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Visibility of development stories in selected religious media discourse

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  • Negesse Gessese

    (Bahir Dar University)

  • Amanuel Gebru

    (Bahir Dar University)

  • Biset Nigatu

    (Bahir Dar University)

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This study explores patterns in the portrayal of development issues in the religious media from 1993 to 2021, in an attempt to illustrate the existence of hierarchical representations of development issues using sources, actors, and dominant frames. To this end, we use a quantitative method that considers the development content of two Ethiopian religious magazines: Hamer and Hintset. Our results reveal that across the selected years, the two magazines together presented 685 articles on development (359 the Hamer and 326 in Hintset). We employ data analysis using SPSS software, in which both descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were utilized for data presentation. We determine that political, economic, and natural resource development issues are the most scarcely covered issues as compared to social, moral, peace themes. Economic (chi-square = 5.122, p = 0.024, and p

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  • Negesse Gessese & Amanuel Gebru & Biset Nigatu, 2022. "Visibility of development stories in selected religious media discourse," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 9(1), pages 1-17, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palcom:v:9:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1057_s41599-022-01065-z
    DOI: 10.1057/s41599-022-01065-z
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    1. Paolo Mefalopulos, 2008. "Development Communication Sourcebook : Broadening the Boundaries of Communication," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 6439, April.
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