Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach

Gamson, William A.; Modigliani, Andre

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“…Our basic coding unit was a text segment, which we defined as a statement that was meaningful and that expressed a basic yet complete idea (see, for example, Fiss and Hirsch 2005). Aggregation of recurrent idea elements (Gamson and Modigliani 1989) expressed through the text segments yielded themes, or discursive strategies, used by the authors of the texts. The idea elements and themes uncovered through textual analysis, together with the case history, shaped the emergent theory at the core of this paper.…”

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The Role of Analogy in the Institutionalization of Sustainability Reporting

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Ferraro

2010

Organization Science

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We study institutional entrepreneurship in an emergent field by analyzing the case of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and its efforts to purposefully institutionalize the practice of sustainability reporting. We suggest that analogies affect institutionalization processes through two mechanisms. In early stages of institutionalization, analogy operates primarily as a normative mechanism and adoption is driven mainly by an instrumental logic. This emphasis on similarity to existing institutions stresses conformity and promotes legitimacy. Yet, analogies can also have a cognitive effect on institutional design, especially once initial acceptance from the environment has been secured, by directing attention towards incongruences between the emergent institution and its analogical source. Institutional entrepreneurship can spur innovation and departure from existing institutions by highlighting limitations of the analogical source and providing a compelling value-rational argument underscoring the worth of the new institution. This theoretical contribution helps explain how analogies to existing institutional practices can both provide legitimacy to novel institutions and constitute the basis for a creative process of institutional design.3 Institutional entrepreneurship is a delicate balancing act between two conflicting tasks. On the one hand institutional entrepreneurs must disguise the radical nature of their enterprise in order to engage supporters and evade the wrath of incumbents, while on the other they cannot adhere too closely to existing practices, for by doing so, they will not be able to further any meaningful change (Aldrich and Fiol 1994). Institutional entrepreneurs need to become skilled cultural operatives, fashioning stories in order to attract resources. In this work it is essential to "balance the need for legitimacy by abiding by societal norms about what is appropriate with efforts to create unique identities that may differentiate and is relatively well-studied. However, the role of analogy in shaping institutional design has not been explored in depth. Tropes like simile, analogy and metaphor can help gather political support and legitimacy, but they also lead to analytical closure (Oswick, Keenoy and Grant 2002). Remaining within the confines of a clearly defined analogy cannot lead to evolution to profoundly different institutions (Hoffman and Ventresca 1999). Furthermore, the analogy cannot be discarded at later stages (Ocasio and Joseph 2005) when deeper institutional change is being advocated, as cognitive lock-in has already limited external constituents' receptivity to alternative scenarios. How, then, do analogies shape the construction and evolution of proto-institutions? 4In this article we address the role of analogies in institutional change by presenting a longitudinal case-study of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and its strategies to promote and institutionalize sustainability reporting practices. GRI, a non-profit organization headquartered in Amsterdam, ...

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The Role of Analogy in the Institutionalization of Sustainability Reporting

Etzion

Ferraro

2010

Organization Science

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“…Several definitions of 'frame' and 'framing' (e. g., Entman, 1993;Gitlin, 1980;Gamson and Modigliani, 1989;Pan and Kosicki, 1993;Tankard, 2001;Reese, 2001;Scheufele, 1999) share a number of assumptions. Frames are seen as patterns of interpretation through which people classify information in order to handle it efficiently.…”

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Framing-effects approach: A theoretical and methodological critique

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2004

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“…Within the context of selecting news issues, the ways of media portraying certain topics considerably relates to establishing framing issues. This is a notable mechanism how media selectively emphasizes on certain issues and how the issues can be framed (Binder, 1993;Gamson & Modigliani, 1989). Specifically, how newspapers delineate the topics of hosting mega sporting events significantly relates to framing issues.…”

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Abstract:The study examined how newspaper articles have framed the 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, in regard to the different issues covered, sources cited, positive and/or negative externalities frames, and the relationship between issues and sources. A total of 625 Korean nationwide and local newspaper articles covering the Asian Games during the 9-year period between April 7, 2005 and September 18, 2014 was analyzed in terms of three aspects of framing: (1) the types of issues highlighted, (2) the sources of information cited, and (3) the ways in which either possibilities of positive or negative externalities depiction were used. The results of the current study reveal that "political issues" (e.g., administrative and/or political conflict among central government, host city, and local residents, participation of North Korea national team) except "factual information of the event" (e.g., schedules, results, athlete performance, history) were the most commonly highlighted, "administrators" who are the government agencies preparing the Asian Games were the most frequently cited sources of information and the frame of "negative externalities" was more employed than the frame of "positive externalities" in newspapers of the Asian Games. This study regarding media coverage of the mega sporting event identifies how mass media agencies influence their target audience using framing theory and especially provide extensive analysis of media coverage of the Asian Games to date, which could serve as a groundwork for further studies of media framing theory.

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Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach

Cited by 3,485 publications

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The Role of Analogy in the Institutionalization of Sustainability Reporting

The Role of Analogy in the Institutionalization of Sustainability Reporting

Framing-effects approach: A theoretical and methodological critique

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