Community Frame Analysis in Love Canal: Understanding Messages in a Contaminated Community

Framing environmental policy by the local press: Case study from the Dadia Forest Reserve, Greece

“…Second, this 'packaging' entails the selection of information, namely, preference over certain components of conditional messages and the rejection of others as well as their organization which apparently renders them meaningful (Thompson, 2005;Goodman and Goodman, 2006). Third, associations between frame components determine the cohesion of frames and, thereby, their meaning; to say a message constructs an issue, one is implying that it has built-in particular associations between concepts (McGregor, 1998;Robinson, 2002). Thus, analyzing frames postulates the unfolding of associations between concepts within their discursive setting.…”

Mediating claims of environmental degradation, source credibility and risk to human health: Ecuadorian news coverage of the Chevron case

“…The articulations of sources as risk-or issue-entrepreneurs highlight the degree to which actors from varying arenas work to capture the media narrative (Anderson, 1997;Mazur, 2009). From a social constructionist perspective, sourcing patterns reveal the 'success' that claims makers have had in entering public debate, as well as their nowpublic battles for legitimacy of their definitions, blame, proposed solutions, or perspectives (Hansen, 2000;Robinson, 2002). As Waisbord (2002) notes, 'Media representations provide crucial information used to estimate the social distribution of risk and the identity of who is responsible for the risk ' (p. 275).…”

Media Framing of Body Burdens: Precautionary Consumption and the Individualization of Risk

“…Consequently, the media plays a vital role in framing body burdens as both a risk and a social problem, and we can assume that public knowledge of body burdens is significantly influenced by the news media. The importance of the news media in interpreting local or regional contamination events is acknowledged in the literature (e.g., Griffin, Dunwoody, and Gehrmann 1995; Robinson 2002; Zavestoski et al. 2004), although to date no study has systematically examined news media coverage of body burdens arising from chronic and universal exposure to environmental contaminants.…”

“…Consequently, the media plays a vital role in framing body burdens as both a risk and a social problem, and we can assume that public knowledge of body burdens is significantly influenced by the news media. The importance of the news media in interpreting local or regional contamination events is acknowledged in the literature (e.g., Griffin, Dunwoody, and Gehrmann 1995;Robinson 2002;Zavestoski et al 2004), although to date no study has systematically examined news media coverage of body burdens arising from chronic and universal exposure to environmental contaminants. An understanding of how the news media frames body burdens as a social problem is critical for understanding how this issue is taken up in the public sphere, by policy makers, communities in close proximity to polluting industries, health professionals dealing with environmental illnesses, and individual readers who become aware of their bodies and their environments as ''polluted.''…”