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- Title
Child Abusing News: Episodic and Thematic Media Framing Adapting the Children Act and UNICEF's Principles in Bangladesh.
- Authors
Jahan, Nusrat; Razib, Mehedy Hassan
- Abstract
Media is the principal channel of communication that structures people's consciousness. Such influence of media is often constructed through particular framing which reaches powerful organizations and encourages them to work on different social issues like child abuse. The present study is designed to assess the trend of episodic and thematic media framing on child-abusing news and its relation with the adaptation of The Children Act along with UNICEF's reporting principles. With media framing theory this paper executed a quantitative study through content analysis. A total of 1091 news articles were studied from two broadsheets and one tabloid newspaper within a timeline of one year. Results revealed that episodic news has a higher tendency of violating reporting principles than thematic. Incidents of sexual abuse received most of the coverage in Bangladeshi newspapers where girls were found most likely to be the victims of misrepresentation. Finally, the tabloid newspaper was found guiltier of unethical reporting than the broadsheets which established a significant connection between the tendency of principles violation and newspaper type. The paper recommended policymakers, child welfare institutes, and mass media promote children's rights to decrease the rate of abuse cases in Bangladesh.
- Subjects
BANGLADESH; UNICEF; CHILD abuse; TABLOID newspapers; CONTENT analysis
- Publication
Athens Journal of Mass Media & Communications, 2023, Vol 9, Issue 2, p113
- ISSN
2407-9499
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.30958/ajmmc.9-2-3