CONTENT ANALYSIS: METHODS -- SAMPLES AND RESULTS -- SAMPLE ONE: 28 SEPTEMBER TO 16 OCTOBER 2000 -- ADDITIONAL CONTENT SAMPLES: OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2001, MARCH-APRIL 2002 -- SAMPLE TWO: OCTOBER -DECEMBER 2001 -- SAMPLE THREE: MARCH 2002 -- SAMPLE FOUR: JENIN, APRIL 2002 -- 3. Audience Studies 2001-02 -- INTRODUCTION -- SAMPLES AND METHOD -- FOCUS GROUP METHODS AND QUESTIONS ASKED -- QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES -- THE QUESTIONNAIRES -- RESULTS -- MEMORIES, IMAGES AND ASSOCIATIONS -- SOURCES OF INFORMATION USED -- ORIGINS, HISTORY AND CAUSES OF THE CONFLICT -- THE NEWS WRITING EXERCISE -- BELIEFS ABOUT CASUALTIES -- CULTURAL IDENTIFICATION AND EMPATHY -- UNDERSTANDING AND INTEREST IN NEWS -- 4. Why Does it Happen? -- FACTORS IN PRODUCTION? -- CLAIMS THAT THE MEDIA ARE BIASED AGAINST ISRAEL -- THE US CONNECTION -- 5. Conclusions on the 2000-02 Content and Audience Samples -- 6. News Content and Competing Explanations of the 2008/09 Gaza Attack -- SAMPLE AND METHODS -- CAUSE, CRITICISM AND DEFENCE OF ACTION -- EXPLANATORY THEMES -- THE FRAGMENTED PALESTINIAN CASE -- PROTESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS -- COVERAGE OF ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN CASUALTIES -- 7. Audience Understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Gaza Attack 2008/09 -- SAMPLE AND METHOD -- RESULTS -- QUESTIONS AND REPLIES ON THE GAZA ATTACK -- 8. Attack on the Gaza Flotilla, 2010 -- THE BLOCKADE -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Answers to Questions on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Student Groups 2001-02 -- Appendix 1 (continued): Answers to Questions on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Student Groups 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 -- Appendix 2: Answers to Questions on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Focus Groups 2001-02 -- Appendix 3: Gaza Study, Content Analysis Language Counts -- Appendix 4: Black Holes of History: Public Understanding and the Shaping of Our Past. |