Framing Device Research Articles

Genre and Genesis: Locating Covenants in the Qurʾān and the Bible

The present article considers the intersection between genre and covenant in scripture in order to locate historical covenants and to trace their complex textual boundaries. Standing on the shoulders of Smith, Wellhausen, and Gunkel, the joint legacy left behind by Martin and Albrecht Noth is equally significant for both Biblical and Islamic studies. Nothian scholarship laid solid foundations for reconstructing the history of tribal traditions. Both of them together created a common frame of reference for studying primary and secondary themes (Themen), literary and documentary forms (Formen), introductory and concluding formulas (Formeln), and theological and political perspectives (Tendenzen), in addition to geographical, transitional, and framing devices (Schemata). In spite of this shared scholarly heritage, it appears that both Biblical and Qurʾānic studies have either been talking at cross-purposes or have reached a critical crossroads, as has happened in the case of covenant. All things considered, genre and tradition criticism allow us to move forward beyond the Methodenstreit in covenant studies.

How do you assert a graph? Towards an account of depictions in scientific testimony

AbstractI extend the literature on norms of assertion to the ubiquitous use of graphs in scientific papers and presentations, which I term “graphical testimony.” On my account, the testimonial presentation of a graph involves commitment to both (a) the in‐context reliability of the graph's framing devices and (b) the perspective‐relative accuracy of the graph's content. Despite apparent disagreements between my account and traditional accounts of assertion, the two are compatible and I argue that we should expect a similar pattern of commitments in a set of cases that extends beyond the graphical one. I end by demonstrating that the account resolves apparent tensions between the demands of honesty and the common scientific practice of presenting idealized or simplified graphs: these “distortions” can be honest so long as there's the right kind of alignment between the distortion and the background beliefs and values of the audience.

Seeing the present through the past: the Russo-Ukrainian War and state framing of World War Two

ABSTRACT Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, both states began to frame the current conflict through the lens of WWII. By focusing on their respective state media outlets (TASS and Ukrinform) and their two WWII history museums, this paper explores why the two states use history as a framing device by linking the past with the present. Through a comparative analysis, distinct approaches taken by the Russian and Ukrainian states highlight why certain framing devices are used and why they are successful.

Shakespeare and Covid Drama in This England (Winterbottom, 2022)

This article considers the significance of different Shakespearean allusions in a political docudrama miniseries This England (2022), directed for Sky by Michael Winterbottom and scripted by Winterbottom and Kieron Quirke. The action focuses on the first crucial months in England after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, offering a panoramic view of the nation under duress as a newly formed government, with Boris Johnson at its helm, mishandles the crisis. The article seeks to explain the presence of multiple Shakespearean references, from the title alone, through numerous direct quotations to the casting of Kenneth Branagh as Johnson. Shakespearean traces play a pivotal, though confusing, role as they both critique the actions of the government and its leader by offering an ironic framing device while increasing the viewer’s sympathy for its central protagonist via the presence of a Shakespearean celebrity.

Euphemism as a powerful framing device that influences moral judgments and punitive responses after wrongdoing.

Euphemism-that is, softening words or phrases substituted for more direct language-has become pervasive in our everyday personal and professional lives. Leveraging theory and research on construal and framing effects, we conceptualize euphemism as a linguistic framing device that influences how observers construe situations and the people, groups, objects, and events within them. We then experimentally investigate the effects of euphemism as a linguistic framing device on third-party judgments about moral transgressions (i.e., bribery, fraud). Across studies (total N = 3,081) we find consistent evidence that employing euphemistic labels (relative to their noneuphemistic analogs) reduces the perceived severity of moral transgressions and, as a result, also reduces third-party motivations to punish transgressors. Overt experimental manipulations to reconstrue euphemistic labels into their noneuphemistic forms reduced, but did not entirely eliminate, the effects on moral severity and punishment judgments. Participants did not sufficiently adjust their judgments. These findings underscore the power of simple linguistic manipulations in influencing public opinion, and they have important implications for the possibility of creating a more just and fair society. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

Fertile grounds: Co-creating agroecological knowledge in a pluriverse

How can civil society support community-based organizing that puts ways of knowing and being at the heart of food systems change? Drawing upon a collaboration between 2 nonprofit organizations and a community-based network of rural women across Bangladesh, this essay explores frictions and contradictions that trouble our efforts to co-create knowledge for agroecological transformations. Rather than suggesting these troubles can be resolved, we attempt to stay with them in this article, locating them as vital disruptions to the hegemonic order of one-world-making. Using personal vignettes as framing devices, we combine critical analysis, art, and poetry to explore working with and within a plurality of ways of knowing and being. With a vignette about soil, we begin with unsettling questions about what constitutes knowledge in a world where constructs of truth and belief rub up against each other. We then tension this in the context of agroecological markets and social justice activism as these intersect with different notions of relationality. We pursue this further by introducing a narrative-framing tool called a “value web” which mobilizes both material and immaterial domains of agroecology. Finally, we conclude by examining the role of international civil society in food system transformation and raising fundamental questions of allyship which help us navigate the constitutive contradictions of knowledge co-creation.

Climate Justice and Other News Frames in the Coverage of Climate Change in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa

ABSTRACT Media and communication scholars have studied climate change from many perspectives. However, much of the scholarship has focused on Western countries, with limited attention paid to African countries. This study expands climate change communication research by examining framing devices used by prominent newspapers in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. A content analysis of 342 newspaper articles published in Daily Nation (Kenya), Punch (Nigeria) and The Sunday Times (South Africa) in 2021 reveals prominence in framing of climate change as threat to human lives and livelihood, human causes of climate change, a need for climate justice, and remedies in the form of adaptation across the three countries. Differences across the three countries are also noted. For example, even though all three newspapers highlighted climate justice in their coverage, proportionally, this was higher in the Sunday Times than in Daily Nation and Punch. Other differences and implications are also discussed.

Corporate Viability and the Duty to Consider the Interests of Creditors in the United Kingdom and the European Union

This article contrasts the recent UK Supreme Court case of BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana and the EU Preventive Restructuring Directive, which both examine the duty of directors to consider the interests of the company’s creditors once the company entersfinancial distress. This article firstly contrasts how the two frameworks trigger creditor consideration and what they require of directors. Then it explores how both frameworks utilise the concept of corporate viability either as a framing device for creditor paramountcy or as an independent guide for directorial judgment. The article details how deference towards directorial judgment is facilitated in either framework, particularly in relying on the commercial nature of corporate viability as distinguished from legal insolvency. It also explores how corporate viability positions the interests of different interest holders, namely in how it affects the balance between the interests of shareholders and creditors. The article furthermore explores the extent to which the consideration of broader stakeholders is facilitated by allowing directors to emphasise the importance of corporate viability. Finally, the article explores the broader implications of corporate viability and the creditor duty from the perspective of entity-based theories of corporate form and entity maximisation approaches towards the company’s interests.

Analyzing the Communication of Poverty Governance: A Study of Multimodal News Framing and Engagement on Chinese TikTok

Poverty communication is a critical yet challenging aspect of promoting sustainable development goals (SDGs) globally. This study explores poverty-related news narratives on Douyin (China’s TikTok) and examines their impact on user engagement (likes, shares, and comments). The primary objective is to refine communication strategies aimed at alleviating poverty. Drawing primarily on the news framing theory, this study analyzes 400 short-video news from Douyin in 2020 through regression analysis, complemented by insights from Chinese mobile news practitioners. Findings suggest that episodic-gain coverage, which emphasizes real-life scenarios and individual determination, effectively engages users. Visual framing devices, including action-driven and speech-driven opening scenes, captivate viewers and mobilize social support. Additionally, this study reveals that storytelling redundancy enhances news engagement by improving perceptual fluency in short videos. Moreover, tailored rhetorical strategies for short videos, such as subjective expressions and question-based headlines, further evoke the exchange of users’ social values. In conclusion, Douyin plays a central role in the ongoing process of media convergence in China. The study explores how platforms such as Douyin can promote SDGs, encourage public participation in addressing poverty and social care, and provide valuable insights for news content creators seeking to enhance storytelling and engagement in mobile media.

Analisis Framing Pemberitaan Program Makan Gratis Prabowo Subianto Di Media Online

online media is a combination of all components of text, video, audio and photos. Political news becomes a medium for the public or the press itself to convey political messages to political actors, both support and criticism. Prabowo Subianto is the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Indonesia who is running for President in 2024. One of Prabowo's programs if elected President is the Free Meal Program. This program was suddenly widely reported by the media, various reports about the program were in online media such as online media detik.com and VIVA.co.id. This research was conducted to analyze the online media detik.com and VIVA.co.id in framing news about Prabowo Subianto's Free Meal Program using the framing analysis approach model of Zhongdang Pan and Gerald M. Kosicki. This research is descriptive qualitative research. The method used in this research is the framing analysis model of Zhongdang Pan and Gerald M. Kosicki which uses a framing device consisting of four structures, namely, Syntactic Structure, Script Structure, Thematic Structure and Rhetorical Structure. The results of this research, detik.com media, in reporting on Prabowo Subianto's Free Meal Program, supports this program. This can be shown in the headline of the news. In the first news title, detik.com appears to explain Prabowo Subianto's Free Meal Program, which means that detik.com media reports on the positive side of the program. detik.com frames the news by selecting news sources, selecting quotes that support statements and information provided in the news. VIVA.co.id put the parties who gave counter statements and criticized the program, VIVA.co.id wants to show the public that is where the controversy is. Political news regarding the Prabowo Subianto Free Meal Program on the online media detik.com and VIVA.co.id has an impact on the knowledge, attitudes and perspective of the public who see the reality of the news framing of the program.

Reporting the cost-of-living crisis: A framing analysis of victims of, and solutions to, the crisis as reported in UK national newspapers 2022–23

This article analyses 1055 UK national newspaper articles on the cost-of-living crisis published in eighteen months between February 2022 and August 2023. This study utilizes framing analysis to examine the reporting of the crisis, with a specific focus on the presentation of those identified as victims of the crisis. The article also discusses how the news media report individual and macro-economic solutions to the crisis. The study finds that market rationalism and individualist explanations dominate news coverage of a structural macroeconomic crisis. This study finds an apparent deviation from traditional reporting of poverty, in that the news media presents the cost-of-living crisis as universal. As such, the ‘othering’ of people living in poverty is less evident here than in similar studies. The study finds that the framing devices used to communicate the crisis often seek to minimize the impact of inequality, which is at the heart of the current crisis.

Product development the IKEA way – The role of target costing as a framing device to configure and combine resources in networks

Relying on two embedded case studies of product development within IKEA's industrial network, this paper examines the role of Target Costing as an accounting tool that has the capacity to frame development efforts into either exploitative or explorative projects. Such a framing affects, in turn, the configuration of the relevant network of resources and mediates the behavior of the actors involved via specific types of controls. We contribute to the IMP-inspired literature on innovation and product development as we add nuances to how the concepts of exploitative and explorative innovation paths play out on a network level, especially in relation to the resource dimension. In addition, the notion of the mediating role of accounting adds to how we can understand control and its consequences in an interorganizational network context. Our data consists of several sources, about 70 interviews with individuals working at IKEA and its partners. We also had access to internal company material such as costing calculations. Our study has practical implications as it can help managers identify which types of control to use and how these can be matched with different innovations strategies on a network level.

Plurilingual Perspectives, Pluricultural Contexts

The present article is concerned with the multilingual news coverage from Agence-France Presse (AFP) about the South American country of Bolivia. Firstly, the theoretical and methodological approaches are outlined in order to characterise the plurality of contexts giving rise to AFP’s coverage of the Bolivian 2020 general elections. Secondly, an analysis is proposed that contrasts these multilingual versions in terms of framing devices and translation shifts, aiming at exploring the ways in which media stakeholders represent the Bolivian reality. Thirdly, the findings of this analysis are contextualised with reference to a cross-linguistic comparison of newspaper corpora. When comparing the Spanish, French, and English versions, the first two are found to be more aligned at the level of discourse patterns. The ultimate purpose of this case-study is to observe the presence of translation in plurilingual news settings, where the role of translators often goes unacknowledged within

(Re)framing online news through paratexts: a multisemiotic analysis of The New York Times in Chinese

ABSTRACT This study employs a multisemiotic approach to analyse various paratextual framing devices in online news texts, including news headlines, photographs and captions, as well as section names. Translated news articles about the 2014 Hong Kong protests were collected from the Chinese-language website of The New York Times (NYT) published between 28 September and 16 December 2014 and their original versions from its English website. The study finds that the Chinese edition mainly frames the events covered in the articles through paratextual rather than textual elements and, through those paratextual elements, a slightly different social reality to their English version for the events was (re)framed. This study underscores the influential role of paratextual devices in news translation, demonstrating how they can subtly shift the framing of events and potentially influence public perception.

Critical environmental justice and the Wasteocene: Oppression and resistance in an Italian prison during the Covid-19 pandemic

This article aims to frame the state violence and socio-ecological injustice perpetrated against prisoners through the lens of both critical environmental justice studies and the concept of the Wasteocene. We seek to uncover the socio-ecological relationships that have historically shaped the enforcement of the prison and waste systems through a focus on the Italian context during the Covid-19 pandemic. We explore the case of a jail in Campania, a region in the South of Italy infamous for its troubled waste management that has caused uncountable and entangled health, social, and economic harms. The jail is adjacent to an area with a long history of waste disposal practices and numerous legal conflicts and corruption scandals: all characteristics that make this case emblematic of the broader problem of carceral environmental injustice. We argue that carceral institutions are generative sites for examining the dynamics of violence, expendability, and wasting relationships that are built into their structures and core functions We also maintain that the Covid-19 pandemic has both uncovered and exacerbated such dynamics and therefore stands as a framing device that further corroborates our argument. We conclude with lessons and observations for scholars studying environmental concerns and carceral systems through a multidisciplinary lens.

Patient-centred prescribing, autonomy and concordance

This article will focus on patient-centred prescribing, autonomy and concordance. Patient-centred prescribing means putting the patient at the centre of everything we do as clinicians. Autonomy means a patient has an inherent right to make decisions about their care. Concordance means the patient takes medication as prescribed, at the correct dose and for the correct length of time. This article details how these three aspects of prescribing can be achieved by the paramedic prescriber. It will give tips to help ensure any consultation and prescribing decision is patient-centred, while respecting autonomy. It will also provide strategies for improving medication concordance. The article uses a patient consultation as a framing device to detail how these essential aspects of prescribing can be achieved.

Rammens udkrængning

In his analysis of German choreographer Sasha Waltz’ dance performance Insideout, Mads Thygesen explores the relations between the intentions of the work and its actual, performative »doing«, specifically the way this performance draws attention to its own use of framing devices in the interaction with the audience.

Framing to Make an Argument: The Case of the Genocide Hashtag in the Russia-Ukraine war

This study tackles hashtags as framing devices which shape public arguments and controversies in computer-mediated communication environments. It focuses on the use of the genocide hashtag on Twitter in the context of the Ukraine-Russia war. It proposes and showcases a methodology to surface how the semantic and discourse properties of the term genocide affect its framing properties as a hashtag which bears argumentative functions, directly or indirectly calling for action.

Technological power, complex systems, and boundary objects in global energy transitions

This study makes a case for why the field of political ecology (PE) would benefit from deep engagement with technological power, and exemplifies this within the domain of energy studies and the ongoing transformation of the energy sector. Technology is not among the core interests or traditional topics of PE—and is therefore often disregarded or treated as a black box. The argument presented in this study asserts that this omission undermines the analytical power and the relevance of the field. Technology is the central mechanism whereby socionatures evolve and how relationships are negotiated and enacted. The attitude towards technical things is partly based on the idea that technologies are just artefacts of little interest. Cross-field dialogue is also hindered by perceived ontological conflicts. This study draws upon research from the philosophy of technology and sociotechnical systems theory to introduce a dynamic understanding of technological power. Seeing what technology does and has the potential to do requires looking beyond the common emphasis on dominance and control, to the myriad ways in which technologies shape our everyday lives, ontologies, and imagining of the future. Taking on a contentious concept, I advocate for the use of “systems” as a boundary object suitable for cross-field dialogue. As an analytical construct without inherent scale, it works as a framing device for moving power and knowledge claims to the forefront, while also allowing dialogue outside academia.

Representations of public caning in Serambi Indonesia: A linguistic approach to news framing analysis

With its distinctive autonomy in implementing Sharia, Aceh allows public caning as a form of corporal punishment not seen in other parts of Indonesia. This article examines how a prominent local newspaper, Serambi Indonesia, portrayed the implementation of public caning in Aceh over the past decade. This study combined transivity analysis and Gamson and Modigliani’s (1989) four framing devices: metaphors, exemplars, catchphrases, and depictions. The analysis focused on 45 articles related to public caning in Aceh published between January 2012 and December 2020 in Serambi Indonesia. The findings reveal that caning is a key theme in these news stories, signalling its execution for Sharia violators in Aceh. The findings also found an ambivalent representation of public caning. Depictions of paramedics, audiences, and public support, along with the use of exemplars, highlight a positive portrayal of the current practice of public caning in Aceh. The punishment is depicted as a way of educating offenders and a means to deter similar offenses in the future, which overshadows the severity of the punishment. The media also conveys a message that Aceh’s caning punishment differs from practices in the Middle East and suggests a “lighter” interpretation of Sharia. However, the coverage raises concerns about the effectiveness of caning as a deterrent and the fair implementation of the punishment. Therefore, the representations of public caning in Serambi Indonesia reflects ongoing controversy surrounding the event within Acehnese society.