Mediatization of News: The Role of Journalistic Framing

Framing has become one of the most popular concepts in the field of communication science. Recent overviews all document the popularity and tremendous increase in the use of the concept (Borah, 2011; Chong & Druckman, 2007b; d’Angelo & Kuypers, 2009; de Vreese & Lecheler, 2012; Matthes, 2009, 2012; Scheufele & Tewksbury, 2007; Vliegenthart & van Zoonen, 2011). Despite this proliferation, the framing concept has virtually gone unnoticed in the also burgeoning literature on mediatization (Mazzoleni, 1987; Mazzoleni & Schulz, 1999; Esser, 2013; Strömbäck, 2008). This is surprising since the notions of framing and mediatization would benefit from more simultaneous consideration. In this chapter, I develop an argument for the linkages between framing and mediatization, show how in particular journalistic news framing is a key indicator of mediatization, and reflect on the consequences of different types of news framing. The chapter first defines and identifies journalistic news frames. This then becomes an articulation of a media and journalism perspective at the intersection between framing and mediatization research.

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References

  1. Claes H. de Vreese