Doing News Framing Analysis

Description

This volume presents original, ‘big picture’ articles about news framing. The editors' goals are to acknowledge the integrationist impulses that propel the use of different theoretical and methodological approaches and to provide interpretive guides to the community of news framing scholars and interested readers regarding what news frames are, how they can be observed in news texts, and how framing effects are uncovered and substantiated in cultural, group, and individual sites. To achieve these goals, each chapter in this volume will feature a framing analyst or team of framing analysts who take a reflective, and even at times self-reflexive, look at their own empirical work. As the foregoing review shows, this sort of work is not new to the corpus of framing analysis. However, there are two things that set this volume apart in achieving its goals (discussed in detail in the next section). First, each article in this volume is essentially a meditation upon two heuristic models of the framing process. These models are complementary in scope and detail, giving each chapter a common rubric to review, reflect upon, and critique news framing analysis. Second, each chapter will feature more self-reflexivity about the authors’ empirical work than is currently found in synoptic reviews and meta-theoretical articles. To facilitate this, authors will use three specific sites – research settings, classroom settings, and public settings – to reflect upon specific aspects of their empirical work.

Contents

Foreword by James N. Druckman

1. Doing News Framing Analysis -- Paul D’Angelo & Jim A. Kuypers

Part 1: Perspectives on Frame Building and Frame Definition

2. Finding Frames in a Web of Culture: The Case of the War on Terror -- Stephen D. Reese

3. Knowledge Into Action: Framing the Debates Over Climate Change and Poverty -- Matthew C. Nisbet

4. Strategies to Take Subjectivity Out of Framing Analysis -- Baldwin Van Gorp

5. Of Spreading Activation, Applicability, and Schemas: Conceptual Distinctions and Their Operational Implications for Measuring Frames and Framing Effects -- Bertram T. Scheufele & Dietram A. Scheufele

6. The Oppositional Framing of Bloggers -- Stephen D. Cooper

Part II: Perspectives on Framing Effects

7. Studying the Effects of Issue Framing on Public Opinion About Policy Issues: Does What We See Depend on How We Look? -- Paul R. Brewer & Kimberly Gross

8. Framing the Economy: Effects of Journalistic News Frames -- Claes de Vreese

9. Specificity, Complexity, and Validity: Rescuing Experimental Research on Framing Effects -- Dhavan V. Shah, Michael P. Boyle, Mike Schmierbach, Heejo Keum, & Cory L. Armstrong

10. Framing the Pictures in Our Heads: Exploring the Framing and Agenda-Setting Effects of Visual Images -- Renita Coleman

Part III: Theoretical Integration in News Framing Analysis

11. Researching Political News Framing: Established Ground and New Horizons -- Regina G. Lawrence

12. Framing Analysis From a Rhetorical Perspective -- Jim A. Kuypers

13. Framing Through a Feminist Lens: A Tool in Support of an Activist Research Agenda -- Marie Hardin & Erin Whiteside

14. Framing Media Power -- Robert M. Entman

15. Conclusion: Arriving at the Horizons of News Framing Analysis-- Paul D’Angelo

Related Subjects

1. Media & Communications
2. Media Theory
3. Journalism & Professional Media
4. Politics & the Media