This dissertation explores the racial, gendered, and industrial politics of televised sports punditry, charting the genre’s movement from newspaper columns and talk radio programs onto the airwaves of cable television in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The project addresses the …
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…
This study seeks to examine the ways in which existent power structures of intersectionality influence visual media through a historical case study of news photography. Photography, a less subjective visual media than painting and drawings, is often perceived as truthful. News p…
Using visual evidence
"Visual evidence encompasses a diverse range of media, from painting, cartoons and photography, to film, television and documentary. The central argument of this book is that visual evidence is a key to understanding both history and the present day and should not be relegated t…
This thesis examines the ways in which Tanzania's media report news on development issues and what accounts for the way they report, guided by social constructionist philosophy and framing theory. In terms of how they report news, the thesis draws on primary data generated from:…
This thesis is the first investigation of the Luce Institute's (LUCE) newsreels, which were filmed throughout Europe during Benito Mussolini's dictatorship. The project focuses on analysing all LUCE's productions in four European countries in specific periods of time (Greece 193…
China’s official media are nearly a decade into a global expansion programme to challenge the dominance of Anglo-American news organisations and their framing of world events. This research tackles the questions of whether Chinese media abroad deserve to be dismissed as channels…
This thesis investigates the representation of Nigeria in the British news media. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, it examines the interplay of culture, race, ideology and geo-political power relations in the production of news. It interrogates the influence of sources, the …
The objective of this thesis is to investigate and understand why and how consent is manipulated in societies where severe coercion seems to be effective in securing power. This text therefore analyses the role and nature of coercion and consent – of armed conflict and news prod…
This research aims to find out how China Central Television (CCTV) International (CCTV-9) news programs shaped the presentation of the 2003 Iraq War, specifically how news making processes in China’s English-language TV channel influenced the content of the news. It examines how…
Globally, research has shown that media coverage of illicit drug issues can play an important role in influencing public opinion and shaping drug policies. However, in Afghanistan, the world's largest opium producer, very little is known about the media coverage of illicit drug …
This dissertation is an attempt to make sense out of the many questions surrounding news media performance and its inadequacies. Are journalists and their related professional practices to blame for the failings of news content or is it more a function of the structure in which …
This study explored the Media Focus in Afghanistan News Coverage to examine what categories of Afghanistan-related news received the largest amount of coverage during periods from 2010 to 2012. This study covered reports in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and…
This dissertation examines not only the ways in which the major newspapers of the U.S. and South Korea portrayed the Arab Spring, but also the behind-the-scenes factors influencing these portrayals. It explores the interconnected process through which news frames were affected b…
This paper explores how the newscasts of Al Jazeera English Network and Al Jazeera Arabic Network differ from each other in the coverage of news stories. Television news is the main source of information about politics and event information. International news is very important …
This thesis examined the utilization of multimedia by U.S. newspaper Web sites in covering the Iraq War in 2007, and its role in framing aspects of the War. A total of 201 photo galleries, audio slideshows, interactive graphics, and interactive packages were analyzed from the 10…