TY - JOUR
T1 - Disempowered by the media
T2 - causes and consequences of the lack of media voice of Roma communities
AU - Messing, Vera
AU - Bernáth, Gábor
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2017/11/2
Y1 - 2017/11/2
N2 - Roma communities have experienced widespread historical exclusion in most European countries. The media can be a powerful instrument of a group’s inclusion into the mental map of a society, or, on the contrary, it can contribute to the group’s exclusion and disempowerment. This article builds on a series of content and discursive analyses of the news media’s coverage of Hungarian Roma communities since 1993, interviews with stakeholders and focus group discussions in Roma communities. It scrutinises media reporting about Roma and argues that, in general, the scope and the agenda of Roma’s portrayal coincide with mainstream society’s stereotypes about the group. The article will additionally look at the media’s disempowering role from two perspectives: on the one hand, the extent to which Roma have access to influencing media content, and on the other hand, it will consider the role of minority communities in challenging stereotypical images.
AB - Roma communities have experienced widespread historical exclusion in most European countries. The media can be a powerful instrument of a group’s inclusion into the mental map of a society, or, on the contrary, it can contribute to the group’s exclusion and disempowerment. This article builds on a series of content and discursive analyses of the news media’s coverage of Hungarian Roma communities since 1993, interviews with stakeholders and focus group discussions in Roma communities. It scrutinises media reporting about Roma and argues that, in general, the scope and the agenda of Roma’s portrayal coincide with mainstream society’s stereotypes about the group. The article will additionally look at the media’s disempowering role from two perspectives: on the one hand, the extent to which Roma have access to influencing media content, and on the other hand, it will consider the role of minority communities in challenging stereotypical images.
KW - Hungary
KW - Roma
KW - discourse analysis
KW - empowerment
KW - media coverage
KW - struggle for representation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85035214972&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1070289X.2017.1380264
DO - 10.1080/1070289X.2017.1380264
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85035214972
SN - 1070-289X
VL - 24
SP - 650
EP - 667
JO - Identities
JF - Identities
IS - 6
ER -