Frame Analysis: Newspaper Coverage of Kenya's Oil Exploration in the Post-2012 Discovery Era

Ireri, Kioko; Chege, Njoki; Kibarabara, Joy; Onyalla, Don Bosco

doi:10.1080/23743670.2019.1635035

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“…A framing approach has proved an adequate methodological tool for analyzing how the media construct a meaningful, comprehensible reality for the audience, how they select and organize ideas for the public to interpret. Framing theory has been taken up by sociology (Gamson & Modigliani 1987, 1989, Goffman 1974, psychology (Bartlett 1932), linguistics and discourse studies (Lakoff & Johnson 1981, Tannen 1979, van Dijk 1977, economics (Ireri et al 2019, Kahneman & Tversky 1979, communication and media studies (Papacharissi & De Fatima Oliveira 2008, Tuchman 1978, Scheufele 1999, van Gorp 2005, 2007, political communication and policy studies (Entman 1993).…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse

Solopova

Александровна²,

Kushneruk

et al. 2021

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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The paper focuses on diachronic framing analysis of Russias images in British media discourse. The importance of the research is determined by a need to work out adequate linguistic foundations to counteract information war, generated by some foreign media and aimed at distorting Russias history and eroding its spiritual values. Few scholars have drawn on any systematic research into analysis of Russias images in foreign media discourses of different historical spans. The major objective is to compare Russias images and their emotional charge in the British media in chronologically divided periods of war and peace under the influence of changing historical and ideological factors. The authors account for the mechanisms by which Russias images are framed and transformed in the contexts of the largest war of the XX century and the information war of the XXI century. The material comprises 500 samples per period. The data covering two historical spans are investigated through a framing approach. The criteria for diachronic analysis are dominant diagnostic and prognostic frames, constituting the macroframe WAR. The significant difference in Russias images in war- and peacetime consists in their emotive load: Russias contemporary negative images are contrasted to positive images activated in the retrospective period. The findings support the idea that British media discourse focusing on Russia is subject-centered: Russias image is determined by the geopolitical situation, Great Britains political priorities and objectives, and the bilateral relationship between the countries. The results can be used to further develop the linguistic basics of war theory.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse

Solopova

Александровна²,

Kushneruk

et al. 2021

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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“…The missionaries and British settlers started the modern Kenyan press in the nineteenth century (Ochilo 1993), which explains why early publications carried religious materials (Obonyo 2003). The press in Kenya developed in four phases: the colonial era (1895–1962), the post-independence era (1963–1990), the multiparty era (1991–2000), and the digital media era (2002–present) (Ireri et al 2019).…”

Section: The Print Media In Kenyamentioning

confidence: 99%

Politicians in Newspaper News: Who Attracts Coverage in Kenyan Politics

Ireri

Ochieng

2020

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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The present research examines the coverage of 349 Kenyan politicians in four English national newspapers between 2013 and 2017. Within the contexts of media coverage based on news values, and reporting as a mirror of political reality, the study investigates whether gender, tribe, party size, seniority, committee or party leadership, commenting on corruption and devolution, and criticizing the government predicted the visibility of members of parliament (MPs) in newspaper news. Findings show that seniority, committee or party leadership, commenting on devolution and corruption, and criticizing government emerged as the main predictors of the parliamentarians’ coverage in news media. Overall, committee or party leadership, commenting on corruption, and criticizing the government were the strongest determinants of the MPs coverage.

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“…An inductive process involves analyzing a news story with an open view, trying to reveal possible frames. The advantage of this study approach is that it guarantees no frame will go unnoticed (Ireri, 2019;Walker, Godley, & Nuno, 2019). However, it is time-consuming, challenging to replicate, and often dependent on a limited study.…”

Section: Approaches Used In News Framing By the Print Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Wood's (2019) content analysis of Canadian newspaper articles, for example, showed that frames that used economic prosperity and responsibility to portray the Keystone oil pipeline between the U.S. and Canada dominated over contents that framed the effects of the Keystone oil pipeline to health impacts and destructions of the environment. Similarly, in Kenya, research on the effects of framing on oil pollution shows that the Daily Nation and The Standard newspapers framed the effects of oil pollution in the country using attribution of responsibility, conflict, economic consequences, energy security, human interest, and environmental concerns to portray the rampant oil pollution ravaging their environment (Ireri, 2019). Supporting this point Ndinojuo (2020) examination of the effects of framing oil pollution and biodegradable issues in online newspapers showed that economic costs dominated coverage in The Punch and Premium Times, compared to the Daily Post and Leadership despite the destruction of the means of livelihood of oil-bearing communities due to oil exploration activities.…”

Section: Approaches Used In News Framing By the Print Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effects of Framing on Oil Pollution as Covered by Print Media: A Case Study of Nigerian Newspapers

2021

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Incidents of oil pollution has become a reoccurring decimal over the last twenty decades in most countries of the world. The controversy over who is responsible for the massive oil pollution witnessed in some oil-producing countries globally has amplified tensions between significant stakeholders in those countries. The issue of oil pollution in Nigeria and Ghana, for instance, has caused ecosystem degradation, the devastation of means of livelihood of local communities, and the death of aquatic organisms such as fish. Our study investigated the effects of the five news frames identified by Semetko & Valkenburg (2000); responsibility, economic consequences, conflict, human interest, and morality. Through content analysis, our study analyzed 531 newspaper stories on oil pollution in Nigeria’s Niger-Delta region from 2014-2018. The results indicated that overall, the effects of the human interest frame usage were more prevalent in The Daily Sun newspaper than the other two papers, The Guardian and The Punch, within the study period. This was followed by economic consequences, responsibility, conflict, and morality frames. Also, the study revealed that the effects of the differences in the frequency of using the frames in the coverage of oil pollution in the three selected papers varied significantly.

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Frame Analysis: Newspaper Coverage of Kenya's Oil Exploration in the Post-2012 Discovery Era

Cited by 13 publications

References 46 publications

War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse

War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse

Politicians in Newspaper News: Who Attracts Coverage in Kenyan Politics

The Effects of Framing on Oil Pollution as Covered by Print Media: A Case Study of Nigerian Newspapers

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