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This is a study of teachers' content selection when teaching about the Middle East in high school social studies classes. Three questions ground this study: (1) How and why do teachers choose certain curriculum plans and materials to teach about the Middle East? (2) How do teach…

On August 5, 2006, blogger Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs wrote in his blog that one of the images by Adnan Hajj, a Reuters photographer, showed "blatant evidence of manipulation." The photograph depicted smoke rising over Beirut after an Israeli air strike. The smoke…

This study uses a quantitative content analysis to determine the framing used by U.S. mainstream newspapers in media coverage of the 2011 Egyptian protests. The study examined 153 stories from The New York Times and The Washington Post. The study focuses on how sources framed th…