Representation Of The "Self" And "Other" Of Arab Spring Reporting In CNN And AJE'S Online News Articles

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dc.contributor.authorHanan, Hasan Abdul-Razzaq Al Radhi
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-07T02:00:51Z
dc.date.available2019-08-07T02:00:51Z
dc.date.issued2017-02
dc.description.abstractThis study aimed to explore the situation often referred to as the 'Arab spring' that prevailed in the Arab world after 2010-2011 by analyzing CNN and AJE's online news articles released in their websites 2013. The main concern of the study is to unveil the two well-known agencies' ideologies in relation to the Arab spring upheaval and to discover how their media discourse has been manipulated to control people's minds with respect to countries involved in the Arab spring, namely, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria. This goal was achieved by using a combination of the following theories: 1) van Dijk's theory of Semantic Macrostructure (1980) to examine macro and micro structures of CNN and AJE's online news articles, 2) van Dijk's theory of Ideological Square (1998c) to examine CNN and AJE's ideologies embedded within their online news articles and 3) Wodak's Discourse- Historical Approach to endorse linguistic and ideological analysis of CNN and AJE's online news articles. In addition, Fairclough's three-dimensional Approach was utilized to organize the process of analysis of the study's data. The macro level of the linguistic analysis focused on the semantic macrostructures of the online news articles to determine their global meaning while the micro level of analysis examined the syntactic, lexical and rhetorical structures of the same online news articles to determine their local meaning. The ideological analysis was conducted to determine their ideological positive ''Self'' (in-group) and negative ''Other'' (out-group) presentations. Concerning Research Question 1, the findings revealed that the CNN's final semantic macrostructure about Arab spring was outlined as the following: "Amid complete failure of Islamists, Arab people still suffer from economical difficulties, life hardship and power abuse".en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/8588
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversiti Sains Malaysiaen_US
dc.subjectArab Spring reporting in CNN and AJE'Sen_US
dc.subjectonline news articlesen_US
dc.titleRepresentation Of The "Self" And "Other" Of Arab Spring Reporting In CNN And AJE'S Online News Articlesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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