scholarly journals The effects of metaphorical frames on attitudes: The Euro crisis as war or disease?

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willem Joris ◽  
Leen d’Haenens ◽  
Baldwin Van Gorp
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Euro Crisis ◽  
Public Opinion Research ◽  
Student Sample ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
Current Financial Crisis

Abstract Previous research has identified the frames and metaphors used in the reporting on the Euro crisis. War and disease turned out to be the two most frequently used metaphorical frames. Since coverage of the current financial crisis may have a tangible effect on public opinion, research into the effects of metaphorical frames on attitudes is needed. By employing two survey experiments, a student sample (N = 259) and a nonstudent sample (N = 507), this article traces the effects of both metaphorical frames. Our results show that individuals take over the metaphorical frame elements in their evaluation of the Euro crisis. Participants in the war conditions significantly more often referred to war when answering the open questions. Alternatively, when the Euro crisis was framed as a disease, participants were more likely to use words and sentences containing disease frame elements.

scholarly journals COVID-19 conspiracy theories

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen M. Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Potential Impact

Conspiracy theories started to appear on social media immediately after the first news about COVID-19. Is the virus a hoax? Is it a bioweapon designed in a Chinese laboratory? These conspiracy theories typically have an intergroup flavour, blaming one group for having some involvement in either manufacturing the virus or controlling public opinion about it. In this article, I will discuss why people are attracted to conspiracy theories in general, and why conspiracy theories seem to have flourished during the pandemic. I will discuss what the consequences of these conspiracy theories are for individuals, groups, and societies. I will then discuss some potential strategies for addressing the negative consequences of conspiracy theories. Finally, I will consider some open questions for research regarding COVID-19 conspiracy theories, in particular focusing on the potential impact of these conspiracy theories for group processes and intergroup relations.

Austerity and fragmentation: Dynamics of Europeanization of media discourses in Greece and Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (s1) ◽  
pp. 864-892
Author(s):  
Cristiano Bee ◽  
Stavroula Chrona
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
National Level ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Euro Crisis ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Fragmentation Dynamics ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Media Discourses

AbstractThis article investigates media representations of the European financial crisis in Greece and Italy. We study the Euro crisis as an ‘emergency situation’ with domino effects, where media played a central role in shaping communication practices at the national level as well as between the two countries. Drawing upon vertical and horizontal dynamics of Europeanization, we map the convergences and divergences in media discourses that surround the period 2011–2015. In doing so, we elaborate a qualitative analysis of newspaper articles focusing, in particular, on the themes of austerity and the fragmentation of Europe. Our argument suggests that national public spheres in times of transnational crisis become increasingly nationalized; yet under certain circumstances such as when the supranational infrastructure is the target of blame, they converge, opening the path toward a transnational discursive dialogue.

Finanzkrisen in Deutschland – Vergleichsperspektiven und Ursachenforschung

2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harald Wixforth
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Banking Crisis ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Current Financial Crisis

AbstractThe current financial crisis has provoked keen discussion on how to analyze and compare similar types of crises, in order that we might be able to draw lessons from history. This article attempts to outline different instruments of comparison. It also tries to compare the German 1931 banking crisis to the current crisis, in order to highlight parallels and differences.

The National Process in Estonia Today*

1988 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-176
Author(s):  
M. Kirch ◽  
A. Kirch
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Problematic Situation ◽  
Public Opinion Research ◽  
Empirical Assessment

In this paper we present an approach to national problems in Estonia today and report an empirical assessment of some of the major causes that have brought us to the complicated problematic situation today. We make use of materials from sociological public opinion research done in 1986 and 1988.

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