Researcher ORCID Identifier
0009-0001-3425-3845
Graduation Year
2020
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Politics
Reader 1
Professor Mietek Boduszynski
Reader 2
Professor Amanda Hollis-Brusky
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© 2020 Helena Gabrielle Ong
Abstract
Although climate change and terrorism are both considered national security threats by U.S. military experts, the American public views these threats differ- ently, with climate change at lower risk and priority in comparison to terror- ism. This reflects a difference in how the public conceptualizes security threats. This paper aims to address that gap through media coverage. This study ex- amines the language of newspaper headlines for terrorism and climate change in order to identify the dominant representations of these issues in the media. I analyze the discourse of two security issues—terrorism and climate change– by comparing news headlines from the (New York Times) from 2015 through 2019. Using a program to look for the frequency of words, I demonstrate that headlines covering terrorism use more active, aggressive language than head- lines covering climate change. This serves to identify dominant representations of these security issues within the media.
Recommended Citation
Ong, Helena Gabrielle, "Discourse Analysis of NYT’s Headlines on Terrorism and Climate Change: How Media Reflects Our Conceptualization of Security" (2020). Pomona Senior Theses. 328.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/328
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