The Geopolitics of Representation in Foreign News Explaining Darfur

by Mody, Bella

• ISBN13: 9780739120712
• ISBN10: 0739120719
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-11
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

This inductive study investigates the 'curricula' of ten different news organizations from seven different countries that produced news in four languages on the Darfur uprising in Western Sudan: the New York Times, the Washington Post, France's Le Monde, the UK's Guardian, BBC.co.uk, Egypt's Al-Ahram, South Africa's Mail & Guardian Online, English.AlJazeera.Net, and China's People's Daily and China Daily. Mody and her collaborators show how news organizations uniquely and strategically constructed a foreign event for a particular intended audience based on national historical solidarity with global North or South power blocs, current national interest in the country, ownership of the news organization, and the political-linguistic constituency of the intended audience. While previous research on the role of national interest and ownership are supported in this study, the influence of the intended audience (namely, foreign or domestic) on the design of news is a new contribution to the field. Conceptualizing foreign news as perhaps the only means of cross-national, continuing education, Mody uses comprehensiveness as an evaluative measure of news. The Geopolitics of Representation in Foreign News provides unique insights that will be of particular interest to those researchers working in the field of international journalism.

Author Biography

Bella Mody is the James de Castro Chair in Global Media Studies in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Table of Contents

Frontispiece: Three Sudanese leaders indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Darfur
Foreword: Dr. Mukesh Kapila CBE, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Sudan (2003-2004)	p. ix
Preface: Comparative Cross-National Research Through Student Civic Engagement	p. xiii
Benefiting From Previous Researchers
Foreign News: The Geopolitics of Representation and Explanation	p. 3
Journalistic Influence in Moral Mobilization	p. 45
The Study of the Uprising in Darfur Sudan: Representation and Explanation in the World's Press
Rebellion Within States in the Global South: Explaining the Conflict in Darfur	p. 67
Cross-National Comparative Research on Foreign News: Design and Implementation	p. 83
Findings: The Representation of Darfur by News Organizations from the Global South
Comparing China's State-Owned English-Language and Chinese-Language Newspapers	p. 97
Comparing the South African Mail & Guardian Online with the Egyptian Al-Ahram	p. 137
Findings: The Representation of Darfur by News Organizations from the Global North
Comparing the UK's Guardian with France's Le Monde	p. 177
Comparing the US's New York Times with the Washington Post	p. 217
Findings: The Representation of Darfur in Online News Intended for Extra-National Audiences
Comparing the English-Language Web Sites of the UK's BBC and Qatar's Al Jazeera	p. 281
Conclusion
Foreign News: Journalism for Cross-National Public Education?	p. 319
Map of Sudan	p. 361
Map of Darfur Region, Sudan	p. 362
Content Analysis Codebook	p. 363
Comparing China's People's Daily and China Daily	p. 369
Comparing South Africa's Mail & Guardian with Egypt's Al-Ahram	p. 384
Comparing the UK's Guardian with France's Le Monde	p. 399
Comparing the US's New York Times and Washington Post	p. 414
Comparing Web Sites Based in the Global North and Global South	p. 429
Indicators of Press Attention for All Dailies and Web Sites	p. 444
Indicators of Timely and Comprehensive Coverage for All Dailies and Web Sites	p. 446
Selected Bibliography	p. 451
Index	p. 455
About the Collaborators	p. 459
About the Author	p. 461
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