"Han är som en ung man som precis fått körkort" : En studie om hur konflikten mellan Nordkorea och USA gestaltas i Aftonbladet.

• Main Authors: Viktor, Merell, Max, Karlsson
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ) 2018
• Subjects: Framing analysis; North Korea; USA; Journalism; Conflict; Aftonbladet; Kim Jong-Un; Donald Trump; Postcolonialism; Media and Communications; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-70112

The aim of this bachelor study was to examine how the conflict between USA and North Korea is framed by the swedish newspaper Aftonbladet and if there was a change in their use of frames after Donald Trump got inaugurated as president of The United States.   By using framing analysis we identified three different frames, “The dictatorship as a threat against world peace”, “The careless leader” and “The incompetent leader”.   We could then with a quantitative approach examine how often these frames was used by Aftonbladet and if there was a change after Donald Trump got inaugurated as president.   These were the questions examined: Which frames of the conflict between North Korea and USA are used in Aftonbladet and how often are they used? Is there any difference in which frames is used after Donald Trump became president of The United States?   We read 131 news articles from Aftonbladet which focused on the conflict. The period spanned from 2013-01-01 to 2017-12-07.   We found that the most commonly used frame was “The dictatorship as a threat against world peace” and we could also see that after Donald Trump became president a new frame emerged, “The careless leader”.