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Bc. Daniela Červenková

Bachelor's thesis

Media Narratives about Police Brutality in the Cases of Rodney King and Eric Garner

Media Narratives about Police Brutality in the Cases of Rodney King and Eric Garner
Abstract:
Táto bakalárska práca sa zaoberá pohľadom mainstreamových médií na problematiku policajnej brutality voči Afroameričanom, pričom analyzuje a porovnáva spôsoby, akými sa v médiách písalo o dvoch prípadoch policajného násilia. Prvý prípad je bitka Rodneyho Kinga, ktorá sa odohrala v Los Angeles v roku 1991 a druhým prípadom je nedávna smrť Erica Garnera, ktorá sa stala v New Yorku v roku 2014. Oba incidenty …more
Abstract:
This bachelor’s diploma thesis discusses the mainstream media perception of police brutality against African Americans by analysing and comparing the media narratives used for writing about two cases of police violence. The first case is the beating of Rodney King that happened in Los Angeles in 1991, and the second case is the recent death of Eric Garner in New York in 2014. Both of these incidents …more
 

Keywords

African Americans police brutality media narratives Rodney King Eric Garner racism
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 12. 5. 2017
Identifier: https://is.muni.cz/th/qf515/

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 13. 6. 2017
  • Supervisor: B.A. Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel
  • Reader: Velid Beganović

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Philology / English Language and Literature

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