scholarly journals Alternative media framing of COVID-19 risks

2021 ◽  
pp. 001139212110061
Author(s):  
Martin Rooke
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Social Amplification Of Risk ◽  
The Social ◽  
Online Audiences ◽  
Risk Framework ◽  
Risk Amplification

Early media coverage of COVID-19, between 1 January and 31 March 2020, provided Alternative Media Personalities (AMPs) an opportunity to provide conspiratorial misinformation to their online audiences. Far-right AMPs may reframe sociopolitical aspects of risk to produce ‘fake-news’, amplifying future risks arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Social Amplification of Risk Framework (SARF) to define factors of risk amplification, this study conducted a framing analysis upon 1,895 minutes of streamed video content from a popular, far-right, AMP regarding COVID-19. Significant differences in frame expression suggested that AMPs hold greater value in specific frames when providing infotainment based upon authentic interpretations of risk. A lack of significant change in frame expression over time suggests that AMPs may rely upon media templates when communicating risk to their audience. Qualitative data suggest that different aspects of risk amplification work in concert to provide discursive contexts for far-right AMPs to define risks from their ideological standpoint. The data provided by this study better outline some of the complexities facing scientific communications strategies which seek to directly address misinformation online.

A Knight in Sheep’s Clothing: Media Framing of the Alt-Right Can Alter the Image of Racist Groups

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-96
Author(s):  
Burton Speakman
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Racist Ideology ◽  
National Profile

The Alt-Right increased its national profile during the 2016 presidential election based on its support of Donald Trump. This research becomes more salient with the media continuing to face similar challenges in framing far-right groups. The Alt-Right, like other Far Right groups worldwide, has moderated their framing to hide racist ideology. Therefore, the challenge of this article is to learn if the media allow newer far-right conservative groups to self-frame even against the advice from the Associated Press. This study uses qualitative framing analysis through grounded theory to review the coverage of the Alt-Right as a manner of examining if the group was successful in advancing its desired frames into mainstream media coverage. The results of this study suggest overall the Alt-Right was successful in reducing a direct discussion about the racist beliefs of the group within press coverage. This study continues in the tradition of framing studies of the past yet moves the genre forward as journalists negotiate increasing polarised and fragmented political communication.

scholarly journals Does Social Risk Amplification Theory Explain the Resistance to COVID-19 Geo-Localization Applications?

TEM Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1202-1208
Author(s):  
Mohamed Nabil Mzoughi ◽  
Karim Garrouch
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Social Amplification Of Risk ◽  
Technology Acceptance Models ◽  
The Social ◽  
Risk Framework

KSA have launched a mobile application which recognizes if there is a confirmed COVID-19 subject in proximity. Its adoption can be explained by technology acceptance models, but the pandemic context involves also the use of a theory dealing with the health risk. This study adapts the Social Amplification of Risk Framework to verify a model explaining three behaviors: information seeking, preventive behavior and resistance to COVID-19 mobile application Tawakkalna. A survey has been distributed to a sample of 312 individuals living in Saudi Arabia. Findings show that media coverage and perceived risk have an impact on negative affective reactions which influence behavior.

scholarly journals Changing Media Framings of School Shootings: A Case Study of the Parkland School Shooting

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer LaRose ◽  
Jose Torres ◽  
Michael Barton
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
School Shootings ◽  
School Shooting ◽  
Front Page ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Coping ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Coping Model

The Parkland school shooting that occurred on February 14, 2018, ranks among the deadliest high school shootings in recorded history with 17 injuries and 17 casualties. Like other mass school shootings, this event garnered extensive media coverage, but little research has been conducted to examine how media framing for this event compares with previous school shootings. This study examines the framing of the Parkland school shooting by location over time using the Social Coping Model, which describes how collectives cope with and heal from traumatic events. Specifically, this study compares frames of front-page news articles from three local news outlets and three national outlets across three time periods in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. The results indicate the coverage of the Parkland shooting was similar to previous shootings, but the results also suggest a shift in media coverage. The implications for this shift are explored in the context of a changing media landscape while also noting the importance of the Social Coping Model towards understanding the dynamic process of framing school shootings.

scholarly journals Social Media and the Virality of Risk: The Risk Amplification through Media Spread (RAMS) Model

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Santosh Vijaykumar ◽  
Yan Jin ◽  
Glen Nowak
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Media Management ◽  
Social Amplification Of Risk ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Public Health Authorities ◽  
Risk Framework ◽  
Risk Amplification ◽  
Social Media Management ◽  
Rams Model

AbstractSocial media have transformed traditional configurations of how risk signals related to an infectious disease outbreak (IDO) are transmitted from public health authorities to the general public. However, our understanding of how social media might influence risk perceptions during these situations, and the influence of such processes on ensuing societal responses remains limited. This paper draws on key ideas from the Social Amplification of Risk Framework (SARF), Socially Mediated Crisis Communication (SMCC) model and a case study of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) social media management of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic to propose a new conceptual model. The Risk Amplification through Media Spread (RAMS) model brings clarity to the new complexities in media management of IDOs by delineating the processes of message diffusion and risk amplification through communication channels that are often highly integrated due to social media. The model offers recommendations for communication priorities during different stages of an IDO. The paper concludes with a discussion of the RAMS model from theoretical and applied perspectives, and sets the direction for future conceptual refinement and empirical testing.

scholarly journals Shaping the ‘inexplicable’: A social constructionist analysis of news reporting of familicide-suicide

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492110632
Author(s):  
Audrey Galvin ◽  
Fergal Quinn ◽  
Yvonne Cleary
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Social ◽  
Objective Representation ◽  
Journalistic Practice ◽  
Discursive Patterns

Media framing helps to shape our understanding of the meaning of news events, often problematically. This study examines how this process interacts with the phenomenon of familicide-suicide, where a person kills one or more family members before taking their own life. A social constructionist analysis of the print media coverage of three high-profile cases in Ireland highlights framing and discursive patterns, contributing to an explanatory framework that is misleading and lacking in an evidence base. As well as a tendency towards broad and poorly supported claims-making, several primary causal frames are prevalent: mental health; financial debt; fall from grace; and ‘out of the blue’, whilst a domestic violence frame is notable in its absence. Coverage is found to be episodic in character, linked to dramatisation and more simplistic explanatory frames, rather than evidence-based analysis of potential causal factors for these incidents. Findings raise important questions for journalistic practice, regarding processes of selection and salience of sources contributing to overall coverage that is partial and biased, rather than an ‘objective’ representation of the social world.

Presence of Complex and Potentially Conflicting Information in Prenatal Mobile Apps

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmyne J. Womack ◽  
LaKesha N. Anderson ◽  
Christy J. W. Ledford
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Social Amplification Of Risk ◽  
Conflicting Information ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Medical Background ◽  
Complex Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Risk Framework ◽  
In Pregnancy

Pregnant women are increasingly using mobile apps as a source of supplemental information. These pregnancy-related mobile apps present women with contradictory risk recommendations without the medical research to support their claims. The content analysis describes a sample of the pregnancy-tracking mobile application environment open to pregnant mothers and uses the social amplification of risk framework. Within this framework, written recommendations and the presence or absence of corresponding citations on controversial topics in pregnancy were recorded and risk was coded as received contradictory information. Of the 48 pregnancy-tracking mobile apps downloaded, 11 (22.9%) were associated with either a seller or a developer with a medical background. Only 24 of 48 (50.0%) of the apps cited a source, such as a health professional agency or peer-reviewed research journal for health recommendations. In our results, we show a sampling of contradictory risk recommendations made by mobile apps that cite or do not cite their source for that recommendation on 8 controversial topics in pregnancy. Findings suggest providers treating pregnant women must be aware of the complex information environment and help them navigate the risk information they encounter on some of the most popular pregnancy-tracking mobile apps.

Framing mass surveillance: Analyzing New Zealand’s media coverage of the early Snowden files

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 402-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M Kuehn
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Foreign Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mass Surveillance

This research investigates how New Zealand media framed the mass surveillance debates in the immediate months following the June 2013 Snowden revelations up to the passage of the Government Communications and Security Bureau Amendment Bill 2013. A media framing analysis of news stories from two commercial newspapers and the national public broadcaster in New Zealand (N = 156) revealed frames of lawfulness, conflict, and democratic values dominated coverage; public radio drew upon one additional frame, Edward Snowden the individual. A comparative analysis reveals the commercial newspapers’ reliance on episodic frames opposed to public media’s thematic framing, yet coverage across both samples was overwhelmingly negative. Both samples also privileged official government and foreign media sources. Together, these strategies worked to distance citizens from the surveillance debate by framing it as a political – rather than a civic – issue to be resolved by government leaders. The media’s inability to build a consensus around the surveillance debate and engage citizen voices may at least partially explain the lack of coordinated public resistance against subsequent surveillance policy reforms that effectively expanded New Zealand’s intelligence community’s spy powers.

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