Honors Program Theses

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Open Access Honors Program Thesis

First Advisor

Justin Holmes, Honors Thesis Advisor

Keywords

Presidents--United States--Election--2020--Press coverage; Foreign mass media--Costa Rica; Foreign mass media--Nicaragua;

Abstract

The U.S. presidential election not only grabs a lot of media attention from the United States, but it also catches the attention of media from around the world. How does the foreign media portray the U.S. presidential election? This study seeks to answer a piece of this question through an analysis of media sources in Costa Rica and Nicaragua in the hopes of better informing audiences on the potential frames their media be constructing their information through. The analysis considers the tone, along with the articles’ conversations of policy and personality of the candidates. After selecting 10 articles from each country surrounding the U.S. presidential election, it was determined that there was no major difference regarding personality and policy discussions, and in general the Costa Rican media source, La Nacion, had a more positive tone than the Nicaraguan media source, Nicavison.

Year of Submission

2021

Department

Department of Political Science

University Honors Designation

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the designation University Honors

Date Original

5-2021

Object Description

1 PDF file (20 pages)

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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