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The Politics of Transformation:
Mass Media and the Northern Ireland Peace Process
by
Maria Armoudian
A Dissertation Presented to the
Faculty of the USC Graduate School
University of Southern California
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS)
May 2013
Copyright 2013 Maria Armoudian
Object Description
| Title | The politics of transformation: mass media and the Northern Ireland peace process |
| Author | Armoudian, Maria |
| Author email | armoudian@aol.com;mariaarmoudian@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Politics and International Relations |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-12-11 |
| Date submitted | 2013-04-04 |
| Date approved | 2013-04-05 |
| Restricted until | 2013-04-05 |
| Date published | 2013-04-05 |
| Advisor (committee chair) |
Crigler, Ann N. James, Patrick |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Dekmejian, Hrair Richard Starr, Kevin Ramirez, Ricardo |
| Abstract | The Politics of Transformation: Mass Media and the Northern Ireland Peace Process explores the interrelationship between mass media framing, political leadership, and group psychology in transforming entrenched violent conflict into peaceful relationships. It examined the construction of peace in two parallel and intertwined realms—the rhetorical and the real. In order to measure this relationship, I conducted interviews, created two original databases, devised a system by which to measure media frames and intercommunity relations, and statistically compared frames across publications, over time and to the measures of intercommunity relations. In the interviews political leaders and journalists revealed the factors that created their respective frames: Although some of the findings, such as the forces of journalistic structure and norms were expected, others—such as journalists’ personal experiences, judgments, and emotions—were somewhat more surprising. By quantifying frames from five media outlets, the degree to which each of the forces, such as political leadership, group identity, ideology, and journalism’s norms and structures, became more evident. Further, these measurements allow scholars to see how these two realms—the real and the rhetorical—change over time and how intertwined they really are. Some media outlets’ framing trajectories corresponded very closely with measures of real intercommunity relations, such as violent conflict or peacemaking, suggesting a close relationship between these two variables. |
| Keyword | Northern Ireland; media; journalism; IRA; peace; conflict; political violence; terrorism; Sinn Fein; SDLP; political psychology; emotions; hope; hate; acceptance; UUP; DUP; PUP |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Armoudian, Maria |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume7/etd-ArmoudianM-1514.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | i The Politics of Transformation: Mass Media and the Northern Ireland Peace Process by Maria Armoudian A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the USC Graduate School University of Southern California In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS) May 2013 Copyright 2013 Maria Armoudian |
