Victimhood in the Face of Media Ideological Battle: A Critical Discourse Analysis on the British Media's Coverage of Stabbing Incidents in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

This article intends to reveal the power dimensions and ideological positions embedded in dominant media discourses. Informed by theories of media representation as well as those of colonialism and Orientalism, this article analyses eight articles from two British daily online news media sources, na...

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Main Author: Wang, Cynthia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Edinburgh Univ. Press [2017]
In: Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 79-98
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Great Britain / Press / Israelis / Quarreling / Knife / Aggression / Palestinian Arabs / Wrongdoer / Sacrifice (Social psychology)
IxTheo Classification:KBF British Isles
KBL Near East and North Africa
ZB Sociology
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Edward Said
B Hegemony
B Ideology
B Critical Discourse Analysis
B Israel
B Media Representation
B Palestine
B Stabbing
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Summary:This article intends to reveal the power dimensions and ideological positions embedded in dominant media discourses. Informed by theories of media representation as well as those of colonialism and Orientalism, this article analyses eight articles from two British daily online news media sources, namely, The Guardian and The Telegraph. The methodological framework adopted draws on Fairclough's (1995) conception of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine textual features, and employs Bazzi's contextual analysis model with an emphasis on ideology. These methodologies are utilised in an effort to investigate the British media's representational and discursive strategies concerning a wave of stabbing incidents in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the six-month violence between October 2015 and March 2016. The results indicate that violent actions are framed in a binary fashion, between self and other, and that the discursive strategies employed position Palestinian subjects as unworthy victims or violent initiators, whereas Israelis were represented relatively positively, in order to inscribe the accepted values in British society and foreign policy. This article attempts to contribute to the discussion on the impact of media agencies embedded within a particular societal and political context, and comments upon their ability to foster and disseminate hegemonic ideologies, which in turn reinforce systemic power inequalities in times of conflict.
ISSN:2054-1996
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3366/hlps.2017.0153