Essays about: "Breitbart News Network"

Found 1 essay containing the words Breitbart News Network.

  1. 1. "Coming soon to a neighborhood near you...": The very real effects and great human costs of fake news : A critical discourse analysis of Breitbart News Network's representation of Muslim and Syrian refugees in the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : John LaChine; [2017]
    Keywords : 2016 United States presidential election; Breitbart; Breitbart News Network; Critical Discourse Analysis; Destructive discourses; Islam; Muslim refugees; National security; Syrian refugees; Syrian refugee ban;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how a Breitbart News Network text represented Muslim and Syrian refugees in the weeks leading up to the 2016 United States presidential election. Using a methodological framework based on Norman Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis, the analysis seeks to reveal the linguistic semiotic choices made by the text producer in the representation of Muslim and Syrian refugees and to explain how these semiotic choices were used to achieve their effect. READ MORE