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Relationships between elite news frames and frames in user comments: An analysis of terrorism coverage and follow-up comments on the New York Times online

Dargay, Lauren Michelle
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1469783314

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2016, MA, Kent State University, College of Communication and Information / School of Media and Journalism.
Online news forums allow members of the public to instantly and anonymously comment on stories, interact with other commenters, and help shape an ongoing public opinion narrative about issues and events. Thus far, however, the relationship between news stories and public reactions via news comments—specifically, the effect of news frames on follow-up comment frames—has received scant attention in the mass communication literature. Because terrorism is a polarizing issue, it provides an excellent topical context for a study focused on the relationship between well-articulated and concrete elite frames in news stories about terrorism and terrorist attacks and frames in online reader comments. A content analysis of New York Times online news stories about the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, France and the December 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California was conducted to determine how messages influence public opinion via framing of news forum comments. The results of this study indicated that individuals used the dominant and secondary news frames present in stories as both dominant and secondary frames in their comments, and anonymous and partially anonymous commenters were more likely to employ frames used in news stories than were identified commenters. However, many individuals employed frames in their comments that are not already recognized as common for terrorism, as well as “other” frames that either related to terrorism or went off-topic. Additionally, frames employed by anonymous and partially anonymous commenters had more overlap with news frames than frames employed by totally identified commenters.
Chance York, Ph.D. (Committee Co-Chair)
Gary Hanson, M.A. (Committee Co-Chair)
Michael Beam, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
79 p.
Journalism; Mass Communications
Framing; media framing; online commenting; comment frames; terrorism; framing of terrorism

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  • Dargay, L. M. (2016). Relationships between elite news frames and frames in user comments: An analysis of terrorism coverage and follow-up comments on the New York Times online [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1469783314

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Dargay, Lauren. Relationships between elite news frames and frames in user comments: An analysis of terrorism coverage and follow-up comments on the New York Times online . 2016. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1469783314.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Dargay, Lauren. "Relationships between elite news frames and frames in user comments: An analysis of terrorism coverage and follow-up comments on the New York Times online ." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1469783314

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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