This dissertation focuses on neo-Nazi and violent jihadi propaganda and its role in defining social boundaries. Frame analysis was used to gain a deeper understanding of how neo-Nazis and violent jihadis construct propaganda to neutralize objections and promote drift. Specifical…
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After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush's administration engaged in a concerted communications effort intended to highlight the necessity of aggressive diplomatic and military action against the nation's enemies. Iraq was identified as a key t…
Chinese media have seen a grand transformation since the 1980s. However, the relationship between Chinese media and its 56 ethnic minority groups is under-researched. This dissertation intends to contribute to this field by examining media and in the context of the Uyghurs, a Tu…
In the wake of the recent revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, political figures in Iran have offered competing claims of inspiration for the protests now spreading through the broader MENA region. This paper aims to compare the discourse of regime leaders to that of opposition act…
The purpose of this study was to examine how two Arab news sites, Al Jazeera news site and Al Arabiya news site, portrayed terrorism events from Sept.11, 2009 to Sept.10, 2010. A total of 200 stories were analyzed, with 100 stories from each sites. The two sites have failed to c…
On June 20, 2009, one image became not only a symbol of unbridled state violence, but a rallying cry for a movement contesting the disputed election of hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The particular image in question was of Neda Agha-Soltan, a 26 year old woman w…
A study on the cross-national transfer of images portraying the September 11 attacks and the war in Afghanistan was conducted. Results of a content analysis of English and Arabic transnational newspapers show the dominant photographs in both newspapers did not differ. Findings s…
The Arabs and Israelis have been negotiating peace for the past ten years; however, the conflict still ignites with no apparent hope for any near resolution. Understanding the rhetorical construction of the peace reality may help in managing this conflict. This study examines th…
This dissertation analyzes how United States elites ideologically framed events of September 11, 2001 (9–11) and the implementation of the first year of the ‘War on Terrorism’ (WOT). In seeking to understand how the strategic use of frames by different categories of U.S. elites …
Starting with the question of why policy changes occur when there are no changes to the underlying conditions, this dissertation offers a solution that combines rational choice and cognitive psychology. Applying prospect theory to the question of why policy changes when the cond…
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, with China's remarkable success in economic developments and greater openness to the outside world, two sharply opposing views of China have appeared in the Western perception of China - a rising superpower as well as a threat to the…
This thesis examines the media-foreign policy nexus through a specific focus on the moral framing of conflict and interventionism within British media and policy discourses. While morality has been identified as a frequently used frame through which we may understand issues, the…
In the aftermath of the independence of Morocco and Algeria in the second half of the twentieth century, each sought to create one homogeneous nation-state, defining themselves as Arab, declaring Arabic language as the only official language and embarking on Arabisation campaign…
Because many militant groups from the Islamist political landscape and beyond have suffered extinction, survival of insurgent groups in a context of insecurity and rivalry is not a fact. In 2010, the Islamic State in Iraq was near extinction and considered as defeated by a myria…
Media coverage of international conflicts has always captivated students of communication, and the Israel-Palestine conflict is one among many such international conflicts that has attracted substantial academic research. Several scholars have conducted studies of this conflict …
Extending research of framing anti-war protest is framed in the public sphere, this study examines theatre critics' reviews and viewers' responses to Tim Robbins' anti-war play Embedded . My research examines how two groups of publics interpreted Embedded : (1) professional thea…
This study examines the visual portrayal of the Korean War, as presented in Life magazine from July 1950 through August 1953, by adopting the theoretical framework of framing and cultural studies and by combining two methodologies: content analysis and ideological analysis. In l…
This analytical ethnography provides the empirical and conceptual foundations for a theory of the emergence of social order through performative practice under conditions of uncertainty. Theoretically, the goal is to explicate ways in which uncertainty is integral to emergent so…
This dissertation will look into the character of the relationship between the media and Congress on matters of foreign policy, specifically by focusing on the ability or inability of Congress to frame the media's portrayal of Saudi Arabia. It will also look at Projection of Pow…