Genocide, rape, and careless disregard: media ethics and the problematic reporting on Yazidi survivors of ISIS captivity

Minwalla, Sherizaan; Foster, Johanna E.; McGrail, Sarah

doi:10.1080/14680777.2020.1731699

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“…The present study contributes to the existing literature by investigating news coverage produced by media outlets in an Eastern context. Initially, the corpus consisted of the coverage retrieved from a search engine Google (Minwalla et al, 2022). Based on the focus of the study, the search terms were rape, men, male and Thailand .…”

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“…Extant literature which has examined such representation mainly revolves around female victims in various aspects including their reaction to cyber violence (Sarkar & Rajan, 2021), victim-blaming language (Bohmert et al, 2019), the trivialisation of the sexual violence through euphemisms (Aroustamian, 2020) and stigmatising language which supplies unnecessary details of rape (Minwalla et al, 2022). Therefore, this study intends to extend the discussion by investigating the representation of men in rape coverage produced by Thai media.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Lexico-grammatical Analysis of Media Representation of Men in Rape Coverage

Kijratanakoson

2023

Journal of Creative Communications

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This study seeks to examine the representation of men in rape coverage produced by Thai media. The analysis is theoretically triangulated between Biber et al.’s markers of stance and Mellado’s journalistic role performance. Methodologically, corpus-assisted discourse analysis is adopted. The corpus consists of 167 news articles with a total number of 126,150 words. The period of publication ranges from 2007 to 2022. Findings indicate that male perpetrators are discursively vilified through discourse structures which signify augmented agency to inflict harm upon victims. To illustrate, the lexical item rape is made to occur simultaneously with other material verb processes which intensify an act of violence such as bludgeon and kill. In contrast, the agency of male victims is downplayed. This is evidenced in the fact that their voice is expressed through other parties such as witnesses and NGO officers instead of emanating from the victims themselves. Possible ways to humanise the representation are discussed.

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Lexico-grammatical Analysis of Media Representation of Men in Rape Coverage

Kijratanakoson

2023

Journal of Creative Communications

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“…The Ezidi are an ethno-religious minority who have traditionally lived in areas of northern Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran (Kaplan, 2022) and who were targeted by the Islamic State in a series of systematic and genocidal attacks in August 2014 (Minwalla, et al, 2022;SSI, 2019). The Ezidi language (Kurmanji) is closely linked with Kurdish Kurmanji (UNHCR, 2008), but many Ezidi in Armidale prefer to refer to their language as the Ezidi language, maintaining a sense of unique cultural identity (Tillman, 2023).…”

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Enablers and barriers for plurilingual practices: How EAL/D teachers support new arrivals in a rural secondary setting

Partridge,

Harper

2023

TiC

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This paper explores the reported practices of five specialist EAL/D teachers from a rural Australian city. They work with a cohort of refugee students from a single cultural group, who recently arrived in Australia with minimal English and generally low levels of literacy in their first language. Survey research was conducted to explore how plurilingualism was being supported amongst these students. Information was sought on how home languages featured and were supported in the students’ learning. Plurilingual practices occurred predominantly in the EAL/D setting, where participants benefited from ‘Goldilocks conditions’. These conditions were characterised by a homogenous student group and allowed for a slowing down of the curriculum and the incorporation of students’ first languages in the learning process. The presence of skilled bilingual aides was the lynchpin for the success of plurilingual practices in this study. Our research highlighted the need for further investigation into the enablers and barriers of collaborative practice between EAL/D and mainstream teachers and the role bilingual aides play in supporting plurilingualism in schools. There is evidence from this study to support reframing the concept bilingual education in Australia, to better capture the complexities of plurilingual interactions in school contexts.

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“…Working in spaces characterized by heavy securitization, repeated assessments, and high journalistic interest often means that people tire of and potentially fear repeating personal details. Reluctant participation can stem from the fatigue this repetition causes in terms of the sheer volume of questions or in repeated questioning that people experience as misguided or traumatizing (Foster & Minwalla, 2018; Minwalla et al, 2020). The broad journalistic, humanitarian, and law enforcement use of methodological cognates such as surveys, structured and unstructured interviews, and even games (used in some psycho-social activities) prime participants for researchers who arrive later as well as exhausting them.…”

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(Dis)courtesy Bias: “Methodological Cognates,” Data Validity, and Ethics in Violence-Adjacent Research

Parkinson

2021

Comparative Political Studies

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In settings where war, forced migration, and humanitarian crisis have attracted international attention, research participants’ prior experiences with journalists, advocacy groups, state security, and humanitarian organizations influence scholarly work. Building on long-term fieldwork in Iraq and Lebanon, this article argues that individuals’ and communities’ previous and ongoing interactions with these actors affect the content, quality, and validity of data gathered as well as shaping possibilities for ethical academic research. Drawing on observational and interview-based research with humanitarian service providers, journalists, and displaced persons, this article argues that the cross-sector use of “methodological cognates” such as surveys and structured interviews shapes data validity and reliability via four mechanisms: regurgitation, redirection, reluctant participation, and resistance. I contend that these features of the research process should centrally inform academics’ research designs, project siting, case selection, and data analysis.

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Genocide, rape, and careless disregard: media ethics and the problematic reporting on Yazidi survivors of ISIS captivity

Cited by 12 publications

References 16 publications

Lexico-grammatical Analysis of Media Representation of Men in Rape Coverage

Lexico-grammatical Analysis of Media Representation of Men in Rape Coverage

Enablers and barriers for plurilingual practices: How EAL/D teachers support new arrivals in a rural secondary setting

(Dis)courtesy Bias: “Methodological Cognates,” Data Validity, and Ethics in Violence-Adjacent Research

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