A generalisable model for frame identification: towards an integrative approach

Xu, Elaine

doi:10.1080/22041451.2020.1759925

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“…Although this qualitative approach cannot yield generalizable results (especially given the relatively small sample size and purposive approach), generalizability is not necessarily a goal for exploratory, inductive, and qualitative research. Rather, such work aims for standards such as rigor, trustworthiness (the credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability of findings; see Lincoln and Guba, 1985; Nowell et al, 2017), or analytic generalizability (the ability to generalize a study’s findings within its specific field or context; Xu, 2020). We have attempted to meet these criteria through a systematic analytic process, internal checks for consistency, and clear explanation of our methods.…”

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Philanthropic, prosocial players: How game-related charity events motivate unlikely donors

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New Media & Society

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Although we have long known that many different types of individuals play video games, the stereotypical “gamer” is often portrayed as a young male. Furthermore, research into questions such as violence and aggression, addiction or problematic play, and toxic gaming communities tends to frame gamers and gaming as anti-social. From a philanthropic perspective, then, gamers appear to be unlikely candidates for charitable giving. Following attendance at a fundraising game tournament for Gamers Outreach, a non-profit charity that provides video game systems to children’s hospitals, this research team conducted a survey of attendees. Our findings suggest that gamers are willing to support and monetarily contribute to a cause they believe in, but also that engaging potential donors through their preexisting interests and communities—in this case, games—can be a productive form of outreach. Finally, participants recognized and sought to combat gaming’s anti-social stereotypes, revealing a further motivation behind their charitable behavior.

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Philanthropic, prosocial players: How game-related charity events motivate unlikely donors

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Issues, advocacy, and audience engagement

Mills

2020

Communication Research and Practice

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Sustainability, environmental impact, digitalisation, and alternative medicine are familiar labels. However, scientific, political and media commentary have encouraged audiences to see the spheres that these labels refer to as problematic in some way and therefore deserving of intervention. As a consequence, when encountered they are no longer treated as factual-as referring to objective states, consequences, processes, or options. Instead they incite debate, not only because they are associated with a diversity of opinion about what actions should be taken to address their associated problems but also because the calls for action associated with them are often justified by claims of harmful effects on people, social or economic systems, or the environment. Varied interpretations and subsequent reactions to the facts and opinions informing such claims have nurtured a perception that the status quo is not acceptable-that there is a need to seek greater sustainability, reduce environmental impacts, master digitisation and reject alternative medicines. In other words, when we encounter these labels we are encouraged to assume that we are dealing with established social or environmental issues to such an extent that we are primed to accept implied calls for action. There is an abundance of examples of other familiar labels which have, over time, come to define theatres for personal, social or institutional action. Global warming is one example of a familiar label: an environmental impact defined by a collection of objective facts about rising greenhouse gas levels in the face of longstanding and escalating global dependence on fossil fuels (Al-Ghussain, 2019). The process of nominalisation, the first of four elements required for a topic to be judged as a problem that requires action (Best, 2007) has occurred. For many, perhaps most people, global warming is now a taken-for-granted issue that is sustained by widespread scientific discussion, report writing, government policy development and media attention (e.g., documentaries, expert columns, calls for state and global action). This activity has contributed to a massive domain expansion, Best's (2007) second element, which has coupled global warming to the supraordinate issue of sustainability and fostered significant discursive growth. A way of talking about sustainability has emerged, which incorporates notions of unbridled consumption, 'throw-away society', environmental degradation, declining biodiversity, ecosystem disruption, recycling, repurposing, renewable, greenwashing, biodegradable, eco-friendly, 'going green' and environmental ethics. This discursive expansion has been channelled into focused campaigns for action, Best's third element, across all levels of society. The result has been a shift from a largely descriptive lexicon to one containing emotive terms like eco-crisis, climate crisis, climate emergency, and environmental collapse. The Editor-In-Chief of the Guardian newspaper, Katharine Viner (Quoted by Carrington, 2019) provides an example of how...

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A generalisable model for frame identification: towards an integrative approach

Cited by 2 publications

References 27 publications

Philanthropic, prosocial players: How game-related charity events motivate unlikely donors

Philanthropic, prosocial players: How game-related charity events motivate unlikely donors

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