How Media Frames Move Public Opinion: An Analysis of the Women's Movement

Terkildsen, Nayda; Schnell, Frauke

doi:10.1177/106591299705000408

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“…Among media scholars, studies of representations have examined myriad groups, such as media frames of women (Goodyear-Grant 2013; Terkildsen and Schnell 1997), American print media representations of China (Liss 2003), and biases in Canadian media over heteronormativity and ageism (Fleras 2011). Scholars focusing on migrants and minorities have also taken up this charge, arguably the area in which studies of migrants, minorities and the media have developed the most.…”

Section: Representations and The Media: How Migrants And Minorities Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Migrants, Minorities and the Media: Information, Representations and Participation in the Public Sphere

Bleich¹,

Bloemraad²,

Graauw³

2015

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

146

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Scholars of political communication have stressed the critical role of the media in modern liberal democracies (Bennett and Entman 2001;Chong and Druckman 2007; Koopmans and Statham 2010;McCombs 2004;Norris 2000). The media inform the public, provide a communicative bridge between political and social actors, influence perceptions of pressing issues, depict topics and people in particular ways and may shape individuals' political views and participation. Despite this critical role, students of migrants and minorities have rarely used systematic media analysis in their scholarship. We believe that the time is ripe to review how a focus on the media can help advance a field that traditionally has been explored with other types of data. In this special issue, we showcase a diverse set of new research to illustrate the ways in which media analysis advances our knowledge about migrants and minorities in the public sphere.Understanding the factors that shape media coverage of migrants and minorities, as well as the effect of that coverage on public attitudes, policy outcomes or social relations, has a modest but growing foundation. To further advance our knowledge, this special issue is oriented around a comparative approach. Media coverage may be copious or minimal, positive or negative, social or political. These axes of difference can be examined across time; across regions, countries or cities; between media outlets of different types, political stripes or economic ownership structures; and with reference to a wide range of migrant or minority groups and issues, spanning asylum to security, integration to racial discrimination. Comparative analysis connects

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Section: Representations and The Media: How Migrants And Minorities Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Migrants, Minorities and the Media: Information, Representations and Participation in the Public Sphere

Bleich¹,

Bloemraad²,

Graauw³

2015

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

146

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“…However, there has been no known published research conducted to date on the news coverage of financial mechanisms for influencing wildlife conservation. This is problematic because these schemes are widespread across the globe (Dickman et al, 2011) and the media may influence attitudes if articles are constantly framed positively or negatively, as has been shown in other disciplines (Brewer, Graf, & Willnat, 2003;Terkildsen & Schnell, 1997). Attitudes toward incentives are important to understand as they could reveal the types of mechanisms that are most acceptable and to whom, the schemes that are thought to be succeeding or failing and the reasons for this, and the stakeholder groups that are most positive or negative toward each scheme.…”

Section: Media and Framesmentioning

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Media Framing of Financial Mechanisms for Resolving Human–Predator Conflict in Namibia

Rust

2015

Human Dimensions of Wildlife

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The decline in carnivore populations is largely exacerbated by lethal methods used to reduce livestock depredation. Financial mechanisms are designed to limit lethal control by reducing the cost of depredation. The media can affect how the general public feel about issues like financial mechanisms but no study has been undertaken to understand the framing of this topic. This article filled this gap by using content analysis of newspapers to analyze economic incentives designed to mitigate human-carnivore conflict in Namibia. Forty-six percent of the articles were framed positively toward incentives, 24% ambivalently, 19% negatively, and 11% neutrally. Compensation was commonly framed positively whereas community-based conservation, trophy hunting, and tourism were framed ambivalently. Incentives were framed more negatively where perceived costs outweighed benefits. These results can help conservationists plan more effective communication interventions and anticipate issues that can affect the success of mitigation strategies.

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“…While these print media do not offer a full range of what the US public reads for its news and opinion content, they were selected for three reasons. First, other scholars have utilized these print news sources when conducting similar research, and thus selection followed a disciplinary norm in public opinion scholarship (see Zaller ; Terkilsden and Schnell ). Second, these outlets have relatively national coverage and readership.…”

Section: Print Media Framing Of Lawrence: Implications For Same‐sex Mmentioning

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Frame Spillover: Media Framing and Public Opinion of a Multifaceted LGBT Rights Agenda

Engel¹

2013

Law soc. inq.

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Between May and July 2003, a shift in how the US public viewed the legality of consensual homosexual sex occurred. While in May the largest percentage of respondents to date supported decriminalizing such activity, that percentage dropped eleven points two months later. Similar declines in support were evident in the same period over a range of gay and lesbian rights claims. The ruling in Lawrence v. Texas (2003) decriminalizing homosexual sex is the obvious intervening event. To explain this pattern, coding of print and televised news coverage of the ruling throughout 2003 was undertaken. Coverage was not overtly negative in terms of antigay rhetoric or hostility toward the judiciary; rather, the dominant media frame focused on the implications of Lawrence for an entirely separate rights issue: marriage equality. This article examines the dynamic of frame "spillover," or the idea that media focus on a distinct and not widely supported rights claim in a multifaceted rights agenda might depress support across the entire rights agenda. The findings call for further research, and they have implications for scholarship on public opinion, social movement framing, and ideational development and policy debate as studied within the broader field of American political development.

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How Media Frames Move Public Opinion: An Analysis of the Women's Movement

Cited by 131 publications

References 11 publications

Migrants, Minorities and the Media: Information, Representations and Participation in the Public Sphere

Migrants, Minorities and the Media: Information, Representations and Participation in the Public Sphere

Media Framing of Financial Mechanisms for Resolving Human–Predator Conflict in Namibia

Frame Spillover: Media Framing and Public Opinion of a Multifaceted LGBT Rights Agenda

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