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Anger as an political emotion is a nuanced one, a new study shows. Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, of Cardiff University, studied UK protest coverage during a two-month time period in 2015. The time period was chosen for the absence of major protests, so that routine coverage could be studied. All in all, 246 news stories from UK … Continued

Tags: framing, political journalism, representation, United Kingdom
Published: 21 May 2018

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ARTICLE: Framing of climate change news has only limited effects to selective exposure

Framing of the stories plays only a limited role in driving exposure to climate change news, a new study finds. Lauren Feldman of Rutgers University and P. Sol Hart of the University of Michigan, conducted two news browsing experiments, testing six different climate change frames. The experiments were done with national samples of adults in … Continued

Tags: environmental journalism, framing, online journalism, United States
Published: 3 May 2018

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ARTICLE: US television coverage of Nigeria is mostly negative

Western media coverage of Africa has long been a subject of controversy. US television news portray Nigeria mainly in a negative light, a new study by Oluseyi Adegbola and Sherice Gearhart of Texas Tech University, and Jacqueline Skarda-Mitchell of the University of Nebraska Omaha (authors not in original order), finds. Authors analyzed television coverage of … Continued

Tags: foreign correspondence, framing, Nigeria, political journalism, United States
Published: 6 Mar 2018

ARTICLE: Climate change reporting needs alternative frames

Environmental injustice is a key issue in understanding climate change. When discussing environmental justice, mainstream media mainly reproduces anthropocentrism, that is, a human-centric view, write Renée Moernaut, of Vrije Universiteit Brussel and University of Antwerp, Jelle Mast, of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and Yves Pepermans, of University of Antwerp. The researchers conducted a multimodal framing analysis, looking … Continued

Tags: environmental journalism, framing
Published: 14 Dec 2017

ARTICLE: Coverage of the European migration crisis in Czech online news media

Polls suggest that the great majority of Czech society perceives irregular migrants as a threat to their country. It also seems that their attitude towards migrants has been influenced by some indirect sources of information, such as the news media, write Michal Tkaczyk, of Masaryk University. The author conducted a content analysis of the news … Continued

Tags: framing, political journalism
Published: 22 Nov 2017

ARTICLE: The Olympic Games as a transnational social drama

Because Olympianism represents universal ideals, since its inception it has been a source of appropriation by strategic actors, writes Limin Liang, of City University of Hong Kong. The article studies the Beijing Olympics as a transnational social drama. The study is based on a discourse analysis, drawn from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, … Continued

Tags: framing
Published: 25 Oct 2017

ARTICLE: Framing of nationally and locally sensitive issues in China

Sensitivity of news is expected to influence news framing significantly, write Xianwen Kuang and Rining Wei, both of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. The authors choose two sensitive political issues with different geographic relevance and explore the frame use of three party and three nonparty newspapers in China. The study confirms the assumption that the framing of nationally sensitive … Continued

Tags: framing, newspapers
Published: 10 Oct 2017

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ARTICLE: Divided reporting of the Occupy Central Movement protests in Hong Kong

The Occupy Central Movement protests in Hong Kong in 2014 divided the local media in their stance: some applauded the fight for democracy, others condemned the actions. William Dezheng Feng, of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, investigated reports from four major Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong, using an attitude framework. The news articles’ attitudes toward … Continued

Tags: framing, local journalism, media systems, political journalism
Published: 12 Sep 2017

ARTICLE: Audience reactions to domesticated distant suffering

Domestication as journalistic practice refers to the framing of a foreign news event within the perceived national or local context of the audience, write Eline Huiberts and Stijn Joye, of Ghent University. The study investigates how an audience makes use of domestication strategies in viewing and reacting to mediated distant suffering. The study draws on audience research … Continued

Tags: crisis journalism, framing
Published: 8 Jun 2017