The evolution and adaptation of journalistic practice in response to discourses taking place in n... more The evolution and adaptation of journalistic practice in response to discourses taking place in networked and shared media environments and the implications of same have been the focus of much academic attention in recent years. This paper examines the agenda-setting potential of Twitter and considers how this feeds into and affects journalistic output. It does so by applying a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework in considering whether reportage on particular news events are re-framed in the aftermath of Twitter campaigns. In August 2016, the Irish media's framing of the Hawe murder suicide via sourcing, emphasis and agency drew widespread criticism on social media for its perceived 'omission' or 'significant silence' about one of the victims, Clodagh Hawe, from the narrative in favour of a greater focus on the perpetrator, Alan Hawe. Criticism of the initial coverage of the incident was in large part driven by the #hernamewasclodagh social media campaign. This paper takes an intertextual approach to the analysis of correlations between emphases within the social media campaign and differences in the framing of the news media coverage before and after that campaign.
The issue of socioeconomic inequality has after many decades of benign neglect, in both the acade... more The issue of socioeconomic inequality has after many decades of benign neglect, in both the academy and journalism, become an increasingly important question. The economic crisis, beginning in 2007/2008 and followed by years of austerity has exasperated class and regional division. There have been numerous socioeconomic and political outcomes from this; not least the Brexit vote in the UK and the election of Donald Trump, both unimaginable a decade ago. The role of journalism and the wider media in the production and reproduction of inequality is an increasingly important issue. Has journalism treated the issue of inequality in a satisfactory fashion? Has journalism challenged powerful interests, or has journalism itself played an ideological role in the reproduction of structures of inequality? This special edition includes eight papers concerned around the area of socio economic inequality and media treatment; including investigations of discourses defending growing economic inequality and discourses around economic policy including the representation of economic ideas. The special edition is also concerned with issues of representation and inequality; including class, ethnicity and gender. And finally the special edition asks how changing conditions faced by journalists themselves may, in fact, act to prevent challenges to the discourses of inequality.
This article examines the relationship between emphases on ethics within journalism programs in t... more This article examines the relationship between emphases on ethics within journalism programs in the developing world and the subsequent work practices and conceptualisations of journalists who participated in them. It hypothesises that particular normative emphases within such programs, whose bases are contested adversely, affects the preparedness for participants to work ethically in those environments. An analysis of the experiences of journalism trainers and students in Cambodia highlights several tendencies supporting the hypothesis, including that a vocational Westernoriented approach to program implementation correlated with poor understanding of critical ethical ideals among practitioners, which contributed to low occupational confidence, poor ethical practices and the development of a two-tiered press system.
3.5 Democratic ‗cultures' 87 3.6 Linking the press and democracy 94 3.7 Variables impacting democ... more 3.5 Democratic ‗cultures' 87 3.6 Linking the press and democracy 94 3.7 Variables impacting democracy, press relationship 101 Variations within democratic norm Post conflict, post socialist, developing world variations 3.8 Conclusion CHAPTER FOUR. Examining the relationship between development communication and journalism education paradigms interpretations of normative journalism concepts in a way which affected work practices 293 9.2B: Overemphasis on particular variants of democratic norm at programme level has a negative impact on the fulfilment of the democratic ideal 297 9.2C: Mixing advocacy with journalism training contributed to high levels of political polarisation in Cambodian press 301 9.2D: Substandard ethics training in Cambodia resulted in poor ethical practice among journalists 305 9.2E: Over-emphasis on the western orientation of journalism norms and practices in journalism programmes impacts negatively on outcomes for participants 308 9.2F: Overall approach of journalism programmes contributed to low professional confidence in participants 312 9.2G: Journalism programmes added to development of a two-tier press system, which contributed to a more politically polarised press culture 316 9.2H: Lower levels of aid dependency characteristics seen among local press practitioners compared to international press journalists and facilitators 320 9.3 Conclusion 322 CHAPTER TEN. Synopsis and Conclusion BIBLIOGRAPHY 343 APPENDIXES Appendix A.
Hierarchies of information-inclusion, omission and (re)presentation of society and its citizenryi... more Hierarchies of information-inclusion, omission and (re)presentation of society and its citizenryis a critical aspect of news presentation. This paper looks at newspaper reportage of two tragic events in 2015: a balcony collapse in Berkeley, USA, in which six Irish students died; and a fire at a halting site in Carrickmines, Ireland, which claimed the lives of four adults and six children who were members of the Irish Traveller community. This latter group are an officially recognised indigenous ethnic minority within Irish society, and the community experiences the type of structural inequalities and stigmatisation associated with membership of less powerful groups within a broader society. A bottom-up corpus linguistic methodology is used to generate and interpret perspectives on the newspaper coverage to probe and to assess similarities and, critically, differences, in the nature of the discourses surrounding the communities affected by the tragedies. In doing so, it finds the language used in the reportage could be argued to feed into a subtle 'othering'. It is also suggested that a tendency to distance or depersonalise when reporting on events involving minorities in a way that has implications connected to legitimation and perpetuation of unequal power relationships.
The presumption that a liberal media landscape and associated press culture strengthens good gove... more The presumption that a liberal media landscape and associated press culture strengthens good governance and human development has approached orthodoxy in the western world. Consistent with this, journalism training has been a central component of media aid strategies in the Global South. This research examines how normative assumptions about journalism roles can interact with ideas about democracy in a training environment and the possible implications of this. It explores parallels between programme elements relating to democracy facilitation and particular role conceptualisations of journalists trained by these programmes, with a specific interest in how this process is borne out in countries where democratisation processes are ongoing. A qualitative-based methodology, using journalism training in Cambodia as a case study, finds some correlations between democracy-related emphases at training level and specific normative orientations among working journalists who participated in t...
This chapter traces the various stages of the complex relationship between Cambodia and the Unite... more This chapter traces the various stages of the complex relationship between Cambodia and the United Nations. It overviews the early days of Cambodia’s relationship with the UN through to the Khmer Rouge period, before considering the fractious relationship between the UN and the Phnom Penh government during the Vietnamese occupation. It then focuses on the UNTAC mission, which attempted to facilitate a transition from protracted civil war to a fledgling democracy. Since the 1993 election, UN agencies have dealt with the difficult task of monitoring human rights, ensuring protection of refugees, and negotiating the establishment of a UN-backed tribunal to investigate and prosecute mass crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge regime. The chapter concludes by considering what the future may hold for the Cambodia-UN relationship.
This thesis examines the relationship between normative emphases in journalism training programme... more This thesis examines the relationship between normative emphases in journalism training programmes and the subsequent work practices and conceptualisations of journalists who participated in them, and how this happens where programmes are part of international aid strategies in emerging democracies. It hypothesises that particular normative emphases whose bases are contested — whether due to perceived politicisation, culturally hegemonic tendencies or other reasons —adversely affects the fulfilment of particular journalistic ideals. This study uses a qualitative research methodology to examine the example of Cambodia from 1993 to 2011. 54 interviews were carried out with key respondents, followed by a thematic analysis of the data generated. A number of tendencies have emerged from this which broadly support the hypothesis. These include correlations between normative emphases at programme level and politically polarised normative orientations among working journalists. A vocational...
This article examines the relationship between emphases on ethics within journalism programs in t... more This article examines the relationship between emphases on ethics within journalism programs in the developing world and the subsequent work practices and conceptualisations of journalists who participated in them. It hypothesises that particular normative emphases within such programs, whose bases are contested adversely, affects the preparedness for participants to work ethically in those environments. An analysis of the experiences of journalism trainers and students in Cambodia highlights several tendencies supporting the hypothesis, including that a vocational Westernoriented approach to program implementation correlated with poor understanding of critical ethical ideals among practitioners, which contributed to low occupational confidence, poor ethical practices and the development of a two-tiered press system.
Hierarchies of information-inclusion, omission and (re)presentation of society and its citizenryi... more Hierarchies of information-inclusion, omission and (re)presentation of society and its citizenryis a critical aspect of news presentation. This paper looks at newspaper reportage of two tragic events in 2015: a balcony collapse in Berkeley, USA, in which six Irish students died; and a fire at a halting site in Carrickmines, Ireland, which claimed the lives of four adults and six children who were members of the Irish Traveller community. This latter group are an officially recognised indigenous ethnic minority within Irish society, and the community experiences the type of structural inequalities and stigmatisation associated with membership of less powerful groups within a broader society. A bottom-up corpus linguistic methodology is used to generate and interpret perspectives on the newspaper coverage to probe and to assess similarities and, critically, differences, in the nature of the discourses surrounding the communities affected by the tragedies. In doing so, it finds the language used in the reportage could be argued to feed into a subtle 'othering'. It is also suggested that a tendency to distance or depersonalise when reporting on events involving minorities in a way that has implications connected to legitimation and perpetuation of unequal power relationships.
The issue of socioeconomic inequality has after many decades of benign neglect, in both the acade... more The issue of socioeconomic inequality has after many decades of benign neglect, in both the academy and journalism, become an increasingly important question. The economic crisis, beginning in 2007/2008 and followed by years of austerity has exasperated class and regional division. There have been numerous socioeconomic and political outcomes from this; not least the Brexit vote in the UK and the election of Donald Trump, both unimaginable a decade ago. The role of journalism and the wider media in the production and reproduction of inequality is an increasingly important issue. Has journalism treated the issue of inequality in a satisfactory fashion? Has journalism challenged powerful interests, or has journalism itself played an ideological role in the reproduction of structures of inequality? This special edition includes eight papers concerned around the area of socio economic inequality and media treatment; including investigations of discourses defending growing economic inequality and discourses around economic policy including the representation of economic ideas. The special edition is also concerned with issues of representation and inequality; including class, ethnicity and gender. And finally the special edition asks how changing conditions faced by journalists themselves may, in fact, act to prevent challenges to the discourses of inequality.
Media framing helps to shape our understanding of the meaning of news events, often problematical... more Media framing helps to shape our understanding of the meaning of news events, often problematically. This study examines how this process interacts with the phenomenon of familicide-suicide, where a person kills one or more family members before taking their own life. A social constructionist analysis of the print media coverage of three high-profile cases in Ireland highlights framing and discursive patterns, contributing to an explanatory framework that is misleading and lacking in an evidence base. As well as a tendency towards broad and poorly supported claims-making, several primary causal frames are prevalent: mental health; financial debt; fall from grace; and ‘out of the blue’, whilst a domestic violence frame is notable in its absence. Coverage is found to be episodic in character, linked to dramatisation and more simplistic explanatory frames, rather than evidence-based analysis of potential causal factors for these incidents. Findings raise important questions for journal...
Analyses of media discourses on judicial verdicts in sexual violence cases offer critical insight... more Analyses of media discourses on judicial verdicts in sexual violence cases offer critical insight into how this topic is mediated. This study explores post-verdict mainstream and social media reaction to two high-profile verdicts in sexual assault cases in Ireland and Spain: #IBelieveHer, launched in March 2018 following the acquittal of four men accused of rape in Belfast, and #YoTeCreo which coalesced online after five men were given a lesser sentence for sexual abuse in Pamplona in April 2018. This study first identifies the stance taken by mainstream media where verdicts were contrary to "popular" opinion. Secondly, it analyses dominant hashtags that emerged on Twitter following both verdicts. Finally, it traces similarities and differences in discourse patterns identified on mainstream and social media platforms across both countries. For analysis, we employed a Critical Discourse Analysis-based theoretical framework (e.g.,KhosraviNik 2017, "Social Media Critical Discourse Studies (SM-CDS)." In Handbook of Critical Discourse Analysis, 582-596) with resources from Framing Analysis (e.g., Goffman 1974, Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience. Vancouver: Harvard University Press) for methodological purposes. Findings suggest Spanish print media contained greater debate around legal understandings of sexual violence while the Spanish Twitter campaign was outwardoriented and explicitly feminist. #IBelieveHer displayed a narrower focus, with the "celebrity" dimension to this case contributing to a personalised, less nuanced, discourse on social and print media and more polarised discussion.
The evolution and adaptation of journalistic practice in response to discourses taking place in n... more The evolution and adaptation of journalistic practice in response to discourses taking place in networked and shared media environments and the implications of same have been the focus of much academic attention in recent years. This paper examines the agenda-setting potential of Twitter and considers how this feeds into and affects journalistic output. It does so by applying a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework in considering whether reportage on particular news events are re-framed in the aftermath of Twitter campaigns. In August 2016, the Irish media's framing of the Hawe murder suicide via sourcing, emphasis and agency drew widespread criticism on social media for its perceived 'omission' or 'significant silence' about one of the victims, Clodagh Hawe, from the narrative in favour of a greater focus on the perpetrator, Alan Hawe. Criticism of the initial coverage of the incident was in large part driven by the #hernamewasclodagh social media campaign. This paper takes an intertextual approach to the analysis of correlations between emphases within the social media campaign and differences in the framing of the news media coverage before and after that campaign.
The evolution and adaptation of journalistic practice in response to discourses taking place in n... more The evolution and adaptation of journalistic practice in response to discourses taking place in networked and shared media environments and the implications of same have been the focus of much academic attention in recent years. This paper examines the agenda-setting potential of Twitter and considers how this feeds into and affects journalistic output. It does so by applying a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework in considering whether reportage on particular news events are re-framed in the aftermath of Twitter campaigns. In August 2016, the Irish media's framing of the Hawe murder suicide via sourcing, emphasis and agency drew widespread criticism on social media for its perceived 'omission' or 'significant silence' about one of the victims, Clodagh Hawe, from the narrative in favour of a greater focus on the perpetrator, Alan Hawe. Criticism of the initial coverage of the incident was in large part driven by the #hernamewasclodagh social media campaign. This paper takes an intertextual approach to the analysis of correlations between emphases within the social media campaign and differences in the framing of the news media coverage before and after that campaign.
The issue of socioeconomic inequality has after many decades of benign neglect, in both the acade... more The issue of socioeconomic inequality has after many decades of benign neglect, in both the academy and journalism, become an increasingly important question. The economic crisis, beginning in 2007/2008 and followed by years of austerity has exasperated class and regional division. There have been numerous socioeconomic and political outcomes from this; not least the Brexit vote in the UK and the election of Donald Trump, both unimaginable a decade ago. The role of journalism and the wider media in the production and reproduction of inequality is an increasingly important issue. Has journalism treated the issue of inequality in a satisfactory fashion? Has journalism challenged powerful interests, or has journalism itself played an ideological role in the reproduction of structures of inequality? This special edition includes eight papers concerned around the area of socio economic inequality and media treatment; including investigations of discourses defending growing economic inequality and discourses around economic policy including the representation of economic ideas. The special edition is also concerned with issues of representation and inequality; including class, ethnicity and gender. And finally the special edition asks how changing conditions faced by journalists themselves may, in fact, act to prevent challenges to the discourses of inequality.
This article examines the relationship between emphases on ethics within journalism programs in t... more This article examines the relationship between emphases on ethics within journalism programs in the developing world and the subsequent work practices and conceptualisations of journalists who participated in them. It hypothesises that particular normative emphases within such programs, whose bases are contested adversely, affects the preparedness for participants to work ethically in those environments. An analysis of the experiences of journalism trainers and students in Cambodia highlights several tendencies supporting the hypothesis, including that a vocational Westernoriented approach to program implementation correlated with poor understanding of critical ethical ideals among practitioners, which contributed to low occupational confidence, poor ethical practices and the development of a two-tiered press system.
3.5 Democratic ‗cultures' 87 3.6 Linking the press and democracy 94 3.7 Variables impacting democ... more 3.5 Democratic ‗cultures' 87 3.6 Linking the press and democracy 94 3.7 Variables impacting democracy, press relationship 101 Variations within democratic norm Post conflict, post socialist, developing world variations 3.8 Conclusion CHAPTER FOUR. Examining the relationship between development communication and journalism education paradigms interpretations of normative journalism concepts in a way which affected work practices 293 9.2B: Overemphasis on particular variants of democratic norm at programme level has a negative impact on the fulfilment of the democratic ideal 297 9.2C: Mixing advocacy with journalism training contributed to high levels of political polarisation in Cambodian press 301 9.2D: Substandard ethics training in Cambodia resulted in poor ethical practice among journalists 305 9.2E: Over-emphasis on the western orientation of journalism norms and practices in journalism programmes impacts negatively on outcomes for participants 308 9.2F: Overall approach of journalism programmes contributed to low professional confidence in participants 312 9.2G: Journalism programmes added to development of a two-tier press system, which contributed to a more politically polarised press culture 316 9.2H: Lower levels of aid dependency characteristics seen among local press practitioners compared to international press journalists and facilitators 320 9.3 Conclusion 322 CHAPTER TEN. Synopsis and Conclusion BIBLIOGRAPHY 343 APPENDIXES Appendix A.
Hierarchies of information-inclusion, omission and (re)presentation of society and its citizenryi... more Hierarchies of information-inclusion, omission and (re)presentation of society and its citizenryis a critical aspect of news presentation. This paper looks at newspaper reportage of two tragic events in 2015: a balcony collapse in Berkeley, USA, in which six Irish students died; and a fire at a halting site in Carrickmines, Ireland, which claimed the lives of four adults and six children who were members of the Irish Traveller community. This latter group are an officially recognised indigenous ethnic minority within Irish society, and the community experiences the type of structural inequalities and stigmatisation associated with membership of less powerful groups within a broader society. A bottom-up corpus linguistic methodology is used to generate and interpret perspectives on the newspaper coverage to probe and to assess similarities and, critically, differences, in the nature of the discourses surrounding the communities affected by the tragedies. In doing so, it finds the language used in the reportage could be argued to feed into a subtle 'othering'. It is also suggested that a tendency to distance or depersonalise when reporting on events involving minorities in a way that has implications connected to legitimation and perpetuation of unequal power relationships.
The presumption that a liberal media landscape and associated press culture strengthens good gove... more The presumption that a liberal media landscape and associated press culture strengthens good governance and human development has approached orthodoxy in the western world. Consistent with this, journalism training has been a central component of media aid strategies in the Global South. This research examines how normative assumptions about journalism roles can interact with ideas about democracy in a training environment and the possible implications of this. It explores parallels between programme elements relating to democracy facilitation and particular role conceptualisations of journalists trained by these programmes, with a specific interest in how this process is borne out in countries where democratisation processes are ongoing. A qualitative-based methodology, using journalism training in Cambodia as a case study, finds some correlations between democracy-related emphases at training level and specific normative orientations among working journalists who participated in t...
This chapter traces the various stages of the complex relationship between Cambodia and the Unite... more This chapter traces the various stages of the complex relationship between Cambodia and the United Nations. It overviews the early days of Cambodia’s relationship with the UN through to the Khmer Rouge period, before considering the fractious relationship between the UN and the Phnom Penh government during the Vietnamese occupation. It then focuses on the UNTAC mission, which attempted to facilitate a transition from protracted civil war to a fledgling democracy. Since the 1993 election, UN agencies have dealt with the difficult task of monitoring human rights, ensuring protection of refugees, and negotiating the establishment of a UN-backed tribunal to investigate and prosecute mass crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge regime. The chapter concludes by considering what the future may hold for the Cambodia-UN relationship.
This thesis examines the relationship between normative emphases in journalism training programme... more This thesis examines the relationship between normative emphases in journalism training programmes and the subsequent work practices and conceptualisations of journalists who participated in them, and how this happens where programmes are part of international aid strategies in emerging democracies. It hypothesises that particular normative emphases whose bases are contested — whether due to perceived politicisation, culturally hegemonic tendencies or other reasons —adversely affects the fulfilment of particular journalistic ideals. This study uses a qualitative research methodology to examine the example of Cambodia from 1993 to 2011. 54 interviews were carried out with key respondents, followed by a thematic analysis of the data generated. A number of tendencies have emerged from this which broadly support the hypothesis. These include correlations between normative emphases at programme level and politically polarised normative orientations among working journalists. A vocational...
This article examines the relationship between emphases on ethics within journalism programs in t... more This article examines the relationship between emphases on ethics within journalism programs in the developing world and the subsequent work practices and conceptualisations of journalists who participated in them. It hypothesises that particular normative emphases within such programs, whose bases are contested adversely, affects the preparedness for participants to work ethically in those environments. An analysis of the experiences of journalism trainers and students in Cambodia highlights several tendencies supporting the hypothesis, including that a vocational Westernoriented approach to program implementation correlated with poor understanding of critical ethical ideals among practitioners, which contributed to low occupational confidence, poor ethical practices and the development of a two-tiered press system.
Hierarchies of information-inclusion, omission and (re)presentation of society and its citizenryi... more Hierarchies of information-inclusion, omission and (re)presentation of society and its citizenryis a critical aspect of news presentation. This paper looks at newspaper reportage of two tragic events in 2015: a balcony collapse in Berkeley, USA, in which six Irish students died; and a fire at a halting site in Carrickmines, Ireland, which claimed the lives of four adults and six children who were members of the Irish Traveller community. This latter group are an officially recognised indigenous ethnic minority within Irish society, and the community experiences the type of structural inequalities and stigmatisation associated with membership of less powerful groups within a broader society. A bottom-up corpus linguistic methodology is used to generate and interpret perspectives on the newspaper coverage to probe and to assess similarities and, critically, differences, in the nature of the discourses surrounding the communities affected by the tragedies. In doing so, it finds the language used in the reportage could be argued to feed into a subtle 'othering'. It is also suggested that a tendency to distance or depersonalise when reporting on events involving minorities in a way that has implications connected to legitimation and perpetuation of unequal power relationships.
The issue of socioeconomic inequality has after many decades of benign neglect, in both the acade... more The issue of socioeconomic inequality has after many decades of benign neglect, in both the academy and journalism, become an increasingly important question. The economic crisis, beginning in 2007/2008 and followed by years of austerity has exasperated class and regional division. There have been numerous socioeconomic and political outcomes from this; not least the Brexit vote in the UK and the election of Donald Trump, both unimaginable a decade ago. The role of journalism and the wider media in the production and reproduction of inequality is an increasingly important issue. Has journalism treated the issue of inequality in a satisfactory fashion? Has journalism challenged powerful interests, or has journalism itself played an ideological role in the reproduction of structures of inequality? This special edition includes eight papers concerned around the area of socio economic inequality and media treatment; including investigations of discourses defending growing economic inequality and discourses around economic policy including the representation of economic ideas. The special edition is also concerned with issues of representation and inequality; including class, ethnicity and gender. And finally the special edition asks how changing conditions faced by journalists themselves may, in fact, act to prevent challenges to the discourses of inequality.
Media framing helps to shape our understanding of the meaning of news events, often problematical... more Media framing helps to shape our understanding of the meaning of news events, often problematically. This study examines how this process interacts with the phenomenon of familicide-suicide, where a person kills one or more family members before taking their own life. A social constructionist analysis of the print media coverage of three high-profile cases in Ireland highlights framing and discursive patterns, contributing to an explanatory framework that is misleading and lacking in an evidence base. As well as a tendency towards broad and poorly supported claims-making, several primary causal frames are prevalent: mental health; financial debt; fall from grace; and ‘out of the blue’, whilst a domestic violence frame is notable in its absence. Coverage is found to be episodic in character, linked to dramatisation and more simplistic explanatory frames, rather than evidence-based analysis of potential causal factors for these incidents. Findings raise important questions for journal...
Analyses of media discourses on judicial verdicts in sexual violence cases offer critical insight... more Analyses of media discourses on judicial verdicts in sexual violence cases offer critical insight into how this topic is mediated. This study explores post-verdict mainstream and social media reaction to two high-profile verdicts in sexual assault cases in Ireland and Spain: #IBelieveHer, launched in March 2018 following the acquittal of four men accused of rape in Belfast, and #YoTeCreo which coalesced online after five men were given a lesser sentence for sexual abuse in Pamplona in April 2018. This study first identifies the stance taken by mainstream media where verdicts were contrary to "popular" opinion. Secondly, it analyses dominant hashtags that emerged on Twitter following both verdicts. Finally, it traces similarities and differences in discourse patterns identified on mainstream and social media platforms across both countries. For analysis, we employed a Critical Discourse Analysis-based theoretical framework (e.g.,KhosraviNik 2017, "Social Media Critical Discourse Studies (SM-CDS)." In Handbook of Critical Discourse Analysis, 582-596) with resources from Framing Analysis (e.g., Goffman 1974, Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience. Vancouver: Harvard University Press) for methodological purposes. Findings suggest Spanish print media contained greater debate around legal understandings of sexual violence while the Spanish Twitter campaign was outwardoriented and explicitly feminist. #IBelieveHer displayed a narrower focus, with the "celebrity" dimension to this case contributing to a personalised, less nuanced, discourse on social and print media and more polarised discussion.
The evolution and adaptation of journalistic practice in response to discourses taking place in n... more The evolution and adaptation of journalistic practice in response to discourses taking place in networked and shared media environments and the implications of same have been the focus of much academic attention in recent years. This paper examines the agenda-setting potential of Twitter and considers how this feeds into and affects journalistic output. It does so by applying a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework in considering whether reportage on particular news events are re-framed in the aftermath of Twitter campaigns. In August 2016, the Irish media's framing of the Hawe murder suicide via sourcing, emphasis and agency drew widespread criticism on social media for its perceived 'omission' or 'significant silence' about one of the victims, Clodagh Hawe, from the narrative in favour of a greater focus on the perpetrator, Alan Hawe. Criticism of the initial coverage of the incident was in large part driven by the #hernamewasclodagh social media campaign. This paper takes an intertextual approach to the analysis of correlations between emphases within the social media campaign and differences in the framing of the news media coverage before and after that campaign.
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