ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
Pedagogical Strategy ◽  
Know How ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
The World

Attending to current affairs and news within schools’ curricula is a potential pedagogical strategy that holds promise for addressing children’s knowledge, perspectives and agency in the world. However, our research suggests teachers’ good intentions may be compromised by tension between the details of news media content and the curriculum as enacted and planned. We report here on a study investigating two children’s news media publications designed to support Aotearoa New Zealand’s school curriculum. Our research enquires into content produced as children’s news and associated discourses about Aotearoa New Zealand, Aotearoa New Zealand life and the world. A dominant category of news reporting in the texts was sport (national and international). Analysis of this category identified particular discourses and constructions of New Zealand, New Zealanders and ‘others’ within the texts. Individual and collective sporting heroism was a dominant discourse in both the news items and children’s published responses. Furthermore, a construction of Aotearoa New Zealand as a relatively safe and non-corrupt place to live was also observed. Questions of what is important to know, how children are engaging with such valued knowledge and implications for teaching and teachers’ practices are raised from this research. Importantly, we ask: is this preoccupation with sports and heroism within children’s news made at the expense of opportunities to engage with children about a fuller range of real-world issues, including ‘difficult knowledge’, that potentially impact upon their lives?

scholarly journals Messages about the family in the press and media

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Anh Nguyet
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Gender Division Of Labor ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media

Family is the most solid fulcrum and incomparable peace for every human being. It is always a place full of love to return to, so the message of marriage and family is mentioned often in the media in many different ways. This study explores which topics about marriage-family are mentioned the most, how male and female images appear in the family, specifically: the role in maintaining family happiness is assigned. Who are the perpetrators and causes of domestic violence, and how is the gender division of labor in the family reflected in the media? Through research to overcome and gradually eliminate gender stereotypes in media messages, contribute to promoting gender equality.

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