The politics of Australia's withdrawal from Iraq

State–Media Consensus on Going to War? Australian Newspapers, Political Elites, and Fighting the Islamic State

“…In the Australian context, a number of studies analyze print media coverage of a range of issues (e.g., Hawkins 2009; Ubayasiri 2015; Wright and Holland 2014). However, there are only a small number of works on Australian media framing during the “war on terror” (see Dimitrova 2006; Donnar 2009; Isakhan 2014; Rice and Bartlett 2006), and none on the indexing hypothesis or media representations of the decision to fight the IS.…”

Perceptions of democracy and the rise of Donald Trump: A framing analysis of Saudi Arabian media

“…The way certain issues or events are framed has a significant impact on public awareness, given that citizens may have few other sources of information (Entman, 1991). As such, framing analysis has been applied to the media coverage of a wide array of different events and issues pertaining to the Middle East and Islam: from the Iraq war of 2003 and the more recent battle against the ‘Islamic State’ (Isakhan, 2014; Mulherin and Isakhan, 2019); to coverage of the Arab Spring (Al-Rawi, 2015; Guzman, 2016; Oz, 2016), through the controversy surrounding the building of mosques in American cities or the publication of the ‘Mohammad cartoons’ in European newspapers (Bowe and Makki, 2015; Strömbäck et al, 2008), and on to the conflation of terrorism and the Islamic religion in the mainstream global media (Powell, 2011; Rane and Ewart, 2012).…”