Framing social conflicts in news coverage and social media: A multicountry comparative study

Ahmed, Saifuddin; Cho, Jaeho; Jaidka, Kokil

doi:10.1177/1748048518775000

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“…These political frames work as communication tools that identify, evaluate, and prescribe the concerns to make sense of only what we watch or read. Additionally, although the issues are related to a certain region or country, geopolitical proximity is another major component that makes social media, particularly Twitter, a distinguished political communication and framing (Ahmed et al, 2019). Hence, we also found self-representation frames widely used by the Bahraini female candidates to represent themselves on Twitter.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 68%

Using Online Platforms for Political Communication in Bahrain Election Campaigns

Elareshi¹,

Habes²,

Ali³

et al. 2021

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The rise of SNS facilitated politicians with new opportunities to communicate directly with voters. Especially during election campaigns. Twitter provides female politicians with a space to exercise their political tasks beyond traditional media, especially in some Arab countries. Based on the framing theory, this study aims to identify how the female politicians in Bahrain utilised Twitter to present themselves for Parliamentary election campaigns in 2018. The researchers scrutinised the phenomenon using a thematic analysis of n = 263 tweets posted by two Bahraini female candidates. Results revealed that although politicians largely preferred Twitter in election campaigns to reinforce support and mobilisation for political engagement, two selected candidates lacked interaction with their supporters. Thus, the researchers concluded that the Bahraini female politicians have a long way to represent themselves in digital media politics as men widely benefit from personalisation more than females.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 68%

Using Online Platforms for Political Communication in Bahrain Election Campaigns

Elareshi¹,

Habes²,

Ali³

et al. 2021

JSSH

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“…While the mainstream press created dialogic moments for frames on structural remediation to emerge, unlike in previous studies (e.g., Tan, 2016;Goh et al, 2017;Ahmed et al, 2019;Kaur-Gill et al, 2019), the press also continued to center sensationalist articles that evoked streams of xenophobia. The various opposing dialectics play out in mainstream reporting.…”

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confidence: 71%

“…However, it is noteworthy to mention that with competing voices came competing threads on the discussion of migrant workers and their health. Thus, while state voice remained central in narratives on the Little India Riot episode (Kaur et al, 2016), with Ahmed et al (2019) citing that the mainstream press reported the riot without diving into the cause and reasons behind the conflict, attributing this to the stringent press control that promotes the state's position.…”

Section: Margins and Voicementioning

confidence: 99%

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Outbreak Inequality: Mainstream Reporting of Singapore's Migrant Workers in the Margins

Kaur‐Gill

2020

Front. Commun.

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Singapore saw a majority of COVID-19 infections plaguing low-skilled migrant construction workers by late April 2020. In the initial phases of the outbreak, mainstream frames were quick to highlight the gathering of low-skilled workers in open areas as sites to be surveilled, shaping the divisive practices of othering in early frames on migrant worker behaviors. These reports were manufactured as Singaporeans continued to gather in public spaces in large groups during the outbreak. Mainstream reports were quick to inform audiences of the surveillance and control on display for disciplining migrant workers. As the crisis developed to impact migrant workers predominantly, the erasures are recovered with mainstream press reporting worker vulnerabilities and discussing the structural implications of managing migrant labor as neoliberal subjects. The structural conditions of migrant labor were, in fact, centered in mainstream narratives, and dormitories as public health threats were extensively discussed, shedding light on discourses relating to outbreak inequality. The rights framework, however, remained largely absent in mainstream news frames about migrant workers.

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“…The methodological flexibility shown by framing studies is also significant when analysing all kinds of issues: from specific subjects such as electoral campaigns or the image of a leader (Sahly et al 2019;Louie and Viladrich 2021) to long-term problems such as climate change, social protest, the refugee crisis, or cases of sexual harassment (Lück et al 2018;Ahmed et al 2019;Starkey et al 2019), from very different techniques and designs. In general, framing studies are characterised by proposing a great diversity of models of content analysis of the informative or political message (Matthes and Kohring 2008), while surveys and experimental designs have had less application up to a few years (Brugman and Burgers 2018;Banks et al 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

Framing Studies Evolution in the Social Media Era. Digital Advancement and Reorientation of the Research Agenda

Rabadán

2021

Social Sciences

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Framing studies remain a powerful line of research in political communication. However, in recent years, coinciding with the emergence of social media, theoretical and operational advances have been detected, as well as a significant reorientation of its research agenda. The interaction between media and platforms such as Twitter or Facebook has built a clearly hybrid communicative environment and profoundly transformed the organization of public debate. This is the case, especially, with processes such as the setting of the public agenda or the construction of interpretive frames. Based on a systematic review of the international reference literature (2011–2021), this article analyses the influence of social media on the evolution of framing studies. Moreover, specifically, the beginning of a new stage of digital development is contextualized, and a triple research impact is explored. The main contributions of the text are that it (1) identifies advances in the theoretical and empirical organization of these studies; (2) explores its reorientation of content towards a greater balance between the analysis of media and political frames; and (3) reviews the recent experimental development of effects studies. Finally, the main challenges for future research in this field are detailed.

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Framing social conflicts in news coverage and social media: A multicountry comparative study

Cited by 19 publications

References 48 publications

Using Online Platforms for Political Communication in Bahrain Election Campaigns

Using Online Platforms for Political Communication in Bahrain Election Campaigns

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Outbreak Inequality: Mainstream Reporting of Singapore's Migrant Workers in the Margins

Framing Studies Evolution in the Social Media Era. Digital Advancement and Reorientation of the Research Agenda

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