14 May Framing Theory Discussion Prompt Please note: If you are attending class on Thursday, we will do this IN CLASS. No need to do it ahead of time. If you are NOT attending

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Episodic and thematic frames

EPISODIC' FRAMES

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Framing

Poverty

{Iyengar, 1990)

news

· Randomly assigned

to thematic or

episodic TV

stories

· 3 Thematic

►Increased unemployment in manufacturing sector

►Increases in number of people meeting poverty line

· Food emergencies across the nation

· Episodic

Unemp

oy

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►

l

ed person discussed their economic

difficulty

· Manipulated race (Black/White) of person

Framing

Poverty

(Iyengar, 1990)

· Post-exposure perceptions

· Cause: "In your opinion. what are the most important causes of poverty?"

· Individual vs social factors

· Solutio to

ways

n: "If you were asked to prescribe

reduce poverty, what would you suggest?"

Results

(Iyengar, 1990)

· Individual vs social attribution

· Thematic condition = social attributions

· Episodic condition = individual attributions

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· Does race

further make matters

►

individuals judged

Black

impoverished

worse?

for being

Associating race with topics

· Race-coded issues

· Certain political issuesare seemingly neutral (they affect everyone) but they are heavily associated wrfh certain racial groups (Gilens 1996).

· Immigration

· Cri'ne

· Poverty

· Terrorism

· Affirmative Action

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News Stories

& Empathy

Experiment – Johnson et al, 2009

· How story of Katrina

victims

news

influence empathy and policy support

· Race of victims

· Type of activity

· looting

· Non-looting

· Control

· Empathy

· Policy Support

News Stori Experiment

es

& Empathy

– Johnson et al,

· Empathy:

victims?

vhat e

2009

· To

· Pol

icy support:

►

extent)

al extent 4 =a moderate extent 7 = a great

m

passage?

for supporting

extent is the government responsible

To what

xtent do you feel empathy for the

the

Katrina victims that youjvst readabout in the s

►

much monthly financial support should the

se some Katrina

$600)

How

victimsreceive from the government? (l= $0 7 =

(1 =a very

.

.

Effects

of media distortions

[Gibson & Zillmann. 1994)

· Carjacking story manipulation (4×2)

· Exemplars vary degree of extremity

· No injury, minimal, substantial, death

· Response

· Immediately or 1 week later

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No harm: "Adams was lucky. The incident terrified her. But she walked away without so much asa scratch."

Minimal harm: "Adams was lucky. The incident terrified her, but she walked away with only minor cuts and bruises from falling onto the pavement."

Substantial harm: "Adams was fortunate, considering what could have happened. She was terrified, and she suffered a broken arm from being shoved out of the moving car and hitting the sharp edge of the gaspump."

Death: "Unfortunately Adams did not make it completely out of the car. Her arm got caught in the seat belt as Block drove away, and shewas dragged, screaming for help, for several feet –

Effects

of media distortions

[Gibson & Zillmann. 1994)

· Outcome

opinion, how serious a

· In

your

problem is ca acking?

►

think carjacking will become

Do you

threat on campus?

l

a real

nationa

►

How

likely do you t

become

hink it is that you might

a victim of carjacking?

(Gibson 1994)

Effects of

& Zillmann,

media distortion

of severity

· I

plar

eased perception

exem

ncr

death

of problem for

over

· Incr

time (1 week later.

)

REASED

exemplars and this effect INC

death

tantial and

tality estimates for subs

eased fa

· time!

tic over

likely to rely on vividness heuris

More

Effects

of media distortion

(Gibson & Zillmann, 1994)

· Death exemplar condition rated as more upsetting than others

· Death exemplar and no harm exemplar rated asequally informative

·

in perceptions of

No differences

newsworthiness, importance, or accuracy

Need for representative exemplars

(Gibson & Zillmann, 1994)

►

ists have long been instructed to

urnal

"Jo

ramatic case histories to

make

a story

more interesting,

but it is apparent

that

thi

s

practice

gather d

serves to create

on the part of the news recipient"

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►

News tends

to be displayed in

Problems,

issues, grievances,

· Two

opposing sides

(p. 623)

·

frame

ts

conflic

a conflict

Framing Theory

· Framesin communication

· Framesin thoughts

·

frames

How

thought

in communication affect frames in

· Saltence availability accessibility applicability

· Episodic & thematic framing

· Race-coded issues

· Creating associations in your mind

· Sensational frames

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