Date of Award
2-8-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Criminology and Criminal Justice, MA
First Advisor
Averi Fegadel
Committee Members
Sarah Kendig; Selye Lee
Call Number
ISBN 9798780631705
Abstract
Mass shootings continue to plague the United States, even during a global pandemic. Superficial changes in an attempt to combat mass shootings have been made while avoiding systemic issues related to mass shootings. A potential systemic method to deal with mass shootings is to change how media covers such events. Articles from the archive of the Huffington Post were selected from the observation period of 2014 through 2019. Variables related to three categorical groups were coded to determine how these events differed across the observation period. The results indicate that multiple variables of interest related to event-based statistics impacted the coverage of a mass shooting. Multiple forms of follow-up coverage of a mass shooting event were found to be statistically significant. Political bias was found to be present in multiple follow-up coverage categories outside of coverage of politician comment/action and political commentary coverage.
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Chapman, Kathleen, "A Quantitative Content Analysis of Political Bias Impacting Mass Shooting Coverage: Comparing a Liberal News Outlet with Gun Archive Data for the Time Period 2014-2019" (2022). Student Theses and Dissertations. 270.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/270
