The Poverty of News Discourse: The news coverage of poverty in New Zealand

This thesis uses methods of discourse analysis to examine the news coverage of poverty in New Zealand. It seeks to find the extent to which dominant discourses, those that reinforce the dominant order, are reproduced and become hegemonic in the coverage of poverty. The use of news sources and their...

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Main Author: Summers, John Henry
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Political Science and Communication 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/890