The Egyptian Revolution 2011: Peace and War Journalism in the Traditional and Social Media (Abstract)

Due to the extraordinary roles the social media played in reporting the Egyptian revolution, this study sets our to examine the journalistic of reportage employed. This research seeks to carry out a comparative study of styles of reportage of the revolution by both the social and traditional media, and whether it is framed as Peace of War Journalism. One hundred (100) articles from five Traditional New Papers covering National and International Media as well as One thousand (1000) tweet from five Social Tweeter accounts were collected and analysed using the content analysis approach. The research findings showed that the social media displayed higher percentage of Peace Journalism than the Traditional media while the International Traditional News Papers displayed more characteristic of War journalism in their stylistic than its counterpart reporting at the National level. The research therefore concluded that the International Media tended to frame with sensations most of their coverage.