MEDIA AS A MEANS OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION: "A REVIEW INTO NEWS OF NEW ZEALAND MOSQUE ATTACKS"

Year 2022, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 235 - 243, 06.10.2022

Adam Ibrahımzada , Mustafa Temel

Abstract

The growth of the Muslim population in Europe has begun to raise doubts about European nationalism, and Europeans have expressed at
every opportunity that they do not want them in their own country, discriminating and racism against Muslims there. At a time when social
media is widely used, almost every day we see reports of Muslims being discriminated against or news of discrediting the Muslim
population there. On Friday March Friday, March 15, 49 people were killed in an attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand,
against Muslims attending Friday prayers. In this article, how this event was approached in the western and American media and in what
dimension it was looked at was measured. The universe of this study consists of all foreign media outlets with news about the terrorist
incident in New Zealand, and the sample is the news sites of "The Guardian", "BBC"," Daily Mirror"," New York Times " newspapers. In
this study, content analysis of the news sites mentioned in the sample about the "mosque attacks in New Zealand" will be carried out. The
analysis will include the themes featured, the news actors involved, and the findings of the extent to which news sites approach the event.
In the study, written news related to the news mentioned in the sample will be examined. The study is limited to news coverage of events
in the city of Christchurch from 15 March to 22 March.

Keywords

New Zealand, Mosque Attacks, Political Communication, Islamophobia, Political Communication

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