Digital Media Coverage of the 2017–2018 Banking Crisis in Ghana: A Framing Analysis
Stephen Tindi,
Rosemary Obeng-Hinneh
Abstract:The literature on news framing largely focuses on political news. When Ghana experienced what came to be known as the “banking crisis” in 2017/2018, there was wide media coverage of the issues that came in its wake and that provided an avenue for studies on the framing of a financial phenomenon. This paper examines the online media framing of this crisis through the quantitative content analysis of 97 news articles from two online news portals: Myjoyonline and Graphiconline, which are private, and state owned.… Show more
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