Jul 12, 2007

Construction of Maori in the media

This workshop given by Jenny Rankine & Dr Raymond Nairn had resources connected with it. if you would like to get hold of the material from this workshop Jenny said in a recent email
"I just wanted you to know that I have put the media studies resources on newspaper constructions of Maori and the Treaty that Ray and I used in our conference workshop up on our webpage.

Our report, a four-page summary and a leaflet relating our findings to media standards of accuracy, balance and fairness were already available. The new resources are –

* Three single A4 PDFs of headlines drawn from our 2004 and 2007 samples which ask –
What words and images come to mind about Maori?
What words and images come to mind about the Treaty and settlements?
Replace the words Maori, tribe or iwi with Pakeha. What effect does that have?

* Four single A4 PDFs of newspaper articles from 2004, three of which were part of case studies in our report, which ask -
What is being said?
Who is speaking?
What text components and associations are used and evoked?
Who is the audience?
What is the effect of saying it this way?"

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