News discourse and ideology: critical analysis of Copenhagen gang wars’ online news
News discourse and ideology: critical analysis of Copenhagen gang wars’ online news
Author(s): Pinar Yazgan, Deniz Eroğlu UtkuSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Communication studies, Sociology, Studies in violence and power, Sociology of Culture, Migration Studies, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: news discourse; ideology; Critical Discourse Analysis; gang wars; Copenhagen;
Summary/Abstract: Gang warfare is one of the social problems that attract attention in Denmark and it occupies an important place in the media discourse. However, the discriminatory and exclusionary effects of this discourse have been largely overlooked in many of the previous studies focusing on this problem. Taking this into account, this study examines the discriminatory aspects of the online news discourse covering these gang wars. In this way, it uncovers the forms of anti-immigrant bias in the news discourse in Denmark by examining articles from two online news articles by the newspaper Politiken and the news quoted from the same newspaper. Specifically, this study aims to demonstrate that the discriminatory and exclusionist discourse on the gang wars in Denmark may cause ethnic discrimination by producing negative social capital. The chosen sample of news articles has been analysed by devoting special attention to the concepts of ‘racism’, ‘exclusion’, ‘marginalisation’ and ‘negative social capital’ which are based on the critical discourse analysis of Teun A. van Dijk, who does not perceive news media as passive reporters but instead draws attention to their role in (re)constructing news events and dominant ideology.
Journal: Migration Letters
- Issue Year: 14/2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 145-160
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English