Sourcing and symbolic annihilation in sexual assault allegation coverage

The study “ “Sluts and nuts”: influences on the symbolic annihilation of women sources in sexual assault allegation news coverage” by Danielle Deavours from Samford University utilized the symbolic annihilation theory to look at the sourcing practices in the covering of sexual assault, more specifically, the news coverage of the allegations against US Supreme Court … Continued

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Published: 15 Sep 2023

Article: Journalism and secessionism: A contextual analysis of reporting in the Cameroon Anglophone crisis.

This summary article has been written by Edwin Nfor, our African research correspondent. Edwin is doing a PhD thesis on the Cameroon Anglophone crisis in the University of Jyväskylä. The study entitled “Journalism and secessionism: A contextual analysis of reporting in the Cameroon Anglophone crisis” was coauthored by Patience B. Fai and Jonathan Stubbs from … Continued

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Published: 8 Sep 2023

News framing of Yandex-presented Russian news in three countries

The study “Is all Russian news the same? Framing in Russian news media generated by the Yandex news algorithm for the United States, Estonia, and Russia.” by Heidi Erbsen and Siim Põldre from University of Tartu was a study on news framing comparing how Yandex news algorithm displayed Russian news in United States, Estonia, and … Continued

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Published: 16 May 2022

News framing of Unite the Right and Black Lives Matter protests

The study “News media framing of social protests around racial tensions during the Donald Trump presidency” by Yotam Ophir of University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Dror Walter and Virginia Massignan of Georgia State University, and Devin K Forde and Madison Neurohr of University at Buffalo, State University of New York looked at … Continued

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Published: 14 Sep 2021
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Pre-established ideas shape journalists’ news selection and framing practices

The article “Maintenance of News Frames: How US, British and Russian News Made Sense of Unfolding Events in the Syrian Chemical Weapons Crisis” by Christian Baden of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Katsiaryna Stalpouskaya of LMU Munich compares framing of the Syrian chemical weapons crisis in newspapers from three countries.  The study defines frames according … Continued

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Published: 4 Jan 2021
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Framing conflict events in Pakistan

In a weak democracy like Pakistan, coverage of military, conflict events is highly reliant on military sources that are less accountable to the general public than they are in strong democracies, a new study shows.  Hussain Shabir, of Bahria University Islamabad, studied the press response to four different events in Pakistan. The events studied were … Continued

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Published: 11 Dec 2020
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Major U.S. wildfires rarely framed as societal issues

“With findings that news framing is presenting a hazard only in terms of capital value when citizens suffer a multi-layered loss, scholars must question why certain frames are dominant and others nearly absent”, Carol Terracina-Hartman of the Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania writes in a new study. She examined 10 historic US wildfires using the concepts … Continued

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Published: 12 Oct 2020

ARTICLE: American elite uses media to manipulate public opinion

The wealthier the richest 1 per cent is, the more individualistic the news supply is – especially if rest of the population is liberal, Hamilton College researchers Ann L. Owen and Andrew Wei discovered. This corresponds with so-called “media capture” theory, which suggests the elite project their ideology through news especially when they see their … Continued

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Published: 14 Oct 2019