On May 3rd and 4th, 2023, Serbia experienced two shooting tragedies, one a school shooting and the other one a spree shooting, ending with a death toll of 19, nine of them being children. In Belgrade and other cities, people took to the streets to protest what they stated as the reason for the shooting, which is a pervasive culture of violence and a media landscape that is dominated and controlled by the government. Following the reporting on the protest that followed, along with personally protesting, a question was made over what the differences between media reporting within Serbia and outside of Serbia were, along with a question of how the President, Aleksander Vučić, falls into place in all this. A corpus of newspaper articles during the event was made and analysed with AntConc. The theories used were critical discourse analysis and nexus analysis, along with Fairclough’s 3D model method of analysis. The results state a significant difference in media reporting, as Serbian media suffers from tabloidization, lack of ethical reporting, and false news. Vučić is suggested to be behind the current state of media. Suggestions for further studies include an in-depth reading of Serbian-language newspapers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-68973 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Tomic, Matt Sunny |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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