TY - JOUR
T1 - Media coverage of the Russo–Ukraine war beyond the West
T2 - Geopolitics and mainstream news in Brazil, India and South Africa
AU - Wozniak, Antal
AU - Liu, Zixiu
AU - Lind, Fabienne
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - How closely does news coverage in independent media outlets in non-Western countries follow domestic political elites’ interpretations of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? And how much attention do newsrooms pay to geopolitical aspects of the issue compared to domestic considerations? This study moves beyond a still prevailing Euro- and US-centric perspective by focusing on Brazil, India and South Africa, three democratic countries with close economic and political ties to Russia. The authors systematically compare the wording used by elite politicians to describe the events in Ukraine with that in mainstream news reports. They also analyse the salience of political leaders and geopolitical entities (countries and intergovernmental organizations) in news coverage. For the use of descriptive terminology, they find no evidence for news reporting to be indexed to government wording. Their analysis of references to geopolitical actors shows news media’s strong propensity for domesticating the war for their respective national audiences.
AB - How closely does news coverage in independent media outlets in non-Western countries follow domestic political elites’ interpretations of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? And how much attention do newsrooms pay to geopolitical aspects of the issue compared to domestic considerations? This study moves beyond a still prevailing Euro- and US-centric perspective by focusing on Brazil, India and South Africa, three democratic countries with close economic and political ties to Russia. The authors systematically compare the wording used by elite politicians to describe the events in Ukraine with that in mainstream news reports. They also analyse the salience of political leaders and geopolitical entities (countries and intergovernmental organizations) in news coverage. For the use of descriptive terminology, they find no evidence for news reporting to be indexed to government wording. Their analysis of references to geopolitical actors shows news media’s strong propensity for domesticating the war for their respective national audiences.
KW - BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India and China)
KW - comparative research
KW - geopolitics
KW - indexing
KW - media content analysis
KW - Russo–Ukraine war
KW - Ukraine invasion 2022
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85212820374&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/17506352241302244
DO - 10.1177/17506352241302244
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85212820374
SN - 1750-6352
JO - Media, War and Conflict
JF - Media, War and Conflict
ER -