Frame Construction and Frame Promotion (Strategic Framing Choices)
BP2-STS
- Hänggli, Regula ORCID University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Kriesi, Hanspeter University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2012
Published in:
- American Behavioral Scientist. - SAGE Publications. - 2012, vol. 56, no. 3, p. 260-278
English
In this article, the authors discuss the three most important strategic framing choices bypoliticalactors (“substantiveemphasischoice,”“oppositionalemphasischoice,”and “contest emphasis choice”) of direct-democratic campaigns. The authors investigate these strategic framing choices in the media input and look at how the political actors change their choices in another communication channel (political advertisement) and over time. The results provide the following insights: First, political actors tend to emphasize one to two main frames in their media input. They generally also use their main frames in the political advertisements and stay on their main frames over time. Second, although political actors tend to emphasize their own frames, they do not exclusively revert to this behavior. The authors find that the political actors pay more attention to their opponents’ frames in the media input than in the ads. With regard to variation over time, the authors can state that campaign dialogue does not disappear over the course of the campaign. Third, framing is primarily accomplished in substantive terms. In the advertisements and toward the end of the campaign, the authors do not find more contest frames.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales et du management
- Department
- Département des sciences de la communication et des médias
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Information, communication and media sciences
- License
- Rights reserved
- Open access status
- green
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1177/0002764211426325
- ISSN 0002-7642
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/325215
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