Browsing by Author "Salminen, Oskari Anton"

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 marked a transition from an ongoing crisis to a full-scale war that garnered extensive coverage in the media throughout 2022. This thesis aims to examine the portrayal of these events across online news headlines of Chinese, Russian, and US media outlets. Independent and state-controlled media were selected from China and Russia and compared alongside conservative and liberal media from the US. China Daily, People’s Daily, South China Morning Post, Tass, Meduza, The New York Times, and FoxNews were included in the thesis. A corpus of headlines and subheadings from October 2022 comprising 1055 entries compiled into six subcorpora was analyzed using the corpus analysis software AntConc. The analysis was executed within the theoretical frameworks of Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, and Framing theory. The findings of this thesis reveal a spectrum of framing strategies employed by the selected media outlets; Tass, China Daily, and People’s Daily exhibited predominantly positive and neutral framing of Russian actions in Ukraine. At the same time, South China Morning Post, Meduza, The New York Times, and FoxNews opted towards negative framing. This divergence underscores a contrast between state-controlled media and more independent media organizations in Russia and China. The independent media’s framing aligned more with the negative framing prevalent in US media coverage of the Russian actions in Ukraine.