Newspaper Framing Research Articles

`Press 1 for English': textual and ideological networks in a newspaper debate on US language policy

This article examines 180 texts that together form a newspaper-mediated debate of language policy in reaction to US Senate legislation declaring English the national language of the United States. Drawing on theories of genre networks and intertextuality, the article examines the ways in which dominant texts and ideologies within this corpus of texts are taken up, dropped, and perpetuated through linked genres over a 37-day period. The analysis begins by describing the social backdrop in which the debate occurred, the Senate legislation, and the Senate discussion. Next, the article details the newspaper framing of the Senate legislation and the subsequent uptake of an assimilationist ideology, through a range of discursive strategies employed by both newspaper writers and readers.

Benedict the Bifurcated: Secular and Sacred Framing of the Pope and Turkey

We contend that the unique audience of the Turkish Daily News (TDN), a national English language daily newspaper in Turkey, drove the newspaper's framing of its coverage of the pope's Regensburg comments and subsequent visit to Turkey. We claim the TDN used three frames that helped readers make sense of and balance the sacred and secular tensions surrounding Pope Benedict and his visit: 1) an emphasis on the pope's role as a political official over his role as a religious leader; 2) an emphasis on the political invitation to visit Turkey over the religious invitation; and 3) a narrative that enfolds the multi-faceted reasons for the pope's visit into the story of a religious leader previously unsupportive of Turkey's political aspirations maturing into a political leader who supports both Turkey and inter-faith dialogue. The TDN's framing of the papal crisis is consistent with the national identity and cultural values of the newspaper's readers and, as such, illustrates how framing is an analytic tool that helps us better understand the ways in which the media reflect and reinforce the relationship between government, audience, and religious culture.

Swazi Journalism and the ‘Muslim Threat'

This paper reports the findings of a research project undertaken in Swaziland (a small kingdom in southern Africa) that interrogates the way in which the press frames Muslims and Islam as a threat to the state and to ordinary people. It begins with the misidentifying of a Muslim prayer group as a group of ‘cannibals' and then examines three major stories regarding Muslims: i) the perception that Muslims were to blame for the changing of the Swaziland constitution; (ii) a report that Muslims were enticing university students to convert to Islam in return for scholarships; and (iii) a public symposium run on the subject of Islam. It concludes that Swazi newspapers frame Muslims as warlike people who are plotting against the kingdom and who pose a threat to Swazi culture. Islam is also depicted as a religion inferior to Christianity.LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research Vol. 5 2008: pp. 429-441

Constructing the Meanings of Environmental Catastrophe: How Korean Newspapers Frame Great Oil Spill in Taean

Constructing the Meanings of Environmental Catastrophe: How Korean Newspapers Frame Great Oil Spill in Taean

U.S., Chinese Newspapers Frame Iraq War Differently

This comparison finds that the U.S. papers adopted episodic frames while Chinese papers adopted thematic frames by focusing on the larger context such as pre-war motivation and post-war impact.

Newspaper Coverage of Intimate Partner Violence: Skewing Representations of Risk

How media portray intimate partner violence (IPV) has implications for public perceptions and social policy. Therefore, to better understand these portrayals, this study content analyzes a nationally representative sample of newspaper coverage of IPV over a two-year-period and compares this coverage to epidemiological data in order to examine the implications of the discrepancies between coverage and social reality. Stratified media outlets across the country were used to obtain a representative sample of daily newspapers based on their designated market areas, resulting in 395 IPV-related articles. Results show that newspaper framing of IPV tends to be heavily skewed toward episodic framing. In addition, there are significant differences between our data and epidemiological estimates, particularly in the coverage of homicide and use of alcohol and illegal drugs, which may skew public perceptions of risk. Implications for public perceptions and social policy are discussed.

Reframing Ecotage as Ecoterrorism: News and the Discourse of Fear

This study examined how national newspapers have participated in the production and reproduction of the discourse on ecotage through a lens of terrorism. The approach used in this study is to apply the thesis of Altheide (2003) that mass media uses the discourse of fear to report on acts of terrorism. Through a content analysis of six national newspapers, this study sought to answer two questions: Do national newspapers frame ecotage acts primarily as terrorism? If ecotage is framed as terrorism, is the discourse of fear used in stories that discuss ecotage? Using 20 search terms commonly used to describe ecotage acts, 155 news stories were found from 1984 to 2006. Based on an analysis of these stories, there was a marked shift in framing ecotage as terrorism starting in 2001, but before 9/11. Increasingly the discourse of fear has been used to indicate the seriousness of ecoterrorism. In addition to this shift and use of fear, the volume of stories has increased, yet the number of reported incidences of ecotage has steadily declined over this same period.

How Brazilian and North American Newspapers Frame the Stem Cell Research Debate

Stem cell research has become one of the hottest scientific topics in the past few years. By combining the ability to exactly self-duplicate and the potential to differentiate themselves to constitute any organic tissue, embryonic stem cells have presented geneticists and medical researchers with a new wealth of possibilities to treat and cure degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. By relying heavily on discarded embryonic lines, stem cell research has also generated a new host of ethical and political controversies. The concept of media frames was employed to analyze how some of the main Brazil- and U.S.-based newspapers have framed and presented the stem cell research debate. The analysis indicates that while in Brazil the issue has been presented from a scientific (and mostly positive) point of view, in the United States the debate has been dominated by its political and ethical dimensions.

Global Angling with a Local Angle: How U.S., British, and Dutch Newspapers Frame Global and Local Terrorist Attacks

The 9/11 terrorist attacks and later attacks such as those in London and Madrid shocked the world and found their way into the newspapers of many countries. The authors study the international coverage of these events in the context of globalization versus localization and the creation of the dominant post-cold war frame of the War on Terror. Using automatic co-occurrence analysis based on the notion of associative framing, they investigate whether these events were mainly framed in a local or global way in the American, British, and Dutch press. The authors found that although proximity is still a strong determinant of attention for events, the framing of these events was more affected by the global event of 9/11 than by local considerations.

Utah Newspapers Take Different Approaches to Coverage of First Amendment Controversy

Despite standards of journalistic objectivity, some research suggests that media are often critical of religious organizations perceived as overly theocratic or intrusive on First Amendment rights.1 Such situation arose in 2002 over First Amendment dispute involving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon) and local actors. Recognizing that political and social hostility are rooted in different systems of moral understanding,2 this study compares how two competing Salt Lake City newspapers-one owned by the LDS Church (the Deseret News),3 the other not (The Salt Lake Tribune), covered controversy arising after the church and city lost First Amendment battle with the ACLU.BackgroundIn 1998, the church purchased one-block section of the city's Main Street and subsequently built an ecclesiastical park there. The agreement stipulated that the plaza would be designated as public easement between North and South Temple streets, but allowed the church to regulate speech and conduct that were inconsistent with LDS practices.4Contending that the restrictions violated First Amendment rights of individuals using the easement, the ACLU sued the city and church in 1999. Relying on property rights cases, District Judge Ted Stewart (an LDS member) ruled against the ACLU. On Oct. 9, 2002, the 10th Circuit-noting that the sidewalk easement was tantamount to public forum-reversed on First Amendment grounds. The ensuing debates centered on solution that would satisfy both the church and city officials.Literature ReviewThis study is grounded in the literature on newspaper framing and coverage of religion in particular. In short, framing is a central organizing idea for making sense of relevant issues and suggesting what is the issue.5 It is manifest when journalists select some aspects of perceived reality and make them more salient.6 Because journalists' frames can define and construct the issue, newspaper coverage may present slanted perspective by directing readers to consider certain facts and ignore others.7 Such frames can shape social discourse, advance agendas and influence public perceptions about issues and events.8What is salient in the coverage of religion? Underwood noted that the media are often hostile toward religious groups perceived as overly influential on politics.9 Two studies, for example, found that broadcast and print news coverage of fundamentalists emphasized conflict and their activities, resulting in stories that often portrayed them as intolerant and forceful in imposing their views on others.10The LDS Church has received similar media criticism. One commentator noted that the media often depict Mormons as fiercely reactionary and closed-minded.11 A recent study of media coverage during the Winter Olympic Games found that journalists portrayed Mormons as out of step with the rest of the country, while representing non-Mormon Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson as progressive liberal attempting to move Utah into the mainstream.12 More problematic for the church's image are repeated media references to its influence on Utah lawmakers.The Economist likened the LDS church to an 800-pound gorilla when describing its influence in Utah.13 Furthermore, former Salt Lake Tribune editor James E. Shelledy called Utah quasi theocracy in which LDS lawmakers typically follow the edicts of the church.14Research QuestionsThe literature on framing of religious groups and Mormons suggests that the LDS Church in Utah is particularly vulnerable to secular media frames critical of its role in politics. Also problematic for the church are criticisms the Tribune editor brought to the discourse. The Utah controversy is unique, however, because another contributor to that discourse is the LDS-owned Deseret News-a newspaper emphasizing secular news, while also targeting church members. …

Newspaper framing of fatal motor vehicle crashes in four Midwestern cities in the United States, 1999–2000

Objective: To examine the public health messages conveyed by newspaper coverage of fatal motor vehicle crashes and determine the extent to which press coverage accurately reflects real risks and crash...

Fortress Australia

Previous articleNext article No AccessSeptember 11 and Its Aftermath: A RoundtableFortress AustraliaTseen KhooTseen KhooSchool of Languages and Comparative Cultural StudiesUniversity of Queensland Search for more articles by this author School of Languages and Comparative Cultural StudiesUniversity of QueenslandPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 29, Number 2Winter 2004Development Cultures: New Environments, New Realities, New Strategies. Special Issue Editors Françoise Lionnet, Obioma Nnaemeka, Susan H. Perry, and Celeste Schenck Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/378543 Views: 37Total views on this site Citations: 2Citations are reported from Crossref © 2003 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Glen Donnar A Support Withdrawn: ‘Spain's 9/11’ and Australian Newspaper Framing, Media International Australia 130, no.11 (Feb 2009): 39–49.https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X0913000106Mark Falcous, Michael Silk Global Regimes, Local Agendas, International Review for the Sociology of Sport 41, no.3-43-4 (Jun 2016): 317–338.https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690207079230

Workshop O: Infection and Immunity: O.2–O.70

The way newspapers frame infectious disease outbreaks and their connection to the environmental determinants of disease transmission matter because they shape how we understand and respond to these major events. In 2017, following an unexpected climatic event named “El Niño Costero,” a dengue epidemic in Peru affected over seventy-five thousand people. This paper examines how the Peruvian news media presented dengue, a climate-sensitive disease, as a public health problem by analyzing a sample of 265 news stories on dengue from two major newspapers published between January 1st and December 31st of 2017. In analyzing the construction of responsibility for the epidemic, I find frames that blamed El Niño Costero's flooding and Peru's poorly prepared cities and public health infrastructure as the causes of the dengue outbreak. However, when analyzing frames that offer solutions to the epidemic, I find that news articles call for government-led, short-term interventions (e.g., fogging) that fail to address the decaying public health infrastructure and lack of climate-resilient health systems. Overall, news media tended to over-emphasize dengue as requiring technical solutions that ignore the root causes of health inequality and environmental injustice that allow dengue to spread in the first place. This case speaks to the medicalization of public health and to a long history of disease-control programs in the Global South that prioritized top-down technical approaches, turning attention away from the social and environmental determinants of health, which are particularly important in an era of climate change.