News media and the politics of fear: Normalization and contrastive discourses in the reporting on terrorist attacks in Sweden and the UK

This paper provides a comparative critical discourse analysis of news discourse on terrorism with respect to the coverage by two Swedish and two UK broadsheet newspapers of the terrorists attacks that took place in Stockholm and in London respectively in the year 2017. The research goal is to invest...

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Published in:Discourse & society 2022-11, Vol.33 (6), p.758-772
Main Authors: Ekström, Mats, Patrona, Marianna, Thornborrow, Joanna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Authoritarian policies
Critical discourse analysis
Critical theory
Discourse analysis
Discourses
Discursive practices
Fear & phobias
Humanities and Social Sciences
journalism
Mass media
Media and Communications
Media coverage
Medie-, kommunikations-, och informationsvetenskaper
news discourse
News media
Normalization
Political discourse
Politics
politics of fear
Rhetoric
scapegoating
Special Issue Articles
Terrorism
Terrorists
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