Doing News Framing Analysis: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives

Doing News Framing Analysis provides an interpretive guide to news frames – what they are, how they can be observed in news texts, and how framing effects are uncovered and substantiated in cultural, group, and individual sites. Chapters feature framing analysts reflecting on their own empirical work in research, classroom, and public settings to address specific aspects of framing analysis. Taken together, the collection covers the full range of ways in which framing has been theorized and applied—across topics, sources, mechanisms, and effects. This volume fosters understanding among the scholarly camps of framing scholars, and encourages greater clarity from framing analysts in all aspects of their empirical inquiry. Chapters offer fresh perspectives from which researchers can begin new research programs, puzzle through perplexing problems in a current research program, or expand an existing program. Providing conceptual and methodological guidance, Doing News Framing Analysis will help framing researchers at all levels to better understand news framing and to improve their future news framing research. Foreword by James N. Druckman 1. Doing News Framing Analysis -- Paul D’Angelo & Jim A. Kuypers Part 1: Perspectives on Frame Building and Frame Definition 2. Finding Frames in a Web of Culture: The Case of the War on Terror -- Stephen D. Reese 3. Knowledge Into Action: Framing the Debates Over Climate Change and Poverty -- Matthew C. Nisbet 4. Strategies to Take Subjectivity Out of Framing Analysis -- Baldwin Van Gorp 5. Of Spreading Activation, Applicability, and Schemas: Conceptual Distinctions and Their Operational Implications for Measuring Frames and Framing Effects -- Bertram T. Scheufele & Dietram A. Scheufele 6. The Oppositional Framing of Bloggers -- Stephen D. Cooper Part II: Perspectives on Framing Effects 7. Studying the Effects of Issue Framing on Public Opinion About Policy Issues: Does What We See Depend on How We Look? -- Paul R. Brewer & Kimberly Gross 8. Framing the Economy: Effects of Journalistic News Frames -- Claes de Vreese 9. Specificity, Complexity, and Validity: Rescuing Experimental Research on Framing Effects -- Dhavan V. Shah, Michael P. Boyle, Mike Schmierbach, Heejo Keum, & Cory L. Armstrong 10. Framing the Pictures in Our Heads: Exploring the Framing and Agenda-Setting Effects of Visual Images -- Renita Coleman Part III: Theoretical Integration in News Framing Analysis 11. Researching Political News Framing: Established Gr