Narrative Expansion and "Terrorist" Labeling: Discursive Conflict Escalation by State Media

• Main Authors: Montiel, Cristina J, Dela Paz, Erwine, Medriano, Jose S, III
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• Subjects: conflict escalation; legitimization; labeling; state media; computational network analytics; terrorism; Psychology; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/405; https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.5577
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

How does state rhetoric change as conflict intensifies against intrastate enemies? We forward the concept of narrative expansion and labeling, to analyze the escalatory transformation of conflict discourse by the Philippine state media. The data set includes 4,098 articles from the state’s official...