News framing and media legitimacy: an exploratory study of the media coverage of the refugee crisis in the European Union

Abstract

KeywordsLegitimacy, media legitimacy, framing, media, intangible assets, public sector, content analysis

The role of local news in constructing media legitimacy: how news media frames the sociopolitical efforts of multinational corporations in host countries

“…Altogether, prior research has focused on the tone and visibility of corporations in the news only when it comes to media legitimacy. As a consequence, scholars exploring media legitimacy in the context of framing have not focused on corporations but on public institutions (Pérez, 2017) or non-governmental organisations (de Souza, 2010; Marberg et al. , 2016).…”

“…Within that general concept, the legitimacy of organisations rendered by media is referred to as media legitimacy (Bitekine, 2011;P erez, 2017) and has been conceived as media presentations of judgements of the legitimacy of organisations, actors, and activities (Aerts and Cormier, 2009;P erez, 2017). Building on that understanding, in our study, we conceived an MNC's media legitimacy as being media presentations about the MNC that portray the processes, structures and outcomes of its behaviour as well as its linkages with other social actors in order to assess the benefits of the MNC's behaviour as being appropriate and/or desirable given existing norms and regulations.…”

Framing the Representation of Refugee Children and Adolescents: A Key Informant Review of the Italian Media

“…The media relations activity that the organisations undertake is important in neutralising or reinforcing the generic lens of new coverage in this field. About this practice, Rodríguez Pérez (2016) explains that media legitimacy is the perception of legitimacy that the media can create around individuals or organisations: ‘The media act as social transmitters able to shape public understanding, develop explanations and generate support, which citizens will use to pass judgement’ (Rodríguez Pérez, 2016, p. 171). The selection of particular sources of information tells the public that journalists trust those sources and that these are given, in a way, authority.…”

“…Sources that journalists particularly trust tend to gain extensive media access; as a result, they also tend to dominate the public discourse. Institutional sources, such as politicians, too often become primary definers of the news agenda, mostly due to their power and representativeness (Rodríguez Pérez, 2016).…”

Intangibles en el sector público: La legitimidad mediática como factor de sostenibilidad institucional

“…Hay estudios que codifican el contenido mediante coeficientes de respaldo mediático (Deephouse, 1996). Con el contenido mediático como unidad de muestra, existen otros estudios que han elaborado matrices de atributos y variables de tipologías de legitimidad (Robles & Canel, 2017;Rodríguez, 2017) a partir de las cuales medir los niveles de legitimidad disgregados en función de los procedimientos, resultados, estructuras y actuación de los líderes. Estas mismas tipologías de legitimidad, propuestas por Suchman (1995), fueron tratadas en el estudio cualitativo realizado por a través de grupos focales.…”