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Hero and villain on a foreign land: a textual analysis on U.S. newspaper coverage of China’s Uighur unrest

Zhu, Di (2017) Hero and villain on a foreign land: a textual analysis on U.S. newspaper coverage of China’s Uighur unrest. In: International Conference on Communication and Media: An International Communication Association Regional Conference (i-COME’16), 18th - 20th September 2016, Istana Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.

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Abstract

This study aims at understanding U.S. media coverage of China's relationship with its mostly Muslim minority group Uighur during the period of several deadly attacks conducted by members from Uighur ethnic group.The study looks into 52 news stories and 3 opinion pieces in the New York Times and the Washington Post in a six-month period. Drawn from the theories of news framing and news narratives, the analysis found that the news discourse about China’s Uighur unrest presented a clear-cut vision of a repressive government and a prisoned intellectual Ilham Tohti.This image conjures two major mythical elements: the repressive villain and the persecuted hero. By attributing the ultimate blame unanimously to government control and policy, the articles employed a resentment frame to portray China's ethnic relationships and downplayed the severity of actual attacks.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information: published by EDP Sciences, SHS Web of Conferences; Volume 33 (2017)
Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions: School of Multimedia Technology & Communication
Depositing User: Mrs. Norazmilah Yaakub
Date Deposited: 08 Feb 2017 08:30
Last Modified: 08 Feb 2017 08:30
URI: https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20900

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