Media Representation Of The Gerd Negotiations The Case Of Al-ahram Fana Broadcasting Corporate (fbc) And Bbc Online

The objective of the study was to analyze how the GERD negotiation was represented by FBC, Al-Ahramrnand BBC websites. To accomplish this purpose, media representation theory was used as theoreticalrnframeworks to analyze the data. The time frame of the data was from January 2020 up to December 2020rnand collected from https://www.fanabc.com/, https://english.ahram.org.eg/ and https://www.bbc.com/.rnMixed research design was used. Accordingly, quantitative content analysis and discourse analysis werernemployed for this study. The purpose of the quantitative content analysis was to classify and examine thernrepresentation and sources cited by the selected media. The aim of the discourse analysis was to give detailedrnexplanations of the words and phrases used by the selected media in unfolding the negotiation and to explainrnthe representations that couldn’t be explained only in numbers. The quantitative data was categorized inrnparallel with the story’s nature of positive, negative, mixed, and neutral representations and it had tworncategories which are representation analysis and sources cited by the selected media. The results of thisrnstudy indicated that FBC and Al-Ahram had a larger positive representation whereas BBC had a largerrnnegative representation. When we see the sources, FBC, Al-Ahram and BBC cited people and documents asrntheir sources of information in the articles, and people appeared to be the major sources of information forrnall the three media outlets. Results from the qualitative discourse analysis revealed that the selected websitesrnused various words and expressions to describe the countries, the negotiation, and the GERD. The discoursernanalysis also showed that the GERD were described in different ways. FBC and Al-Ahram headlines werernskewed mostly to positive whereas BBC’s portrayal of the dam has negative representation. Al-Ahramrndepicted the dam as ‘Ethiopian Mega-dam’, ‘GERD’, ‘Nile Dam’, ‘$4.8 billion near-complete dam’. FBCrnportrayal of the dam were the same across all the headlines which is ‘GERD’. The representation of thernGERD in BBC’s headlines were ‘Ethiopian Dam’, ‘Nile Dam’, ‘Controversial Mega Dam’, ‘Ethiopia’s riverrnNile dam’, ‘River Nile Dam’, ‘Nile Giant Dam’. The portrayal and representation of the dam on BBC’s andrnAl-Ahram’s headline have some similarities in expression. Al-Ahram depicted the dam from size, therninvestment it took and using the generic name of the river.

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