Political Communication in the Age of Dissemination: Media Constructions of Hezbollah

摘要: This thesis addresses the concept and forms of dissemination in political communication news media. It investigates new age global manifested a relationship between media systems. The broad aim this project is to investigate ‘media reality’ dissemination. Working within sphere interconnected systems, examines how information source texts responses them recontextualised disseminated worldwide, fed back again through recursive communication. Specifically, also considers ways which aims phenomenon Hezbollah are connected across various outlets. In particular, process analysed three outlets, namely Al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN. has principal conceptual building blocks: dissemination, communication, discourse intertexts. theoretical framework determined methods used undertake qualitative analysis data. Discourse consider intertexts sub-texts, legitimation processes, framing, representation, schematisation These dimensions highly useful tools identifying shifts organisations. specific objectives. Its first reconceptualise establish communicative model characterised by recursivity (one systems play on each other feedback feed-forward loops, add intensity), show gained importance context mass mediatisation, bringing about That is, messages Hassan Nasrallah, polarise representations, contexts complex processes involving interplays. have direct link with historical sense that loops. second appropriate approaches for study terms intertextuality, discourse, ideology as belief framings, competing framings create realities; connects well third achieve data more sophisticated understanding significant actor, creating multicontextual framing. demonstrates complexity sets out improve our both politics Middle East. core lies its concern reconceptualising applying it Nasrallah’s speeches their recontextualisation above