Dunedin Students
Castle Street Burns, Again/ Take your place in the world/Party central
Castle Street Burns, Again An Article published by the Otago Daily times in 2009 after the Undie 500.
Castle street burns again is a text with both pictures and words that represent Otago students. These are both negatives for the representation of students in the article. The text within the article it’s self uses words like chaos and riots to exaggerate the undie 500 rally on Castle street. In the series of 5 pictures shown above they are all pictures purposefully selected for the purpose of showing only the bad behaviour caused by students on the night. |
This text established that the students are destructive and will burn couches/ smash possessions in what the article calls out students for being very intoxicated and throwing bottle etc in a disorderly fashion. This text is representing dunedin students as drunken idiots who cause riots and chaos in the streets when in reality only a small percentage of students are involved in events such as the undie 500. |
The media likes to represent all Dunedin students in the same way, saying that they have a binge drinking culture and all they do is have flat parties/drink. The only pictures printed in the article are those from the undie 500 rally and are only ones of students/riot police. They are all similar photos and look somewhat repetitive, this is what the Otago daily times was going for as it shows them in scenes of chaos which was the way the publisher decided to word the article. |
The first text is a newspaper article published by the Otago daily times online on the 12th of September 2009
In these texts the dunedin students are represented the majority of the time wrongly, they use only bad pictures and words to describe the identity of the students. The articles tittle also sparks reason to believe that the newspaper is already creating a negative stance towards the undie 500 and rallies caused on castle street. The title used was ‘Castle Street Burns, again’ using the word ‘again’ states to the people reading the article that this isn’t the first or last time that an incident involving fire and chaos has happened on Castle Street. The students are being implicated for other students who may have caused such riots in previous years, whether they did participate in the undie 500 or not. |
Students are represented as being the cause of the destruction on castle street during the undie 500 rally, they are represented in this article as being the fuel to the fire of chaos both literally and not. Half of the article is written from a students perspective as seen to the left, but this is only one students perspective of the incident and doesn’t give a well rounded view of what all students saw and witnessed during the rally. Words like “drunken young people” were used to describe the students and it doesn’t mean every young person is drunk or doesn’t mean students can be defined as young. Or though a great majority are young and studying, not all students should be represented in the media as drunken idiots who are giving Dunedin’s students a bad name. |