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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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Main Author: Halim, Rohizah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd. 2014
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P Philology. Linguistics
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/13017/1/pro18.pdf
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.275
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spelling my.uum.repo.130172016-05-15T02:17:05Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/13017/ From KL to Beijing: MH370, the media and the meaning of a disaster Halim, Rohizah P Philology. Linguistics 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. Elsevier Ltd. 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by_nc_nd http://repo.uum.edu.my/13017/1/pro18.pdf Halim, Rohizah (2014) From KL to Beijing: MH370, the media and the meaning of a disaster. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 155. pp. 171-177. ISSN 1877-0428 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.275 doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.275
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Halim, Rohizah
From KL to Beijing: MH370, the media and the meaning of a disaster
description 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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title From KL to Beijing: MH370, the media and the meaning of a disaster
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publisher Elsevier Ltd.
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