Narratively framing emergent identities in post-agreement societies: patterns of the Northern Irish identity within the provincial media |
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Authors: | Owen Fenton |
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Affiliation: | School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK |
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Abstract: | The research analyses ‘Northern Irish’ identity narratives post-agreement, and examines the configuration of frame agendas in terms of individual narrative components. A content analysis utilised news published through 1997–2014 within Northern Ireland daily newspapers – the Belfast Telegraph, the Irish News and the News Letter. A process of manifest coding produced an emergent coding scheme displaying the relative stability of media frames surrounding the Northern Irish identity as broadly partisan; however, there is also a subtle narrative shift of Northern Irish identity across the time periods; and findings of a dominant framing paradigm of political and social conceptions of identification post-agreement. |
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Keywords: | Media framing political perceptions identity construction political agendas agenda setting political agreement Northern Ireland |
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