JOUR 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Frames, Reproductive Rights, Personalization
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Jour 302 feminism and framing chapter reading notes. To frame something is to make sense of it. They take on their meaning by being embedded in a frame or story line that organizes them and gives them coherence, selecting certain ones to emphasize while ignoring others. The facts reported were out there in the real world, true: out there among others. The media reflection was more the active, patterned remaking performed by mirrors in a fun house. People"s attitudes and judgements can be affected by the media"s framing of issues, especially when people lack firsthand knowledge of the issue. All words appearing within seven words before or after feminism, feminist, feminists, women and woman were conducted in this research. With two and a half years" worth of transcripts of news and public affairs from may 1993- January 1996 on abc, cnn< npr, and pbs, there were a total of 135,759,087 words.