Framing Refuge: Media,Framing, and Sanctuary Cities

The refugee sanctuary movement in the United States has shifted to include undocumented immigrants fleeing violence and economic strife. Given the negative tenor of coverage of undocumented immigration, and ties between framing and policy views on immigration, how the media frames sanctuary cities is likely to impact public perceptions of these cities and their policies. To assess media coverage of sanctuary policies, we analyzed articles from five national newspapers from 1980 to 2017 with both human content analysis and dictionary-based computational analysis. We find that framing around religion/morality and conflict has decreased, while stories focusing on crime and partisanship have increased. We discuss implications for public opinion and the likelihood that the American public will take their cues from media framing and elite discourse when it comes to sanctuary policies.     

以媒介生态学为视角解析台湾地区"动新闻"

本文以台湾《苹果日报》在其网站上推出的动新闻为研究对象,采用媒介生态学理论作为分析框架,通过对动新闻事件始末的梳理及对台湾媒介生态的考量,对动新闻的产生原因、管制困境和生存背景进行了研究。文章认为,台湾动新闻是台湾媒介生态失衡发展的产物,它的存在反映了台湾媒介生态的现状和问题。     

Framing the Right Suspects: Measuring Media Bias

This article examines ideological bias in six large daily newspapers and The Associated Press. The media examined are three to six times more likely to associate ideological labels (or frames) with organizations (think tanks) with a conservative orientation than think tanks having a liberal orientation. This tends to frame the analyses done by conservative think tanks as less objective than the analysis done by liberal think tanks. Regression results suggest that approximately three-fourths of the explained differential in framing rates is due to media bias. The rest is primarily explained by the differential in the “quality” of think tanks.     

Red Media,Blue Media,and Purple Media: News Repertoires in the Colorful Media Landscape

This study extends past research on news repertoires by examining how individuals combine news exposure across an array of media platforms and content. Results from a national survey reveal 6 distinct news repertoires. While some respondents have clear ideologically driven repertoires, others have repertoires that are best described as medium-centric. A closer look at socio-demographic factors and participation levels among the 6 news repertoires are also explored. Results shed light on the democratic implications of the high-choice media landscape and research on news exposure and effects.     

大学生媒体形象建构的嬗变——以框架理论的观点

近十年来,随着大众传媒关于大学生群体的负面新闻报道不断增加,大学生的媒体形象正在发生嬗变。笔者对《中国青年报》、《齐鲁晚报》1997年与2007年有关的大学生新闻报道加以统计分析,试图找出这十年内媒体建构的大学生形象的变化,希望提醒媒体及公众,对大学生群体产生特定形象认知时能更为谨慎。     

境外媒介素养教育的理论与实践探究

本文对境外各国与各地区媒介素养教育的理论与实践状况进行了全面梳理,以期为建立具有中国本土化特色的媒介素养教育体系提供参考。     

What Children Watch When They Watch TV: Putting Theory Into Practice

If advertisers and programmers are to keep pace with the rapid structural and contextual changes in broadcast and cable television, and maintain their young audiences, they must gain a better understanding of children's viewing motives and viewing patterns. The authors assess the interrelatedness of television use motives and viewing patterns, and investigate perceptions of viewer loyalty network and station identification, and the generalizability of these perceptions to times when local television stations change network affiliation. This study profiles the child televiewing audience and expands the known parameters of television viewer uses and gratifications by identifying three distinctive viewer archetypes-medium- oriented viewers, network-oriented viewers, and station-oriented viewers.     

Race and Ethnicity in local Television News: Framing,Story Assignments,and Source Selections

Because local television has become the primary source for news, this study examined race and ethnicity in news stories, story assignments, and source selections. A content analysis of local newscasts found Latinos, Asian Americans, and Native Americans were virtually invisible as anchors, reporters, and subjects in the news. Although African Americans anchored and reported the news in some markets, overall there was segregation in story assignments. Rarely were Latinos, Asian Americans, or Native Americans interviewed as news sources. African Americans were used as news sources more than other racial and ethnic groups when 2 or more people were interviewed.     

Storying the News through Category,Action, and Reason

From a sociolinguistic and discourse-analytic perspective, news stories have often been considered as operating within a similar structural framework to oral narratives (Labov, 1972 Labov, W. 1972. Language in the inner city, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.  [Google Scholar]), sharing formal elements with narratives produced in other contexts (although as Bell (1991) Bell, A. 1991. The language of news media, Oxford: Blackwell.  [Google Scholar] has demonstrated in relation to print news, these elements occur in temporal disorganization). In this paper, in line with other recent treatments of news stories, we suggest that news does not conform to this kind of “narrative” structure as such. Examining data taken from print and live-broadcast TV news through a Sacksian (1995) lens, we argue that it is possible to simplify the analysis of news structure by approaching the news as “stories,” where the story elements are organized around the notions of category, action, and reason rather than as a series of narrative clauses involving orientation, complicating actions, evaluation, and resolution (Bell, 1991 Bell, A. 1991. The language of news media, Oxford: Blackwell.  [Google Scholar]; van Dijk, 1988 Van Dijk, T. A. 1988. News as discourse, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.  [Google Scholar]).     

议程注意周期模式下中美主流媒体对突发公共卫生事件的报道框架——以《人民日报》和《纽约时报》对禽流感的报道为例

本研究通过内容分析法对1998年到2011年13年来的《人民日报》和《纽约时报》对禽流感的报道进行比较分析,发现中美主流媒体在对禽流感议题的关注趋势呈现相同的特征,但在关注程度上有所不同。同时,本文也以议题注意周期、框架理论为基础,揭示出由于办报理念的不同和文化背景的差异,中美主流媒体对禽流感议题关注重点和选取视角、报道议题等方面不同特征。     

中国电视传媒理论与实践的得失偏差探讨

中国电视传媒理论研究已经取得了较大的发展 ,从注重艺术到注重传媒的演变、从定性描述到量化指标的变迁、从单一媒体到多媒体研究的微妙进展、从对象研究到比较研究的拓宽、从媒体自身到社会文化研究的视野 ,都可以证明。但理论研究和实践偏差主要表现在传媒理论尽管在学习输入外来观念和实际应用上洋洋大观颇具规模 ,却似乎没有形成中国化的可操作切用的理论 ;传播概念的普适性和艺术传播实践的差距不小 ,电视艺术传播远不如新闻传播研究更为有力和深入 ;传播的公信力和批评精神确立也是值得研究的问题。     

A Theory of Media Power and a Theory of Media Use: Different Stories,Questions, and Ways of Thinking

In this article, I compare the assumptions, concepts, and propositions of media system dependency (MSD) theory and uses and gratifications (U&G) theory at the microlevel of analysis. The epistemological origins of these theories are situated within the differing social and personal contexts that affected their development. Those MSD assumptions that serve as background to this comparison are specified, and major hypotheses concerning the social ecology of microeffects processes are discussed, particularly as they pertain to public opinion concerns. Following this elaboration of MSD theory, basic differences between MSD and U&G conceptions of the audience, interpersonal networks, the media system, and the nature of media power are addressed. I conclude with a brief comment on the implications of the Internet for theorizing micro media effects.     

重构媒介现实——数据驱动下的新闻生产再思考

大数据进一步促使传统媒体以及传统新闻生产方式转型与变革,但同时也应看到媒介现实并不能代之以“数据现实”.文章认为,基于数据的“媒介现实”重构,是大数据背景下新闻生产所面临的新问题,数据驱动下的新闻生产须重视从表象到真相、从相关到因果、从数据到人性等几个关键点.     

媒介融合背景下中国广告理论与实践的十大话题

媒介融合是中国广告业面临的最大实际问题,媒介融合打破了中国广告业的生态,使中国广告在理论和实践上面临着前所未有的变革,也带动了具有中国特色的广告理论创新,这是中国广告业个性化、品牌化和独立化发展的重要保证.     

新闻敲诈:媒介话语权的异化

新闻敲诈是对媒介话语权的异化,对异化过程的探究有利于揭示新闻敲诈的深层原因.从媒介生态的角度,新闻敲诈是新闻腐败的表现形式,它折射出媒介话语权具有权力与权利叠加的特性,这一特性助长了记者对媒介话语权的滥用.从新闻生产的角度,新闻敲诈侵蚀了传媒话语权的公共性和公开性.从社会结构和功能的角度,新闻媒体位于政府与民众之间,这一中间人的身份为新闻敲诈提供了前提,这也正是新闻敲诈在世界新闻史上屡禁不绝的根本原因.     

#SocialJournalism: Local News Media on Twitter

A content analysis of 4,507 tweets from 60 local news organizations in the United States was conducted to examine Twitter strategies used by the local news industry. Results indicate that local news organizations in the United States mainly used Twitter as an additional platform for news dissemination. While local TV stations and newspapers differed significantly in their use of tweet structures, content, and strategies, both followed the similar practices of their traditional media portals. In addition, the number of followers and total tweets of a news organization’s Twitter account, use of photos, hashtags, usernames, and tweet content predicted audience engagement with the site. Overall, local news organizations in the United States did not appear to use Twitter to cross-promote and/or supplement their traditional business practices. This research calls for more systematic, multi-dimensional social media management in local newsrooms.     

Effects of Media Use on Audience Framing and Support for Welfare

In this study, I examined cognitive structures consisting of frames that people used in the open-ended responses to a survey question about cuts in welfare benefits. The study shows that patterns of individuals' entertainment and news media use are important sources of frames that people adopt in thinking about an important public issue. In turn, those frames partly derived from the media shape the public's policy preferences beyond controls for individuals' social location, ideology, interpersonal communication, and knowledge. Frames that are related to particular patterns of media use (e.g., increase in differences between poor and rich, need for specific approaches, some will go hungry) have power to alter even deep, ideologically motivated welfare preferences. However, the results suggest that the media's most important role may be in spreading out the field of thinkable solutions to public problems rather than making any particular position dominant in policy decision making.     

社会责任--新闻媒体的生命线

对媒体来说,真正的生命线是什么？是社会责任。能够并勇于负起社会责任的媒体是社会前行的助推器、是社会环境的净化器。在充满机遇与挑战的历史进程中,在构建和谐社会的宏伟目标面前,媒体应该肩负怎样的社会责任？媒体的管理应如何与时俱进？结合辽宁人民广播电台近几年在履行社会责任方面的媒体实践谈谈几点做法和体会。