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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Media Frames"”.
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Media Frames and Abortion Issue Polarization
… the most polarizing topics within the public and media sphere. How the media chooses to frame the abortion debate may influence public opinion and individual reactions. Specifically, articles that use incongruent abortion frames (pro-life/pro-abortion & anti-abortion/pro-choice) may be …
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Gubernatorial Girlfriends: An Analysis of News Media Frames of Political Scandal
… given to political sex scandals by the popular media. Little attention, however, is paid to research into the relationship among political sex scandals, the media reporting of sex scandals, and the ways in which politicians are able to use the media during admissions of sex scandals. This …
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Between the Left and the Right: Jihadi Brides' British Media Frames Post ISIS Fall
This thesis analyzes the media frames/representations of Western women who migrated to ISIS, known as "Jihadi Brides," after the fall of ISIS in December 2017. ISIS is a terrorist group that used attractive strategies and techniques in recruiting Western women to join ISIS as Jihadi Brides, …
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Fun With Frames: Exploring Metacommunication and Real Media Frames in South Park's Fake News
… project seeks to shed light on entertainment media portrayals of television news journalists and television news journalism as a whole by examining the issues covered, how those issues are framed, and how the journalist is used as a figure on the border of entertainment and information in one …
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Framing a Pope: Analyzing Media Frames in The New York Times Coverage of Pope Francis
… coverage from The New York Times. The mass media has, since the election of Pope Francis in 2013, provided him extensive coverage on a myriad of issues. Previous studies have noted Pope Francis' propensity to draw massive amounts of media attention towards his actions and statements, even …
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Replicating the Kaepernick Effect: The Power of Polarizing Frames to Make or Break Consumer Loyalty
This thesis evaluates the ways media frames influence attitude towards brands when the brand endorses a controversial celebrity spokesperson. This research was created with the intent to fill a current gap in communication research, providing original data and addressing the influence that external …
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THE MEDIA IS A FUNHOUSE MIRROR: COMPARING ECONOMIC INTERACTION ISSUES IN THE U.S. AND CHINESE MEDIA
… two countries. The research focused on the key media frames in the two sets of news media, the factors that shaped these media frames, and the real meanings behind those reports. The study found both similarities and differences. The two sets of media showed significant differences in their …
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The Stigmatization of Hunger: The Impact of Social Stigma on Arkansas Youths’ Food Security
… is overdue. This research analyzes how the media frames food insecurity and how perceived social stigmas affect a student’s willingness to seek out help when struggling with food security. </p>
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The Image Restoration of BP
… restoration strategies used by BP and how the media assessed the strategies. These results indicate an increase in the use of multiple image restoration strategies and media frames. Moreover, this study provides insight into the steps crisis managers should take in the postcrisis stage.
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Voice of America And the Civil Rights Movement: A Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis
… This comparative discourse analysis identifies media frames and answers the question if there was an influence by the State Department in news output that was targeted towards audiences in the Soviet Bloc. The goal is to examine if there were propaganda elements in the stories or there were an …
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Media - government interactions and foreign policy : a rational choice approach to the media's impact on political decision-making and the paradigm of the Greek - Turkish conflict
… provides a systematic understanding of the media-government relationship in the conduct of foreign policy and a rigorous approach of the media's role and impact on decision - making processes. It particularly covers a deficiency in the existing literature, with regard to the media's …
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Media Framing of the Movement for Black Lives
Media framing can greatly impact the influence of social movements. Disseminating their messages is a social movement’s essential task in its struggle against hegemonic norms. Prior research suggests that media frames often marginalize and dismiss social movements rather than shedding light on …
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Framing Alberta’s NDP: How is the AbNDP, a Vehicle for Leftist Politics, Framed in a Conservative Canadian Province?
… highlighted through framing within social media. This paper uses frame analysis to determine how framing was used in the election campaigns by conservative parties, how progressives are represented by conservatives, and the implications this may have for progressive politics. This paper …
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Misrepresentation of Islam and Muslims in Canadian media: a comparative content analysis of major news outlets
This study focuses on how mass media frames Islam and Muslims in Canada. This study addresses the rise in hate crimes and islamophobia which is often fueled by mass media’s misrepresentation of Islam and Muslims. Using quantitative and qualitative content analysis headlines were taken from The …
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Biased policing, martyrdom, white gratitude & brown pain: media narratives surrounding the Bruce McArthur case
… LGBTQ2SIA+ community. Existing research on news media framing of crime victims lacks to understand how the news media frames queer victims of crime. This research sought to explore the emergent media narratives framing the McArthur case through a critical discourse analysis of 212 news items from …
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Military and the media examining the wartime framing of Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan
… the relationship between the major print news media and the Canadian government in times of war is characterised by a broad and diffused array of media frames. The National Post, Toronto Star, and Globe and Mail were found to publish a variety of politically and thematically diverse articles. …
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The “Other” athletes: Representations of disability in Canadian print media during the London 2012 Paralympic Games
In our highly mediated society, media culture plays a critical role in socialization and offers a conduit for the naturalization of ideas. By this reasoning, stories told by the media about Paralympic athletes have the potential to influence our understanding of disability. This study reveals the …
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The Gekko Effect: The Media's Framing of Michael Douglas' Ambiguous Public Health Disclosure and the Public's Online Health Information Seeking
… the presence and frequency of online media frames and frame combinations in stories related to Michael Douglas' public health disclosure, and the frames' relationship with the public's online information seeking of "Michael Douglas", "HPV", "throat cancer", and "oral sex". The results …
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Artificial Intelligence in 2024: A Thematic Analysis of Media Coverage
… per outlet) were analyzed and interpreted as media frames. Eight dominant frames emerged: AI Boom vs. Bubble, Misuse and Misinformation, Ethical and Moral Challenges, Policy and Governance, Societal and Cultural Impact, Work and Automation, Environmental Impact, and Technological Advancements …
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How the News Covers History: A Thematic Analysis of the New York Times and Wall Street's Journal's Coverage of Kamala Harris's 2020 Vice Presidential Campaign
… to attain this position. As a result, the media had to grapple with how to cover her historic campaign from the moment she was announced as the vice-presidential selection. This qualitative thematic analysis examined The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal's coverage of her campaign …
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