Her name was Clodagh

Twitter and the news discourse of murder suicide

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12877321
AutoresFergal Quinn (0000-0002-7425-2986, University of Limerick, autor correspondente), Muireann Prendergast (0000-0003-2739-222X, University of Limerick), Audrey Galvin (0000-0003-0707-7118, University of Limerick)
Ano2019
Volume16
Fascículo3
Páginas312-329
Data de publicação2019-01-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Discourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1740-5904 • E-ISSN: 1740-5912
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17405904.2019.1568896
OpenAlexW2910970544
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas38

The evolution and adaptation of journalistic practice in response to discourses taking place in networked and shared media environments and the implications of same have been the focus of much academic attention in recent years. This paper examines the agenda-setting potential of Twitter and considers how this feeds into and affects journalistic output. It does so by applying a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework in considering whether reportage on particular news events are re-framed in the aftermath of Twitter campaigns. In August 2016, the Irish media’s framing of the Hawe murder suicide via sourcing, emphasis and agency drew widespread criticism on social media for its perceived ‘omission’ or ‘significant silence’ about one of the victims, Clodagh Hawe, from the narrative in favour of a greater focus on the perpetrator, Alan Hawe. Criticism of the initial coverage of the incident was in large part driven by the #hernamewasclodagh social media campaign. This paper takes an intertextual approach to the analysis of correlations between emphases within the social media campaign and differences in the framing of the news media coverage before and after that campaign

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Criminology · Critical discourse analysis · Criticism · Framing (construction · Ideology · Irish · Media studies · Narrative · News media · Political science · Politics · Silence · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Law