About

  • The project titled "U.S. Presidential Election of 2024: A Cross-Nation Analysis of Influential Newspapers," is a comprehensive international research endeavor that unites more than 110 scholars from 33 nation-state.
  • Led by Prof. Dr. Basyouni Hamada, the Founder and Lead Principal Investigator, the project aims to explore the political discourse surrounding the 2024 U.S. presidential election as portrayed by influential national newspapers.
  • This analysis is conducted through the dual perspectives of international relations and media-state parallelism.

Research Objectives

  • This project aims to:​
  • Understand how international power relations that govern - particularly confrontational, cooperative, dependent or independent dynamics - the U.S. with the participating states influences the emphasis, framing, tone, and orientation of news media coverage and more importantly, the discourses adopted by these news media;
  • Analyze the factors shaping reactive and proactive discourses in the target states, including their goals, focal points, and ideological orientations.
  • Examine the extent to which a newspaper's alignment with or independence from the participating state shapes its discourses.
  • Investigate the convergent and divergent forces driving similarities and differences in international election media framing and discourses.
  • Develop theories and concepts that genuinely reflect indigenous African, Asian, Latin American and Middle Eastern cultures while engaging with Western knowledge and legacy, drawing on models of hybrid knowledge production.
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Methodology

The project combines three distinct approaches examining framing and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA):

  • Quantitative Framing Analysis focusing on identifying and measuring the prevalence of specific frames in the examined coverage of the U.S. presidential election. The goal is to provide a systematic and generalizable understanding of patterns in news media framing across countries.
  • Qualitative Framing Analysis: This approach aims at describing what is communicated within the frames. It focuses on exploring meanings, ideas, and strategies embedded in the media coverage, offering a deeper understanding of how frames are constructed and contextualized.
  • Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a specialized form of qualitative analysis grounded in critical theory that investigates how discourse, including language, texts, and visuals, is both shaped by and reinforces power, ideology, and social inequality. Its goal extends beyond describing discourse to actively critiquing and challenging the structures of dominance and injustice it upholds.