CMN 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mujahideen, Frame Analysis, Lexisnexis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 2101
• Professor: Mohammed El Hashash

Document Summary

Thesis on three terms jihad, mujahedeen, jihadists used in the new york times and how that changed these terms. Mujahedeen fought the soviet invasion of afghanistan. Jihadists people who engage in a resistance against western power. 1990 summer of 2001: civil war, rise of taliban. Fall of 2001 2014: american-led war in afghanistan. 2013 2015: present-day afghanistan: going with final two years of each time period (ex. 1987-89, 1999-2001, 2013-2015: through random selection she picked 2003-2005. Describe behaviour of a medium by answering the (cid:858)how(cid:859) not the (cid:858)why(cid:859) A research technique that makes inferences by systematically and objectively identifying specific characteristics within a text. Refers to any written, visual r spoken content in a text, included words, images, ideas, symbols and themes: she focused on words, images, symbols and themes. 50 articles, 5 articles for each word in each time period. Frame analysis is a research method used to analyse how people understand events based on the journalism employed.