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Framing The Post-9/11 service member: How American newspapers frame the post-9/11 service member, ten years later

Fong, Laura C
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1375979702

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2013, MA, Kent State University, College of Communication and Information / School of Media and Journalism.
A lot of research has examined news framing and the government's influence on how news is framed. However, there is no existing scholarly research on news framing and American military service members. This study focuses on how The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal frame the post-9/11 service members. A content analysis grounded in news framing theory will identify the frames that exist, examine the sources of the frames, and reveal other factors that influence the construction of these frames. The post-9/11 service member is one of the approximately 4 million Americans who enlisted in military service since 9/11 during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, collectively labeled the 'Global War on Terror.' The post-9/11 service member's war is different, his culture is different, and the media are different. Post-9/11 service members are diagnosed with mental health issues like Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in numbers greater than those who served in other era. More journalists are embedded with troops in-country, and the post-9/11 service member is communicating from the battlefield to their families back home and social media via the Internet, which makes those who serve a subject of the news like never before.
Danielle Coombs, PhD (Advisor)
Gordon Murray, PhD (Committee Member)
Jeffery Fruit (Committee Member)
78 p.
Cultural Anthropology; Journalism; Military Studies
news framing, Entman, post-911, soldier, veteran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Global War on Terror, PTSD,TBI, IED

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  • Fong, L. C. (2013). Framing The Post-9/11 service member: How American newspapers frame the post-9/11 service member, ten years later [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1375979702

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Fong, Laura. Framing The Post-9/11 service member: How American newspapers frame the post-9/11 service member, ten years later . 2013. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1375979702.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Fong, Laura. "Framing The Post-9/11 service member: How American newspapers frame the post-9/11 service member, ten years later ." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1375979702

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