Comparing the coverage of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in the Indian Business Today and the US New York Times

The study “The Russia-Ukraine conflict as a discursive continuum: A comparative study of Business Today and New York Times using an extended corpus-based discourse-historical approach” by Yanting Sun from Shanghai International Studies University used an extended corpus-based discourse-historical approach incorporating tools from critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to compare the coverage and framing of … Continued

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Published: 23 Dec 2023

Discursive sainthood of journalists killed in conflict work

The study “Saints and witnesses: Virtue and vocation in the memorialization of the Western conflict journalist” by Richard Stupart and Rob Sharp from University of Liverpool looked at the discursive repertoires through which the memorialization of journalists killed in conflict reporting. It utilized Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to do so. War correspondents are nowadays … Continued

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Published: 4 Aug 2023

How community radio performs community identity

The study “‘Just like us’: community radio broadcasters and the on-air performance of community identity” by Bridget Backhaus from Griffith University looked at an understudied sub-area in community media studies: community identity. The study is situated in Australia, a country with rich and diverse scholarship on the topic.  The concept of community is foundational in … Continued

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Published: 10 May 2022