U.S Presidential Election of 2024: A Cross-Nation Influential Newspapers' Analysis
This project explores how global news media framing and political
discourses surrounding the 2024 U.S. presidential election are shaped by
the U.S.-state relationships, media-state parallelism within each natıon-state, and the dynamics of integration and disintegration in the flow of international
news worldwide.
It offers a distinctive platform for a cosmopolitan study, uniting a network of
scholars from a range of political, geographical, and cultural contexts,
covering five regions: the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and
Europe.
Know MoreRationale and Contribution
International communication research remains confined to its own field, with limited engagement with others, especially international relations. Integrating the two could enrich both disciplines by introducing a broader range of theories and power dynamics.
Know MoreConceptual Foundations
This project draws on interconnected conceptual frameworks, including the neorealist perspective in international relations, the media–state parallelism approach, and ongoing debates about the determinants of international news flow.
Know MoreThe Goal
The current project investigates a relatively underexplored area: how national news media construct political discourses around a major international event; the U.S. presidential election, as a strategic tool for securing power, security, identity, wealth, survival, and broader state foreign policy interests.
Know MoreThe Central Question
Do differences in political discourses among news media regarding the 2024 U.S. presidential election reflect the nature of their respective states’ international relations with the U.S., and their alignment with the states in which they operate?
Know MoreMedia-State Parallelism: Why It Matters
While the participating states' diverse international relations with the U.S. are expected to shape distinct political discourses, variations in media-state parallelism among participating states introduce an additional factor that further diversifies these discourses.
Know MoreProject Uniqueness
What sets the current project apart is its origin, the “Global South” that meets research interests of Global South scholars as well as their counterparts from the Global North. This is why it is called “Global South -North Collaborative Model”.
Know MoreProject Aims
1- To explore how international power dynamics-confrontational, cooperative, dependent, or independent-between the U.S. and participating states shape news coverage, media framing, tone, and discourse.
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2- To investigate how media alignment with the participating states affects framing and political discourse. More importantly, it seeks to develop theories grounded in African, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern contexts, integrating indigenous epistemologies with Western frameworks to foster hybrid models of knowledge.
Know MorePilot Study
A pilot study covering seven days (10% of the total study period) will be conducted to identify ambiguities in content and discourse analysis categories, as well as to test consistency among coders. Cohen’s Kappa will be used to measure ICR, with a minimum acceptable agreement of 0.85.
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