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Through "Foreign" Eyes: The Guardian's Coverage of the Virginia Tech Massacre

Hargis, Jared D.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1243711225

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2009, Master of Science (MS), Ohio University, Journalism (Communication).
This thesis presents a textual analysis and a descriptive content analysis of how the British newspaper The Guardian covered the Virginia Tech school shootings that took place on 16 April 2007. Analysis of the first eight days of coverage, totaling 61 articles, added to the existing research on media coverage of school shootings by understanding how the media lens of an influential British newspaper viewed the “gun culture” of the United States. The results of this study indicate that The Guardian's coverage suggests that the “gun culture” of the United States may be directly responsible for the Virginia Tech school shootings, and that the newspaper and its readers (via their feedback) have constructed a collective argument that such events are inevitable when guns are so readily accessible as they are in the United States.
Bill Reader (Committee Chair)
Carson Wagner, PhD (Committee Member)
Cary Frith (Committee Member)
Anne Cooper-Chen, PhD (Committee Member)
125 p.
Communication; Journalism
Virginia Tech; The Guardian; coverage of school shooting; Cho Seung-Hui; gun control; media coverage

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  • Hargis, J. D. (2009). Through "Foreign" Eyes: The Guardian's Coverage of the Virginia Tech Massacre [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1243711225

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hargis, Jared. Through "Foreign" Eyes: The Guardian's Coverage of the Virginia Tech Massacre. 2009. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1243711225.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hargis, Jared. "Through "Foreign" Eyes: The Guardian's Coverage of the Virginia Tech Massacre." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1243711225

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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