News Framing and Social Media Responses to the Release of Boko Haram Female Captives
Description:
This qualitative study sheds light on the framing of the sexual abuse of the Boko Haram's female captives sent to the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps and analyzes emotional themes from tweets focusing on the release of the Boko Haram's female victims, the Chibok girls. Six articles were chosen from BBC (a British news source), Punch (a Nigerian news source), and the New York Times (an American news source) to reveal the frames. In addition, 118 tweets were examined to address emotional…
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Date:
May 2019
Creator:
Omokore, Joy Oluwadamilola
Partner:
UNT Libraries