Martin, Sonia;
Schofield, Timothy;
Butterworth, Peter
News media representations of people receiving income support and the production of stigma power: An empirical analysis of reporting on two Australian welfare payments
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Titel:
News media representations of people receiving income support and the production of stigma power: An empirical analysis of reporting on two Australian welfare payments
Beteiligte:
Martin, Sonia;
Schofield, Timothy;
Butterworth, Peter
Erschienen:
SAGE Publications, 2022
Erschienen in:
Critical Social Policy, 42 (2022) 4, Seite 648-670
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1177/02610183211073945
ISSN:
0261-0183;
1461-703X
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People receiving working-age income support payments are often stigmatised as morally and/or behaviourally deficient. We consider the role of the media, as a potential source of structural stigma, in perpetuating negative characterisations of people in receipt of either the Disability Support Pension (DSP) or unemployment benefits (Newstart) during a major period of welfare reform in Australia. Newspaper articles (N = 8290) that appeared in Australia’s five largest newspapers between 2001 and 2016, and referenced either payment were analysed. We found an increased use of fraud language associated with the DSP, which coincides with increased political and policy focus on this payment. We conclude that in a period of increasing political concern with welfare reform, media coverage of welfare recipients is a form of stigma power, acting discursively as symbolic violence.