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Abstract Trump’s disruptive presidency has created predictable schisms in international politics, relations, trade relations, cultures, and social structures worldwide. His campaign promises and subsequent executive orders have constructed a 200-mile wall across the US and Mexican borders. The Wall project has cost about $20 billion and has incurred criticisms about its anti-immigrant, racism, and xenophobia implications domestically and internationally. In this cross-national computational framing study, we examined the corpus of English-language media discourses of 967 articles to describe, compare, and interpret how international media organizations and journalists have framed this monumental architecture during Trump’s Presidency (2017–2020). Our text mining analyses have identified six news frames and confirmed home country’s existing racism and xenophobia account for variations in the framing practices of the Wall project among media organizations and journalists around the world. Discussions and implications were provided.
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Culture, ethnicity, and gender influence multicultural organizations, mass media portrayals, interpersonal interaction, development campaigns, and rhetoric. Dealing with these issues, The Howard Journal of Communications, is a quarterly that examines ethnicity, gender, and culture as domestic and international communication concerns. No other scholarly journal focuses exclusively on cultural issues in communication research. Moreover, few communication journals employ such a wide variety of methodologies. Since issues of multiculturalism, multiethnicity and gender often call forth messages from persons who otherwise would be silenced, traditional methods of inquiry are supplemented by post-positivist inquiry to give voice to those who otherwise might not be heard.
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