Nationalizing the “refugee crisis”: A comparative analysis exploring how elite newspapers in four countries framed forced migration during World Refugee Day

Tirosh, Noam; Bien-Aimé, Steve; Sreenivasan, Akshaya; Lichtenstein, Dennis

doi:10.1177/07395329211050123

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“…help the mass news consuming audience understand their own communities and the wider world (e.g., Entman, 2004; Frear et al, 2019; Hoewe & Zeldes, 2012). In many circumstances, journalists’ words, images, and videos hold added salience for their audiences if the audience members’ lack direct knowledge of the news topic (e.g., Tirosh et al, 2022). In addition to how journalists frame their stories, the sources for the stories cannot be ignored, either.…”

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“Hidden” No More: Newspapers’ Framing of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson

Bien-Aimé

2024

Journal of Black Studies

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When analyzing the composition of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, one can see the paucity of women and especially Black women in these areas. Generally when depicting people who excelled despite encountering substantial obstacles, news reports tend to celebrate the person’s success while often ignoring the structural reasons for the existing discrimination. Thus, this study analyzed media coverage of the 2020 death of legendary NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson to explore whether journalists emphasize race and sex as novelties compared to a person’s overall accomplishments, and whether journalists explored the structures underpinning the racism and sexism Johnson faced. In both standard news articles and opinion pieces, the theme of trailblazer or pioneer consistently appeared. Journalists took care to both highlight Johnson’s novelty as a woman in STEM, but also her significant contributions to the space program as a whole, which transcended her racial and gender identities. Additionally, fewer than half of the news items that contained direct quotations actually quoted women who were NOT Katherine Johnson. Many of the news items that quoted women contained comments from author Margot Lee Shetterly, whose book served as the basis for the movie Hidden Figures. News items also routinely treated the racial and gender discrimination Johnson faced as part of the past and not as a current issue. Racism and sexism existed, but there was not much explanation as to why it existed in its particular format, who benefited from the discriminatory apparatuses and who implemented and maintained those systems.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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“Hidden” No More: Newspapers’ Framing of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson

Bien-Aimé

2024

Journal of Black Studies

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“…In all these indices prescribed, elite newspapers perform the best of the roles and have the best features. For instance, elite newspapers often target the more formally educated readers, have better reputations, have a comprehensive network of distribution that makes them more nationalistic, dictate the content and style of journalism in their countries and observe greater standards of journalistic professionalism and ethical responsibility (Ali et al, 2019;Graham & de Bell, 2021;Stanley, 2012;Tirosh et al, 2022). The roles elite newspapers perform cannot be associated with nonelite newspapers that typically take an interest in publishing soft news related to sex, gossip and infotainment, among others.…”

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“…Indeed, the agenda of classifying newspapers has been pursued from several non-linguistic perspectives by scholars. These varying perspectives of classification seem to occur because scholars argue that the media systems across continents generally differ (Tirosh et al, 2022) although some thread of similarities and influences may exist (Mohammed & Mccombs, 2021). Using framing perspectives, Carpenter (2007), for instance, classifies newspapers into elite and non-elite newspapers.…”

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“…They often resort to the elite newspapers that take the responsibility of leading the frame-building process. The elite newspapers, therefore, are the “opinion-leading newspapers considered to provide orientation for other news media” (Tirosh et al, 2022, p. 52). Wu (2021) affirms that the essential yardstick for identifying elite newspapers is agenda-setting.…”

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Utilizing attributive patterns as a linguistic classification tool of newspapers

Mintah

2023

Newspaper Research Journal

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The indices for the classification of newspapers have often focused on agenda-setting roles, economic position and size of newspapers, among others. Concerning newspapers in Africa, Moehler and Singh (2011) and Hasty (2005) assert that the only index for the classification of newspapers is ownership. The study, therefore, focuses on the patterns of the attributive mode of the transitivity system of Systemic Functional Grammar to propose a linguistic alternative index for classifying newspapers. The findings indicate that the patterns of attributions that occur are significant and viable enough to classify newspapers.

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Azeem Rafiq, an Object or a Subject? “Can the Subaltern Speak?”

Hussain,

Bien-Aimé

2024

Communication & Sport

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In the extant scholarship, there remains a paucity of research underscoring how Western media frame the identity of Muslim men athletes from diverse backgrounds who challenge the colonial sporting institution (e.g., cricket) with the allegation of racism. There is also a significant lacuna in literature exploring how the identity of a Muslim man athlete is shaped in Eastern media, ensuing his racial accusations against a Western sporting institution. This study aimed to analyze the media’s depiction of Azeem Rafiq after his racism allegations against Yorkshire Cricket Club, contrasting British and South Asian perspectives through neo-Orientalism and postcolonial theory within media framing scholarship. We analyzed data through textual and thematic analysis. The study results unearth that while Rafiq was heralded as a voice against racism by the British media, some media outlets focused on the narratives of exoticism, otherness, and the mysterious “Orient” while discussing Rafiq’s personality. Further, some Pakistani and Indian media outlets portrayed the Western world as a monolithic entity. The study findings also uncovered that numerous times, the Club’s sponsors’ responses were framed within financial and administrative narratives, often overshadowing the underlying issue of structural racism.

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Nationalizing the “refugee crisis”: A comparative analysis exploring how elite newspapers in four countries framed forced migration during World Refugee Day

Cited by 3 publications

References 44 publications

“Hidden” No More: Newspapers’ Framing of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson

“Hidden” No More: Newspapers’ Framing of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson

Utilizing attributive patterns as a linguistic classification tool of newspapers

Azeem Rafiq, an Object or a Subject? “Can the Subaltern Speak?”

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