Welcome and exclusion: an analysis of The Australian newspaper’s coverage of international students

Paltridge, Toby; Mayson, Susan Elizabeth; Schapper, Jan

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“…Feminist poststructural theorists often employ CDA to explore the relationships between ideologies and discourse 9. Critical discourse analysts argue that discourses surrounding gender are socially and culturally constructed and shape how we think and what we believe about our social world 9.…”

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“…Critical discourse analysts argue that discourses surrounding gender are socially and culturally constructed and shape how we think and what we believe about our social world 9. Importantly, discourse analysts explore the relationship between ideologies and discourse across a variety of mediums, including language, images, music and video 27.…”

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“…In this paper, we employ critical discourse analysis (CDA)9 to examine the presence of gender bias in typeface, colour, images and language in the Canadian Safe Kids Week campaign poster materials from 1997 to 2016.…”

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Safe Kids Week: Analysis of gender bias in a national child safety campaign, 1997–2016

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Child safety campaigns play an important role in disseminating injury prevention information to families. A critical discourse analysis of gender bias in child safety campaign marketing materials can offer important insights into how families are represented and the potential influence that gender bias may have on uptake of injury prevention information. Our approach was informed by poststructural feminist theory, and we used critical discourse analysis to identify discourses within the poster materials. We examined the national Safe Kids Canada Safe Kids Week campaign poster material spanning twenty years (1997-2016). Specifically, we analyzed the posters' typeface, colour, images, and language to identify gender bias in relation to discourses surrounding parenting, safety, and societal perceptions of gender. The findings show that there is gender bias present in the Safe Kids Week poster material. The posters represent gender as binary, mothers as primary caregivers, and showcase stereotypically masculine sporting equipment among boys and stereotypically feminine equipment among girls. Interestingly, we found that the colour and typeface of the text both challenge and perpetuate the feminization of safety. It is recommended that future child safety campaigns represent changing family dynamics, include representations of children with non-traditionally gendered sporting equipment, and avoid the representation of gender as binary. This analysis contributes to the discussion of the feminization of safety in injury prevention research and challenges the ways in which gender is represented in child safety campaigns.

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“…Literature examining the role of news media relating to international students (Happer & Philo, 2013;Paltridge, Mayson & Schapper, 2014) connects what is said, how it is said, and what information is generated for comment. Happer and Philo (2013) argue that media accounts can play 196 a central role in legitimising certain courses of action as well as influencing how trust, credibility, doubt and confusion are inserted into a debate, affecting commitments to action.…”

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“…A fascinating analysis of one newspaper's coverage of international student affairs considers this contradiction of marginalisation and privilege. Paltridge, Mayson and Schapper (2014) use critical discourse analysis to examine the reports of The Australian newspaper between 2009-2011. The positionality of international students is argued in relation to the welcome-exclusion binary "by constructing them as 'economic units' wanted and welcomed by the nation, as well as unwanted 'exploiters of the immigration system' and excluded 'victims' of violence and racism" (Paltridge, Mayson & Schapper, 2014, p.108).…”

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Bringing the world to Melbourne: Transnationalism, agency and contributions of international students to making a city, 2000-2010

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International students make up a significant proportion of the growing populations residing in central business districts (CBD) of Australia's major cities at any given time. Yet they remain largely on the discursive edges of urban planning processes and perhaps even the 'business' of international education. This may be so because international student cohorts are transient, and have thus been politically decentred and under-recognised in terms of their impact on cultural, economic, political and social formations of urban spaces. This positioning is reflected in research into international student experience, which tends towards large quantitative studies, for example to evaluate levels of satisfaction, explorations of international students as cultural others, their experience as transient migrants in terms of social integration and practical matters such as their use of transnational communications. While these studies provide valuable insights into international student populations, I suggest their agency is underestimated in its potential influence on institutional practices in the city context. If this is so, there is a case for discursively repositioning international students in the university precincts and cities in which they spend most of their time and where they engage in educational, economic, political, social and community activity.The purpose of this study is to bring the lives of international students into the centre of current international education discourse. To do this, I develop a historical and social context in which to situate their experience and describe the part they played in Melbourne's CBD, particularly in the period between 2000-2010. I use a broad theoretical framework that draws on work from a number of researchers, particularly Steven Vertovec, Saskia Sassen, Doreen Massey and Michael Peter Smith, whose contributions have redefined the discourses in globalisation, transnationalism, urban sociology and cultural studies.The research uses a range of data sources to examine the transnational activities of international students and relationships between place, space and agency. It considers how these activities and relationships have transformed Melbourne's social and cultural fabric, affected city governance and influenced trends in international student management. On the basis of the data collected, the research privileges the agency of international students⎯and the urban context⎯by exploring experiences in relation to specific events, activities and policy developments in the Melbourne CBD and its education precinct. From this perspective, the framing research question asks: What contributions have international students made to the process of transnationalisation in the city of Melbourne and its education precinct since 2000?The methodological approach seeks to represent the voices of students. By using Ang's selfreflexive process in interviews and focus groups it creates common discursive ground to explore iii their sense of place, aspirations and their agentive c...

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2019

Inclusion, Epistemic Democracy and International Students

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Welcome and exclusion: an analysis of The Australian newspaper’s coverage of international students

Cited by 26 publications

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Safe Kids Week: Analysis of gender bias in a national child safety campaign, 1997–2016

Safe Kids Week: Analysis of gender bias in a national child safety campaign, 1997–2016

Bringing the world to Melbourne: Transnationalism, agency and contributions of international students to making a city, 2000-2010

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