Browsing by Subject "framing"
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Crack-Whores and Pretty Woman: The Media Framing of Sex Workers
(2018-12-05)International human rights organizations such as the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, and Amnesty International have advised nations to decriminalize sex work in order to protect ... -
Full of Hot Air? Three Examinations of Climate Change in the American Political Information Environment
(2016)Climate change is thought to be one of the most pressing environmental problems facing humanity. However, due in part to failures in political communication and how the issue has been historically defined in American politics, ... -
Media Framing of the Ebola Crisis
(2016-01-24)This study examines the role of international media framing in coverage of Ebola. A quantitative content analysis compared framing techniques in Ebola coverage across BBC Monitoring, The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph ... -
Racial Framing and Public Support for Ex-Felon Disenfranchisement
(2016-11-08)It is well documented that framing certain race-neutral policies, such as the death penalty, voter ID laws, and three-strikes laws, in terms of race can increase whites’ support for those laws. This study utilized a survey-based ... -
Why won’t it sell? Universal Health Care in America, 1945 - 2009
(2009-12-04)This project examines the language used to frame universal health care reform from 1945 to 2009, focusing on four frames: morality, efficacy, personal vulnerability, and fear of government. It analyzes whether the frames ...
