Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to explain news production from a constructionist perspective. It involves media construction of social reality through two fundamental processes. First, it examines the selection mechanism of news media from gatekeeping theory and news values. The next part explains how news media define and construct selected issues and events based on framing theory. It begins with a brief outline of the media framing research and its origins; next, the concepts of frame and framing are clarified based on previous literature and a comparison with attribute agenda-setting; subsequently, the potential origins of frames are discussed; the last part analyzes how frames get embedded and manifest themselves within a text, and how to empirically identify them in a reliable and valid way.
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