'In this place there is no home for you‘: Curry Bashing in the Australian Media

• In Event: Current Applications of Framing Analysis

Abstract

This study analyzed the coverage of attacks against Indian students in two Australian newspapers using frame analysis to understand how the media made sense of the attacks. The first frame emphasized robbery-for-gain dimension, while the second frame tended to shift the blame on private colleges and unscrupulous agents for fostering the crisis. The third frame blamed the Indian media for the “overkill,” while the last frame tended to overwrite racism by celebrating the Australian nation.

Author

• Santhosh Chandrashekar, Univ of New Mexico