scholarly journals A Tale of Three Women: Framing as a Patriarchal Practice in the News Coverage of Women in Distress 

Plaridel ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ma. Aurora Liwag-Lomibao
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
News Frames ◽  
Gender Biases ◽  
Feminine Archetypes

Women in situations of distress receive a disproportionate amount of news coverage. As survivors (or perpetrators) of crime, violence, or natural disasters, they are naturally “newsworthy”—a newsroom term for the subjective lens with which truthtellers define and select their news frames. These frames, which govern the identification and coverage of what is “newsworthy,” box women into specific, patriarchal roles. Women who do not fall within the traditional feminine archetypes are labeled as dissidents or insurgents, and are excluded, dismissed, rejected, or worse persecuted, until the news recasts them into more familiar molds. This is exemplified in the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s news coverage of Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina convicted of drug trafficking in Indonesia and sentenced to death in 2010. An examination of the Inquirer’s coverage of the Veloso case unearthed the gender biases that are inherent in the subjective rules that govern the patterns of selection and depiction in mainstream newsrooms.

scholarly journals When frames collide: ‘Ethnic war’ and ‘genocide’

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 434-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Hammond
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
News Frames ◽  
Bosnian War ◽  
War And Conflict ◽  
Ethnic War ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the problem of how to interpret competing, clashing or contradictory news frames in coverage of war and conflict, focusing on the reporting of the 1992–1995 Bosnian war. ‘Ethnic war’ and ‘genocide’ featured as competing news frames in news coverage of Bosnia and several subsequent conflicts, and are often understood to be contradictory in terms of their implied explanations, moral evaluations and policy prescriptions. The author questions the assumptions that many journalists and academics have made about these frames and the relationship between them. He asks how we can make sense of clashing or contradictory scholarly analyses of these competing frames and considers a number of broader issues for framing analysis: the significance of historical context for understanding the meaning of particular framing devices, the importance of quantification in framing analysis and the role of influential sources in prompting journalists to adopt particular frames.

scholarly journals Dynamic Transactions Between News Frames and Sociopolitical Events: An Integrative, Hidden Markov Model Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic R Hopp ◽  
Jacob T Fisher ◽  
René Weber
Keyword(s):  
Markov Models ◽  
Hidden Markov ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
News Frames ◽  
Macro Scale ◽  
News Event ◽  
Hidden States ◽  
Research Domains ◽  
Integrated Study ◽  
Model Approach

Abstract A central goal of news research is to understand the interplay between news coverage and sociopolitical events. Although a great deal of work has elucidated how events drive news coverage, and how in turn news coverage influences societal outcomes, integrative systems-level models of the reciprocal interchanges between these two processes are sparse. Herein, we present a macro-scale investigation of the dynamic transactions between news frames and events using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), focusing on morally charged news frames and sociopolitical events. Using 3,501,141 news records discussing 504,759 unique events, we demonstrate that sequences of frames and events can be characterized in terms of “hidden states” containing distinct moral frame and event relationships, and that these “hidden states” can forecast future news frames and events. This work serves to construct a path toward the integrated study of the news-event cycle across multiple research domains.

“What’s going on” in Ferguson? Online news frames of protest at the police killing of Michael Brown

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 882-901
Author(s):  
Travis A. Riddle ◽  
Kate M. Turetsky ◽  
Julia G. Bottesini ◽  
Colin Wayne Leach
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Online News ◽  
News Frames ◽  
General Audience ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Black Teenager ◽  
Racial Injustice ◽  
Police Shooting ◽  
Different Sources

Public reactions to protests are often divided, with some viewing the protest as a legitimate response to injustice and others perceiving the protest as illegitimate. We examine how online news sources oriented to different audiences frame protest, potentially encouraging these divergent reactions. We focus on online news coverage following the 2014 police shooting of a Black teenager, Michael Brown. Preregistered analyses of headlines and images and their captions showed that sources oriented toward African Americans were more likely to include content conveying racial injustice and legitimacy of the subsequent protests than sources oriented toward a general audience. In contrast, general audience sources emphasized conflict between protesters and police, making fewer references to the protesters’ cause. Whereas much work on media segregation addresses the propensity of audiences to consume different sources, our work suggests that news sources may also contribute to information fragmentation by differentially framing the same events.

Hillary Clinton as Political Candidate

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn J. Parry-Giles
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
News Frames ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Elective Office ◽  
Political Experience ◽  
Political Candidate ◽  
The Press

This chapter features the extensive television news coverage of Hillary Clinton as a candidate for the U.S. Senate. In many ways, the news broadcasts reflected the memory frames that circulated throughout her time as first lady, from her image as a political lightning rod who suffered from personality problems to that of a victimized wife. Questions surrounding her political authenticity were central to the news frames from the early murmurs of a possible Clinton Senate run. Clinton was correspondingly depicted as an inauthentic political candidate because of her questionable motives for office, her lack of geographical ties to the state of New York, her lack of political experience, and her shifting views on contentious political topics. These inauthenticity judgments suggested to the press and Clinton's Republican opponents that she lacked an overall fitness and preparedness for elective office.

Hillary Clinton as Campaign Surrogate

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn J. Parry-Giles
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
News Frames ◽  
First Lady ◽  
Presidential Campaigning

This chapter represents the first installment of Hillary Clinton's news biography and examines the news coverage of Clinton during the 1992 presidential campaign and her entrance onto the national stage of politics. It recounts the baseline news frames that laid the foundation for judgments of Clinton's authenticity against which future frames would converge and diverge. The chapter also describes her most formative media moments during this period, which linguistically and visually acted as stock frames that authenticated Clinton as a feminist and inauthenticated her as a woman of tradition. Her political image was thus framed as a political intruder violating the protocol of presidential campaigning; an anomalous candidate's wife rejecting the trappings of home and domesticity in favor of feminist principles; and a political lightning rod who exuded personality problems that promised to disrupt her husband's presidential bid and undermine the traditions of first lady.

From Lunatic Woodhull to Polarizing Palin : a historical-diachronic media discourse analysis of women political pioneers

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Teri Finneman
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Women Politicians ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Attitudes Toward Women ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Significant Finding ◽  
News Frames ◽  
Sarah Palin ◽  
Media Discourse Analysis

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Recent history suggests the United States is within reach of its first woman president. This study examines the media experiences of women political pioneers who helped pave the way to the breaking of the glass ceiling. It analyzes newspaper treatment of four pioneering politicians between the 1870s and 2000s and explores how media discourse of women politicians has and hasn't changed over 150 years. The women featured are Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president; Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress; Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman to receive a presidential nomination at a major party's convention; and Sarah Palin, the first Republican woman vice presidential candidate. This study employs a historical-diachronic framework that takes into account the social, political, and journalistic cultures of each woman's era to provide context for their media coverage. The findings illustrate that the press has used a variety of discursive strategies to delegitimize the candidacies of women politicians throughout history, which might have contributed to negative voter attitudes toward women in politics. Gendered stereotypes, gendered news frames, and double binds utilized in news coverage served to protect a male-dominated status quo. Yet a significant finding in Palin's coverage indicates that gender bias in news coverage is increasingly facing criticism, suggesting the tide may finally be turning in favor of more equalized discourse.

Study of the International News Coverage in National and Regional English

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijayta Taneja
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
International News ◽  
News Frames ◽  
News Framing ◽  
Major Powers ◽  
Technological Convergence ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Primary Phenomenon

Revolution in the information and technology is the primary phenomenon behind the globalization which has resulted in the interdependence of the nations. The creation of various international groupings such as UN, ASEAN, BRICS, G8, G20 etc. is also the result of the technological convergence. In such a scenario, the issues which affect one country are the issues which impact the world as a whole too. The countries connected by international are now having the sense of belongingness towards each other. Terrorism isone such issue on which every country of the world has a say at this moment. The united effort by major powers todefeat terrorism at a front and the response of terrorists on such efforts is being reported in all newspapers. The incidents of terrorism at any place and its reporting innews dailies play an important part in determining the perspective of the masses on such issues. Further, news framing results in the different types of news frames in coverage of same issues. Through this study, the researcher has made an effort to study the detailed coverage of the ‘Paris Attacks’ of 13/11 in regional as well as national English dailies of Jalandhar (Punjab).

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