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Examining the global journalism: framing analysis of the ISIS threat on global
news networks’ online sites
Xu Zhang M.A. student, mass communication
04/23/2015
The ISIS threat (global issue)
Globalization
Globalization and International Communication
Media-technological paradigm Cultural paradigm Political-economic paradigm
Globalized World and Global Events
Several major “global” events
•HIV pandemic (Bardhan, 2001)
•2003 SARS (Tian % Stewart, 2005)
•Iraq War (Dimitrova & Ahern, 2007)
•North Korean nuclear test (Dai & Hyun, 2010)
•Global financial crisis (Marron, 2010)
Global journalism
Traditional journalism
Nation-state prism Domestic/foreign binary category Lack of context
Global journalism Reese (2008) and Berglez (2008) A style/practice Global perspective Emphasize on inter-connectedness
Examining global journalism
Comparative study
•Hallin & Mancini (2010)
•Three media systems
Global news networks and their news production
•CNN and Al-Jazeera English
•News coverage of the ISIS threat
Theoretical frameworks
•Framing analysis
•Global journalism (global perspective)
Sampling
CNN and Al-Jazeera English online news reports Two-constructed week sampling 393 online news reports (193 CNN,200 Al-Jazeera
English)
Findings
News genre
CNN Al-Jazeera English
article: 124 64.2% article: 124 62%
opinion: 31 16.1% opinion: 19 9.5%
reportage: 24 12.4% reportage: 28 14%
Brief: 1 0.5% Brief: 19 9.5%
feature: 13 6.7% feature: 10 5%