THE ANALYSIS OF THE COVERAGE OF ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ AND THE LEVANT TERRORISM INSELECTED NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER (2014 – 2016)

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dc.contributor.authorOMEBIJE, Theophilus
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-14T11:52:06Z
dc.date.available2020-02-14T11:52:06Z
dc.date.issued2018-01
dc.descriptionA DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN MASS COMMUNICATIONen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study examines how some of Nigerian newspapers (DailyTrust, Punch and TheGuardian) presented the Islamic State of Iraq of the Levant (ISIL) terrorism to local audiences in the period of March 2014 to March 2016. Through content analysis, an aggregate of 732 content population was coded into definitive categories of Causes, Motives and Victims of the ISIL terrorists‘ formation. The study is anchored on the Framing Theory. The study found that the three Nigerian newspapers studied situate the causes of the ISIL terrorism on sectarian marginalization in Middle East that operates within the larger framework of the Euro-American global power play, and to a lesser extent, the Arab Spring. The intent/motives of ISIL are presented as ethno-nationalistic, and an advancement of the group‘s ideology interfaced with religious extremism. The ISIL victims are largely unspecified in the newspapers‘ presentations. Furthermore, the findings revealed that the two Southern Nigerian newspapers studied had more articles on ISIL than the Northern newspaper. Also, majority of the sources of ISIL news articles in the selected Nigerian newspapers were from the international media. The study concludes that there was uniformity in the three Nigerian newspapers‘ framing of the causes and motives of ISIL terrorism except for differences in the level of prominence attached to the ISIL conflict. Also, Punch and The Guardian newspapers‘ framing of victims of ISIL terrorism were unspecified whereas Daily Trust framed most of the victims to be Shiites. The study, among other things, recommends that the Nigerian newspapers make more concerted effort to report international terrorism such as ISIL terrorism from a firsthand stand point.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/12194
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectTHE ANALYSIS,en_US
dc.subjectCOVERAGE OF ISLAMIC STATE,en_US
dc.subjectLEVANT TERRORISM,en_US
dc.subjectNIGERIAN NEWSPAPER,en_US
dc.subject(2014 – 2016)en_US
dc.titleTHE ANALYSIS OF THE COVERAGE OF ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ AND THE LEVANT TERRORISM INSELECTED NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER (2014 – 2016)en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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