Date of Award
2013
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Communication Studies
Department
Communication Studies
First Advisor
Popescu, Mihaela
Second Advisor
Owen, Bradford
Third Advisor
Seitz, Victoria
Abstract
This study will focus on the coverage of the 2010 BP oil spill at Macondo Bay in the Gulf of Mexico, when 4.9 billion barrels of oil were sent gushing into the ocean. This study provides insight into how media frame an environmental disaster and construct blame under influence of certain political economic indicators such as circulation, competition, advertising, and ownership. Studying the relationship between journalists' framing of blame for the BP oil spill in the Gulf in American and circulation and ownership type of the newspapers which published those articles helps to validate past research and provide new insights into how American media treat environmental disasters and their perpetrators.
Recommended Citation
Dhaliwal, Kudratdeep Kaur, "Media and corporate blame: Gate keeping and framing of the British Petroleum oil spill of 2010" (2013). Theses Digitization Project. 3968.
https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3968
