181. Name: Sawsan Atallah Bidart Title: How International News is Constructed: The Case of Arab Spring (A Comparison between Al Jazeera English, Press TV English, Euronews English, and France 24 English) Institution: Université Bordeaux 3 Country: France Date: 2019 Language: French Abstract: This thesis uses a grounded theory approach by building a corpus of 252 news videos broadcast by four international news networks: Al Jazeera English, Press TV English, Euronews English and France 24 English, on events related to the Arab Spring. The news videos from the corpus are analyzed using Critical Discourse Analysis, complemented by literature and empirical research in the form of interviews. In addition to the above-mentioned news channels, the study also investigates the coverage of news agency such as AFP and the UGC agency Crowdspark. Local news of Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen between 2011 and 2013 have also been studied using existing literature and documents. It was found that all countries had strict laws against information access or publication, especially if the information was related to authorities, religion or security. The study also found that most events of the Arab Spring were covered through footage taken locally, with minimal international representatives and with frames of peaceful demonstrations during the uprisings of Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen, and frames of violent riots in the Bahraini and Libyan uprisings.
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