Acasă Articole RTR Protestele fermierilor în mass-media mainstream din România: teme, narațiuni și încadrari predominante
Protestele fermierilor în mass-media mainstream din România: teme, narațiuni și încadrari predominante
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Farmers’ Protests in the Romanian Mainstream Media: Predominant Themes, Narratives and Framings
Abstract: This article analyses how a significant part of the mainstream press in Romania framed the farmers’ protests in January 2024. A complex social phenomenon, with a tradition in Western European countries, especially in France, this transnational revolt movement attracts the attention of journalists only during the actual duration of the street events. The study aims to identify and correlate the preferred framing angles in the mainstream media, to highlight recurring themes, narratives and predominant patterns in the journalistic practice of covering the protests. The questions that formed the basis of the research are the following, namely: 1. How does the mainstream media in Romania frame the farmers’ protests? 2. What are the dominant themes and narratives and how are they correlated with certain ideological frames? 3. Is there an interest in the mainstream media for the intersectional approach of social and environmental justice issues, in the context of the farmers’ protests? The exploratory research was conducted manually on a corpus of 189 journalistic materials, predominantly news, collected from the news sites that covered the most, in quantitative terms, the farmers’ protests of January 2024.
Keywords: farmers, protests, mainstream media framing, themes, narratives, agribashing
Acknowledgement: Acest articol a fost realizat în cadrul proiectului de cercetare ECOJUST- Doing Environmental InJustice: A Theory in Praxis (ECOJUST). Contract de finanțare nr 760077/23.05.2023, cod CF 133/15.11.2022. [This project has received funding from the PNRR funds under the Grant agreement number 760077/23.05.2023, CF 133/15.11.2022].
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