CRIM 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Third Watch, Nypd Blue, News Time
10 Dec 2016
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Refresher; what are frames: meaning construction, active, purposeful efforts to construct and make sense of reality, they evolve and change, they are contested, not just a set of beliefs: they are actively constructed. What are the core framing tasks: attributional framing. Trying to nd solutions: motivational framing. Why do some frames tend to resonate, while others fail or are ignored: credibility, salience, evidence (goes with credibility) Key point: frames are not necessarily meant to completely transform what you think; instead it is constructing reality in a way that resonates with something you already feel. The news media was complicit in this ^ for several reasons: crime stories had news value , audiences prefer individualistic attributions, reliance on of cial sources. In turn, the news media promoted a particular framing of crime: 3 types of frames. Crime is an important/urgent issue (roughly 30% of tv news time in.
