Political News with a Personal Touch

Autor(en)

Mark Boukes, Hajo Boomgaarden, Marjolein Moorman, Claes de Vreese

Abstrakt

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(en)

Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

University of Amsterdam (UvA)

Journal

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Band

92

Seiten

121-141

Anzahl der Seiten

21

ISSN

1077-6990

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699014558554

Publikationsdatum

11-2014

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

508006 Kommunikationstheorie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Communication

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/political-news-with-a-personal-touch(9d2b77fb-a3c3-4de0-8fef-0b4f3ed68703).html