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    Barbaric mistakes: Western print media’s portrayal of “ethnic” conflicts

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    Author
    Roff, Katherine Louise
    Date
    2013
    Permanent Link
    http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7878
    Thesis Discipline
    Political Science
    Degree Grantor
    University of Canterbury
    Degree Level
    Masters
    Degree Name
    Master of Arts

    This study addressed the question: “Does Western media framing of different actors in ethnic conflict influence the likelihood of intervention being advocated in the media?” In order to answer this question, this study used a content analysis of USA, UK and Australian print media, and explored the media framing of conflicts in Rwanda, Kosovo, and East Timor. The study examined newspaper articles prior to intervention and, using Piers Robinson’s media framing model (2000), measured the quantity of “empathetic” and “distancing” coverage in relation to suggestions for intervention. The results of this study show that simplified representations of these complex conflicts often lead to a dangerous polarisation in Western media. Ethnic conflicts are discussed either within a “barbaric” frame, where readers are presented with well-defined heroes, victims and villains and are encouraged to support intervention; or with a “native” narrative, where the situation is reported as a distant problem between “squabbling tribes”, and the media consumer is encouraged to support non-intervention.

    Subjects
    Intervention
     
    humanitarian intervention
     
    interventionist narratives
     
    ethnic conflict
     
    media
     
    media framing
     
    war reporting
     
    empathy framing
     
    distance framing
     
    barbaric
     
    primordial
     
    war
     
    genocide
     
    Rwanda
     
    Kosovo
     
    East Timor
     
    Timor Leste
     
    hero
     
    victim
     
    villain.
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