Framing Perspective Research Articles

Framing the gig economy: Delivery riders in Spanish media (2015–21)

Riders or delivery messengers are currently a symbol of job insecurity. However, companies in the so-called gig or platform economy continue to present themselves as modern ones, technologically adapted to the new scheme that defines the twenty-first century. The article analyses, from the perspective of framing and journalistic routines, the media coverage (press) of the main delivery companies in Spain: Glovo and Deliveroo. Using a longitudinal sample of 764 pieces of news drawn from the six most important Spanish newspapers from January 2015 to December 2021, we explore the conditions under which this information is prepared and how this determines the frames of their narrative. This article exposes the principal media frames used in the news treatment of the rider phenomena and analyses its causes, focusing on structural elements in the journalistic routines from a materialist perspective. In short, this article focuses on an analysis of the collision of frames as a continuation of the capital/labour struggle in the media sphere.

News Media Framing of the Environmental Issues: A Transnational Comparative Analysis of Pakistan and Britain

This study examined environmental issues from framing perspective. It attempts to understand the framing schemes in the purposively sampled newspapers of Pakistan and the UK. Under the constructionist view of framing analysis revealed that environmental communication is massively suffering from hypocognition which resulting the lack of effective framing perspectives and often construct major obstacles in efficient environmental management and policy making. Variability in framing perspectives influence the individual value systems, beliefs, preferences and reactions to environmental hazards in environmental decision-making process. Moreover, comparative approach of this quantitative study within the universe of year 2007 to 2016 sample of 1,139 news stories reflects the significant differences in news framing capacity of Pakistani and British print media while reporting of environmental issues.

Three decades of the framing perspective on social movements: Changing trends and continuities

This article reviews the development of the framing perspective on social movements since its emergence over three decades ago. The review led to three conclusions. During this period, the impact of the perspective has increased, its conceptual development has continued, and the types of the studies have shown major changes and continuities. For example, the initial predominance of descriptive and static studies has changed with the development of a significant number of explanatory studies on both framing and frame transformations, as well as on the consequences of their characteristics for the social movement. However, studies on frame structure or the emotions they evoke are still rare.

Value Creation for Refugees by Social Partnerships: A Frames Perspective

Refugee crises are one of the grand challenges of the 21st century. Despite the theoretical importance attached to value created for beneficiaries in the partnership literature, research tends to focus on internal processes and value created for partners and partnerships, leading to widespread calls to further specify the value created by partnerships for beneficiaries. Applying an analytical framework from the value creation and social impact literatures, we report on a study of multiple social partnerships of a nongovernmental organization in the refugee issue field. Our results demonstrate that frames of refugees held by partners and in partnerships’ implementation contexts shape the value creation activities undertaken for beneficiaries, and determine whether value is created and what types of value. The dual contribution of this article comprises a rare empirical study of value creation activities for beneficiaries (here, refugees) and theorization of how and when implementation context affects value creation by partnerships.

An imperious, closed sandbox? A rejoinder to Van Dijk’s critique of the framing perspective on social movement mobilization

In this article, we provide a response to Teun van Dijk’s criticism of the framing perspective on social movements, as expressed in his article ‘Analyzing Frame Analysis. A Critical Review of Framing Studies in Social Movement Research’. We argue that a more constructive tone is warranted and explain how his criticism is largely based on a selective reading and misinterpretation of the vast literature on framing and social movements. We provide a more detailed explanation of how discourse and related concepts such as schema and ideology are discussed by social movement scholars and critically reflect on his claim that framing as a concept can rather be replaced by discourse and/or various other cognitive/psychological constructs. Finally, we suggest how a discourse perspective and insights from social movement framing can be complementary in increasing our understanding of how movements (and other actors) communicate and with what consequences.

Stigmatizing Monkeypox and COVID-19: A Comparative Framing Study of The Washington Post's Online News.

Stigma relating to health can result in a broad range of vulnerabilities and risks for patients and healthcare providers. The media play a role in people's understanding of health, and stigma is socially constructed through many communication channels, including media framing. Recent health issues affected by stigma include monkeypox and COVID-19. This research aimed to examine how The Washington Post (WP) framed the stigma around monkeypox and COVID-19. Guided by framing theory and stigma theory, online news coverage of monkeypox and COVID-19 was analyzed to understand the construction of social stigma through media frames. This research used qualitative content analysis to compare news framings in The Washington Post's online news coverage of monkeypox and COVID-19. Using endemic, reassurance, and sexual-transmission frames, The Washington Post predominantly defined Africa as the source of monkeypox outbreaks, indirectly labeled gays as a specific group more likely to be infected with monkeypox, and emphasized that there was no need to worry about the spread of the monkeypox virus. In its COVID-19 coverage, The Washington Post adopted endemic and panic frames to describe China as the source of the coronavirus and to construct an image of panic regarding the spread of the virus. These stigma discourses are essentially manifestations of racism, xenophobia, and sexism in public health issues. This research confirms that the media reinforces the stigma phenomenon in relation to health through framing and provides suggestions for the media to mitigate this issue from a framing perspective.

Framing the change and changing frames: Tensions in participative strategy development

AbstractParticipative strategy development serves to integrate the interests and perspectives of multiple stakeholders involved in today's complex environmental challenges, aiming at a better‐informed strategy for tackling these challenges, increased stakeholder ownership, and more democratic decision making. Prior research has observed inherent tensions between the need for participative strategy to be open to stakeholders' input and the need for closure and guidance. We extend this reasoning using a framing perspective. Our evidence from the development of the England Peat Action Plan suggests that tensions can emerge between the necessary ambiguous initial framing of intended change and the persistence of stakeholders' different framings of this change as well as perceptions of lacking knowledge, guidance, and control. We argue that strategy openness can thereby impede stakeholders' willingness and ability to change and counteract the strategy's aim for major transformation. Interactive spaces help mitigate the tensions and facilitate stakeholders' willingness and ability for change.Related ArticlesBrant, Hanna K., Nathan Myers, and Katherine L. Runge. 2017. “Promotion, Protection, and Entrepreneurship: Stakeholder Participation and Policy Change in the 21st Century Cures Initiative.” Politics & Policy 45(3): 372–404. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12201.Bryson, John R., Michael Taylor, and Peter W. Daniels. 2008. “Commercializing ‘Creative’ Expertise: Business and Professional Services and Regional Economic Development in the West Midlands, United Kingdom.” Politics & Policy 36(2): 306–28. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747‐1346.2008.00107.x.Falkenström, Erica, and Stefan Svallfors. 2022. “The Knowledge–Management Complex: From Quality Registries to National Knowledge‐Driven Management in Swedish Health Care Governance.” Politics & Policy 50(5): 1053–66. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12497.

Sexual behavior according to undergraduate students: perspective of cross-cultural nursing and intersectional framing

RESUMO Objetivo: discutir os comportamentos sexuais de jovens universitários na perspectiva dos marcadores sociais e do cuidado transcultural proposto por Madeleine Leininger. Métodos: pesquisa qualitativa descritiva-exploratória, com alicerce teórico-filosófico na Teoria Transcultural. Amostragem por conveniência foi composta por 57 jovens de duas universidades cariocas. Os conteúdos dos grupos focais foram analisados lexicalmente pelo software IRAMUTEQ. Resultados: emergiram quatro classes: Roteiros sexuais de jovens: entre o receio de uma gestação não planejada e o risco da exposição às infecções sexualmente transmissíveis; Relacionamentos afetivos: a confiança em parcerias sexuais fixas, aparente sensação de segurança e o desuso dos preservativos; Práticas sexuais, gênero e determinantes culturais: distinção nos papéis de homens e mulheres; Parcerias sexuais, negociação do uso do preservativo e a vulnerabilidade às infecções sexualmente transmissíveis. Considerações finais: percebem-se desafios para atenção à saúde sexual dos jovens universitários, que verbalizaram comportamentos sexuais de risco em função de vulnerabilidades socioculturais.

Sexual behavior according to undergraduate students: perspective of cross-cultural nursing and intersectional framing.

to discuss undergraduate students' sexual behavior from the perspective of social markers and cross-cultural care proposed by Madeleine Leininger. descriptive-exploratory qualitative research, with a theoretical-philosophical foundation in the Transcultural Theory. Convenience sample was composed of 57 young people from two universities in Rio de Janeiro. The focus groups' content were analyzed lexically using the IRAMUTEQ software. four classes emerged: Young people's sexual scripts: between the fear of an unplanned pregnancy and the risk of exposure to sexually transmitted infections; Affective relationships: trust in steady sexual partners, apparent sense of security and disuse of condoms; Sexual practices, gender and cultural determinants: distinction in men's and women's role; Sexual partnerships, negotiation of condom use and vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections. challenges are perceived for the attention to undergraduate students' sexual health, who verbalized risky sexual behaviors due to sociocultural vulnerabilities.

The Mechanism of "Jokes Triggering" in Talk Show Speech: A Perspective of Cognitive Framing

The Mechanism of "Jokes Triggering" in Talk Show Speech: A Perspective of Cognitive Framing

Framing the virus: The political, economic, biomedical and social understandings of the COVID-19 in Taiwan

The purpose of this paper is to study how people use texts and languages to interpret or make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic. We draw on the theoretical literature of framing perspectives to formulate our arguments that consider the virus a socially constructed reality. We use Taiwan as an empirical case study, using topic modeling analysis of newspaper articles. Our findings show that the language of the COVID-19 coverage combines the four frames of political evaluation, economic impact, biomedical science and social life in varying proportions. These frames are subject to changes in pandemic conditions. Implications for theory and practice are presented.

Findings from a Roundtable Discussion with US Stakeholders on Valuation of the EQ-5D-Y-3L.

The International Valuation Protocol for the valuation of the EQ-5D-Y-3L provides baseline guidance, but country-specific context is also important. This study aimed to obtain US stakeholders' input on key considerations for youth valuation in the US. A total of 14 stakeholders representing various backgrounds were identified via the investigators' networks. A 2-h online meeting was held to discuss (1) the need for a US value set for the EQ-5D-Y-3L; (2) willingness to pay more for quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) gains for children versus adults; (3) sampling strategies; (4) framing perspectives; and (5) other challenges. The session was recorded, transcribed, and summarized. Several stakeholders supported paying more for QALY gains for children in recognition of their potential future contributions to society, as well as to avoid potential undervaluation and promote access to innovative treatments. Concerns regarding possible double counting, lack of data to showcase long-term benefits, and dangers of paying more for certain subgroups were also expressed. Most of the stakeholders felt that adolescents could relate to a 10-year-old's perspective better than adults and were capable of self-completing valuation tasks, and thus should be directly included in the valuation study. There were concerns that adults would be inconsistent in their views about a 10-year-old, partly depending on their status as a parent. US stakeholders provided insights relevant to youth valuation in a US context and were open to continued dialogue with investigators. This study could be useful to investigators who are conducting youth valuation studies in different countries and seeking stakeholder input.

Video news framing: the contribution of audiovisual translation

ABSTRACT In recent years, studies on media accessibility in general, and audiovisual translation in particular, have mostly focused on the reception of various audiovisual translation modes among target viewers. This study embraces wider social and ideological concerns to integrate audiovisual translation into the video news framing process. It aims to examine the role of audiovisual translation methods in mediating the framed representation that news broadcasters set out to achieve. It mainly focuses on the controversial operation of China’s China Global Television Network (CGTN) through the complex lenses of audiovisual translation in comparison with the parallel output of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Cable News Network (CNN). Three recent mini case studies are devised to describe the modes of audiovisual translation involved and explicate how they accentuate or modify the contested narratives of video news framing. The findings reveal that there is barely any value-free, random deployment of audiovisual translation. All the audiovisual translation methods under study are part of the selection process for the framing purposes of each news organisation. Moreover, this study found that CGTN has most effectively employed nuanced audiovisual translation techniques to highlight the societal significance of its framing perspectives despite the prevailing critiques of its executive operation.

Educating the left – framing party education in Sweden and Spain

This article interprets how five left-leaning parties in Sweden and Spain intend to politically socialise their members through the use of educational activities. By applying a framing perspective on interviews with leading party representatives from the five parties, the analysis theoretically illuminates how educational activities can be a tool for mobilisation. While the interviewed party representatives stress that educating their members has several functions for a party, three salient frames about party education are identified in the interview data as follows: education as (i) movement building, (ii) training members and leaders and (iii) deliberative reflection. Categorising the different ways that in which education is understood shows how different political motives are integrated into parties’ education. Hence, the findings emphasise the intermediating role that education plays between a party organisation and its members in left parties.

Analytics applications, limitations, and opportunities in restaurant supply chains

Technology, market, and competitive dynamics are requiring firms in restaurant/food service supply chains to improve their analytics capabilities, which have tended to lag behind other comparable industries. The global COVID‐19 pandemic has further encouraged industrial leaders to evaluate new challenges and opportunities. Our research provides insights into current applications of analytics technologies and organizationally integrates these insights for decision‐makers in restaurant supply chains. The study applies decision theory as a framing perspective to this phenomenon, thereby advancing the academic literature on the interface between data management, analytical techniques, and computing. We combine data drawn from interviews of leading players in U.S. and Chinese‐based restaurant chains with insights from trade publications and social media posts to identify best practices for analytics usage and supporting organizational changes. Our analysis provides examples of ways in which business leaders are applying analytics technologies to structured and unstructured data to address targeted objectives for demand/supply processes and to foster higher order organizational learning. In keeping with the stated objectives of this special issue of Production and Operations Management, this study provides an overview of both current state‐of‐the‐art and next‐generation capabilities for analytics in the restaurant industry. We further identify specific limitations of current processes, opportunities for development and theory‐based research, and challenges to implementation.

Joint effect of linguistic style and ethnicity on entrepreneurial fundraising: Evidence from equity crowdfunding

Drawing on both signalling theory and the linguistic framing perspective, we propose that the effectiveness of linguistic styles used by entrepreneurs when pitching their ideas to investors, manifested as funding success, depends on entrepreneurs’ ethnicity (white vs. non-white). Using a sample of 430 equity crowdfunding projects, we found that the use of a past-oriented linguistic style and concrete linguistic style led to greater funding outcomes for ventures with minority founders than it did for those with white founders. A future-oriented linguistic style, on the other hand, was found to be more beneficial for ventures with white founders. In addition, we found a consistent pattern of results using the racial composition of an entrepreneurial team rather than the race of individual founders, which implies that investors’ biases are not only limited to individual founders’ ethnicities, but also persist regarding the wider entrepreneurial team.

Closed range Volterra-type integral operators and dynamical sampling

We solve the closed range problem for Volterra-type integral operator on Fock spaces. Several applications of the result related to the operators invertibility, Fredholm, and dynamical sampling structures from frame perspectives are provided. We further prove a bounded Volterra-type integral operator preserves no frame property. On the contrary, the adjoint operator preserves frame if and only if it is noncompact but fails to preserve both tight frames and Riesz basis.

Influence of Media Framing on Cognition of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness: The Mediating Role of Emotions.

Objectives: From the perspective of media framing, this paper explores how factual frame and influence frame affect the cognition of vaccine effectiveness among Chinese netizens, and how emotions vary in the process and act on the cognition. Methods: We first discuss the theoretical framework and propose hypotheses. Drawing on the cognitive theory of emotions and the Pleasure- Arousal-Dominance (PAD) model, the scale and questionnaire were designed, and used to test the influence of media framing over the cognition of vaccine effectiveness by 2-factor ANOVA and Bootstrap methods. Results: The proposed hypotheses were verified. The perceived effectiveness of domestic vaccines corresponding to the factual frame group was on average 0.19 (95% CI 0.641-0.642) higher than that of the influence frame. The impact on audience cognition from reports of positive tendency was on average 0.642 (95% CI 0.641-0.642) higher than that of negative tendency. The indirect effect of the media frame on the perceived effectiveness through the mediating variable emotion was -0.0923, at the 95% level. Conclusions: The audience can understand the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines better if the factual frame with actual data and authoritative opinions is adopted, rather than reports of the effects of the vaccines on the virus, the vaccinated, and society. Moreover, media reports should be more positive to mitigate the negative emotions, stimulate the arousal of public opinions, and improve audience cognition of report contents, thereby encouraging vaccine uptake.

Framing Effect in Tax Auditor Judgment (A Phenomenology Study)

The purpose of this study is to determine meaning of experience by tax auditors on the framing effect in audit judgment and to find out environment and situations that support this meaning. With purposive sampling, the study used three main informants and one supporting informant. The research data analysis technique uses Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Three framing perspectives are founded in this research, namely: framing of actions, framing of contingencies, and framing of outcomes. Five experiences of tax auditors that most often arise in those three perspectives are: implementation of fieldwork standard, adequacy of tax laws and regulations, adequacy of competent evidence , tax revenue targets, and audit completion targets. Each tax auditors have specific emphasis on their own experiences. Negative framing effect can lead auditors to inappropriate audit judgment and reduces the audit quality. Tax auditors should have more knowledge sharing activities to mitigate the risk of negative framing. Keywords: Tax Audit; Audit Judgment; Framing Effect DOI: 10.7176/RJFA/13-16-06 Publication date: August 31 st 2022

Ecosystems, Stakeholders, and Grand Challenges

The past five years have seen a surge of interest among strategy and organizations scholars in “grand challenges”, which are massive social and environmental problems whose scale and complexity necessitate coordination across diverse stakeholders, yet whose intractable nature renders that collaboration fundamentally challenging. This growing body research has made great strides in illuminating the coordination challenges that grand challenges pose. Yet, less is known about the processes and mechanisms that shape how and when collaborative responses to grand challenges unfold. The goal of this symposium is to advance our collective understanding of these processes. We do so by showcasing cutting-edge unpublished work from top scholars who are publishing in the areas of stakeholder theory, ecosystems, and strategy-as-practice. These papers draw on multiple empirical settings (i.e., healthcare, disaster response, corporate philanthropy, and sustainability) and diverse research methods to explore a set of closely-related, under-researched, and important questions: how do individuals and organizations perceive grand challenges, how do these (divergent) perceptions shape strategic action and resource allocation, and how does institutional context shape the dynamics and efficacy of coordination? Collectively, these papers advance our understanding not only of grand challenges, but also contribute more broadly to research and theory on managerial cognition, ecosystems, industry emergence, and corporate social responsibility. Following the four presentations, two expert discussants will discuss the four studies, as well as the broader research agenda and the theoretical issues they highlight. In the middle of the COVID-storm: A framing perspective on medical professionals in COVID wards Presenter: Madeleine Stefanie Rauch; Stanford U. & Copenhagen Business School Corporate social responsibility and pandemic response: Evidence from India Presenter: Christiane Bode; Imperial College Business School Presenter: Aline Gatignon; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania Presenter: Doron Tadmor; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania Ecosystems as vehicles of robust action against grand challenges Presenter: Douglas Hannah; Boston U. Worlds apart: Stakeholder governance in different institutional environments Presenter: Sinziana Dorobantu; NYU Stern School of Business