Framing Legitimacy in Authoritarian Media: A Multimodal Comparison of Domestic and International Discourse

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Brief Overview

This study compares how authoritarian regimes use media to frame their legitimacy domestically and internationally during crises, using multimodal analysis of state-owned Anadolu Agency’s Turkish and English coverage of Assad’s collapse.

Authors

• mengmeng wu, University of Chicago

• Da Gong, SUNY College at Geneseo

• Seda Gunes, George Washington University