Browsing by Author "Ireri, Kioko"

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    Comparing Agenda-Setting Roles of Newspaper Columnists and Editorials in Kenya
    (2012) Ireri, Kioko
    This research compares the agenda-setting roles of newspaper columnists and editorials in Kenya. It examines whether three newspaper columnists and editorials set the agenda on issues of national importance in 2008 and 2009. This was done by investigating whether there were any associations between issues given prominence in the opinion columns and editorials and what Kenyans, through public opinion polls, considered as the “most important problem” facing the country. The agendas of the columnists and editorials were also compared and investigated. Results show that there were no positive correlations between the agendas of the columnists and the public and between the agendas of the editorials and the public in 2008 and 2009. But there were moderate-positive and high-positive correlations when the agendas for columnists and editorials were matched and compared.
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    News from Tripoli, Benghazi, Brega and Misrata: How Al-Jazeera and BBC Online News Framed the Libyan Revolution
    (2012) Ireri, Kioko
    The purpose of this research, which focuses on the framing of the 2011 Libyan Revolution on Al-Jazeera and BBC online news, is fourfold. First, it examines the use of the human interest frame on BBC and Al-Jazeera English news sites before and after the adoption of Resolution 1973, which paved the way for military intervention in the Libyan crisis. Second, the study investigates the prevalence of four media frames on the two sites - anti-war, attribution of responsibility, human interest, and military. Third, the study examines significant variations in the use of anti-war frame and military frames between the media outlets. Fourth, it investigates the type of sources attributed to the news about the Libyan Revolution, and whether the sources were linked to particular news frames. Results indicate an overall significant variation in the use of the human interest frame between the periods, pre-and-post Resolution 1973. In the prevalence of media frames, it is the military frame, which was the most occurring news frame. Whereas there was no significant variation in the use of anti-war frame between the two sites, the variation in the use of the military frame was significant. For source prevalence, it is the foreign leaders who were frequently quoted in news, followed by journalists. Moreover, such sources as civilians, Gaddafi leadership, journalists, military officials, NATO officials, and rebels were highly associated with the military frame. On the other hand, sources from foreign leaders, NGOs, United Nations, and other were linked to the human interest frame.
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    Tracing African Mass Communication Research Trends from 1980 to 2009
    (2012) Ireri, Kioko
    A conference paper presented at the 2012 AEJMC CONFERENCE Chicago, Illinois by Kioko Ireri, lecturer at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, USIU-A.