Moving beyond the media's 'deficit lens' is essential for racialized people to claim belonging
Published Date: 11/8/2022
Source: phys.org
Australia's mainstream media has long viewed refugees, migrants and Indigenous communities through a "deficit lens." That's where these populations—in all their glorious complexity—are framed simply as a "problem" that needs to be "fixed." Never achieving enough. Never grateful enough. Just never quite deserving enough to be seen as legitimate Australians.