scholarly journals Righteous or Rebellious? Narratives of the Qatar Diplomatic Crisis in British and Qatari Media

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arish Mudra Rakshasa-Loots
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
International Conflicts ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
Terrorist Financing

Media representations of international conflicts are instrumental in determining how we imagine, evaluate, and discuss conflicts. The Qatar diplomatic crisis, an ongoing international diplomatic conflict between Qatar and a Saudi Arabia-led coalition of nations, has received extensive global media coverage. This study compares British and Qatari media discourse of this crisis, by examining ten news articles from the BBC and Al Jazeera English (AJE) for bias in language based on the respective national contexts. Evidence of agenda-setting, priming, nationalization of discourse, and public diplomacy was revealed in articles from both outlets. AJE, due to its relative political proximity to the conflict, ascribes the diplomatic crisis much more significance than does the BBC. Both outlets also differ in their evaluations of allegations of terrorist-financing against Qatar and the legitimacy of the blockade. These results indicate that media outlets which claim to be impartial are nonetheless influenced by national contexts when reporting on international conflicts. This study is the first to apply previously-established media effects theories and discourse analysis approaches to media representations of the ongoing Qatar crisis and furthers our understanding of power dynamics in narratives of global conflicts.

scholarly journals Brands as a nation: An analysis of overseas media engagement of top Chinese brands

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-39
Author(s):  
Ouyang Chen ◽  
Sonya Song ◽  
Mike Z. Yao
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Chinese Market ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Large Sets ◽  
Special Events ◽  
The Media

Exposure and engagement to the media coverage of Chinese brands among average consumers outside of the domestic Chinese market can serve as an important measure of China’s global influence. In this study, we analyzed the audience engagement of online articles about the top 20 Chinese brands from over 5000 web publishers around the world in a period of 5 months from October 2017 to February 2018. Specific results from our analyses point to a lack of sustained effort, careful coordination, and proper control in these companies’ public relations and crisis communication. The study also reveals a larger problem in China’s public diplomacy efforts. The top Chinese firms, despite their high market value, are yet to establish soft influence internationally. The global media engagements of Chinese companies are largely driven, passively, by special events and crises. Moreover, our study offers a new way of studying China and global media by leveraging large sets of industry data and adopting a set of audience matrices commonly used by media publishers to examine social science research questions.

Before the “Ecologically Noble Savage”: Gendered Representations of Amazonia in the Global Media in the 1970s

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-62
Author(s):  
Sarah Sarzynski
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
White Men ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Symbolic System ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
Binary Oppositions

An analysis of media representations of the Amazon and indigenous peoples reveals how media producers and filmmakers foregrounded discourses naturalizing gendered and racialized differences that distinguished the Amazon from the West in the 1970s, a decade during which the Brazilian military dictatorship promoted development projects in Amazonia. These representations often sexualized indigenous peoples and the Amazon itself, portraying them as primitive, cannibal savages, animals or part of nature, or victims of exploitation. The “Othering” of the Amazon and Amazonians was further elaborated through a discourse of binary oppositions that portrayed Western white men as explorers and exploiters who dominated the screen, scripts, studies, and development projects even if they were doomed to fail. By relying on a symbolic system of difference, global media coverage and films about Amazonia in the 1970s were complicit in legitimizing authoritarian decrees promoting large-scale development that depicted indigenous peoples and the environment as obstacles. Un análisis de las representaciones mediáticas de la Amazonía y sus pueblos indígenas revela cómo, en la década de 1970, productores y cineastas mediáticos resaltaron discursos que naturalizaron las diferencias de género y racializadas con las que se distinguían a la Amazonía del Occidente en una época durante la cual la dictadura militar brasileña promovió proyectos de desarrollo en la región. Dichas representaciones a menudo sexualizaban a los pueblos indígenas y a la Amazonía misma, retratándolos como primitivos, caníbales salvajes, animales o elementos naturales, o víctimas de explotación. La “otredad” de la Amazonía y los amazónicos se elaboró a través de un discurso de oposiciones binarias que retrataba a los hombres blancos occidentales como exploradores y explotadores que dominaban la pantalla, los guiones, los estudios y los proyectos de desarrollo, incluso si estos estaban condenados al fracaso. Al confiar en un sistema simbólico de diferencia basado en oposiciones binarias y estereotipos, la cobertura mediática global y las películas sobre la Amazonía en la década de 1970 fungieron como cómplices en la legitimación de los tipos de proyectos y políticas llevados a cabo en la región.

A corpus-based study of representation of Islam and Muslims in American media: Critical Discourse Analysis Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 174804852098744
Author(s):  
Ke Li ◽  
Qiang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Strong Conclusion ◽  
American Media

Media representations have significant power to shape opinions and influence public response to communities or groups around the world. This study investigates media representations of Islam and Muslims in the American media, drawing upon an analysis of reports in the New York Times over a 17-year period (from Jan.1, 2000 to Dec. 31, 2016) within the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis. It examines how Islam and Muslims are represented in media coverage and how discursive power is penetrated step by step through such media representations. Most important, it investigates whether Islam and Muslims have been stigmatized through stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. The findings reveal that the New York Times’ representations of Islam and Muslims are negative and stereotypical: Islam is stereotyped as the unacclimatized outsider and the turmoil maker and Muslims as the negative receiver. The stereotypes contribute to people’s prejudice, such as Islamophobia from the “us” group and fear of the “them” group but do not support a strong conclusion of discrimination.

scholarly journals Mental health consequences of COVID-19 media coverage: the need for effective crisis communication practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaohui Su ◽  
Dean McDonnell ◽  
Jun Wen ◽  
Metin Kozak ◽  
Jaffar Abbas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Global Media ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Core Issue ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Media Reports

AbstractDuring global pandemics, such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), crisis communication is indispensable in dispelling fears, uncertainty, and unifying individuals worldwide in a collective fight against health threats. Inadequate crisis communication can bring dire personal and economic consequences. Mounting research shows that seemingly endless newsfeeds related to COVID-19 infection and death rates could considerably increase the risk of mental health problems. Unfortunately, media reports that include infodemics regarding the influence of COVID-19 on mental health may be a source of the adverse psychological effects on individuals. Owing partially to insufficient crisis communication practices, media and news organizations across the globe have played minimal roles in battling COVID-19 infodemics. Common refrains include raging QAnon conspiracies, a false and misleading “Chinese virus” narrative, and the use of disinfectants to “cure” COVID-19. With the potential to deteriorate mental health, infodemics fueled by a kaleidoscopic range of misinformation can be dangerous. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of research on how to improve crisis communication across media and news organization channels. This paper identifies ways that legacy media reports on COVID-19 and how social media-based infodemics can result in mental health concerns. This paper discusses possible crisis communication solutions that media and news organizations can adopt to mitigate the negative influences of COVID-19 related news on mental health. Emphasizing the need for global media entities to forge a fact-based, person-centered, and collaborative response to COVID-19 reporting, this paper encourages media resources to focus on the core issue of how to slow or stop COVID-19 transmission effectively.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Pandemic, Transparency, and “Polidemic” in the Republic of Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-224
Author(s):  
Cheol Kang ◽  
Ilhak Lee
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Global Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Rational Debate ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
The Republic ◽  
New Perspective

AbstractThis article examines the development of the Republic of Korea’s strategy to prevent the spread of COVID-19 with particular focus on ethical issues and the problem of politicization of public communication. Using prominent examples of stakeholders who have acted and expressed themselves in highly contradictory ways on the topic of the pandemic, we provide an analysis of how the public health policy discourse has entered into the realm of politicization and elaborate on the danger that this phenomenon poses in terms of rational debate and appropriate policy measures geared toward the public’s safety. Considering the role that the Republic of Korea have had in global media coverage of quarantine policies and epidemic prevention, we believe that our study makes a significant contribution to the literature because it provides a new perspective and insights into the forces at work within and around a prevention strategy that has both been lauded and seen as highly controversial.

We’ve Come a Long Way, But We Could Be Doing Better: Gendered Commentary in U.S. Media Coverage of the 1999 and 2019 Women’s World Cup

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Eileen Díaz McConnell ◽  
Neal Christopherson ◽  
Michelle Janning
Keyword(s):  
Contrast Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
World Cup ◽  
National Team ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
First World ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Over Time

In 2019, the U.S. Women’s National Team earned its fourth FIFA Women’s World Cup. Has gendered commentary in media coverage about the U.S. Women’s National Team changed since winning their first World Cup 20 years ago? Drawing on 188 newspaper articles published in three U.S. newspapers in 2019, the analyses contrast media representations of the 2019 team with a previous study focused on coverage of the 1999 team. Our analysis shows important shifts in the coverage over time. The 1999 team was popular because of their contradictory femininity in which they were “strong-yet-soft.” By 2019, the team’s popularity was rooted in their talent, hard work, success, and refusal to be silent about persisting gender-based disparities in sport and the larger society.

scholarly journals ‘As parents congregated at parties’: Responsibility and blame in media representations of violence and school closure in an Indigenous community

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 592-606
Author(s):  
Clarissa Carden
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
School Closure ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Remote Indigenous Community ◽  
Primary Groups ◽  
The Way

This article considers the discourses of responsibility and blame emerging from newspaper reportage of a crisis in the remote Indigenous community of Aurukun in Northern Queensland, Australia. In doing so, it aims to contribute to the sociology of racism and add to the existing body of scholarship on the ways in which deracialised media discourse can nevertheless be racist. The month of May 2016 saw violence perpetrated by young people against the teachers and principal of the community’s only school. Teachers were evacuated to the regional city of Cairns on 10 May due to violence in the community and fears for their safety. They returned on 18 May, only to be evacuated again on 25 May. These events form the focus of the reportage analysed in this article. The way in which three primary groups of players – parents, teachers and police – are portrayed in mainstream print media is analysed in order to ascertain how responsibility and blame are apportioned in relation to these events.

scholarly journals Nurturing Freedom of Expression through Teaching Global Media Literacy

Comunicar ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (32) ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Moeller
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Literacy Curriculum ◽  
Corporate Transparency ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Government ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

Freedom of expression is both a life and death matter and a bread and butter issue. Free media that allow a diversity of voices to be heard and all ideas to be discussed play a central role in the sustaining and monitoring of good government, as well as in the fostering of economic development and the encouraging of corporate transparency and accountability. Students in both developed and developing nations need to understand that there is no global issue or political arena in which the statement of problems and the framing of possible solutions are not influenced by media coverage. The Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change is the meeting point where universities from around the world, media organizations and international institutions such as the UN and UNESCO have worked jointly for the first time in order to build a global media literacy curriculum, related lesson plans, exercises and resources to teach students to evaluate the media they read, hear and see, as well as teach them to speak out for themselves. The GML materials are written by a global commu nity for a global community and aim to prepare students the world over for active and inclusive roles in information societies. La libertad de expresión es cuestión de vida o muerte. Los medios de comunicación independientes cumplen un rol central en el mantenimiento de un gobierno adecuado, así como en el fomento del desarrollo económico y en el apoyo a la transparencia corporativa y la rendición de cuentas. Por otro lado, los estudiantes de todo el mundo necesitan comprender la influencia de los medios para formular sus problemas y sus posibles soluciones. La Academia Salzburgo de los Medios de Comunicación y los Cambios Mundiales ha sido punto de encuentro para que Universidades de todo el mundo, organizaciones mediáticas e instituciones internacionales (como la ONU y la UNESCO) hayan colaborado en construir un programa curricular para la alfabetización mediática mundial, con ejercicios y recursos para enseñar a ver y escuchar los medios, actuar ante los medios, a través de los medios, e incluso creando sus propios medios de comunicación social. Los materiales son elaborados por y para una comunidad mundial, con el fin de preparar a estudiantes en todo el mundo a cumplir roles activos e incluyentes en la sociedad de la información.

scholarly journals Cultures of Abuse: ‘Sex Grooming’, Organised Abuse and Race in Rochdale, UK

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Salter ◽  
Selda Dagistanli
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
International Media ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Racial Issues

Revelations of organised abuse by men of Asian heritage in the United Kingdom have become a recurrent feature of international media coverage of sexual abuse in recent years. This paper reflects on the similarities between the highly publicised ‘sex grooming’ prosecutions in Rochdale in 2012 and the allegations of organised abuse in Rochdale that emerged in 1990, when twenty children were taken into care after describing sadistic abuse by their parents and others. While these two cases differ in important aspects, this paper highlights the prominence of colonial ideologies of civilisation and barbarism in the investigation and media coverage of the two cases and the sublimation of the issue of child welfare. There are important cultural and normative antecedents to sexual violence but these have been misrepresented in debates over organised abuse as racial issues and attributed to ethnic minority communities. In contrast, the colonialist trope promulgating the fictional figure of the rational European has resulted in the denial of the cultural and normative dimensions of organised abuse in ethnic majority communities by attributing sexual violence to aberrant and sexually deviant individuals whose behaviours transgress the boundaries of accepted cultural norms. This paper emphasises how the implicit or explicit focus on race has served to obscure the power dynamics underlying both cases and the continuity of vulnerability that places children at risk of sexual and organised abuse.

scholarly journals The Role of Mass Media in World Politics: Media Coverage of Battles for Capital Cities during Civil Conflicts

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-21
Author(s):  
A. Adelgareeva ◽  
I. Okunev
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Media Content ◽  
International News ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Civil Conflicts ◽  
Political News

The article centers on the political aspects of international news making, i.e. the coverage of major political news by global media. Nowadays we are witnessing rising interest towards the modus operandi of global media, its newly-acquired functions and its role as a world politics actor. In this study new empirical data is used to assess the role global media plays in the representation of major civil conflicts and to revisit the commonly-accepted understanding of its political functions. With the help of discourse analysis, the authors investigate the realities of the civil wars in Libya and Syria through the lens of their representations in international news, the aim being to unveil the influence of the existing social frames on the pertinent media content.

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