A Qualitative Analysis of Newspaper Response to the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa.
This study utilizes a qualitative interpretive descriptive analysis to evaluate the construction of an Ebola outbreak narrative in a corpus of news articles from mainstream Congolese print media available both online and off. The prevalence of medical as opposed to superstitious or alarmist linguist...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Pan African Studies Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 224 - 240 |
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