News Framing and Social Media Responses to the Release of Boko Haram Female Captives

• Main Author: Omokore, Joy Oluwadamilola
• Other Authors: Everbach, Tracy
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: University of North Texas 2019
• Subjects: Chibokgirls; Femalecaptives; Victims; Nigeriangirls; Schoolgirls; Releaseofthechibokgirls; BokoHaram'sfemalevictims; Nigeria; NorthernNigeria; Journalism; Nigerianjournalism; Women'sissues; Newsframingoffemalecaptives; IDPcamps; IDPvictims; IDPfemalevictims; Responses; Socialmediaresponses; Kidnapppedfemalevictims; Captives; BokoHaram; Bringbackourgirls; ourgirlsareback; Femalevictims; Humaninterestframe; Conflictframe; Joy; Hope; Responsibility frame; Feministtheory; Framingtheory; Usesandgratificationtheory; Gender Studies; Women's Studies
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1505172/

This qualitative study sheds light on the framing of the sexual abuse of the Boko Haram's female captives sent to the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps and analyzes emotional themes from tweets focusing on the release of the Boko Haram's female victims, the Chibok girls. Six articles were chosen from BBC (a British news source), Punch (a Nigerian news source), and the New York Times (an American news source) to reveal the frames. In addition, 118 tweets were examined to address emotional tweets under #ourgirlsareback, #82chibokgirls, #chibokgirls82, and #chibokgirls. The findings discovered the presence of the human interest frame, conflict frame, responsibility frame, and a stereotype in the articles. The tweets showed positive common themes- joy, gratitude, and hope. Also, the tweets included conspiracy theories.