211. Name: Farzin Rabiee Title: An Exploratory Study of how a Small Group of Young Muslim Kashmiri Men Perceive their Representation in BBC and Al Jazeera News Coverage about the Conflict Institution: Örebro University Country: Sweden Date: 2017 Language: English Abstract: This research looks at how a small group of young Muslim men from Kashmir perceives the representation of the struggle over Kashmir in both the BBC and Al Jazeera news coverage. The study focuses on the case of the unrest that took place during August 2016. This is an exploratory study aiming to give insights on how the Kashmiri people and particularly young Muslim Kashmiri men perceive their proper representation in the media and the depiction of the conflict in foreign news. The research uses the questionnaire method combined with content analysis. Through the questionnaire, the researcher collects and analyzes the views, comments and answers of a sample of six Kashmiri men after watching two news video clips covering the 2016 August unrest, one from the BBC news and the other from Al Jazeera news. The study reached a number of findings indicating that that the group of men generally perceived the representation of Kashmiris in the two video clips as positive. However, with regard to accuracy and truthfulness of the representation, the findings indicate that the situation proved to be more complex.
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