News frames shape audience judgement by selecting which story elements appear

Evidence

The function of worldwide news coverage in connection to terrorist situations will be determined and examined by the researcher through the use of content analysis. According to Hsieh and Shannon (2005 pp. 1277–1288), qualitative content analysis is a research technique that allows for the arbitrary interpretation of text data’s content by systematically classifying, categorizing, and recognizing themes or patterns. … According to the media framing theory, framing consists of the techniques journalists use to arrange and display information to viewers. News frames accomplish a number of tasks, including presenting viewpoints that serve as the foundation for their assessments and judgements, excluding some parts of a story while allowing others, and organizing information so that a story may be constructed upon it (Gitlin 2003). — Muhammad Asad Latif, The Identity of Religion Always Comes Up, 40

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out media framing theory and qualitative content analysis as the study’s twin conceptual tools.
• XREF: Connects to broader media-effects and agenda-setting literatures on how coverage constructs public perception.