News media stories about cancer on Facebook: How does story framing influence response framing, tone and attributions of responsibility?

Starr, Tegan S; Oxlad, Melissa

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“…The technique was selected as it offers flexibility in application to an inductive approach to data analysis and its previous use in media analyses (34,36,37). Qualitative framing analysis is also commonly used in media analysis given its usefulness as a heuristic tool (33,38). To complete the thematic analysis, author TT began thematic analysis of the articles chronologically starting with articles from the SMH followed by The Australian.…”

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How the Media Places Responsibility for the COVID-19 Pandemic—An Australian Media Analysis

Thomas

Wilson

Tonkin

et al. 2020

Front. Public Health

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Global pandemics are likely to increase in frequency and severity, and media communication of key messages represents an important mediator of the behavior of individuals in response to public health countermeasures. Where the media places responsibility during a pandemic is therefore important to study as blame is commonly used as a tool to influence public behavior but can also lead to the subjective persecution of groups. The aim of this paper is to investigate where the media places responsibility for COVID-19 in Australia. Specifically, we identify the key themes and frames that are present and observe how they changed over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to government actions and progression of the pandemic. Understanding media representations of the COVID-19 pandemic will provide insights into ways in which responsibility is framed in relation to health action. Newspaper articles from the Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald were sampled between January 20 and March 31 2020 on every second Monday. Factiva was used to identify and download newspaper articles using the following search criteria: "COVID-19" OR coronavirus OR "Wuhan virus" OR "corona virus" OR "Hebei virus" OR "wet market" OR (Wuhan AND virus) OR (market AND Wuhan and virus) or (China AND Virus) or (Novel AND Virus). Articles were imported into Nvivo and thematic and framing analyses were used. The results show that framing of the pandemic was largely based on societal issues with the theme of economic disruption prevalent throughout the study time period. Moral evaluations of the pandemic were infrequent initially but increased co-incident with the first signs of "flattening of the curve." Explicit examples of blame were very rare but were commonly implied based on the causal origin of the virus. The Australian printed media were slow to report on the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition they were reluctant to apportion blame until the end of the study period, after confirmed case rates had begun to slow. This is interpreted as being due to an evaluation of the pandemic risks as low by the media and therefore the tools of othering and blame were not used until after the study period when the actual risks had begun to abate, more consistent with an inquiry than a mediating mechanism.

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How the Media Places Responsibility for the COVID-19 Pandemic—An Australian Media Analysis

Thomas

Wilson

Tonkin

et al. 2020

Front. Public Health

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“…Responsibility frames (Iyengar, 1990;Semetko & Valkenburg, 2000) in the media coverage of health issues can not only affect the public perception of these issues (Heley et al, 2020;McGlynn & McGlone, 2018;Niederdeppe et al, 2011), but also attributions of responsibility (Gollust et al, 2013;Starr & Oxlad, 2021;Temmann et al, 2020) as well as recipient's emotions (Corrigan, 2000;Weiner, 2006), and, finally, intentions for individual health behaviour, interpersonal behaviour, and societal participation (Y. Sun et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Framing is the process of selecting aspects of a perceived reality and making them more salient in communication, in such a way as to promote a specific interpretation of the information presented (Brüggemann, 2014;Entman, 1993, p. 52). Frames attributing causal and/or treatment responsibility by stressing certain causes and/or treatment options respectively barriers, i.e., responsibility frames (Iyengar, 1990;Semetko & Valkenburg, 2000), can affect the public perception of health issues (Heley et al, 2020;McGlynn & McGlone, 2018;Niederdeppe et al, 2011), as well as recipient's attributions of responsibility (Starr & Oxlad, 2021;Temmann et al, 2020) and emotions towards those affected by these health issues (Corrigan, 2000;Weiner, 2006). Furthermore, responsibility frames can influence intentions for individual health behaviour, interpersonal behaviour, and societal participation (Y.…”

Section: Responsibility Framing Of Health Issues In the Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…First, the total sample is limited to print and online media. However, in recent years, social media in particular have not only changed the way in which people receive and engage with health information (Goodyear et al, 2019;Heiss & Rudolph, 2022;Moorhead et al, 2013), but also increasingly affected the public perception of and attitudes towards health issues (Albalawi & Sixsmith, 2017;Heiss & Rudolph, 2022;Seltzer et al, 2017;Starr & Oxlad, 2021). Still, there is only a limited number of studies examining how responsibility for health issues is portrayed on social media platforms (e.g., Yoo & Kim, 2012;Zhang et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Considering that responsibility frames can affect the public perception of health issues, attributions of responsibility and emotions (Heley et al, 2020;McGlynn & McGlone, 2018;Niederdeppe et al, 2011;Starr & Oxlad, 2021;Vyncke & van Gorp, 2018) as well as influence intentions for individual health behaviour, interpersonal behaviour, and societal participation (Gollust et al, 2013;Y. Sun et al, 2016), future studies should further examine the linguistic specifics of the different frames as well as their respective persuasive effects.…”

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Temmann

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Responsibility framing research on health issues typically investigates the attribution of responsibility for causes and treatment options to either the individual or society. However, social epidemiological perspectives also stress the relevance of an individual’s social network and underline that the three levels of responsibility (individual, social network, and society) interact. Given that media portrayals can affect public perceptions, attitudes, responsibility attributions, and emotions, we examined causal and treatment responsibility attributions on these three levels in the media coverage of depression. Our quantitative content analysis of major German print and online news media from 2011 to 2020 (N = 755) shows that responsibility is not only assigned to the individual and societal level, but both to the social network and to interactions between the three levels. Our findings additionally stress that key events may influence the portrayal of responsibility in media coverage, but resulting changes are only short-term.

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Framing of female medical personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of the Chinese official media

Gao

Jin-fu

et al. 2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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This paper analyzes the media frames adopted by the official WeChat and Sina Weibo accounts of the People’s Daily between January 1 and December 31, 2020, for reports about female medical personnel involved in pandemic prevention and control. Although the number of female medical personnel involved in pandemic prevention and control far exceeded that of their male counterparts, the extent of media reports on the former was far less than that of the latter. The human interest frame about female medical personnel was mainly applied, while the use of the action frame was less frequent, which highlighted the gender identity and family role of these women but weakened their professional identity. This was not conducive to praising the contributions of female medical personnel in fighting the pandemic. The media frames of reporting medical personnel in WeChat and Sina Weibo accounts of the People’s Daily are not always the same. After Wuhan’s lockdown ended on April 8, the proportion of the human interest frame of the report text of female medical personnel decreased, and the proportion of the action frame increased, while the proportion of the human interest frame of the report text of male medical personnel increased and the proportion of the action frame decreased. Previous studies mainly analyzed the use of the media frames of female news personalities, but few studies focused on whether women had the possibility of breaking away from the gender media frames. This study shows that some female medical personnel with exceptional professional competence are likely to transcend the gender media frames and receive similar coverage to that of male medical professionals, like Li Lanjuan and Chen Wei.

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News media stories about cancer on Facebook: How does story framing influence response framing, tone and attributions of responsibility?

Cited by 10 publications

References 57 publications

How the Media Places Responsibility for the COVID-19 Pandemic—An Australian Media Analysis

How the Media Places Responsibility for the COVID-19 Pandemic—An Australian Media Analysis

Framing Depression

Framing of female medical personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of the Chinese official media

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