East Side Story, a West Side Story? : En Kritisk Diskursanalys av Afghanistankriget i Västerländsk Nyhetspress

• Main Authors: Wadén, Jennie, Lundkvist, Brita
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Örebro universitet, Akademin för humaniora, utbildning och samhällsvetenskap 2010
• Subjects: critical discourse analysis; war in Afghanistan; war journalism; ideology; newspaper; comparison
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-15572

The purpose of the study is to expose how the US newspaper New York Times and the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter mediate the war in Afghanistan. Furthermore a comparison is done to map out possible differences and similarities. To fulfill the purpose of the study a critical discourse analysis has been used. The results have shown both differences and similarities between the newspapers. The main conclusions are tendencies of correspondence with previous research and theoretical base, such as the furtherance of elite sources, the promotion of the national political agenda and the national identity and an obvious construction of us and them.