World Politics and media framing: introducing the relevance of narratives in media outlet’s coverage about the Hong Kong protests


Abstract


This study deals with how narratives in world politics affect media framing in different contexts by analyzing the case of the Hong Kong-Mainland China conflict, with particular reference to the Hong Kong protests occurred in the years 2019-2020.The analysis suggests a scenario in which media covering is strongly affected by the power of discourse shaping world politics, which in the case of the Hong Kong protests, it stands as a direct result of the growing exacerbation between China and the United States.

DOI Code: 10.1285/i20356609v15i1p257

Keywords: Protests paradigm; international politics; media framing; narratives; Hong Kong

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