ABSTRACT

Research shows that news media around the world carry negative representations of ethnic minorities which incite violence, hatred or lead to more marginalisation and social exclusion [Bhatia, M., Poynting, S., & Tufail, W. (2018). Media, crime and racism. Springer; Elias, A., Mansouri, F., & Paradies, Y. (2021). Media, public discourse and racism. In A. Elias, F. Mansouri, & Y. Paradies (Eds.), Racism in Australia today (pp. 211–240). Palgrave Macmillan]. It is also the case that overt racism has become less tolerated in society and, therefore, racist discourses now tend to take more subtle forms, often disguised as reasonable concerns about threats to national culture, economic burdens or disruptions of social order [Bonilla-Silva, E. (2006). Racism without racists: Color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in the United States. Rowman & Littlefield]. This is very much the case regarding the Roma. Yet, less research has been carried out on the way that the affordances of television – juxtaposition of images, captions, sound and voice-overs, editing, and resequencing – may have very specific ways to conceal racism. In this paper, using Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, we examine the representation of the Roma in a Romanian television news report, in the case of a highly mundane story – a failure to pay electricity bills. We show how television news with its affordances can camouflage racism, and distract from the extreme poverty and social exclusion that Romani people experience in contemporary Europe.

摘要

研究表明，世界各地的新闻媒体对少数族裔进行负面报道，这些报道煽动暴力、仇恨或导致更多的边缘化和社会排斥 [Bhatia, M., Poynting, S., & Tufail, W. (2018)。媒体、犯罪和种族主义。施普林格；Elias, A.、Mansouri, F. 和 Paradies, Y. (2021)。媒体、公共话语和种族主义。在 A. Elias, F. Mansouri, & Y. Paradies (Eds.), Racism in Australia today (pp. 211–240)。帕尔格雷夫麦克米伦]。同样的情况是，公开的种族主义在社会中变得越来越不被容忍，因此，种族主义言论现在倾向于采取更微妙的形式，经常伪装成对国家文化威胁、经济负担或社会秩序破坏的合理担忧 [博尼拉-席尔瓦, E. (2006)。没有种族主义者的种族主义：色盲种族主义和美国种族不平等的持续存在。罗曼和利特菲尔德]。罗姆人就是这种情况。然而，关于电视的可供性——图像、字幕、声音和画外音的并置、编辑和重新排序——可能具有隐藏种族主义的非常具体的方式的研究较少。在本文中，我们使用多模式批判性话语分析，研究了罗马尼亚电视新闻报道中罗姆人的表现，这是一个非常平凡的故事——未能支付电费。我们展示了电视新闻如何通过其可供性来伪装种族主义，并转移人们对罗姆人在当代欧洲所经历的极端贫困和社会排斥的注意力。