"We should be a lot angrier" : A case study of the Marikana shootings

Our aim with this study was to examine how the Marikana massacre, the killings of 34 mineworkers in August 2012, was portrayed in the news media in South Africa. We based our study on a discourse analysis of a selection of articles written at the time of the massacre. We have also used interviews wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Åstrand, Caroline, Birgersson, Linda
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ) 2014
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-38618