News Frames Research Articles

Two paths of news frames affecting support for particulate matter policies in South Korea: The moderating roles of media exposure and psychological distance.

This study examined the paths through which the news frames of particulate matter (PM) influence support for governmental policies aiming to address PM. It also explored the mediating effects of anxiety and risk perception in the relationship between news frames and policy support, as well as the moderating effects of media exposure and psychological distance on the PM news framing effect. Based on an experimental design (N=676), two groups of news frames were prepared for comparison: a narrative frame group and a numerical frame group. The results showed no significant differences in anxiety or risk perception between the two groups. Further, no significant mediating effects of anxiety or risk perception were found in the process through which PM news frames influence support for governmental policies. However, media exposure significantly moderated the effect of the narrative frame: With high (low) media exposure, the narrative frame positively (negatively) influenced policy support through risk perception. Moreover, when the level of psychological distance was low, the narrative frame positively influenced policy support through risk perception. This study contributes to the literature on news framing of PM by integrating cognitive and emotional mechanisms in forming policy attitudes.

Framing of Flood News in The Borneo Post, a Regional Malaysian Newspaper

In recent years, climate change and unpredictable weather are causing more frequent severe floods in various areas, but little is understood about how regional newspapers shape public reactions to and preparations for natural disasters. This study investigated the framing of flood news by The Borneo Post, an English-language newspaper circulated in Sarawak, Malaysia. The specific aspects examined were: (a) frequency of thematic and episodic framing of flood events and (b) frame dimensions used in articles. Altogether 76 articles (25,676 words) on floods published by The Borneo Post from 1 January to 31 December 2023 were analysed. All articles were in the episodic frame. The main frame dimension was attribution of responsibility (79%), where authorities act as disseminators and narrators of disaster facts. However, the absence of thematic framing of floods lowers attribution of responsibility to authorities to plan long-term solutions to flooding. The economic consequences frame ranked second (14.5%), emphasising losses suffered. Little attention was given to human interest (3.9%) or conflict (1.3%). There was no morality frame, and 1.3% of articles were fact-filled and did not have an obvious frame dimension. The findings suggest that fact-focused flood reporting lacking the humanity element may not move readers to action.

The News Framing Analysis Of Vina's Murder Case On Tvonenews.Com

This research analyzes the news framing of the Vina murder case in tvOnenews.com media using a qualitative method with a descriptive approach through Robert N. Entman's framing analysis model, which divides framing into four categories: problem definition, cause diagnosis, moral judgment, and resolution recommendations. The results showed that tvOnenews.com framed this case as a symbol of the weakness of the Indonesian legal system, with an emphasis on justice and openness in the legal process. The media also highlighted the efforts of the victim's family in seeking justice, and debated various factors causing injustice in this case, including the alleged involvement of unscrupulous people and the possibility of false testimony. This research emphasizes that through intense news framing, tvOnenews.com has attempted to be an agent of social change that encourages the creation of justice and improvement of the legal system in Indonesia. This research provides insight into how the media can frame legal issues to build public opinion and influence people's perceptions.

What Journalists Worry and Write About: Comparing Journalists’ Frames of Climate Futures with Respective News Frames

ABSTRACT Projections of climate futures are vital for understanding the consequences of present actions. While research in climate change communication intensely focused on media representations (e.g., the framing of climate futures), it overlooked the processes that affect the production of news frames by journalists, such as individual future visions, newsroom policies, and professional routines. To address this research gap, the present study conducted reconstruction interviews with journalists covering climate futures in four countries (i.e., India, Germany, South Africa, and the United States). It identified five journalists’ frames, ranging from “Technology for future” to “Towards apocalypse”. The paper then compared the findings with a content analysis of articles written by the journalists interviewed in this study. It finds that the journalists’ frames are more varied than those identified in news content. Journalists’ frames shaping coverage seem to be the exception rather than the rule.

Media representation of recovery colleges in Australia: a content analysis

ABSTRACT Background: Recovery Colleges (RCs) are educational hubs that offer a distinct approach to mental health and wellbeing, fostering inclusive learning opportunities. This study aimed to investigate Australian media representations of RCs and discusses how these representations may influence overall community awareness and acceptance of RCs. Methods: Australian online and print news articles on RCs were identified using key words and extracted from two databases: (i) Google News and (ii) Factiva. Content analysis was used to summarise key characteristics of media articles and framing theory informed the identification of news frames. Results: Twenty–three news articles were included. Most were published in local or regional news outlets. Mental health was mentioned in most articles (n = 22), with the majority contextualising RCs as an alternative approach to mental health and recovery through education and participation. The sentiment in the articles was positive, however deficit language was still evident. Human interest and responsibility framing was common. Conclusion: Media coverage highlighted a role for RCs in promoting mental wellbeing through education and participation. However, key elements of their functioning, such as co–production or the role of people with lived experience were less visible. Greater engagement with media outlets to increase awareness and understanding of the individual and community benefits of RCs are needed.

Demarcation and Refugee Hate: Framing of Refugees in News and its Impact on Hate Speech in Public Comments

ABSTRACT This study analyses the interplay between media framing and hate speech in South Korean refugee-related news. As news about refugees within Korea has recently emerged in the Korean media, analyzing how news framing influences public discourse would serve as the starting point for understanding the media's role in shaping public opinions towards refugees. Using 3965 news articles and 314,769 comments on Afghan and Yemeni refugees, we employed the analysis of topic model network to identify frames. Deep neural networks detected hate comments, and Poisson regression assessed the impact of framing and its interaction with news scope on hate speech. For Afghan refugees, international news with a victim frame reduced hate comment, whereas domestically it increased them. Intruder framing generally decreased hate comments, particularly in domestic news. Similarly, for Yemeni refugees, international victim-framed news received fewer hate comments, while domestic news with the same frame increased hate comments. The intruder frame, which had no effect on domestic news, significantly increased hateful comments on international news. These results show how nuances of framing, along with news scope, affect the dynamics of hate speech in South Korea when refugees are portrayed as a domestic or as an international issue.

Radio Okapi online newspapers: Between media framing, conflict and peacebuilding

United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKOs) have incorporated a Public Information (PI) component to communicate with the public. This component has shifted from public outreach towards media reports on current events, including violent incidents. Few studies have assessed the contribution of the PI components of UN-led media. This article assesses the framing of Radio Okapi (RO) online newspaper articles to understand RO’s contribution to peacebuilding processes in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an ethnically highly polarized region where many sites are difficult to access. By analysing how RO reports on violent incidents in this region, the study identifies some shortfalls in RO’s PI role. Its framing of reporting can obscure the causes of conflict, for example, by equating ethnic communities with their armed actors and giving secondary importance to the direct victims of armed violence. Moreover, much RO reporting relies on uncorroborated and questionable sources of information, mostly provided by security services. Its framing is unlikely to contribute to sustainable peacebuilding processes and thus does not meet the PI aspirations of UNPKOs. This article suggests that journalists should be empowered with background skills and knowledge relevant to peace journalism, framing news reports in ways that help tackle the root causes and drivers of violent conflict.

Automatic Frame Analysis for the Evaluation of Text Influence

The research paper focuses on the mechanism of semantic parser for automatic text analysis and represents some results of analyzing news with a total volume of 2.2 million clauses. This mechanism models the processes of text comprehension and in this paper it is applied to the evaluation of the text influence on the reader. The parser constructs a semantic representation of the text and maps the meaning of each clause to a particular frame belonging either to the set of 300 emotional or to the set of 4500 rational frames. Comparing the frames of pro-state (federal) and blocked sources in Russia, the authors show that the most frequent frames in federal news represent an interactive dialog between the media and the speaker (note, add, recall, etc.), while the most frequent frames in blocked news introduce the speaker’s utterance that has become known to the news agencies (report, write, say, etc.). This reflects the remoteness of the editors of blocked news from Russian speakers. The federal media more often report about funny or unexpected purchases, as well as about how federal employees rescue people, and this agenda should make a positive impression. The blocked media, on the other hand, are more likely to mention court sentencing and death, which should have a negative impact. The natural-language inference constructed via frame combinations is shown to enable the recognition of emotional situations in derived meanings that are not explicitly expressed in the text and, thus, it allows to analyze automatically more compound mechanisms of manipulation.

The New York Times on the Day After: News Coverage of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb

ABSTRACT This paper examines how the New York Times covered the atomic bomb that was dropped over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The analysis identifies the news frames of front-page stories in the Times during the first two days after the nuclear strike and compares them to the frames promoted by the U.S. government. This study adds to the literature by offering a micro view of the way the government propaganda campaign was embedded directly into the Times’ coverage of the atomic bomb. While previous research has provided a broad assessment of how the Times and the news media in general were manipulated, this study identifies the specific news frames as they appeared in government documents and news reports.

Television News Framing of Child Labour in Nigeria: Analysing Responsibility for Causes and Solutions

Television News Framing of Child Labour in Nigeria: Analysing Responsibility for Causes and Solutions

A Study on News Frame Related to Free Agent Issue of Professional Baseball Player in the Media

A Study on News Frame Related to Free Agent Issue of Professional Baseball Player in the Media

Framing Climate Solutions: An Exploratory Quantitative Content Analysis

ABSTRACT News warning about climate risks has not typically included information about how society can respond, but journalism about credible efforts to address climate change is becoming more prevalent. To understand how news employing this emerging approach is framed we undertook an inductive quantitative content analysis of climate solutions journalism. Cluster analysis of 244 text-based climate solutions news stories published in U.S.-based outlets resulted in three previously undescribed news frames. The most prevalent frame (88%) focuses on adaptation over mitigation with little mention of causes, while stories emblematic of the second-most prevalent frame featured responses led by people typically drawing on place-based identity and working cooperatively beyond partisanship. The least prevalent frame emphasizes mitigation and who is morally responsible. Findings contribute to framing theory as well as offer practical implications for journalists seeking to engage news audiences about this critical issue.

The Impact of China's "Me Too" Movement on Individuals and Society under News Framing Theory: An Example of the Weibo Topic #I'll Be Your Voice

The Impact of China's "Me Too" Movement on Individuals and Society under News Framing Theory: An Example of the Weibo Topic #I'll Be Your Voice

FrameSum: Leveraging Framing Theory and Deep Learning for Enhanced News Text Summarization

Framing theory is a widely accepted theoretical framework in the field of news communication studies, frequently employed to analyze the content of news reports. This paper innovatively introduces framing theory into the text summarization task and proposes a news text summarization method based on framing theory to address the global context of rapidly increasing speed and scale of information dissemination. Traditional text summarization methods often overlook the implicit deep-level semantic content and situational frames in news texts, and the method proposed in this paper aims to fill this gap. Our deep learning-based news frame identification module can automatically identify frame elements in the text and predict the dominant frame of the text. The frame-aware summarization generation model (FrameSum) can incorporate the identified frame feature into the text representation and attention mechanism, ensuring that the generated summary focuses on the core content of the news report while maintaining high information coverage, readability, and objectivity. Through empirical studies on the standard CNN/Daily Mail dataset, we found that this method performs significantly better in improving summary quality and maintaining the accuracy of news facts.

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.

Network Flow of Campaign Discourses and News Frames: The Changing Fortunes of Twitter/X as a Conduit for Frame-Building

ABSTRACT Periodic changes continue to impact the fortunes of Twitter as a political communication and news-sharing platform, particularly among diverse individual and institutional African users. Yet few studies provide empirical insights into Twitter’s changing role in campaign communication and its influence on news frame-building across the region, mainly in Nigeria. This study bridges the gap by analysing n = 763 tweets to determine how the political campaign discourse strategies in the tweeting activities of two prominent candidates influenced the news frame-building practices of mainstream newspapers during the four months of Nigeria’s 2019 presidential campaign. Findings affirm that the Twittersphere served as a playground where candidates deployed diverse discourse frames correlating with political agendas to show their intent to integrate Twitter into their campaign communication strategies. Moreover, the candidates’ tweets contribute to the journalistic frame-building process, although the newspapers tend to focus more on frame-setting than frame-sending due to the dynamic nature of journalistic content production across individual news outlets.

Instrumentalization of Fake News and Fake News Laws: A Content Analysis of Hong Kong Newspapers in Transitional Times

ABSTRACT The debate around disinformation has shifted to the political instrumentalization of the term fake news, a growing global trend affecting both democratic and less-democratic countries. While researchers have paid much attention to the consequences of disinformation or how fake news allegations could harm journalism and democracies, few have examined how the term may be instrumentalized to restrict press and political freedoms in non-Western contexts under an authoritarian turn. Through a quantitative content analysis, this paper explores how the term fake news is used in Hong Kong’s newspapers with diverse political inclinations. The paper goes on to analyze how the discursive uses of the term may be connected to the framing of fake news as an existential threat and to the legitimization or critique of fake news laws. The findings show that uses of the term as an attack to adverse media outlets and political opponents are most frequent in state-owned newspapers. State-owned newspapers are also most likely to frame fake news as an existential security issue and legislation as a solution. Implications of the findings as well as theoretical and empirical contributions are discussed.

Analisis Framing Pemberitaan Online Amsakar Achmad sebagai Calon Walikota Batam Potensial pada Media Online Batampos.co.id dan Batamnews.co.id

This study aims to identify and analyze the framing used by BatamPos.co.id and BatamNews.co.id in their coverage of Amsakar Achmad as a candidate for Mayor of Batam, compare the framing employed by these two media outlets, and assess the impact of such framing on public perception. This qualitative research utilizes framing analysis based on framing theory. Primary data consists of news articles from BatamPos.co.id and BatamNews.co.id published during the period of May-June 2024. Secondary data is derived from literature related to framing theory and previous studies. Data collection was conducted through purposive sampling, and analysis was performed by identifying main themes, categorizing the news coverage, and evaluating the impact of framing on public perception. The analysis reveals that the framing of news about Amsakar Achmad on BatamPos.co.id tends to emphasize strong political support, popularity, and Amsakar’s concrete visions and programs. In contrast, BatamNews.co.id focuses more on Amsakar’s direct interactions with the public, local community support, and political communication. Both media construct a positive image of Amsakar, albeit with different approaches. BatamPos.co.id creates the perception that Amsakar is a strong candidate with solid political backing and a clear plan for Batam’s progress, while BatamNews.co.id portrays Amsakar as a leader who is close to the people, adaptive, and collaborative. This research provides insights into how media framing can influence public perception of political candidates.

Analisis Framing terhadap Citra Gemoy dalam Portal Berita Online

This research aims to analyze how Kompas.com, Tribunnews.com, and CNNIndonesia.com frame news about the "gemoy" image of public figures. The researcher employed a descriptive and qualitative methodology, utilizing the Zhongdang Pan and Gerald M. Kosicki model to classify framing elements: syntactic, script, thematic, and rhetorical. The findings reveal that each online news portal has its own distinctive characteristics in framing the news: (1) Kompas.com tends to positively assess the "gemoy" image as an authentic reflection of the related figure; (2) Tribunnews.com is more critical and views "Politik Gemoy" as a campaign strategy that undermines democracy; (3) CNNIndonesia.com employs satire when addressing the "gemoy" image. This study highlights the diverse strategies used by media outlets to influence public perception and underscores the media's significant role in shaping political discourse. In conclusion, the media play a pivotal role in shaping public perception through the various framing approaches they employ.

Balancing news? Framing of threat and efficacy in leading Pakistani newspapers’ coverage of climate change

The study in hand quantitatively content analyzes the news frames in the leading Pakistani Urdu language and English language newspapers for 3 years. The study contributes to the theory of framing and the extended parallel process model. English language newspapers in comparison to Urdu language dailies in Pakistan had somewhat responsibly communicated the risk of climate change by covering both the effects of climate change and the climate efficacy.