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…
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This narrative history of the desegregation of the daily press in America during the late twentieth century is structured around the career of journalist Robert Maynard, a leader and symbol of the crusade to change the color of news. Press desegregation evolved along with the la…
This study investigates how access to information about the Arab-Israeli conflict by Western correspondents in Egypt and Israel is affected by: (1) the governments' information delivery systems, (2) the newsmaking roles and educational background of the correspondents, (3) the c…
Highly involved in the prolonged Israeli-Palestinian conflict includes four major U.S. newspapers through their uses of news sources who might have framed this issue. This dissertation endeavors to scrutinize the adoption and resulting impacts of news sources with an integrative…
This thesis examines internal and external influences on news content at four Omani news organisations, Oman and Al-Watan (Arabic-language dailies) and Oman Observer and Times of Oman (English-language dailies). Three theoretical frameworks guided this study: the political econo…
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…
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 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…
In this dissertation, I will analyze and discuss the three pieces presented in Breaking News, a program of original percussion works I presented on January 13, 2008 in the Mandeville Recital Hall at the University of California, San Diego. This program represents my musical inve…
Grounded in the exploration of the conflict between the United States and Iraq which led to war in 2003, this dissertation considers the role that television journalism plays in international conflicts in which the United States is involved. Using quantitative and qualitative re…
Between 1950 and 1970 television emerged as one of the most important forms of mass communication in Mexico. An analysis of television news scripts and film clips located at the Televisa (the nation's largest television network) Archives in Mexico City exposed tensions and tradi…
In recent years that involved the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Qatar-based satellite TV network Al-Jazeera became both an important source of news and a controversial actor signifying a challenge to U.S. foreign policy. This cross-national study compares journalist…
Media play a pivotal role in bringing home news of distant conflicts. Simultaneously, news media also construct normal/deviant dichotomies, making judgment calls on actors and acts involved in conflicts. This dissertation investigates the construction of Palestinian political vi…
This thesis analyzes the relationship between news items and advertising materials published on the front pages of two Kuwait daily newspapers, i.e., Al-Qabas and Al-Watan. These two newspapers were selected as they represent two different political and social views in the Kuwai…
This dissertation studies the relationship between television news and the state in Lebanon. It utilizes and reworks New Institutionalism theory by adding aspects of Mitchell's state effect and other concepts devised from Carey and Foucault. The study starts with a macro-level a…
The goal of this thesis was to delve into the wide variety of circumstances and factors that determine the ways mainstream American media develops and produces news stories for print and broadcast mediums. The thesis focused on a central problem, namely the bias that is omnipres…
This thesis is a study in the change of the use of audiovisual elements between the 1991 Gulf War news coverage and the 2003 Iraq War news coverage. The purpose of this study was to analyze audiovisual elements in war coverage from the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq War in orde…