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A case for peace photojournalism in Northern Ireland: A media content analysis.
Shebib, Lisa A.
Shebib, Lisa A.
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2017
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University of Bradford
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Department of Peace Studies
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Contemporary studies of Peace Journalism have yet to examine how
photographs, as visual content captured by print media, fit within the model
of Peace Journalism. In this research, a content analysis of press images
was conducted using predefined methodology on newspaper coverage of the
annual July 12th Drumcree Parades (Marching) in Portadown, Northern
Ireland, during the pre-, intra-, and post-peace process that occurred
between 1996 and 2000. In most newspapers, the proportions of both
violent/aggressive and nonviolent/non-peaceful content were higher in the
relatively peaceful period of 2000, as compared to their proportions in at least
one of the other ‘violent’ years of 1996 and 1998. No overall trend in content
was observed in relation to the level of violence across 1996 to 2000. During
this period, media practice in Portadown, Northern Ireland did not support the
publication of newspaper commensurate with actual level of violence in the
Northern Ireland or the depictions of peace building and the peaceful
resolution of conflict. The implications of these findings for the development
of ‘Peace Photojournalism’ are explored.
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