Voices in the wilderness : images of Aboriginal people in the Australian media

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Voices in the wilderness : images of Aboriginal people in the Australian media
Title remainder
images of Aboriginal people in the Australian media
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Michael Meadows
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Language
eng
Summary
This book examines race relations in Australia through various media representations over the past 200 years. The early colonial press perpetuated the image of aboriginal people as framed by early explorers, and stereotypes and assumptions still prevail. Print and television news accounts of several key events in recent Australian history are compared and reveal how indigenous sources are excluded from stories about their affairs. Journalists wield extraordinary power in shaping the images of cultures and people, so indigenous people, like those in North America, have turned away from mainstre
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digitized
Cataloging source
N$T
Dewey number
302.23/089/9915
Index
index present
LC call number
PN5514.A83
LC item number
M43 2001eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Contributions to the study of mass media and communications,
Series volume
no. 59

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