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News Framing and Preference-Based Reinforcement: Evidence from a Real Framing Environment During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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Communication Research . Mar2023, Vol. 50 Issue 2, p179-204. 26p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- COVID-19 is a news issue that can be covered from many different angles. When reporting, journalists have to select, accentuate, or exclude particular aspects, which, in turn, may evoke a specific, and possibly constricted, perspective in viewers, a phenomenon termed the news-framing effect. Guided by the reinforcing spiral framework, we conducted a multi-study project that investigated the news-framing effect's underlying mechanism by studying the dynamic of self-reinforcing effects. Grounded in a real-life framing environment observed during the pandemic and systematically assessed via a content analysis (study 1) and survey (study 2), we offer supporting evidence for a preference-based reinforcement model by utilizing a combination of the selective exposure (i.e., self-selected exposure) and causal effects (i.e., forced exposure) paradigms within one randomized controlled study (study 3). Self-selection of news content by viewers was a necessary precondition for frame-consistent (reinforcement) effects. Forced exposure did not elicit causal effects in a frame-consistent direction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *COVID-19 pandemic
*SELECTIVE exposure
*CONTENT analysis
*PREPAREDNESS
*COVID-19
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00936502
- Volume :
- 50
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Communication Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 161823960
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502221102104