Narrative Framing of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in British Religious News
This paper examines how religious news organizations in the UK covered the Syrian refugee crisis in Europe. Using narrative framing theory, this paper examines all coverage from 2015 and 2016 published in bbc Religion (a part of bbc News), The Muslim News, and Christian Today to examine shared and d...
| Published in: | Journal of religion, media and digital culture |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2019
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| In: |
Journal of religion, media and digital culture
Year: 2019, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 276-297 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Civil war in Syria
/ Europe
/ Refugee
/ Narrative (Social sciences)
/ Great Britain
/ Religious organization
/ Media
/ Reporting
/ History 2015-2016
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBF British Isles KBL Near East and North Africa ZC Politics in general ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
narrative theory
B Syrian refugee crisis B Islam B Migration B Refugee B Christianity B Orientalism B religion news |
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| Summary: | This paper examines how religious news organizations in the UK covered the Syrian refugee crisis in Europe. Using narrative framing theory, this paper examines all coverage from 2015 and 2016 published in bbc Religion (a part of bbc News), The Muslim News, and Christian Today to examine shared and disparate narratives regarding Syrian refugees migrating to the UK. Four major frames emerged from our analysis of the media coverage in religious and mainstream publications: a humanizing frame, saviour frame, dehumanizing frame, and, redemption frame. The publications differed in their use of these frames as well as the use of sources, news values, and tone of coverage. We discuss each of these frames as well as the implications of the differing coverage. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-9214 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion, media and digital culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/21659214-00802005 |