Domestic Terrorism in the Canadian News Media: a Framing Analysis of Canadian-Connected Terrorism in 2013 Newspaper Articles

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dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Sasha K.
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-28T18:34:02Z
dc.date.available2016-01-28T18:34:02Z
dc.date.issued2016-01-28
dc.date.submitted2015-12-17
dc.description.abstractTerrorism is one of the most politically and rhetorically significant issues shaping the world today, and a popular topic in the news media. Canada is no exception. Recently, the problem of domestic (or homegrown) terror has emerged as a complex and emotionally potent phenomenon, one seemingly on the rise. However, there is an absence of media scholarship investigating this issue from a Canadian perspective. This study examines the Canadian news media’s treatment of Canadian-connected terrorism. Central to the journalistic discourse are frames, which serve to define, assess, characterize, moralize, and contextualize terrorism for readers. Frames provide narratives for key aspects such as alleged suspects, arrests, plots, police activities, and legal/political responses. A qualitative framing analysis approach is employed to identify and discuss news framing of Canadian-connected terrorism via extensive inductive coding of 173 Canadian news articles from print and online media sources, spanning January 1st – December 31st, 2013. Recurrent frames are established using evidence from the articles and discussed in terms of the messages they send about the nature of domestic terrorism/terrorists, their usefulness for understanding terrorism as a multifaceted global problem, and, where feasible, theoretically informed explanations for the use of specific frames. Findings indicate that the Canadian news media favours terrorism as a topic, but does not provide particularly informative articles. The reasons for this discrepancy proved varied, complex, and intimately linked with the way the mainstream news media – and other powerful organizations – operate and interact.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/10240
dc.language.isoenen
dc.pendingfalse
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectTerrorism in the newsen
dc.subjectdomestic terrorismen
dc.subjectCanadian terrorismen
dc.subjectforeign fightersen
dc.subjectframing analysisen
dc.subjectmedia analysisen
dc.subjectnews media analysisen
dc.subjectCanadian news media analysisen
dc.titleDomestic Terrorism in the Canadian News Media: a Framing Analysis of Canadian-Connected Terrorism in 2013 Newspaper Articlesen
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Artsen
uws-etd.degree.departmentSociology and Legal Studiesen
uws-etd.degree.disciplineSociologyen
uws-etd.degree.grantorUniversity of Waterlooen
uws.comment.hiddenPlease let me know ASAP if there is anything wrong with the thesis.en
uws.contributor.advisorDawson, Lorne
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Artsen
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.published.cityWaterlooen
uws.published.countryCanadaen
uws.published.provinceOntarioen
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten

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