- Title
- Silence as a discourse in the public sphere: Media representations of Australians joining the fight in Syria
- Creator
- Patil, Tejaswini; Ennis, Gretchen Marie
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/169177
- Identifier
- vital:13961
- Identifier
- ISBN:0155-0306
- Abstract
- Literature on media representations of Islamic terrorism predominantly employs discourse analysis as a methodological tool to unpack concepts of power in texts. There is scant literature focused on the operation of silence as a discursive practice in the public sphere. This paper employs Huckin's (2002) notion of manipulative silences to demonstrate how textual media representations of Australians Joining the Fight in Syria are dominated by identity debates, particularly evident in the media's act of defining Muslims who engage in the Syrian conflict as bad Australians. We use Joining the Fight on Insight, an Australian opinion-based television program on Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), as the centrepiece of our argument to demonstrate how media representations use manipulative silences. These silences skew dialogue in the public sphere away from the core issue, the role of ISIS in the Syrian conflict, and towards internal politics and nationalistic concerns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Social Alternatives is the property of Social Alternatives and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
- Publisher
- Social Alternatives
- Relation
- Social Alternatives Vol. 35, no. 1 (2016), p. 40-46
- Rights
- Copyright Social Alternatives
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Mass media -- Social aspects; Public sphere; Terrorism; Syria; Special Broadcasting Service Corp; Islamic State (Organization); 1606 Political Science; 1608 Sociology
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