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650 5 _9252
_aFAMILY VIOLENCE
650 5 _9103
_aCHILD ABUSE
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022 _a2204-8907 (online)
040 _aAFVC
100 _aSutherland, Georgina
_95351
245 _aMedia representations of violence against women and their children :
_bfinal report
_cGeorgina Sutherland, Angus McCormack, Jane Pirkis, Cathy Vaughan, Michelle Dunne-Breen, Patricia Easteal and Kate Holland
260 _aSydney, NSW :
_bANROWS
300 _aelectronic document (72 pages); PDF file: 9.89 MB
500 _aANROWS Horizons, Issue 08, June 2016
520 _aThis project aimed to establish the extent and nature of reporting of violence against women by the Australian media to inform future strategies for change. Using both quantitative (content analysis) and qualitative (critical discourse analysis) methods, the study provided a glimpse into the complexity of reporting practices. It found that: There is a clear link between media reporting and attitudes and beliefs in relation to violence against women, with audiences’ emotional responses and attributions of responsibility affected by how the media frames news. The vast majority of reporting on violence against women was “incident based”, looking at tragic individual instances, but not exploring the issue in a more depth. The lack of social context in reporting, and thereby the broader public’s understanding of the issue, could be improved by the inclusion of more expert sources, including domestic violence advocates and those with lived experience of violence. Yet half of all sources were drawn from police and the criminal justice system; only 9.9 % of sources were domestic violence advocates /spokespeople; only 8.7 % were survivors. The narrow use of sources contributed to a “murder centric” frame of most reporting, which is no doubt newsworthy but doesn’t necessarily reflect women’s different experiences of violence. 61.8% of incident based reporting was in relation to a homicide. Nearly 75.8 % of reporting focused on physical intimate partner violence, 22.5 % on sexual assault. Other types of violence, including emotional, threats or sexual harassment were all but invisible. Myths and misrepresentations still find their way into reporting. Around 15 % of incident based reporting includes victim blaming, like she was drinking, flirting/went home with the perpetrator, was out alone, they were arguing; 14.8 % of incident based reporting offers excuses for the perpetrator, like he was drinking, using drugs, jealous/seeking revenge, “snapped” or “lost control”. Interestingly, and for the first time, this research picked up on a tendency to render the perpetrator invisible, with 59.8% of incident based reporting including no information whatsoever about the perpetrator. Choice of language can sometimes be insensitive, for example 17.2 % of newspaper and online headlines were deemed sensationalistic, while 13.3 % of incident based news items used language in the report that was sensationalistic, including excessively gory/or overly sexually explicit detail. Though we know the news media can be a powerful source of information for women looking to leave a violent relationship, only 4.3 % of news reports included help seeking information (1800RESPECT or others).(From the website). An ANROWS Landscapes report is also available (#4872). Record #5253
650 5 _aATTITUDES
_970
650 5 _aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE
_9203
650 5 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
_9431
650 _aMEDIA
_9367
650 0 _aPRINT MEDIA
_94399
650 0 _aTELEVISION
_9603
650 0 _aVIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
_93088
651 4 _aAUSTRALIA
_92597
700 _aMcCormack, Angus
_95352
700 _aPirkis, Jane
_95353
700 _aVaughan, Cathy
_95343
700 _aDunne-Breen, Michelle
_96305
700 _aEasteal, Patricia
_95354
700 _aHolland, Kate
_95355
773 0 3 _tANROWS Horizons, Issue 08, June 2016
830 _aANROWS Landscapes
_94868
856 _uhttp://anrows.org.au/publications/horizons/media-representations
856 _uhttps://anrows.org.au/media-representations-violence-against-women-and-their-children
_yProject summary
942 _2ddc
_cREPORT