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Wozniak, Antal. "Genocide in the News: Media Attention and Media Framing of the Darfur Conflict" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA, May 23, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p171981_index.html>

Wozniak, A. , 2007-05-23 "Genocide in the News: Media Attention and Media Framing of the Darfur Conflict" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p171981_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: When fighting broke out in the region of Darfur in Western Sudan in 2003 and quickly turned into a humanitarian crisis of enormous scope, the American mass media was very slow to react. Using Anthony Downs’ classic model of the issue attention cycle as a theoretical foundation, the author examines the course of attention the New York Times and the Washington Post paid to Darfur during the first 3 years of the crisis. The analysis shows how triggering or focusing events as well as actions and announcements by official sources can shape the media’s attention towards an issue. Drawing on works by Robert Entman (2004) as well as William Gamson and Kathry Lasch (1983), media frames in the coverage of the Darfur conflict are analyzed. It is illustrated how different actors are successful in communicating their frames in different newspaper desks, how the experience of the Rwandan genocide was utilized to contextualize the events in Darfur, and how the national ethos, in which a newspaper is rooted, affects its framing of an issue.

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