Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging

Description

An important resource for understanding, and makes a vital contribution to, debates surrounding belonging in Australia.

Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging explores mediated debates about belonging in contemporary Australia by combining research that proposes conceptual and historical frameworks for understanding its meaning in the Australian context. A range of themes and case studies make the book a significant theoretical resource as well as a much-needed update on work in this area. Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging also provides an intervention that engages with key contemporary issues, questions and problems around the politics of belonging that are relevant not only to academic debate, but also to contemporary policy development and media and popular discussion.

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Part I Theorizing Belonging in Contemporary Australia; 1. Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging, David Nolan, Karen Farquharson and Timothy Marjoribanks; 2. Politics of Belonging in a Mediated Society: A Contribution to the Conceptual Exegesis, Val Colic-Peisker; 3. Media, Belonging and Being Heard: Community Media and the Politics of Listening, Tanja Dreher; Part II Sudanese Australians, Media Practices and the Politics of Belonging; 4. Talking about the Other: Sudanese Australians and the Language of Difference on Talkback Radio, Scott Hanson-Easey; 5. In a Context of Crime: Sudanese and South Sudanese Australians in the Media, Karen Farquharson and David Nolan; 6. Journalism Practice, the Police and Sudanese Australians, Denis Muller, Karen Farquharson and David Nolan; 7. Constructing the Heroic Other and ‘They Always Asked about Africa, They Never Asked about Me’: Three Screen Representations of Sudanese Australians, Paola Bilbrough; 8. Towards an Australian Framework for Best Practice in Reporting News Involving Muslims and Islam, Jacqui Ewart and Mark Pearson; 9. Creating Media, Creating Belonging: Young People from Refugee Backgrounds and the Home Lands Project, Raelene Wilding and Sandra Gifford; 10. Creating Belonging: The Possibilities and Limitations of an Organizational News Media Intervention, Timothy Marjoribanks, Denis Muller and Michael Gawenda; Notes on Contributors; Index.

Sujets

• Social sciences
• Media studies

Informations

• Publié par: Anthem Press
• Date de parution: 22 mars 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783087808
• Langue: English

Extrait

Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging
Anthem Studies in Australian Politics, Economics and Society
This series showcases the most significant contributions to scholarship on a wide range of social science issues, dealing with the changing politics, economics and society of Australia, while not losing sight of the interplay of other regional and global forces and their influence and impact on this region. Anthem Studies in Australian Politics, Economics and Society is intended as an interdisciplinary series, at the interface of politics, law, sociology, media, policy, political economy, economics, business, criminology and anthropology. It is seeking to publish high quality research which considers issues of power, justice and democracy; and provides a critical contribution to knowledge about Australian politics, economics and society. The series especially welcomes books from emerging scholars which contribute new perspectives on social science.
Series Editor-in-Chief
Sally Young – University of Melbourne, Australia
Series Editors
Timothy Marjoribanks – Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Joo-Cheong Tham – Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia
Editorial Board
Iain Campbell – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia
Sara Charlesworth – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia
Kevin Foster – Monash University, Australia
Anika Gauja – The University of Sydney, Australia
John Germov – The University of Newcastle, Australia
Michael Gilding – Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Simon Jackman – Stanford University, USA
Carol Johnson – The University of Adelaide, Australia
Deb King – Flinders University, Australia
Jude McCulloch – Monash University, Australia
Jenny Morgan – University of Melbourne, Australia
Vanessa Ratten – La Trobe University, Australia
Ben Spies-Butcher – Macquarie University, Australia
Ariadne Vromen – The University of Sydney, Australia
John Wanna – Australian National University, Australia
George Williams – The University of New South Wales, Australia
Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging
Edited by David Nolan, Karen Farquharson and Timothy Marjoribanks
Anthem Press
An imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company
www.anthempress.com

This edition first published in UK and USA 2018
by ANTHEM PRESS
75–76 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8HA, UK
or PO Box 9779, London SW19 7ZG, UK
and
244 Madison Ave #116, New York, NY 10016, USA

© 2018 David Nolan, Karen Farquharson and Timothy Marjoribanks editorial matter and selection; individual chapters © individual contributors

The moral right of the authors has been asserted.

All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN-13: 978-1-78308-778-5 (Hbk)
ISBN-10: 1-78308-778-1 (Hbk)

This title is also available as an e-book.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Part I. THEORIZING BELONGING IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIA
Chapter 1. Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging
David Nolan, Karen Farquharson and Timothy Marjoribanks
Chapter 2. Politics of Belonging in a Mediated Society: A Contribution to the Conceptual Exegesis
Val Colic-Peisker
Chapter 3. Media, Belonging and Being Heard: Community Media and the Politics of Listening
Tanja Dreher
Part II. SUDANESE AUSTRALIANS, MEDIA PRACTICES AND THE POLITICS OF BELONGING
Chapter 4. Talking about the Other: Sudanese Australians and the Language of Difference on Talkback Radio
Scott Hanson-Easey
Chapter 5. In a Context of Crime: Sudanese and South Sudanese Australians in the Media
Karen Farquharson and David Nolan
Chapter 6. Journalism Practice, the Police and Sudanese Australians
Denis Muller, Karen Farquharson and David Nolan
Chapter 7. Constructing the Heroic Other and ‘They Always Asked about Africa, They Never Asked about Me’: Three Screen Representations of Sudanese Australians
Paola Bilbrough
Part III. SHIFTING THE POLITICS OF BELONGING: MEDIA INTERVENTIONS AND POSSIBILITIES FOR TRANSFORMATION
Chapter 8. Towards an Australian Framework for Best Practice in Reporting News Involving Muslims and Islam
Jacqui Ewart and Mark Pearson
Chapter 9. Creating Media, Creating Belonging: Young People from Refugee Backgrounds and the Home Lands Project
Raelene Wilding and Sandra Gifford
Chapter 10. Creating Belonging: The Possibilities and Limitations of an Organizational News Media Intervention
Timothy Marjoribanks, Denis Muller and Michael Gawenda
Notes on Contributors

Index
ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure

2.1 The ‘triads’: an intersecting conceptual framework

Tables

5.1 Newspaper items on Sudanese Australians, 2007–12
5.2 Television news items on Sudanese Australians, 2007–12
5.3 Main category of news item (per cent)
5.4 Other elements included where the main context was crime (per cent)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book brings together contributions from leading scholars in their disciplines, working on critical issues advancing our understanding of belonging. As an editorial team, we thank them for their willingness to contribute their important work to this volume and for their earlier participation in a workshop that provided the basis for this book. As a note, individual authors have provided their own acknowledgements where appropriate in their respective chapters.
We thank the editorial and production team at Anthem Press for their work through all stages of the editing and production process. It has been a pleasure to work with them, and we thank them for their professionalism and encouragement in bringing this book to publication. We thank Vassilissa Carangio for her work on the final manuscript. We also very much thank the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne for a publication grant that contributed to the final publication of this book. We are also grateful to Matthew McCarthy, Founding Director of Clear Design, for his permission to use the cover image, which features posters produced for the ‘Identity: Yours, Mine, Ours’ exhibition at the Immigration Museum, Melbourne. The project would not have been possible without the support of these individuals and organizations.
This book had its origins in a research project on the communication needs of Sudanese Australians, with a research team of chief investigators that comprised Michael Gawenda, David Nolan, Karen Farquharson, Denis Muller and Timothy Marjoribanks. A number of the chapters in this book present findings from the project. The members of the research team wish to express their heartfelt thanks to all those who contributed to this project, in particular Violeta Politoff, who organized much of the early work; Reece Lamshed, who managed the training programme; and Alice Burgin and Aisling Bailey, who, along with Violetta Politoff, provided excellent research assistance.
Particular thanks also to all the members of the Sudanese and South-Sudanese Australian communities who participated in or in any way contributed to the project. Without their willingness to participate in the project (details of which are provided in chapters in this book), the research project and book would not have been possible. Louise Wilson and Lucy Chancellor-Weale at the Centre for Advancing Journalism (CAJ) at the University of Melbourne provided invaluable and greatly appreciated administrative support throughout the project, and we also thank Margaret Simons for ensuring the continued support of the CAJ.
The contributions of the project’s industry partners the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Adult Multicultural Education Services (AMES) are also richly deserving of acknowledgement and thanks. AMES provided accommodation for the training and for workshops at which the participants were able to gain access to computers for the purpose of building and maintaining the website that became the main work of the group. We are particularly grateful to Cath Scarfe and Adam Baxter for their support and advice, and to Maureen O’Keeffe and Maria Tsopanis for their work in contributing to and facilitating the training sessions.
The ABC, in particular Carolyn MacDonald and Frances Green, provided access to their journalists and persuaded them to act as mentors, gave generously of their own time as teachers and harnessed resources across the organization to provide the participants with training in technical as well as editorial fields.
Through the project, numerous current and former journalists, as well as other colleagues, made significant contributions to the training programme through a range of activities including delivering training and being involved in mentoring. We thank them for their generosity and for their important contribution to the project. We also thank members of the broader community who attended project roundtables for their interest in, and engagement with, the project.
The project was made possible by a Linkage Project grant from the Australian Research Council, ARC LP 110100063. We are grateful for the support provided by the ARC. We also