Don’t Throw the Frame Out With the Bathwater
- Autor(en)
- Ming Manuel Boyer, Sophie Lecheler, Loes Aaldering
- Abstrakt
Framing research has predominantly revealed detrimental effects of episodic news frames, including individualist blame attributions and political cynicism. However, such frames may also discourage group biases and impede motivated reasoning regarding identity politics. In two experiments (N = 815; N = 1,019), we test the effect of episodic frames on group-consonant attitudes through identity-motivated reasoning. The two studies produce mixed results. Episodic frames might decrease gender-motivated reasoning for women with weaker gender identities when news threatens their identity, but not for men or for women with stronger gender identities. The implications for journalism and democracy are discussed.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Staatswissenschaft, Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Journal
- Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 22
- ISSN
- 1077-6990
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990221097057
- Publikationsdatum
- 06-2022
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 508020 Politische Kommunikation
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Communication
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/0af6948d-97c7-4c90-a568-c28131519f7e