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://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/dont-throw-the-frame-out-with-the-bathwater(0af6948d-97c7-4c90-a568-c28131519f7e).html