An Investigation of Police Brutality in News Media: Media Narratives and Narrative Icons as Argumentation and Communal Identity
2 Ab s tract This dissertation explores the ways in which narratives about decisive events coales ce in news media discourse, and how they function rhetorically. Specifically, this study examines how journalists frame stories about police brutality, how those frames construct versions of public narr...
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Research Showcase @ CMU
2016
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Online Access: | http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/722 http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1761&context=dissertations |