Media and Communication Ph.D. Dissertations
"Killing in Silence: Alternative and Mainstream Media Coverage of U.S. DRONE STRIKES."
Date of Award
2015
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Department
Media and Communication
First Advisor
Joshua Atkinson (Advisor)
Second Advisor
Clayton Rosati (Committee Member)
Third Advisor
Joseph Oliver Boyd Barrett (Committee Member)
Fourth Advisor
Cynthia Hendricks (Committee Member)
Abstract
This dissertation focuses on the media coverage of U.S. drone strikes by both mainstream and alternative media sources. Chapter 1 introduces some background on alternative media and drone strikes and introduces the main points of the project. Chapter gives an extended literature review of ideology, media and power and alternative media to establish the parameters of the study and establish previous work on similar topics. Chapter 3 establishes both the method and methodology of the study, including why I conducted the study I did and how I processed the information from both mainstream and alternative media. Chapter 4 includes the results from both the mainstream media and alternative media texts I used in this study. Finally, Chapter 5 reviews my contributions to the literature along with future research based on the findings of this study.
Recommended Citation
White, Brion, ""Killing in Silence: Alternative and Mainstream Media Coverage of U.S. DRONE STRIKES."" (2015). Media and Communication Ph.D. Dissertations. 25.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/media_comm_diss/25