Because of news media’s role in information dissemination and communication, researchers believe that news media plays a significant role in social construction, the process by which meaning and value are attributed to objects, concepts, or knowledge in a social setting through …
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Using television news coverage of American mass shootings, I examine how Muslim perpetrators of violence are covered differently in liberal and conservative media. Furthermore, I examine the consequences of this coverage, including its effects on prejudice towards Muslims and be…
The US Forest Service and Walt Disney Productions clashed with the Sierra Club over construction of a planned ski resort in California’s Mineral King Valley between 1965 and 1978. This thesis qualitatively analyzed over 120 newspaper articles to find how the Los Angeles Times an…
This dissertation is a comparative analysis of US news media representations of Palestinian and Syrian forced migrant and US communities. It uses a mixed methods approach—discursive analysis, experiment, survey, and in-depth interviews—to assess ideological messaging and its eff…
This thesis explores UK news discourse on counterterrorism. News discourse on counterterrorism involves representations of history, space and identities in order to frame risks, threats and responses. To gain analytical purchase on this, this research considers the forms of cosm…
This study examines how working women are represented in the news media, and its main aim is to determine to what extent ‘social class’ figures in the representations of women in news content. Using language, visual and narrative analysis, the thesis comprises four case studies …
Çağdaş anlamda haber 15. yüzyıldan sonra oluşmaya başlayan yeni toplumsal yapı ve bu yapıdaki üretim ilişkilerinin yarattığı bir ihtiyaç olarak doğmuştur. İnsanın merak duygusunun yarattığı haber, gerçekle son derece bağlantılıdır. Salt gerçek sayılmasından dolayı tesiri en çok …
This project examines the changing geography of human-chicken relationships in Toronto, Ontario. Anchoring my project to themes of care and belonging, I first explore the city’s historical live animal debates through textual news media to highlight how arguments about the inhuma…
Taking an intersectional approach, I show how news media portrayals of neoliberal welfare reform and welfare rights movements are rooted in culture-specific racial and gendered ideologies. Using critical discourse analysis in combination with frame analysis, I analyze 462 articl…
To better understand the role of the Kuwaiti news media, this research looked at the Kuwaiti audience's perception of the role of the news media in society using traditional media analogies, and the audience's perceptions of the press' performance in citizen involvement in publi…
At what point is criticism heard and acknowledged? By studying three direct public critiques of President Eisenhower and his administration, Henry Kissinger’s 1957 book Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy , Stanley Kramer’s 1959 film, On the Beach , and the writings of Drew Pears…
This study investigated how news media communications affect public awareness and perceptions of the mental health concerns of post-deployed military of the recent Iraq war. Focus group research included 22 adult participants from the same geographic location with discussions on…
The Iraq War of March 19, 2003 was an implausible war at the outset. We now understand that it could have been averted and never should have been waged. How and why did it begin? Who was responsible? This dissertation offers a new perspective on the Iraq War and explains the dyn…
This study compares media in democracies on a global scale. The structure of news media and the content of news coverage are analyzed in relation to the social and political structures in which they operate. Part I of this study asks if the institutional structure of a democracy…
This dissertation undertakes a comparative historical analysis of two key American political crises, analyzing how and why media coverage affects perceptions and outcomes when state legitimacy is challenged by presidential abuse of power. In the first crisis, President Richard N…
This study analyzes rationales for war, focusing on three questions: What rationales have U.S. presidents used to justify war and to what extent have they relied on these rationales?; To what extent have television news media echoed these rationales?; Do rationales for war prese…
Survey data over the past several decades indicates that the American public has become increasingly mistrustful of the news media. Tsfati (2003a, 65) notes that widespread and increasing media mistrust in recent years has provoked scholars to examine the correlates of declining…
This dissertation focuses on the Danish news media's images of visible minorities from the early 1970 to the early 2000s. Through analyses of television primetime news clips and national newspaper articles, the dissertation throws light on how the news media have represented vis…