Social Media Narratives in Mainstream News: An analysis of the framing of Bana Alabed’s social media narrative and power relations in mainstream news
User-generated social media content has been increasingly used in mainstream news. This essay aims to examine how Bana Alabed's narrative has been framed in mainstream news and if the framing reflects power relations in mainstream news. The case used in this essay is Bana Alabed's narrative of living in Aleppo during the Syrian civil war. It will be examined how the narrative appears in th