The Refugee Swap Deal in Malaysian Online News Reports: Ideology and Representation

Bolte, Stef; Keong, Yuen Chee

doi:10.17576/gema-2014-1402-07

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“…It shows a negative image for such as a) Iran is trying to hide information from world' sight, and b) Iran is changeable in its nuclear program. Like to the studies above, Bolte and Keong (2014) analyzed CDA as the ideological representation of illegal immigrants in the Malaysia news that outlines the manner a text is made (Jorgenson & Phillips, 2002;Fairclough, 1992) and vice-versa. It was found in the media discourse is the tools to protect of agreement that denotes a positive representation of Malaysia and Australia.…”

Section: Fairclough's Framework Applicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging Critical Discourse Analysis in Media Discourse Studies

Sari

Putri

Herdi

et al. 2018

IEFLJ

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The precarious and critical period of the initiation of Discourse Analysis was populer at the end of the 1990s and the beginning of 2000s. Various approaches and frameworks were proposed during the time especially in the field of Applied Linguistics. This is including Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as one of its leading areas.� This present study aimed at exploring and catching out how the CDA� presentation in overall related to Media studies and how it can be applicable to uncover an unseen ideologies while examining the existence of media discourse studies. The study is considering 25 journal studies to scrutinize the ways and methods used in discern social phenomena while illuminating the true characteristics of the social actors. As result, it was revealed that� CDA is used openly to expose ideologies that somehow differentiate oppressed groups by offering a dummy image used by the highest authority or elite.Keywords: CDA; ideology; media discourse; social actors; power.

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Section: Fairclough's Framework Applicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging Critical Discourse Analysis in Media Discourse Studies

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Putri

Herdi

et al. 2018

IEFLJ

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“…Readers are usually exposed to stories written either from the journalists' or influential people's point of view, and not accounts by the women themselves. This aspect is also apparent in a study on media's representation of refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants (Bolte & Keong, 2014) which revealed more priority being given to the voices of prominent individuals. Misman, Adnan, Firdaus, and Ahmad (2017), in their study about foreign nationals as offenders and victims, also found an absence of foreigners' voices in the media.…”

Section: Topos Of Victimisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

News Coverage of Foreign Sex Workers in Malaysia: A Critical Analysis

Suppiah¹,

Kaur²,

Arumugam³

et al. 2019

GEMA

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The growing concern over the influx of foreign women in Malaysia as sex workers, has continually gained the attention of the local media particularly the mainstream newspapers. The media, despite playing an instrumental role in bringing about social transformation, has the ability to portray the foreign women in a positive way or to discriminate against them. This study, based on qualitative analysis, represents an attempt to study a social problem particularly in the way that foreign women in sex work have been represented in Malaysia by the mainstream English-language newspapers. The analytical tools of the discourse-historical approach (DHA) are employed in the analysis of the news articles. In particular, the argumentation strategy in the DHA demonstrates that a number of topoi (i.e., the topoi of control, number, threat, and victimisation) have been employed to represent foreign sex workers in the media. Investigation of the newspaper extracts from New Straits Times and The Star generally revealed that the media have portrayed foreign women in sex work in the offender orientation frame more so than as victims. Furthermore, foreign sex workers are also positioned negatively because of their illegal migrant status, making them doubly discriminated against. Such representations directly impact the women's lives, leading to further discrimination on the basis of their trade and illegal migrant status, denying them a voice and depriving them of their legal rights. The paper concludes by discussing the contributions of the research and emphasises the need for social justice for these marginalised women.

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“…This study exhibits how the media (re) shape public perception, arguably, through the reality they construct in framing groups of people, for instance, protesters vs. authorities. Bolte and Keong (2014) also established that media discourse reflects distinctive information about various discursive strategies upon which media rely to represent issues. Contrary to the framing of the authorities, the Arab Spring protesters were again positively framed as a 'spirit of change' through the lexical choices such as desire for change (NI) and inspiration (AN).…”

Section: Editorial Charges and Endorsementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

News Framing of the Arab Spring Conflict from the Lens of Newspaper Editorials

Afzal¹,

Harun²

2020

IJEL

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News framing of events often restricts us to either ‘oppose’ or ‘favour’ a particular side/party involved in a conflict. This paper examines the print media framing of the Arab Spring in the editorials of The News International (NI) of Pakistan and Arab News (AN) of Saudi Arabia. The coverage sample consists of newspaper editorials published from January 2011 to December 2012 when the uprising received phenomenal attention from the media worldwide. Qualitative content analysis of 48 newspaper editorials (24 NI/24 AN), demonstrates how senior media workers constructed the Arab Spring as an international conflict. Specifically, the lexical choices of editorial writers reveal that mainstream newspapers in both the countries positively framed the pro-Arab Spring protesters (public), who reportedly desired to bring the ‘change’. On the contrary, the media framing of the uprising also reflects that the newspapers negatively framed the anti-Arab Spring authorities (ruling elite), who reportedly resisted the ‘change’. A future research is recommended to investigate readers’ perspectives, as well, on the media portrayals of the Arab Spring or other similar conflicts which can give insights into how language use can impact and is impacted by ideology, cultural nuances and identity of diverse individuals.

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The Refugee Swap Deal in Malaysian Online News Reports: Ideology and Representation

Cited by 12 publications

References 14 publications

Bridging Critical Discourse Analysis in Media Discourse Studies

Bridging Critical Discourse Analysis in Media Discourse Studies

News Coverage of Foreign Sex Workers in Malaysia: A Critical Analysis

News Framing of the Arab Spring Conflict from the Lens of Newspaper Editorials

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