Her name was Clodagh: Twitter and the news discourse of murder suicide

Quinn, Fergal; Prendergast, Muireann; Galvin, Audrey

doi:10.1080/17405904.2019.1568896

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“…Indeed, individuals with a serious mental illness are much more likely to be victims than perpetrators of violence (Stuart, 2003: 123). Our findings confirm a pattern highlighted in Quinn et al’s (2019) intermedia agenda setting study, whereby traditional media frame familicide-suicide cases as caused by mental health. Quinn et al show how such framing can be challenged: social media critique of this pattern of framing in the Hawe case led to a change of tone in later coverage.…”

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“…The coverage constructed O’Driscoll as the racialised ‘other’. Koca–Helvaci (2016) found recurrent discourses surrounding the Traveller community in Ireland which reinforce the image of a ‘problematic’ minority group with ‘deviant’ lifestyle choices (as cited in Quinn et al, 2019: 334). Emphasis on the ethnicity of O’Driscoll aligns with what McLaughlin and Jensen (1995) describe as the means by which the isolation of a minority community is achieved via its position in cultural discourse being determined largely by outside forces.…”

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“…the omission of victims from the narrative (see, e.g. Dunne, 2016; O’Brien and Culloty, 2020) and overly sympathetic coverage of the perpetrators (Quinn et al, 2019).…”

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Shaping the ‘inexplicable’: A social constructionist analysis of news reporting of familicide-suicide

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Media framing helps to shape our understanding of the meaning of news events, often problematically. This study examines how this process interacts with the phenomenon of familicide-suicide, where a person kills one or more family members before taking their own life. A social constructionist analysis of the print media coverage of three high-profile cases in Ireland highlights framing and discursive patterns, contributing to an explanatory framework that is misleading and lacking in an evidence base. As well as a tendency towards broad and poorly supported claims-making, several primary causal frames are prevalent: mental health; financial debt; fall from grace; and ‘out of the blue’, whilst a domestic violence frame is notable in its absence. Coverage is found to be episodic in character, linked to dramatisation and more simplistic explanatory frames, rather than evidence-based analysis of potential causal factors for these incidents. Findings raise important questions for journalistic practice, regarding processes of selection and salience of sources contributing to overall coverage that is partial and biased, rather than an ‘objective’ representation of the social world.

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“…The role of Twitter as a news source has been examined from multiple perspectives, including perceived credibility of sources (Edgerly; Vraga, 2019), cross-cultural information flows (Mao; Menchen-Trevino, 2019) interaction with news channels (Ackland; O'Neil; Park, 2019) and agenda setting for the mainstream media (Quinn;Prendergast;Galvin, 2019). Sports news has also been investigated, for example analysing gender bias in official sports team accounts Mueller, 2019).…”

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Why are some websites researched more than others? A review of researh into the global top twenty

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2020

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“…There exists a number of gaps in the area of discursive examination of DV that the present study seeks to fill. To start with, though the majority of studies on DV have relied on the media, including television, newspaper, and radio, as the major platform to conduct their experiment (e.g., Easteal et al, 2018; Leung, 2016; Lloyd & Ramon, 2017), media has been reported to fall short of reflecting the true essence of DV or of enhancing public understanding of this phenomenal issue (e.g., Quinn et al, 2019). To cite an instance, Easteal et al (2018) demonstrated that media reports have often excluded the social milieu of DV, shifted the blame, and held women responsible, with the intention of disparaging DV and impeding public understanding.…”

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Discursive Constructions of Domestic Violence Among Iranian Instagram Users

Ebadijalal

Weisi

2021

J Interpers Violence

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Domestic violence (DV) is a widespread social phenomenon, adversely impacting public mental and physical health. The abatement of such issue necessitates a priori social awareness and a posteriori social support. With that in mind, the present study aimed at disclosing dominant discursive constructions of DV among Iranian Instagram users. Driven by Fairclough’s (1992) notion of “moments of crisis,” critical discourse analysis was employed as the theoretical framework to elucidate the results obtained from 1,028 comments on nine DV-related posts. Our primary objective was to uncover Iranian Instagram commentators’ perception of the causes and consequences of DV as well as the perpetrator and victim’s roles through probing into the embedded social values and assumptions underpinning such discursive constructions represented within comments. Meticulous inspection of the data yielded six major themes, namely, (a) blaming the responsible, (b) offering solutions to the victims, (c) portraying the male perpetrators, (d) overgeneralizing the transgression, (e) disregarding men’s rights, and (f) portraying the female perpetrators. The results indicated that female and male commentators held dissimilar perspectives with regard to DV and that though the conceptualizations of DV were not destitute of prejudice, both perpetrators and victims were encouraged to take requisite steps to minimize the adverse impact of DV on their families and relations as well as on social and public health. The discursive themes identified in the current work may serve as the stepping stone toward the mitigation of DV within society.

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Her name was Clodagh: Twitter and the news discourse of murder suicide

Cited by 15 publications

References 33 publications

Shaping the ‘inexplicable’: A social constructionist analysis of news reporting of familicide-suicide

Shaping the ‘inexplicable’: A social constructionist analysis of news reporting of familicide-suicide

Why are some websites researched more than others? A review of researh into the global top twenty

Discursive Constructions of Domestic Violence Among Iranian Instagram Users

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