From KL to Beijing: MH370, the media and the meaning of a disaster
News texts are the product of journalistic practices and organizational routines, buttressed by socio-cultural norms of a particular society.The tragedy of flight MH370 is a way to understand how Malaysian media construct a crisis that last happened in 1977. To understand how Malaysian newspapers un...
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Language: | English |
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Elsevier Ltd.
2014
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Online Access: | http://repo.uum.edu.my/13017/1/pro18.pdf http://repo.uum.edu.my/13017/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.275 |
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Summary: | News texts are the product of journalistic practices and organizational routines, buttressed by socio-cultural norms of a particular society.The tragedy of flight MH370 is a way to understand how Malaysian media construct a crisis that last happened in 1977. To understand how Malaysian newspapers understood the event, a critical discourse analysis approach is applied to two newspapers.News organizations in Malaysia – as baffled by the event as the officials and starved of information – construct their own meaning of the air disaster.This study concludes that newspapers construction of the tragedy reveal the socio-cultural make-up of news production practices. |
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