Theory Into Practice: Framing, the News Media, and Collective Action

Ryan, Charlotte; Carragee, Kevin M.; Meinhofer, William

doi:10.1207/s15506878jobem4501_11

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“…According to Heath (1997), crises are interruptions in the dominant narrative of control; this presents a prime opportunity for publics whose constituents want to challenge the dominant organizational narrative to enact their own versions. Unless they act promptly, these other voices and emergent agents might only have a few other opportunities, if any, to enter their frame into the public dialogue (Ryan, Carragee, & Meinhofer, 2001). Being prepared and seizing an opportunity can give these publics a more powerful voice when it is apt to do the most good.…”

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Emergent Agents: The Forgotten Publics in Crisis Communication and Issues Management Research

Waymer¹,

Heath²

2007

Journal of Applied Communication Research

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Crisis communication research rarely highlights the voices of marginalized publics or their advocates whose interests are affected by crisis situations. We take a different approach by using a response to a natural disaster to expand our theorizing about crisis situations beyond those that hurt the bottom line. Using official statements from Senators Landrieu and Obama about events surrounding Hurricane Katrina as texts for analysis, we demonstrate how they used transcendence, rhetorically, and appropriated the Bush administration's key term*security*to garner more support for their positions, Katrina sufferers, and relief efforts. Implications of this strategy serve to broaden crisis communication theorizing, and to provide insights into ways to strengthen the quality of crisis emergency response planning and response protocols.Many crises arise when key stakeholders are harmed by organizations' (in)actions, yet, in public relations and crisis communication research and literature, we rarely are exposed to the voices of many ''forgotten'' publics. Almost overwhelmingly, crisis communication research and literature, which are dominated by the managerial perspective, serve as a manual for ways that organizations can handle crises at hand, avoid legal sanctions and punitive damages, and address displeased publics. In such analyses, there is little or no attention to the voices of the affected publics, those whose interests are part or most of the reason why the subject organization is suffering a crisis and in need of responding to public and media inquiry. In this essay, we advance the view that crisis communication research, strategy, and responses will continue to be

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Emergent Agents: The Forgotten Publics in Crisis Communication and Issues Management Research

Waymer¹,

Heath²

2007

Journal of Applied Communication Research

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“…In a setting of social activism, various frames compete to persuade authorities and bystanders of the legitimacy and righteousness of their causes. Their representation and diffusion in the news media become crucial for the success of social movements (Benford & Snow, 2000;McAdam, 1996;Pan and Kosicki 1993;Ryan, Carragee, & Meinhofer, 2001;Scheufele, 1999;Snow et al, 1986). In this Asian Journal of Communication 237 sense, when alternative news frames -which otherwise wouldn't appear in the mainstream media -spill over, it implies a change in, or even a challenge to, the power relations embedded within the existing media system.…”

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After the spillover effect: news flows and power relations in Chinese mainstream media

Lin

Chang

Zhang

2014

Asian Journal of Communication

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“…The journalistic process of packaging facts and information, creating a story, and organizing discourses is termed framing or agenda setting (Caburnay et al, 2003;Condit, 2004;Ryan, Carragee, & Meinhofer, 2001;Wallack et al, 1993), in which certain points of view are selectively presented (Huebner, Fan, & Finnegan, 1997). Frames create the boundaries around an issue establishing ''what will be discussed, how it will be discussed, and above all, how it will not be discussed'' (Altheide, 1996, p. 3).…”

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The Health Buck Stops Where? Thematic Framing of Health Discourse to Understand the Context for CVD Prevention

Higgins

Naylor

Berry

et al. 2006

Journal of Health Communication

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Using a constructed week methodology, we analyzed media summaries for the type of health discourse (health care delivery, disease-specific prevention, lifestyle risk factors, public/environmental health disease, social determinants of health) portrayed over a 5-year period as a means of describing the context within which health staff worked to prevent heart disease in one Canadian province. The results reveal that heart disease received very little media coverage, despite provincial health data revealing it to be the leading cause of mortality, morbidity, and health care costs. Coverage of the health care system dominated the media landscape over the 5-year period. The study findings also suggest that the health discourses in the media summaries were represented as primarily thematic, rather than as episodic narratives, relieving any one level of government as entirely responsible for the health of its constituents. Media advocacy strategies may be a means to redress the imbalance of health discourses presented by the media.

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Theory Into Practice: Framing, the News Media, and Collective Action

Cited by 71 publications

References 4 publications

Emergent Agents: The Forgotten Publics in Crisis Communication and Issues Management Research

Emergent Agents: The Forgotten Publics in Crisis Communication and Issues Management Research

After the spillover effect: news flows and power relations in Chinese mainstream media

The Health Buck Stops Where? Thematic Framing of Health Discourse to Understand the Context for CVD Prevention

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