News frames terrorism: A comparative analysis of frames employed in terrorism coverage in US and UK newspapers (original) (raw)

Framing terrorism: The news media, the government and the public

2003

Terrorism now dominates the headlines across the world-from New York to Kabul. Framing Terrorism argues that the headlines matter as much as the act, in political terms. Widely publicized terrorist incidents leave an imprint upon public opinion, muzzle the" watchdog" role of journalists and promote a general one-of-us consensus supporting security forces.

Terrorism Made Simpler: A Framing Analysis of Three Canadian Newspapers, 2006-2013

How do mainstream Canadian newspapers portray contemporary terrorism? Inspired by framing theory, the following study develops a simple model for understanding and evaluating media coverage of terrorism. The model is then applied to a sample of 379 articles drawn from three Canadian newspapers in two periods of time—June 2006-June 2007 and June 2012-June 2013.

Chapter l4 The Lessons of Framing Terrorism

Montague Kern, Marion Just and Pippa Norris It is often difficult to disentangle how news frames shape the social construction of reality from the 'actual'reality of events. It is like being surrounded by an endless hall of mirrors. This is especially true if a consensual interpretation predominates in any society so that one-sided frames become taken for granted uncritically by politicians, reporters, and the public.

Media and its portrayal of terrorism

2016

The power of media in the formation of opinion is well documented. We use the information that surrounds us to form our own opinion, but how is it that opinion can become “public”? How susceptible are we to influences of prejudice and preconstructed elements in media? The principle interest of this study is to examine how media coverage can differ between news outlets; are there, in fact, traces of opinion altering the content in mass media? By using a methodological framework based on the theories of Critical Discourse Analysis, this thesis sets out to determine the difference in the broadcasting of opinion between two British newspapers. By looking at differences in how Muslims and Islam are portrayed in the media, in connection with acts of terrorism on European soil, the thesis will draw conclusions concerning both how perpetrators and innocent are depicted and also how concepts as fear and dread are incorporated into the news.

THE FRAMING OF INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ON ISLAM AND TERRORISM

The role of media is to shape opinions and presenting a particular version as reality. They also play an important role in structuring the audience perspectives about the issues that happen around the world. For this matter, they are believed and expected to portray a fair picture on any issues occur both at the local and international level. However, in portraying Islam, especially after the September 11 attacks, a number of research found that the International media tend to negatively depict Islam by associating it with terrorism. Issues concerning the way international media, specifically in the US and UK, equate Islam with terrorism have been tremendously debated. Research showed that after the September 11 attack, terrorism has been repeatedly associated with Islam by most of the international media. There is a perception that international media play a vital role in creating a relationship between Islam and terrorism in their media that leads to the formation of labels on Islam and terrorism. However, many think that the death of Osama Bin Laden would end the negative association between Islam and terrorism made by Western media for so many years after Sept 11. Based on this view, the researchers will be conducting a content analysis on two international news magazines looking at the tendency patterns in labeling Islam associated with terrorism after the death of Osama Bin Laden and also looking at the discourse analysis by extracting any recurrent themes emerged from the articles selected.

News-Media and Terrorism: Changing Relationship, Changing Definitions

Kampf, Z. (2014), News-Media and Terrorism: Changing Relationship, Changing Definitions. Sociology Compass, 8: 1–9. doi: 10.1111/soc4.12099

This article discusses two aspects that are important for understanding the relationship between Western news media and terrorism: the changing representation of terrorists and terrorist attacks in the media and, with it, the changing definition of terrorism. By calling attention to evolving news media practices in times of terrorism, I argue that advanced communication technologies and the emergence of global media ecology since the 1990s has made terrorism more visible in both national and international media landscapes. One result is that the more the news media expose terrorism to global audiences via the “front door,” the more controversial the use of the terms “terrorism” and “terrorist” become in social, political, and scholarly discourses. The paper addresses the evolving journalistic practices and their consequences as documented in previous studies on media reporting of terrorism in several national contexts, mostly the UK, the United States, and Israel.

Framing Islam: An Analysis of U.S. Media Coverage of Terrorism Since 9/11

Communication Studies, 2011

Since 9/11 there have been 11 terrorist events on U.S. soil that occurred or were stopped on the planned day of attack. This study of news coverage of those terrorist events revealed a thematic pattern of terrorism coverage in which fear of international terrorism is dominant, particularly as Muslims/Arabs/Islam working together in organized terrorist cells against a “Christian America,” while domestic terrorism is cast as a minor threat that occurs in isolated incidents by troubled individuals.