Essays about: "Marikana"

Found 1 essay containing the word Marikana.

  1. 1. "We should be a lot angrier" : A case study of the Marikana shootings

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ)

    Author : Caroline Åstrand; Linda Birgersson; [2014]
    Keywords : Marikana; South Africa; newspapers; government; hegemony; postcolonialsm;

    Abstract : Our aim with this study was to examine how the Marikana massacre, the killings of 34 mineworkers in August 2012, was portrayed in the news media in South Africa. We based our study on a discourse analysis of a selection of articles written at the time of the massacre. READ MORE