Political News with a Personal Touch
- Author(s)
- Mark Boukes, Hajo Boomgaarden, Marjolein Moorman, Claes de Vreese
- Abstract
Journalists increasingly use personal exemplars in news stories about political ibues. This study experimentally investigated how such human interest framing indirectly affects political attitudes via the way people attribute responsibility of an ibue. Results show that exposure to human interest-framed television news increased attribution of responsibility to the government for the portrayed problem, which in turn decreased support for the government to cut public spending on this ibue. This article explains how and why these findings are in line with exemplification theory but run counter to findings of studies on episodic framing effects.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Communication
- External organisation(s)
- University of Amsterdam (UvA)
- Journal
- Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
- Volume
- 92
- Pages
- 121-141
- No. of pages
- 21
- ISSN
- 1077-6990
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699014558554
- Publication date
- 11-2014
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 508006 Communication theory
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Communication
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/political-news-with-a-personal-touch(9d2b77fb-a3c3-4de0-8fef-0b4f3ed68703).html