How do interventions by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court
influence representations of mass violence? What images arise instead from the …

This article examines how international judicial interventions in mass atrocity influence
representations of violence. It relies on content analysis of 3,387 articles and opinion pieces …

Sociologists are not at the forefront of studying African news organizations' coverage of
atrocity despite having the tools to do so. This article works to remedy that. I investigate how …

Terrorism is an inherently communicative enterprise in that it attempts to convey messages
using violent means. Furthermore, the effective use of rhetoric is fundamental to the …

This article examines how and why multi-mandate INGOs represent contemporary armed
conflicts in particular ways. Based on empirical analysis of NGO communications and …

What strategies do Tea Party movement organizers use to achieve frame alignment, that is,
uniformity of grievance, purpose, and action, with their participants? Evidence to answer this …

Much has been written about the media coverage of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.
However, with few exceptions, much of this work has often focused on how the journalism …

As social creatures, humans are highly involved in storytelling. With the continued
advancement of communication systems, the mechanisms for telling the narrative of human …

Although the last two decades have seen a concerted effort to understand the role and place
of African journalism in covering events on the continent, there has been little focus on who …

Using a field theory approach, this chapter explores journalism's work for, against, and as
transitional justice (TJ). Seeking to spread delegitimizing representations of atrocities and …