What is it about?
The case study investigates how the relationship between multinational corporations and nation states is constructed in the news reporting on the BP oil spill in 2010.
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Why is it important?
Findings show that the nature of the problem is constructed differently according to diverging national interests or priorities of the two nations represented by the US and UK media sources analyzed. The study addresses an important social problem as it illustrates that the media fails in its role of contributing to economic literacy in the examined case.
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This page is a summary of: ‘The BP is a great British company’: The discursive transformation of an environmental disaster into a national economic problem, Discourse & Communication, December 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1750481317745744.
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