Frame Analysis Research Articles

A Text Analysis of News Media Framing of Government Response to the 2023 Türkiye–Syria Earthquake

A Text Analysis of News Media Framing of Government Response to the 2023 Türkiye–Syria Earthquake

‘I know about something called human rights’: claiming refugee rights through protest at UNHCR Beirut

ABSTRACT Across the globe, refugees and asylum seekers have demonstrated against the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), demanding increased protection and assistance. Drawing on original ethnographic research, this article uses the analytical frames of contentious politics and legal consciousness to explore protest actions targeting UNHCR by Sudanese protection seekers in Beirut, Lebanon. It asks: Why and how do protesters choose to adopt human rights language in their claim-making? In other words, how do human rights motivate protest? And how does protest frame human rights? The article examines how Sudanese protesters framed their cause in the liberal internationalist discourse of human rights, often referring to terms and concepts derived straight from the vocabulary of international human rights and the international refugee protection regime. Specifically, the protesters invoked UNHCR’s obligations and responsibilities towards them and communicated their demands through the English language. The article contributes to our understanding not only of refugee rights claiming in Beirut specifically but also of how subaltern groups more generally are able to mobilise outside of traditional political structures. By exploring the circumstances under which protection seekers deploy the law to protect their interests, it also makes a distinct contribution to legal consciousness studies.

To What Extent Were There Attempts to Securitise the Malaysian Chicken Export Ban In Singapore? A Comparative Analysis of Frames Between Government and News Media

To What Extent Were There Attempts to Securitise the Malaysian Chicken Export Ban In Singapore? A Comparative Analysis of Frames Between Government and News Media

Spatial joint hazard assessment of landslide susceptibility and intensity within a single framework: Environmental insights from the Wenchuan earthquake.

To comprehensively assess regional landslide hazards, we propose a geospatial approach that jointly evaluates both the probability of occurrence (susceptibility) and potential destructive power (intensity) within a single framework, overcoming the limitations of previous studies that treated these two disaster scenarios independently. Focusing on the largest landslide event triggered by the Wenchuan earthquake in China, we collected landslide occurrence and count data at the slope unit level, alongside 18 environmental factors, including seismic data. To enable this multi-hazard single-framework evaluation, we employed two Bayesian spatial joint regressions: the spatial shared component model (SSCM) and the spatial shared hyperparameter model (SSHM). This joint assessment focuses on three key components: identifying shared influencing factors, capturing shared spatial autocorrelated random effects, and jointly predicting susceptibility and intensity maps. Additionally, we enhanced the traditional absolute intensity index into the relative intensity by accounting for slope unit size. Both Bayesian SSCM and SSHM, incorporating multiple environmental drivers (seismic, topographical, geological, hydrological, and human activities), successfully evaluated landslide susceptibility and intensity under a single analytical frame. SSHM outperformed SSCM in terms of model fit and predictive accuracy, as revealed by cross-validation. While SSCM overfitted the landslide distribution of spatial autocorrelated random effect, SSHM provided a smoother, more spatially diverse representation. Both models consistently identified slope as the shared key factor influencing susceptibility and intensity, with the top four additional environmental factors varying slightly but all related to seismic activity. The concurrent susceptibility and absolute intensity maps produced by both models exhibited similar patterns, while relative intensity mapping identified new high-hazard areas within smaller slope units that were previously overlooked by susceptibility and absolute intensity. We established a Bayesian-based single modeling framework for joint hazard assessment and prediction of regional susceptibility and intensity, providing a cutting-edge geospatial paradigm for multi-objective hazard assessment in global environmental disaster management.

Fatigue life evaluation of bulk cement tank trailer frame based on hot spot stress approach using the combined fe/mbd method

The bulk cement tanker trailer frame is the main load-bearing component, and it is manufactured by the welding method. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the fatigue strength of the trailer frame. In this study, the fatigue stress of this structure is determined by using the hot spot stress approach. First, a combined method of finite element (FE) analysis and multi-body dynamics (MBD) simulation is used to analyse the structural stress. Considering the factors of speed and road surface class in operating conditions in Vietnam, MBD simulation is used to determine the dynamic load acting on the trailer frame when the trailer is excited by an uneven road surface. The nodal stress in the time domain is determined by structural dynamic analysis of the trailer frame with this dynamic load. The linear extrapolation of stress at the reference points is then used to determine the structural hot spot stress of the critical locations. Finally, the selected fatigue curve that corresponds to the related fatigue class (FAT) is used to calculate the fatigue life. In the fatigue analysis model, the cumulative fatigue damage value is chosen taking into account the durability degradation due to the thermal influence of the welded structures

Populist securitization of migration: The anti-immigrant Zafer Party example in Türkiye

ABSTRACT Although Türkiye is the largest refugee-hosting country in the world, the Zafer Party’s (ZP) (English: Victory Party) discourse on migration as the pioneer representative of the European-style anti-immigrant right party example has been under-studied. To address this gap, this research examines the discursive practices of the ZP through the lens of populist securitization. It focuses on revealing how the ZP employs a people-centred appeal to securitization, explaining how the people are located within its populist discourse as a threatened object of reference and actor. In this way, it empirically contributes to the burgeoning literature bridging between populism and securitization theory. To this end, it conducts an extensive qualitative frame analysis of the party’s manifesto, programme, press releases, public speeches uttered by party leader Ümit Özdağ. The time frame of the research is designated as starting from the establishment of the ZP, i.e. 26 August 2021, to the Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Türkiye, i.e. 14 May 2023. The paper finds out that ZP combines populist and nationalist appeals by creating vertical (down/up) and horizontal (in/out) antagonisms, exhibiting parallels with similar tendencies in its European counterparts.

“What we ordered”: A multimodal framing analysis of the memetic representation of the Obidient movement in Nigeria

Abstract This study undertakes a multimodal framing analysis of the Obidient movement in Nigeria, with a view to exposing how Internet memes are deployed to advertise Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Nigeria’s 2023 election. Forty memes were purposively sampled from Nigerian WhatsApp platforms and data were analysed qualitatively using aspects of Kress and van Leeuwen (2006. Reading images: The grammar of visual design, 2nd edn. London: Routledge) grammar of visual design and Kuypers (2002. Press bias and politics: How the media frame controversial issues. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2009. Framing analysis. In Kuypers Jim (ed.), Rhetorical criticism: Perspectives in action, 181–204. London: Lexington Books) rhetorical framing analysis. The findings reveal that the meme producers employed contextual variables such as labels, metaphors, visuals, salience and keywords to frame Peter Obi, the Obidient movement and the LP as a valid alternative in the presidential election. The study also shows the deployment of semiotic concepts such as salience, social distance, attitude and framing to positively represent the Obidient movement and Obi. The study concludes that the text producers deploy memes to portray the Obidients and the Labour Party presidential candidate as victims of an incredible electoral process, and that the memes are created to reveal broader socio-cultural realities, especially the predominance of religious and ethnic politics in the Nigerian context.

Unsupervised Framing Analysis for Social Media Discourse in Polarizing Events

This study investigates the concept of frames in the realm of online polarization, with a focus on social media platforms. The research extends the understanding of how frames—emerging, complex, and often subtle concepts—become prominent in online conversations that are polarized. The study proposes a comprehensive methodology for identifying and characterizing these frames, integrating machine learning techniques, network analysis algorithms, and natural language processing tools. This method aims for generalizability across multiple platforms and types of user engagement. Two novel metrics, homogeneity and relevancy are introduced for the rigorous evaluation of identified frame candidates. Grounded in several foundational presumptions, including the role of topics and multi-word expressions in framing, the study sheds light on how frames emerge and gain significance within digital communities. The research questions explored include the methods for identifying frames, the variability and significance of these frames, and the effectiveness of different computational techniques in this context. To validate the approach, we present a case study of the 2021 Chilean presidential election, using data from both Twitter and WhatsApp platforms. This real-world application allows for the examination of how frames fluctuate in response to events and the specific mechanisms of platforms. Overall, the study makes several key contributions to the field, offering new insights and methodologies for analyzing the complexities of online polarization. It serves as groundwork for future research on the dynamics of online communities, especially those associated with distinctly polarized events.

Towards an affective approach to critical thinking pedagogy

ABSTRACT The central question that guides this article is: how should we think critically about our responsiveness to human suffering? This question is important because, as Butler (2010) noted, humanity is split into two groups: those whose lives evoke an immediate concern from us, and those whose suffering or deaths fail to move us. First, I present a brief overview of critical thinking pedagogy. Then, I discuss critical thinking’s affinity with rationalism and “logicism,” i.e. good thinking is logical thinking. I make an argument that critical thinking pedagogy with an excessively rationalistic bent may not enable us to respond ethically to the suffering of self and others. To counterbalance critical thinking’s over-reliance on rationalism, I discuss what we can learn from the recent literature on critical studies of emotion or the “affective turn.” I present four pedagogical principles that I hope will provide practical implications for taking an affective approach to critical thinking pedagogy. I conclude the article with an example of a critical-affective frame analysis that can be applied to critical thinking pedagogy in diverse classroom settings.

Analisis Framing Kontroversi Pada Olimpiade Paris 2024 di CNN Indonesia dan Republika

The 2024 Paris Olympics has had controversies such as a boxer suspected of being transgender taking part in the Olympics and rules prohibiting the use of the hijab for French athletes. The aim of this research is to analyze the framing of controversy at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the online media CNN Indonesia and Republika. This research uses a qualitative analysis method with Robert N Entman's framing analysis which consists of problem definition, source of the problem, moral decisions taken, and problem resolution. This research uses articles released from 18 July to 1 August 2024 on CNN Indonesia and Republika. The results of this research explain that the difference between CNN Indonesia and Republika is that CNN Indonesia tends to be neutral and provides justification for decisions taken by related parties. Meanwhile, Republika emphasized criticism and highlighted aspects of discrimination in these two issues. The difference in reporting on the controversial issue of female boxers is that CNN Indonesia is more inclined to support these athletes and the role of athletes by emphasizing personal rights that free athletes to take part in any competition, whereas in Republika they are more likely to discuss criticizing policies taken by certain authorities. On the issue of banning the use of the hijab by French Muslim female athletes, CNN Indonesia emphasized the word proselytism which France wanted to prevent and explained that the rule forbidding the use of the hijab only applies to France, while Republika explained that this rule exists because of Islamophobia and racism, thus demanding that the IOC this rule can be omitted.

The framing of the Belt and Road Initiative in Indo-Pakistani media

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to revive ancient trade routes and boost international trade, enhancing regional integration, trade, and economic growth. The present study aimed to examine the representation of the BRI in Indo-Pakistani newspapers, specifically the Daily Dawn Pakistan and the Times of India, by employing computational framing analysis. A total of 2081 news reports from the Daily Dawn and 587 news reports from The Times of India were collected using the Lexis Advance database between March 23, 2013, and December 1, 2019. The findings revealed that the two newspapers utilized distinct framing strategies to represent the BRI. The Daily Dawn frames were related to development, security challenges, and political concerns, while India sees China as a strong opponent and the BRI as China’s geostrategic plan to extend its global power and military presence in the Indian Ocean, posing a challenge to India’s national interests. The results also indicated that bilateral talks, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) implications, and BRI concerns are the mainframes in the news coverage of The Times of India. This research provided qualitative evidence to study the media coverage of the BRI in Indo-Pakistani media. The results of this study can be a reference for policymakers and international players who seek to improve relations with both countries.

Трансформация лозунгов и стереотипов при смене политического курса

This study examines the transformation of political slogans, clichés, and stereotypes in Russia and Iraq during periods of political regime change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The main objective of the work is to identify and comparatively analyze the linguistic and cultural changes that accompanied political transformations in both countries. The research is based on theoretical concepts of political myth, framing, and critical discourse analysis. The research methodology includes content analysis of political texts, comparative analysis of linguistic transformations, and analysis of statistical data on cultural consumption. The main hypothesis is that, despite the presence of common trends in linguistic and cultural changes due to global processes of democratization and globalization, the specific forms and dynamics of these changes differ significantly depending on the national context. The results of the study demonstrate that both countries experienced processes of de-ideologization of socio-political vocabulary, democratization of public rhetoric, and pluralization of worldviews. However, significant differences were also revealed, particularly in the nature of language policy and the role of religion in public discourse. The study contributes to understanding the mechanisms of interaction between language, culture, and politics in conditions of radical social transformations and can be used to predict the socio-cultural consequences of political changes.

Global news media coverage of artificial intelligence (AI): A comparative analysis of frames, sentiments, and trends across 12 countries

Global news media coverage of artificial intelligence (AI): A comparative analysis of frames, sentiments, and trends across 12 countries

The representation of medical risks and incentives concerning egg donation: an analysis of the websites of fertility clinics of Belgium, Spain and the UK

Considering the growing demand for egg donation (ED) and the scarcity of women coming forward as donors to meet this demand, scholars have expressed concerns that clinics may (initially) misrepresent risks to recruit more donors. Additionally, (non-)monetary incentives might be used to try to influence potential donors, which may pressure these women or cause them to dismiss their concerns. Since the internet is often the first source of information and first impressions influence individuals' choices, we examined the websites of fertility clinics to explore how they present medical risks, incentives and emotional appeals. Content Analysis and Frame Analysis were used to analyze a sample of Belgian, Spanish and UK clinic websites. The data show that the websites mainly focus on extreme and dangerous risks and side effects (e.g. severe OHSS) even though it is highly relevant for donors to be informed about less severe but more frequently occurring risks and side effects (e.g. bloating), since those influence donors' daily functioning. The altruistic narrative of ED in Europe was dominant in the data, although some (hidden) financial incentives were found on Spanish and UK websites. Nonetheless, all information about financial incentives still were presented subtly or in combination with altruistic incentives.

Lexicalization Patterns of the Motion Verb “出” in Ancient Chinese: A Motion Event Frame Analysis

Lexicalization Patterns of the Motion Verb “出” in Ancient Chinese: A Motion Event Frame Analysis

Dissecting the Political Persona of the 2024 Indonesian Presidential Election through Visual Framing Analysis

Public interest in political battles is constant, and the Indonesian presidential election in February 2024 is no exception. The three presidential candidates, who have been declared, aggressively establish their political personas and gain exposure and notoriety using Instagram, including @aniesbaswedan, @ganjar_pranowo, and @prabowo. This study aims to dissect the political persona of the 2024 Indonesian presidential candidates using the visual framing analysis method, studying how certain points of view are emphasized or made prominent through visual messages. While other framing studies focus on textual analysis, visual framing analysis is rarely employed even though visual elements have the power to build emotional affection and can last longer in memory. The study's data set comprises Instagram posts from the officially declared presidential contender (@aniesbaswedan from October 3, 2022; @ganjar_pranowo from April 21, 2023; @prabowo from August 12, 2022) to May 21, 2023. The research findings indicate that the political persona built by each presidential candidate still revolves around aspects of their own inherent identity such as religion, race, ethnicity, tribe, customs, habits, education level, economic status, social status, family background, and political stance, rather than providing a clear picture of their priority policy programs when in office.

Does Increasing Ethnic Diversity Challenge the Rural Idyll? An Analysis of Frames on Ethnic Diversity in Relation to Rurality in the Flemish Written Press (Belgium)*

AbstractThe social construction of rurality remains a collective fantasy of a safe, green, ethnically homogeneous environment. This fantasy, called “the rural idyll,” still dominates the way in which people give meaning to their lives, the lives of others, and the places where they live. This idyll is based on an interrelated urban/ethnic diverse versus rural/white dichotomy, even as rural areas are in fact becoming more ethnically diverse. The question of how ethnic diversity is understood, in traditional media, through the fantasy of the rural idyll is central to this paper. Drawing on recurring stories in 450 newspaper articles in the Flemish written press covering rural ethnic diversity, we identify four different ideal‐type frames: growing ethnic diversity as a (1) threat to the rural idyll, (2) confirmation of the rural idyll, (3) the consequence of rural deprivation, and (4) the solution to rural deprivation. Our analysis shows that a large proportion of the newspaper articles use “ethnic diversity as a threat to the rural idyll.” This connects with the long‐standing anti‐urban discourse in Flanders (Belgium). Nevertheless, the presence and emergence of other frames indicate that this discourse does not remain not unchallenged.

PERFORMANCE-BASED SEISMIC RETROFIT DESIGN FOR RC FRAMES USING FRP COMPOSITE MATERIALS

Seismic retrofitting of reinforced concrete (RC) members using fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials has become a well-established technique for repairing and strengthening seismically deficient systems. Although there has been significant progress on behavioral modeling of FRP retrofitted RC members as well as on implementation of performance-based analysis and design concepts, the studies investigating the overall seismic behavior of the retrofitted frames are still limited. This paper presents a methodology for performance-based FRP retrofit design for RC frames and provides an analytical investigation of this through numerical studies performed on 2-D frame models with different retrofit configurations. More specifically, frame systems with square or rectangular columns were assumed to be retrofitted through FRP strengthening of beams for improved flexural capacity and/or wrapping of columns for additional confinement and resulting ductility. Nonlinear pushover analyses of frames before and after retrofitting were performed using nonlinear hinge parameters determined from moment-curvature analyses based on comparative use of various steel- and FRP-confined concrete models proposed in the literature. Analysis results reveal the expected contribution of each retrofit configuration to the seismic behavior and performance of the frames, highlighting various design considerations for proper FRP retrofit decisions.

Food crises in the third food regime: an exploratory frame analysis of mainstream governance responses

Food crises in the third food regime: an exploratory frame analysis of mainstream governance responses

Comparing Russian and Ukrainian media frames during the war: A mixed-method semantic network approach

During the 2022–2023 phase of the Russo-Ukrainian war, information flows were intensively framed by both sides, predominantly via various Telegram channels. This article implements a mixed-method semantic network approach to analyse media framing in the context of this conflict, exemplified through a case study of Mariupol and Azovstal siege. Although prior research highlighted contrasting framing patterns in Russian and Ukrainian media, a comprehensive comparative analysis of media frames during the ongoing war still needs to be conducted. Our study addresses this gap by investigating and interpreting the inter-conceptual relationships surrounding the frames within the selected four Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels. We examine variations in framing among conflicting sides and oppositional media and reveal four issue-specific conflict frames, each depicting diverse representations of the main events, actors, and their roles. Our find-ings contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the conflict’s cultural and ideological background and lay a foundation for further exploration of generic frames in Russian and Ukrainian media.