The Media Crisis in Management of the " Islamic Awakening Movement in Bahrain"

This article is an excerpt from an academic research that its main purpose is understanding manner of representation of the “Islamic Awakening Movement in Bahrain”, through the mass media of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. The sampling of the newspapers, editorials and sentences was conducted in three levels by using “Mixed Purposive Sampling” and finally analyzed by Practical Discourse Analysis Method (PDAM). In this research, according to a creative approach, the Islamic Awakening Movement in Bahrain was demonstrated as a crisis and as non-discursive element and then based on the principles of “Media Management of Crisis” and some parameters such as cause of crisis, nature of crisis, extent of crisis and solution of crisis, the represented process was explained as measures of non-discursive. In fact, taking into account “Islamic Awakening Movement in Bahrain” as a crisis for the government of Bahrain, clearly allows us to explain how the media managed this movement through changing the subject of crisis, nature of crisis, types of crisis and even radius of crisis.