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The Gulf Information War| The Gulf Crisis and Narratives of Emotionality in Nepal's English-Language Press

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dc.contributor.authorSubin, Paul
dc.contributor.rorhttps://ror.org/02jjdwm75
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-01T16:02:02Z
dc.date.available2025-04-01T16:02:02Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThis study examines the media discourse on the Gulf diplomatic crisis and its effect on one of the most marginalized populations in Qatar: Nepali migrant workers. Although the diplomatic crisis made news headlines across the Middle East, Nepal-based newspapers were the only ones to cover the vulnerable migrant worker population in some detail. In writing about this population, three prominent English-language publications in Nepal, The Kathmandu Post, Republica, and People’s Review, employed emotional storytelling. Drawing on Wahl-Jorgensen’s notion of the “strategic ritual of emotionality,” this study specifically analyzes the use of emotion in the three publications’ news coverage. The study finds that the publications engaged in the ritual of emotionality not by assigning that function to external news sources, as is common in Western newspapers, but mainly through their own journalists and opinion writers who narrated their subjective viewpoints and concerns. This unreserved embrace of emotions and subjectivity in newswriting illuminates a unique, cultural mode of producing journalism.
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dc.identifier.citationPaul, S. (2019). The Gulf Information War| The Gulf Crisis and Narratives of Emotionality in Nepal's English-Language Press. International Journal of Communication, 13, 17-17.
dc.identifier.issn1932-8036
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3697
dc.journal.titleInternational Journal of Communication
dc.language.isoen
dc.page.final1339
dc.page.initial1323
dc.page.total17
dc.publisherUSC Annenberg
dc.relation.departmentMarketing & Communication
dc.relation.entityIE University
dc.relation.schoolIE Business School
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
dc.subject.keywordMedia and emotion
dc.subject.keywordStrategic ritual of emotionality
dc.subject.keywordGulf crisis
dc.subject.keywordQatar
dc.subject.keywordNepali media
dc.subject.keywordNepali migrants
dc.subject.keywordNepal
dc.titleThe Gulf Information War| The Gulf Crisis and Narratives of Emotionality in Nepal's English-Language Press
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dc.volume.number13
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