174. Name: Afrah Nasser Title: Discursive Construction in Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis of how BBC World and Al Jazeera English Constructed
Yemen’s 2011 Uprising Coverage Institution: University of Gothenburg Country: Sweden Date: 2015 Language: English Abstract:
This thesis focuses on the first stage of Yemen’s 2011 uprising in order to understand how media portrayed this event. This examination is conducted through a comparative analysis between the BBC World and Al Jazeera English online websites. Articles published by both news services during the first 100 days of the Yemeni uprising represent the prime material for analysis as they provide the initial portrayal that shaped the early understanding of the events in Yemen. This study uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of the collected data to provide an in-depth understanding on how language is used in its social, political and cultural contexts. Emerging themes through the analysis suggest that the two media outlets go through two crucial phases in the Yemen uprising, the pre and the post ‘Friday of Dignity’ and the ‘GCC deal initiative’. In the first phase, the two media networks have no differences in their coverage. They both characterize the events as ‘protests’ and ‘unrest’. Then in the second phase, the two media outlets slightly differ in their media coverage in terms of the textual and discursive practice features.
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