scholarly journals “Rapport Duclert” and France’s Responsibility for the Genocide in Rwanda

2021 ◽  
Vol 107 (7) ◽  
pp. 84-95
Author(s):  
Anna Andreeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
State Responsibility ◽  
French Society ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
Media Discourses

In March 2021 the Duclert Commission, a commission of French experts appointed by President Macron, presented their report which immediately became the subject of academic and political debates. The Report examined the French involvement in Rwandan genocide in 1994, and pointed to the major ethical, legal and political dilemmas accompanying states’ involvement into the affairs of other states. We seek to identify major topics raised by the French media in relation to the report, and how possible reconciliation between France and Rwanda was presented in French periodicals. Through post-colonial lenses to the study of states’ foreign policy, we examine how the French role in the genocide was seen in media discourses, and how the media addressed such painful questions as accepting/avoiding state responsibility for its actions. Using qualitative content-analysis, we studied articles from French media outlets Le Monde, Libération and Le Figaro in the period of late March 2021 ‒ July 2021, as well as a few randomly selected articles from other French outlets to have a more complete picture of public debates across a political spectrum. The article concludes that while the media stressed the importance of the Committee’s work for bilateral relations, still, there is no consensus in the French society over France’s responsibility for the genocide: whether acknowledging state responsibility would be a manifestation of weakness and a threat to state security, or masking of certain colonial inclinations.

scholarly journals Image, krop og maskulinitet. Mediediskurser om skihoppere

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gertrud Pfister ◽  
Rikke Schou Jeppesen
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
Ski Jumping ◽  
Fan Communities ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The 19Th Century

Artiklen beskriver og forklarer de forandringer, som sporten har gennemgået, og den indflydelse, som disse forandringer har haft på udøvere og på deres kroppe og images. Der er særlig fokus på mediernes rolle i forhandlingen om konstruktion af ambivalente maskulinitetsformer. Gertrud Pfister & Rikke Schou Jeppesen: Images, Bodies and Masculinities. Media discourses about Ski JumpersToday ski jumping can be considered a typical media sport: it has very few participants and no basis to become a »sport for all« movement. Nevertheless, the few specialists and their main events attract masses of spectators and great media attention. The high demands of skill and strength as well as the danger involved have made ski jumping a typical male sport. Since its beginnings in the 19th century a ski jumper was looked upon as the epitome of »true manhood«. Today ski jumpers are celebrities with fragile egos, skinny bodies, boyish looks, ambivalent masculinities and fan communities of teenage girls. With a constructivist theoretical approach, we will describe and explain the changes that have taken place in ski jumping and the effects of these changes on the athletes, their bodies, their images and their masculinities. The focus will be on the media representation of two German ski jumpers, Martin Schmitt and Sven Hannawald who dominated this sport between 2000 and 2003. Sources are the articles about these athletes in 6 German print media. With a qualitative content analysis, we explore the media coverage of ski jumping and the way the athletes are presented. The correlations between the images and the »doing gender« of the athletes and their presentations in the media along with the role of the media in constructing new and ambivalent masculinities will be the key issues of this article.

Family, Courts and Media Discourses: The Contested Spaces of Time, and the Politics of the Protection of Children

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 142-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela D. Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Contested Spaces ◽  
Family Courts ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Media Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Insight Into

This article, which is built on media discourse analysis, provides an insight into how public opinion on the work of courts has developed into a discourse of disapproval. The discourse of time is often used to evaluate the work of courts and tends to meet with disapproval when related to sentencing and when the Family Court fails to deliver equal parental access to children. The Family Court is also the subject of discourses of fear within the media, with stories often focusing on child abuse and horror stories of neglect designed to attract and recruit an audience to media outlets. In addition, the discourses facing the Family Court are now firmly tied to time as a major aspect of decision-making. Because of this contested view, child protection may be reduced to a secondary perspective. This paper recommends a change to discourses surrounding courts by all parties in order to facilitate better understanding.

scholarly journals Framing Nuclearity: Online Media Discourses in Lithuania

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-161
Author(s):  
Natalija Mažeikienė ◽  
Judita Kasperiūnienė ◽  
Ilona Tandzegolskienė
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Discourses

This article refers to the concept of nuclearity as a broader technopolitical phenomenon that implies a political and cultural configuration of technical and scientific matters. The nuclear media discourses become a site of tensions, struggles, and power relations between various institutions, social groups, and agents who seek to frame nuclear issues. The Bourdieusian concept of a field as a domain of social interaction is employed by the authors of this article seeking to reveal interactions and power configurations within and between several fields: journalism and media, economy, politics, and cultural production fields (cinematography, literature, and art). Commercial and political pressures on media raise a question about the autonomy of this field. Media coverage of nuclear issues in Lithuania during the period 2018–2020, includes media framing produced by different sponsors of the nuclear media discourses and agents from the above-mentioned fields of journalism, nuclear industry, politics, cinematography or arts. The media coverage includes the news and press releases produced within PR and public communication of the atomic energy industry by representing the decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, articles written by journalists about the atomic city Visaginas, and challenges faced by the local community due to the closure of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant. The nuclear discourse includes debates by politicians around the topic of the lack of safety of the construction of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant in Belarus, and media coverage of the HBO series <em>Chernobyl</em> representing a strong antinuclear narrative by portraying the Chernobyl disaster crisis and expressing strong criticism of communism. The authors of this article carried out a qualitative content analysis of media coverage on nuclear issues and revealed features of the discourse: interpretative packages, frames, framing devices (Gamson &amp; Modigliani, 1989), and dominating actors and institutions supporting the discourse.

A Twist of Race: Ben Johnson and the Canadian Crisis of Racial and National Identity

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
National Identities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
Canadian Identity ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Racial Discourses ◽  
Fast Lane

This study maps the media discourses surrounding Ben Johnson’s life “in the fast lane” to further understand one particular aspect of a contemporary crisis of identity (or, more accurately, identities) in Canada. Specifically, this study provides: (a) a context within which to locate Johnson’s rise and fall from hero to scapegoat as articulated to the 1988 crisis of Canadian identity; (b) a chronology of the twist of race, or changing racial discourses which serve to define and redefine Ben Johnson’s racial and national identities; and (c) a discussion of the politics of identity in relation to multiculturalism and the representation of Ben Johnson as the “other” in Canada. The results reveal that Ben Johnson’s identity was the subject of a range of representations including those linked to racist stereotypes. Moreover, the results suggest that the discourses defining Ben Johnson are constituted by, and constitutive of, broader debates about identity in Canada.

scholarly journals Representation of Patriarchal Culture in New Media: A case study of News and Advertisement on Tribunnews.com

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-154
Author(s):  
Bertha Sri Eko Murtiningsih ◽  
Maria Advenita ◽  
S. Ikom
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Online News ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject

AbstractPatriarchal culture has become the dominant issue in online media. Recently, online news and advertising media have less gender perspective. Its content tends to position women as marginalized subjects receiving negative stereotypes. This study aims to review women’s reality in online media, in the form of: 1) news published on tribunnews.com; 2) how women issues are presented by using gender perspective journalism. This research uses descriptive qualitative content analysis approach combined with discourse analysis method of Sara Mills with a focus on the position of the subject and the object. Tribun daily Media in its online form (www.tribunnews.com) is the locus of this research. Tribunnews.com is selected because it ranks in big three news portal in Indonesia, having an extensive and strong network as they are supported by more than twenty regional press. The results show that media has not been fully able to raise women’s issue in the mainstream. The media still portrays women within the bond of patriarchal culture, discrimination, and consumeristic lifestyle. The power of patriarchy dominates the news which marginalizes women. News content and its features follow the pattern of male dominating power. Tribunnews.com has been legitimizing gender bias by accepting exploitation on female’s physical appearance as normal and acceptable. In other instances, Tribunnews.com does not highlight intellectual and leadership values of women as actors. News in online media should be reformed to be more gender sensitive.

scholarly journals From the ‘Open door’ policy to the EU-Turkey deal: media framings of German policy changes during the EU refugee ‘crisis’

2021 ◽  
pp. 004711782199941
Author(s):  
Beatrix Futák-Campbell ◽  
Mira Pütz
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Open Door Policy ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The Eu

This article explores Angela Merkel’s decision to open Germany’s borders to refugees in September 2015 and her support for the EU-Turkey statement in March 2016. While the first policy offered relief to refugees, the second was designed to significantly reduce the number of refugees coming to Europe. Besides the seemingly contradictory rationale behind these two foreign policy decisions, the role that domestic media played in Merkel’s decision to open the borders was remarkable. The connection between media reports and public opinion has long been established, whereas the connection between foreign policy and the media is more recent. However, the link between all three and how they operate together is yet to be studied. By exploring these connections, we show how foreign policy decisions can be accepted by locals within a language context that fosters identification with outsiders. Similarly, a shift in the discourse, which contributed to the perception of a divergence of interests between the local population and the refugees, helps to understand the subsequent change in foreign policy. In short, we show how this shift provides an insight into the parallels between domestic media discourses, public opinion and foreign policy decisions. We apply deductive qualitative content analysis to demonstrate this connection.

scholarly journals (In)Visible (a)sexuality? Media discourses and representations on asexuality in Portugal

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-42
Author(s):  
Rita Alcaire
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Multimodal Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The Relationship

This article presents the result of a multimodal analysis of the representation of asexuality in Portuguese mainstream media. In Portugal, the media played a pivotal role in the relationship between the newly formed Portuguese asexual community and the wider audience. Media attention on asexuality in Portugal generated a discussion on how asexual people are represented, but also on social representations of sexual diversity in general. As a result, the Portuguese asexual community and LGBTQI+ movement were impelled to reflect on their activity and on the public image they wanted to send out. Therefore, the community had to make choices: which media to participate in; who participates; whose faces the message is associated to; to what extent the allies are to be taken into consideration; which types of discourses get privileged, and which become excluded. Amongst other public effects, the Portuguese LGBTQI+ movement started to acknowledge asexuality in documents produced by them. The corpus of materials on the subject grew, and asexuality left a significant footprint. The major tendency points towards a positive portrayal of asexuality that puts asexual people centre stage, owning narratives about themselves.

scholarly journals Life Cycle of Innovations in International Media Discourse (by the Example of InoSMI Project)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-190
Author(s):  
Tamara Gromova
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
International Media ◽  
Media Impact ◽  
Political Studies ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Product Idea

The article presents the results of a research into characteristic features of innovations in the context of international media discourse. Basing on related researches in management, political studies, and sociology, the author studies stages of the life cycle of innovations in media discourse, which makes the interdisciplinary character of the work its novelty. Despite being actively used in media agenda, the theme of innovations in media discourse is understudied, and the majority of related researches are done in the field of political studies, sociology, marketing, culturology, and management. Moreover, an innovation cannot exist separately from its life cycle. After the final stage, a product, idea, or service, etc., stops being an innovation and takes another status. At every stage of its life cycle, an innovation has different features, which is reflected in media discourse. The public’s perception of innovations and innovativeness is dependent on the character of the media space. Therefore, due to the power of media impact, studying stages of the life cycle of an innovation in media discourse is particularly important. This explains the topicality of the research. Using the media materials of InoSMI project, the author carries out a qualitative content analysis of international media context aimed at studying the life cycle of innovations and actors at each stage of the cycle. The analysis helps to identify the most often mentioned stages of the life cycle of innovations and their actors, and provides for making an assumption about the character of international media discourse related to the subject of the study.

scholarly journals ‘The Viceroys are Disappearing from the Roundabouts in Delhi’: British symbols of power in post-colonial India

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 787-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL M. MCGARR
Keyword(s):  
State Governments ◽  
British Colonialism ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Indian Nationalism ◽  
The Media ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

AbstractIn the aftermath of the Second World War, as post-colonial regimes in Africa and Asia hauled down imperial iconography, to the surprise and approval of many Western observers, India evidenced little interest in sweeping away remnants of its colonial heritage. From the late 1950s onwards, however, calls for the removal of British imperial statuary from India's public spaces came to represent an increasingly important component in a broader dialogue between central and state governments, political parties, the media, and the wider public on the legacy of British colonialism in the subcontinent. This article examines the responses of the ruling Congress Party and the British government, between 1947 and 1970, to escalating pressure from within India to replace British statuary with monuments celebrating Indian nationalism. In doing so, it highlights the significant scope that existed for non-state actors in India and the United Kingdom with a stake in the cultural politics of decolonization to disrupt the smooth running of bilateral relations, and, in Britain's case, to undermine increasingly tenuous claims of continued global relevance. Post-war British governments believed that the United Kingdom's relationship with India could be leveraged, at least in part, to offset the nation's waning international prestige. In fact, as the fate of British statuary in India makes clear, this proved to be at least as problematic and flawed a strategy in the two decades after 1947 as it had been in those before.

scholarly journals The Reality of Conflict Frames in Media: A Comparative Analysis of News Stories in The Hindu and Dawn with Reference to the Aftermath of Uri Attack

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Keerthana Thankachan ◽  
P E Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
News Story ◽  
Media Frames ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
The Media ◽  
Conflict Frames

The role of media in conflict situations is vital. When it comes to reporting a news story especially a conflict, it has been an issue of discussion as media have all the powers to decide how the story has to be framed in reality. The paper substantiates the occurrence of a pair of conflict frames that are often used by media while reporting a conflict. A qualitative content analysis of post Uri attack publications in The Hindu (Indian daily) and Dawn (Pakistani Daily) for one month is considered for analysis. The predominant appearance of ‘Indicative’ and ‘Dispute’ Frames often in pair and their concurrent relation in both the newspapers manifest the abstract, concrete and neutral characteristics of the frames. These identified frames are capable enough to create understandings, emotions, cognitions and perceptions which in reality form opinions, perspectives and discussions. This study significantly focuses on the role of the media frames in reporting Indo-Pak Conflicts in a real world scenario that later on provides the major context of discussion and bilateral relations between the countries. When indicative frames are colluded in conflict reports, their destructive power is much more as the indications are often rooted in a way to escalate the dispute that occurred. The effectiveness and the intensity of these notable paired frames are discussed in the paper to comprehend the reality of conflict frames used by media. 

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document