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News Media Representations of Women in Conflicts: The Boko Haram Conflict in Borno State, North East Nigeria (2012-2015) - A Study of Guardian, Daily Trust, Daily Sun, Leadership, Nation, and Thisday Newspapers
Mbaya, Nancy, B.
Mbaya, Nancy, B.
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This is a study of news media representations of women in the Boko Haram conflict in Borno
state, North East Nigeria (2012-2015) with a focus on six Nigerian national newspapers -
Guardian, Daily Trust, Daily Sun, Leadership, Nation, and Thisday. It draws on post-colonial
theories like Orientalism and the Subaltern; feminism; and the news media to examine how the
news media have represented women in this conflict. The study adopted a mixed method
approach combining quantitative content analysis and qualitative thematic analysis. The
quantitative analysis examined the manifest contents of the newspaper articles in the sample to
find out the pattern of frames used by Nigerian journalists to represent women in the Boko
Haram conflict while the qualitative analysis examined information generated from semistructured interviews; documentary data; and the translation of YouTube videos released by the
Boko Haram sect. A total of 404 newspaper articles were selected, categorized, and examined
using SPSS software.
Findings suggest that patriarchal phrases and gender stereotypes permeate news media
narratives about women affected by the conflict. This thesis therefore provides a better
understanding of how Nigerian news media represent women affected by conflicts and factors
that inform these representations. This work also provides a better insight into how the
intersectionality of gender with other social structures like class, age, ethnicity, religion,
patriarchal discrimination and other forms of oppression have permeated media representations
of women in the conflict. Results similarly suggest that the Nigerian media over rely on foreign
news media organizations as their major story sources about the conflict. Because of this
overreliance, this thesis argues that foreign news media set the agenda for Nigerian news media
in their representations of women. This study has contributed to a better understanding of how
elite news media in the more developed global North set the news agenda for developing
nations of the global South like Nigeria through inter-media agenda setting.
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Findings also suggest that the Nigerian news media system reflects the social, political,
religious, ethnic, and regional factors of the area within which it operates in line with the
framework of regional parallelism. This study has contributed to a better understanding of how
Nigeria’s North/South dichotomies based on these factors have affected the news media. This
thesis concludes that as a product of regional parallelism, the Nigerian news media reflect the
intersectionality of gender, social structures such as race, ethnic, religious, sexual orientation
and patriarchal discrimination with other forms of oppression to disadvantage women in the
Boko Haram conflict.
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Mbaya, N, B. (2019). News Media Representations of Women in Conflicts: The Boko Haram Conflict in Borno State, North East Nigeria (2012-2015) - A Study of Guardian, Daily Trust, Daily Sun, Leadership, Nation, and Thisday Newspapers (Doctoral dissertation). University of Chester, UK.
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