Muting the voices of the protesters
The study interrogated News24’s framing of the 2015 Malamulele service delivery protest in South Africa. The study sought to find out what frames were used, why they were chosen and with what effect. Twenty newspaper articles published by News24 on the protest were purposively selected for inclusio...
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2022-10-01
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The study interrogated News24’s framing of the 2015 Malamulele service delivery protest in
South Africa. The study sought to find out what frames were used, why they were chosen and
with what effect. Twenty newspaper articles published by News24 on the protest were purposively
selected for inclusion in the study. The articles were analysed using quantitative and qualitative
content analysis. Findings revealed that the reporters chose episodic frames which conformed
with the protest paradigm and which depicted the protestors as violent, destructive, unreasonable
and a threat to the economy of the local community and of the nation. The paper argues that the
choice of sources and frames was largely informed by journalistic principles of news production
and that this resulted in the voices of the protestors being stifled.
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| spelling | doaj-art-9c06a013e9654305803026d048d8d7bc2025-01-20T08:55:48ZengUniversity of JohannesburgCommunicare0259-00692957-79502022-10-0137110.36615/jcsa.v37i1.1581Muting the voices of the protestersBetina Mawokomayi0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7299-7327Bevelyn Dube1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8548-3512University of Fort HareUniversity of Venda The study interrogated News24’s framing of the 2015 Malamulele service delivery protest in South Africa. The study sought to find out what frames were used, why they were chosen and with what effect. Twenty newspaper articles published by News24 on the protest were purposively selected for inclusion in the study. The articles were analysed using quantitative and qualitative content analysis. Findings revealed that the reporters chose episodic frames which conformed with the protest paradigm and which depicted the protestors as violent, destructive, unreasonable and a threat to the economy of the local community and of the nation. The paper argues that the choice of sources and frames was largely informed by journalistic principles of news production and that this resulted in the voices of the protestors being stifled. https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1581News242015 Malamulele service delivery protestSouth Africaframesquantitative and qualitative content analysisprotestors being stifled |
| spellingShingle | Betina Mawokomayi Bevelyn Dube Muting the voices of the protesters Communicare News24 2015 Malamulele service delivery protest South Africa frames quantitative and qualitative content analysis protestors being stifled |
| title | Muting the voices of the protesters |
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| title_short | Muting the voices of the protesters |
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| topic | News24 2015 Malamulele service delivery protest South Africa frames quantitative and qualitative content analysis protestors being stifled |
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