Beyond Cognitive Framing Processes: Anger Mediates the Effects of Responsibility Framing on the Preference for Punitive Measures

Kühne, Rinaldo; Weber, Patrick; Sommer, K.

doi:10.1111/jcom.12151

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“…Attribution of responsibility is a common dependent variable in studies of framing; jumpstarted by the pioneering work by Iyengar (1990Iyengar ( , 1991, recent years have seen a plethora of studies examining attribution of responsibility in the context of framing (e.g. Chang et al, 2016;Kühne et al, 2015;Springer and Harwood, 2015).…”

Section: Methodsologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Conflict and responsibility: Content analysis of American news media organizations’ framing of North Korea

Curran

Gibson

2019

Media, War & Conflict

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This article features a content analysis of the entire corpus of news articles published about North and South Korea by five major American news websites in 2016. It provides an insight into the multiple and contradictory ways in which North Korea is framed by the American news media. The study finds that responsibility for the ongoing crisis on the peninsula is attributed to a small number of actors and that attribution of responsibility, as well as intensity of coverage, differs significantly among news agencies. Cable news was found to focus on conflict to a greater degree than non-cable outlets, and online-only news sites were found to focus more on Kim Jong-un individually. The article qualitatively addresses these differences in coverage and discusses their implications.

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Section: Methodsologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Conflict and responsibility: Content analysis of American news media organizations’ framing of North Korea

Curran

Gibson

2019

Media, War & Conflict

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“…Looking again at the emotional framing literature, Kühne and Schemer (2015) showed that anger frames lead to a support of harsh political decisions as well as political participation in their implementation. A further study of Kühne, Weber and Sommer (2015) showed that high levels of anger lead to a support of punitive measure in case of youth violence. Moreover, perceived anger also leads to a greater willingness to engage in politics in general (Weber, 2013).…”

Section: Effects Of Anger On Political Persuasionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Serving the populist agenda. How German public media broadcasters inadvertently facilitate populist movements by evoking fear and anger

Kieslich¹,

Marcinkowski²

2020

SCM

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The term Media Populism is used to indicate a ‘involuntary complicity’ between news media and populist movements based on the convergence of commercial media logic and populist communication style. It grants populists and their messages a high degree of media visibility. According to the literature, this applies more to tabloid media and infotainment content in commercial television than to upmarket media outlets and news programs. In this paper, we refer to another form of involuntary collaboration between news media and populists that is not based on similar communication styles, but simply on the fact that news media have to report on topics which populists claim issue ownership for. This applies foremost to upmarket media and public service broadcasting, which are obliged by their own quality standards or legal mandate to report completely and comprehensively on all topics of public concern. We are especially interested in the emotional response of German audiences to news coverage on two topics: mass migration and the role of Islam in Germany. With the help of two experiments, we demonstrate that public service news reporting on these issues provokes strong negative emotional reactions. What is more, our results indicate that media induced fear and anger lead to increased support for anti-migration and Islam-critical demands. Hence, German public service broadcasters may not only be ‘secret accomplices’ in creating negative emotions towards Muslim migration, but also facilitate populist movements.

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“…Weiner [48], who developed attribution theory, insisted that the perception of controllability is related with affective responses such as anger, annoyance, or pity. Specifically, a controllable mistake is linked with anger and an uncontrollable mistake is linked with pity [49]. Weiner and Handel [50] found that more controllable mistakes with internal cause brought about more anger.…”

Section: Situational Crisis Communication Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Kühne, Weber, and Sommer [49] also said if the crisis is framed as being the organization's responsibility, stakeholders feel anger and eventually a demand for punishment. All in all, crisis type, more specifically, people's perception of the level of responsibility, would also influence people's emotional states when they are exposed to crisis information about a company.…”

Section: Situational Crisis Communication Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

CSR Reputation as a Prediposition Factor in a Product-Harm Crisis: Applying Affective Disposition Theory and SCCT

2020

J Sustain Res

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Affective disposition theory explains that people feel happiness or distress when observing success or failure of protagonist. Applying affective disposition theory and situational crisis communication theory, the main purpose of this study is to investigate whether CSR reputation acts as a predisposition factor in a product-harm crisis. Using both affective disposition theory and situational crisis communication theory, a randomized 2 (high and low CSR reputation) × 2 (victim and preventable crises) full factorial design experiment was conducted with 227 participants (average age 30.28 years). There were main effects of both CSR reputation and crisis types on generating anger and sympathy toward the companies that experience a crisis. Furthermore, a good CSR reputation particularly worked as a predisposition factor for sympathy. Practical and theoretical implications are also discussed.

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Beyond Cognitive Framing Processes: Anger Mediates the Effects of Responsibility Framing on the Preference for Punitive Measures

Cited by 42 publications

References 41 publications

Conflict and responsibility: Content analysis of American news media organizations’ framing of North Korea

Conflict and responsibility: Content analysis of American news media organizations’ framing of North Korea

Serving the populist agenda. How German public media broadcasters inadvertently facilitate populist movements by evoking fear and anger

CSR Reputation as a Prediposition Factor in a Product-Harm Crisis: Applying Affective Disposition Theory and SCCT

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