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Content Aggregators Enable a Critical Assessment of Securitized Narratives on North Korea
( Todd J. Mann ) 한국외국어대학교 글로벌정치연구소 2017 글로벌정치연구 Vol.10 No.1
North Korea serves as an ideal case for exploring the utilization of social media aggregators for social science research due to its prominent position in Anglophone news and its reclusive nature. This study seeks to identify and examine the North Korea narrative(s) evoked on social media networks and weigh their assumptions and implications. Previous studies employing news articles have suffered from a methodological nuisance that this study attempts to address. Practically speaking, researchers must choose between examining a few articles in detail or a great number of articles with crippling interpretive limitations. This research addresses this issue with a novel approach by identifying which articles most significantly impact this discourse, which in turn enables a Critical Discourse Analysis. By examining the frequency of certain phrases and arguments in the selected texts how North Koreans are portrayed can be reconstructed. While this paper is primarily methodological, by borrowing insights from Critical Securities Studies, the consequences of the securitization of this discourse can be explored. This research detected six distinct narratives and yielded salient findings on four other themes including the framing of the North Korean people, humanitarian issues, agency, and recurring language. Additionally, evidence is presented that contrasts with theoretical generalizations made by the Copenhagen School.