scholarly journals Visual journalism and its genres in the British press coverage of the “refugee crisis” (on materials of The Guardian)

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (25) ◽  
pp. 42-77
Author(s):  
Алла Коваленко ◽  
Наталя Алексєєва
Keyword(s):  
Press Coverage ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Visual Journalism ◽  
British Press ◽  
The Guardian

scholarly journals ‘Refugees are streaming into Europe’: An image-schema analysis of the Syrian Refugee crisis in the Spanish and British press

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 39-57
Author(s):  
Manuela Romano
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Image Schemas ◽  
Syrian Refugee ◽  
Image Schema ◽  
British Press ◽  
Syrian Refugee Crisis ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Schema Analysis

By analysing the combination of an apparently neutral water metaphor, ‘flujo de refugiados / (in)migrantes’ and ‘flow of refugees / (im)migrants’, with very specific image schemas, in El País and The Guardian from 2015 to 2016, when the Syrian refugee crisis was at its peak, this study aims at uncovering the conceptualization of the refugees in two European host countries. To this aim, the study contributes to the field of anti-immigration discourse by presenting a comprehensive qualitative analysis of all the image schemas identified in the data (force, path, up-down, container, and balance); a cross-linguistic and corpus-based, quantitative analysis of the different schemas used in the newspapers; and a study based on the left-wing press, intuitively considered to have a more pro-immigration orientation. In short, the analysis reveals how, these highly covert preconceptual structures, used as powerful ideological tools, help to shape public opinion by projecting a very clear refugees as danger frame.

British newspapers’ stance towards the Syrian refugee crisis: An appraisal model study

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Tavassoli ◽  
Alireza Jalilifar ◽  
Peter RR White
Keyword(s):  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Syrian Refugee ◽  
Model Study ◽  
Political Orientations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Syrian Refugee Crisis ◽  
The Guardian

This study investigates the representations of the Syrian refugee crisis in commentary articles published in two British newspapers with different political orientations, The Guardian and The Telegraph. The study draws on the appraisal model as a linguistic tool to analyse the attitudinal language of the articles indicative of the stances adopted by the newspapers. Such stances have the potential to position the readers to positively view the refugees and accept them into their homeland labelled as the welcoming stance, or otherwise reject them labelled as unwelcoming. The selected 20 articles belong to September 2015 and March 2016, the beginning and end of a 6-month period during which important policy changes were made by the leading countries in the wake of 2015 terrorist attacks. The findings indicate that the left-leaning The Guardian adopts a dominantly welcoming stance towards the Syrian refugees and consistently maintains this welcoming stance after 6 months of chaos across Europe. The right-leaning The Telegraph, however, shows a more unwelcoming stance and becomes even more unwelcoming after 6 months.

scholarly journals Journalistic transgressions in the representation of Jeremy Corbyn: From watchdog to attackdog

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart Cammaerts ◽  
Brooks DeCillia ◽  
João Carlos Magalhães
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
British Press ◽  
Jeremy Corbyn

This research critically assesses the press coverage of Jeremy Corbyn during his leadership bid and subsequent first months as the leader of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party. A content analysis ( n = 812) found that the British press offered a distorted and overly antagonistic view of the long-serving MP. Corbyn is often denied a voice and news organisations tended to prize anti-Corbyn sources over favourable ones. Much of the coverage is decidedly scornful and ridicules the leader of the opposition. This analysis also tests a set of normative conceptions of the media in a democracy. In view of this, our research contends that the British press acted more as an attackdog than a watchdog when it comes to the reporting of Corbyn. We conclude that the transgression from traditional monitorial practices to snarling attacks is unhealthy for democracy, and it furthermore raises serious ethical questions for UK journalism and its role in society.

scholarly journals Constructing an illusion of scientific uncertainty? Framing climate change in German and British print media

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Schmid-Petri ◽  
Dorothee Arlt
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Scientific Uncertainty ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Quantitative Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The Press ◽  
British Press

AbstractThis article uses quantitative content analysis data from June 1, 2012 to May 31, 2013 to examine the salience and construction of scientific uncertainty about climate change in German and British press coverage using quantitative content analysis data from June 1, 2012 to May 31, 2013. The results show that uncertainty about climate change − against overwhelming consensus among climate scientists − is prominent in the press coverage of both countries. The findings indicate that it is important to distinguish whether scientific uncertainty can be found at the level of single articles, or at the level of the coverage as a whole. The study also reveals that uncertainty is constructed differently in German and British press coverage in terms of the media’s framing of climate science and the types of actors who are involved in the construction of scientific uncertainty.

scholarly journals Media Discourse on the Refugee Crisis: On what have the Greek, German and British Press Focused?

European View ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stergios Fotopoulos ◽  
Margarita Kaimaklioti
Keyword(s):  
Media Discourse ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
British Press

scholarly journals Evropeiskii potop: The discourse of apocalypse and silence in Russian press coverage on the issue of refugees

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Johanne Berge Kalsaas
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
News Discourse

This article studies Russia’s news discourse on the refugee crisis of 2015–2016. Employing critical discourse analysis and the concept of news as discourse, the study explores representations of the refugee issue in four Russian newspapers. A predominant feature in the discourse is the use of apocalyptic rhetoric. Elaborating on the concept of post-Soviet aphasia (Oushakine 2000), however, the study also finds that the foremost characteristic of Russian public conversation on refugees is, perhaps, the lack thereof. The apparent discursive “black hole” concerning Russia’s role in the refugee situation is a central finding in the study.

scholarly journals Media influence on humanitarian interventions: analysis of the Rohingya refugee crisis and international media coverage

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle J. Lee
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
International Media ◽  
International Pressure ◽  
Humanitarian Interventions ◽  
The Media ◽  
Effects Of Media ◽  
The Guardian

AbstractIn 2017, the long-festering discriminatory treatment to the Rohingyas in Myanmar, both in law and practice, resulted in the largest cross-border humanitarian crisis in Asia. During the 2016‑2017 Rohingya refugee crisis, the aerial shots of burnt villages and images of people trudging toward the horizon in search of refuge in neighboring nations dominated the Western media. However, for humanitarians, the question of whether the media helps with humanitarian crises remains complicated and unclear. This study examines the effects of media coverage on the Rohingya refugee crisis based on articles from two liberal, elite newspaper sources, The New York Times and The Guardian between 2010 and 2020. The study reveals that the attempts of international pressure to stop the crisis have increased through media coverage and political pressures; however, the number of Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar intensified due to worsening violence and human rights violations committed by the Myanmar army. Findings are discussed using the lens of cultural and ideological context. The study suggests that in Myanmar, where authoritarian military culture is pervasive, there is a limited influence of the international press on the state-sponsored ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya population and questions whether consistent international pressure could have changed the outcome.

scholarly journals Africa's global media image in a digital world as an exclusive western preserve?

2021 ◽  
pp. 174804852110637
Author(s):  
Chikaire Wilfred Williams Ezeru
Keyword(s):  
Total Sample ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Media Image ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Digital World ◽  
British Press

Who constructs Africa's global media image? That is the main focus of this longitudinal study. It looks at both the journalists and the news sources applied in the British press coverage of Africa between 1992 and 2017. Four British national newspapers (The Guardian, Financial Times, The Times, and Daily Mail) and a mixed research approach (content analysis and semi-structured interviews) were used. A total sample of 7027 articles were utilized, while nine journalists were interviewed. This study discovered that the British newspapers’ coverage of Africa was dominated by Western journalists and the news sources used in the articles were a proportionate mixture of both African and Western sources, especially in the quality newspapers. It also uncovered that Africa's global influence, in addition to other factors impact on the UK newspapers’ coverage of Africa. This study concludes that there are some positive changes in the post-colonial British press coverage of Africa, especially in their use of news sources, but there are still some elements of neo-colonialism and racism in the British newspapers’ use of journalists in reporting on Africa.

scholarly journals The discursive construction of Romanian immigration in the British media: Digitized press vs. Television documentaries

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Florentina Cheregi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Television Use ◽  
The Media ◽  
British Press ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Guardian

<p>This paper looks at how the media – particularly the British press and television – frames the issue of Romanian immigrants in Great Britain, in the context of the freedom of movement for workers in the European Union. The study focuses on the frames employed by the British journalists in constructing anti-immigration discourses in the digital and the TV sphere, comparatively. This study analyzes the stereotypes about Romanian people used in two British media formats and the way in which they affect Romania’s country image overseas. Using a mixed research approach, combining framing analysis (Entman, 1993) with critical discourse analysis (Van Dijk, 1993), and dispositif analysis (Charaudeau, 2005) this article investigates 271 news items from three of the most read newspapers in the UK (The Guardian, Daily Mail and The Independent), published online during January 2013 – March 2014. Also, the paper analyzes three film documentaries from BBC (Panorama – The Romanians are Coming? – BBC1, The Truth About Immigration – BBC2 and The Great Big Romanian invasion – BBC World News). The analysis shows that the British press and television use both similar and different frames to coverage Romanian migrants. The media also infer the polarization between “Us” (the British media) and “Them” (the Romanian citizens).</p>

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