TY - JOUR
T1 - Australian Media Messages
T2 - 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 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
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 - media and critical discourse analysis
KW - violence against women
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049858591&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1077801218780364
DO - 10.1177/1077801218780364
M3 - Article
C2 - 30001682
AN - SCOPUS:85049858591
SN - 1077-8012
VL - 25
SP - 441
EP - 462
JO - Violence Against Women
JF - Violence Against Women
IS - 4
ER -
