Through a media lens – The Crimean Crisis : A Discourse Analysis of Media Perspectives on the New Crimean Crisis
Journal: KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Year: 2014

The Aim of this essay is to study how the Crimean Crisis is being portrayed in international newspapers of Frankfurter Allgemeine, The New York Times and Pravda. The time period for the study is the 25th of February until the 30th of April in the spring of 2014. To concretize the aim 3 questions were formulated; how different discourses are formed in the material, how is Russia’s involvement in the conflict and its views portrayed in the newspapers and how does the stereotyping through metaphors