Al Jazeera In 1000 Academic Studies

299. Name: Hristiana Rizova and Mihaela Panayotova Title: Online News Media Framing of the 2021 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Al Jazeera, BBC and CNN Institution: Malmö University Country: Sweden Date: 2021 Language: English Abstract: This study critically analyses the language and images used by international online news media to represent the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during May 2021. In total, 270 online news headlines and featured lead images, published on the English news websites of Al Jazeera, BBC and CNN, are analyzed. This study aims to identify the news framing employed by the different international media outlets as well as analyze the scope of their media coverage. The theories of agenda-setting, framing and media representation help guide the current research to identify the discursive practices employed by the selected international news media. The theoretical framework employed to carry out this research combines Pan & Kosicki (1993) approach to textual framing analysis with Barthes’ (1972) method for analyzing visual semiotics. The research results showed a number of variations in the patterns of representing and framing the conflict across the three analyzed media outlets. However, overall, the results reveal that the 2021 outbreak in the Israel-Palestine conflict is portrayed mainly through a frame of ‘’war’’. These distinctions broadly reflect and correspond to the journalists’ practices and differences of each media outlet.

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