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Deakin University
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The politics of animal rights activism: A frame analysis of the 2019 national direct action
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 11-2021
DOI: 10.1386/AJR_00080_7
Abstract: This article analyses news coverage of the 2019 animal rights direct action in Australia. A combination of frame and discourse analysis was applied to 39 news texts published between 1 April 2019 and 25 July 2019 across three news outlets – the ABC, Hobart’s Mercury and The Australian . Our analysis paid particular attention to the inclusion of sources, and we found that elite sources dominated the news coverage, resulting in a replication of the very power imbalance that the activists were struggling against. We also found that language choices resulted in the construction of the direct action as threatening, harmful and ‘un-Australian’. Our study shows that Australian news coverage of animal rights activism often marginalizes activist viewpoints, promoting a sense of ision rather than ersity. While it is relatively easy for animal rights activists in Australia to gain mainstream news attention, these activists face powerful ideological barriers when attempting to raise awareness of their cause because the news media tends to obscure rather than open the pathway to a constructive public discussion on the issue of animal welfare.
The “Rosie Batty Effect” and the Framing of Family Violence in Australian News Media
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-07-2017
The coronavirus crisis as tipping point: communicating the environment in a time of pandemic
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-08-2020
Abstract: This essay examines media and environment during the pandemic through the conceptual lens of environmental communication. We take the pulse of environmental communication under COVID-19, noting that while the quantity of media coverage on key environmental issues has fallen during the blanket coverage of the pandemic, COVID-19 has acted on multiple levels as a moment of discursive change in environmental communication. We contend that mediatised discourse on the environment during the pandemic has offered new insights, and an opportunity for a reset in environmental understandings, including a new consciousness of global connectedness in environmental responsibility, and an opportunity to improve publics’ environmental literacy. *** This essay is intended for the extraordinary issue, on Coronavirus, Crisis and Communication ***
Children’s television, environmental pedagogy and the (un)natural world ofdirtgirlworld
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2017
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