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Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected Newspaper Articles Addressing the Chapel Hill Shooting Incident
- Author(s):
- SAYYAH AL-AHMAD RAWAN ABU AWWAD
- Editor(s):
- Jyotirmaya Patnaik (see profile)
- Date:
- 2020
- Group(s):
- Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminist Humanities, Film Studies
- Subject(s):
- Journalism, Reportage literature, Group identity, Digital media, Digital communications, Ideology
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Chapel Hill, critical discourse analysis, modality, Literary journalism, Cultural identity, New media, Digital communication, Agency
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/y24x-x445
- Abstract:
- The present study critically investigates the single case media reporting of the Chapel Hill shooting incident in North Carolina, USA. Eight newspaper reports, including BBC, Fox News, Independent, The Telegraph, The New York Times, Huffington Post, and among which two from CNN were assessed, using the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach. At the explanation level, a social analysis was conducted to the order of discourse, which was connected to a specific social order to produce the final texts of the report. The findings of the study revealed that the reports were not objective. They were found to be linguistically biased as the incident was portrayed as an un-Islamophobic crime. These results also confirmed the revelations in other studies regarding the representation of Muslims by the Western media and the ‘elite racism’ ideology, which was followed in the production of reports.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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