What is it about?
This chapter examines a collaboration between journalism students and Aboriginal people, who have long marginalised in the media. We put Bourdieu’s concept of field to work as conceptual, analytical and explanatory tool, and employ related concepts in Bourdieu’s theory of practice to identify and examine the power relations, positions and other field contexts made evident through the collaboration and the symbolic challenge it represented to orthodox journalism education.
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Why is it important?
Indigenous and Aboriginal people Aboriginal people are marginalised in the media. This study examined a collaboration between aspiring journalists and Aboriginal people. Using Bourdieu's concept of field as a tool, we were able to understand how we might influence orthodox journalistic practices and norms inside and outside universities.
Perspectives
Our intention is to contribute to change in the sub-field of journalism education, and the field of journalism practice, in the service of challenging broader cultural, economic and symbolic power relations between Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples: in part by producing reflexive, competent and confident Aboriginal affairs reporters.
Professor Dawn Bennett
Curtin University
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This page is a summary of: Reshaping the Field from the Outside in: Aboriginal People and Student Journalists Working Together, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-5385-6_9.
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