Fatal Encounters
Vol 4 No 1 (2019), Education
Vol 4 No 1 (2019)

Fatal Encounters: A Content Analysis of Newspaper Depictions of the Deaths of Unarmed People of Color at the Hands of Law Enforcement or Security Personnel

Education
https://doi.org/10.46303/ressat.04.01.2
Published May 6, 2019
Deanna Jacobsen Koepke
University of Providence, Montana, USA
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2836-0449
David Thomas
University of Providence, Montana, USA
Alexis Manning
University of Providence, Montana, USA
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2655-2247
PDF

Keywords

Print media
framing
aw enforcement
deaths
Leximancer

How to Cite

Jacobsen Koepke, D., Thomas, D., & Manning, A. (2019). Fatal Encounters. Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 4(1), 30-50. https://doi.org/10.46303/ressat.04.01.2
ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver

Download Citation

Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX

Abstract

Research has been conducted for several decades on the framing of stories in the media.  This article looks at the way newspaper articles report on and frame the deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of law enforcement and security personnel from 1999-2017 to determine if local and national print media frame these stories using similar terminology and concepts.  Tabular, graphical, and statistical analysis all demonstrate that local and national newspapers do not use similar terminology and concepts. 
https://doi.org/10.46303/ressat.04.01.2
PDF

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).