Die Wirtschaftskrise in der deutschen P.

The current article sets out to present the results of a content analysis performed on online editions of main publications from Germany, concerning the way the economic crisis was depicted as a topic. The quantitative analysis was performed in the time spam from January 2008 to October 2009, the main search criteria being the appearance of the word 'crisis'. The current research is based on the framing theory from the perspective of communication sciences. The sample includes two of the relevant quality papers in Germany, 'Süddeutsche Zeitung' and 'Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung', publications with different orientations. The weekly magazine 'Der Spiegel' was selected to draw a larger perspective, including the point of view of visual communication, given the fact that some covers of the German publication were devoted to the topic of economic crisis. A comparison to the way the Romanian media framed the economic crisis based on a secondary analysis will be presented in the end of the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]