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
Band
101
Seiten
933-954
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