Not fit to print : newspapers, national identity and conflict resolution in the troubles of Northern Ireland

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dc.contributor.advisorDe Uriarte, Mercedes Lynn
dc.creatorEdwards, Jeremy Arthur
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-07T00:03:31Z
dc.date.available2023-07-07T00:03:31Z
dc.date.issued2005-05-21
dc.description.abstractIn Northern Ireland, two communities with different—and conflicting—national identities (Irish and British) live side by side, each served by its own mainstream newspaper. This thesis provides an ethnographic study of the decision-makers at these newspapers, exploring how each constructs a national identity for its audience. The journalists distanced themselves from ideology and national identity, instead unifying around a cosmopolitan concept of professionalism—nonetheless, the papers continue to exhibit selective framing and reporting (“strategic silence”) driven by a need to serve a nationalistic (and sometimes belligerent) audience. Too much deviation from the core constituency’s preferred narrative causes the papers to lose circulation until they go out of business or bring their editorial stance back into lineen_US
dc.description.departmentJournalism and Mediaen_US
dc.format.mediumelectronicen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/120377
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/47245
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofUT Electronic Theses and Dissertationsen_US
dc.rightsCopyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.en_US
dc.rights.restrictionRestricteden_US
dc.subjectNorthern Irelanden_US
dc.subjectNewspapersen_US
dc.subjectNational identitiesen_US
dc.titleNot fit to print : newspapers, national identity and conflict resolution in the troubles of Northern Irelanden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US
thesis.degree.departmentJournalismen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineJournalismen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Texas at Austinen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen_US

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