Frame analysis (also called framing analysis) is a multi-disciplinary social science research method used to analyze how people understand situations and activities. Frame analysis looks at images, stereotypes, metaphors, actors, messages, and more. It examines how important these factors are and how and why they are chosen.[1] The concept is generally attributed to the work of Erving Goffman and his 1974 book Frame analysis: An essay on the organization of experience and has been developed in social movement theory, policy studies and elsewhere.[2]
Framing theory and frame analysis is a broad theoretical approach that has been used in communication studies, news (Johnson-Cartee, 1995), politics, and social movements among other applications. "Framing is the process by which a communication source, such as a news organization, defines and constructs a political issue or public controversy" (Nelson, Oxley, & Clawson, 1997, p. 221).[3] It is related to the concept of agenda-setting. Framing influences how people interpret or process information.[4] This can set an agenda. However, frame analysis goes beyond agenda-setting by examining the issues rather than the topics.[4]
Frame analysis is usually done in regard to news media. However, framing is inevitable, as everyone does it.[4] It can speed up the process of interpretation as well as writing and presenting the news.[5] People just may not realize they are using frames.[4] When people are aware that they are using framing, there are several techniques that can be used. These may include: metaphor, stories, tradition, slogan, jargon, catchphrase, artifact, contrast or spin.[1]
Frame analysis had been proposed as a type of rhetorical analysis for political actors in the 1980s. Political communication researcher Jim A. Kuypers first published his work advancing framing analysis as a rhetorical perspective in 1997. His approach begins inductively by looking for themes that persist across time in a text (for Kuypers, primarily news narratives on an issue or event), and then determining how those themes are framed. Kuypers' work begins with the assumption that frames are powerful rhetorical entities that "induce us to filter our perceptions of the world in particular ways, essentially making some aspects of our multi-dimensional reality more noticeable than other aspects. They operate by making some information more salient than other information. ..."[6] In "Framing Analysis From a Rhetorical Perspective" Kuypers details the differences between framing analysis as rhetorical criticism and as a social scientific endeavor, in particular arguing that framing criticism offers insights unavailable to social scientists.[7]
In his 2009 work, Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action[8] Kuypers offers a detailed template for doing framing analysis from a rhetorical perspective. According to Kuypers, "Framing is a process whereby communicators, consciously or unconsciously, act to construct a point of view that encourages the facts of a given situation to be interpreted by others in a particular manner. Frames operate in four key ways: they define problems, diagnose causes, make moral judgments, and suggest remedies. Frames are often found within a narrative account of an issue or event, and are generally the central organizing idea."[9] Kuypers' work is based on the premise that framing is a rhetorical process and as such it is best examined from a rhetorical point of view.
In his book, Goffman said that people use their primary framework to examine their world.[4] There are also distinctions within primary frameworks. There are natural and social frameworks.[4] Natural frameworks don't apply social forces to situations.[4] They just exist naturally. However, social frameworks do apply social forces to situations.[4] The two are connected because social frameworks stem from natural frameworks.[4]
Framing has been utilized to explain the process of social movements (Snow & Benford, 1988).[10] Movements are carriers of beliefs and ideologies. In addition, they are part of the process of constructing meaning for participants and opposers (Snow & Benford, 1988). Mass movements are said to be successful when the frames projected align with the frames of participants to produce resonance between the two parties. This is a process known as frame alignment.
Snow and Benford (1988) say that frame alignment is an important element in social mobilization or movement. They argue that when individual frames become linked in congruency and complementariness, that "frame alignment" occurs (p. 198; Snow et al. 1986, p. 464[11]), producing "frame resonance", which is key to the process of a group transitioning from one frame to another (although not all framing efforts are successful). The conditions that affect or constrain framing efforts are:
Snow and Benford (1986) propose that once proper frames are constructed as described above, large-scale changes in society such as those necessary for social movement can be achieved through frame alignment.
The deductive frame analysis pre-defines frames and then looks for them in the news to see which stories fit into the definitions.[13] The inductive frame analysis requires that a story is analyzed first.[13] The researcher looks for possible frames that have been loosely defined.[13]
Since frame analyses are conducted manually, they require significant effort and time. Recently, some researchers have proposed to automate parts of frame analysis. For example, one approach aims to find instances of biased news coverage in news articles.[14] The automated approach imitates frame analysis by using natural language processing and media bias models.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) lay the foundations for supporting global health and international development work for the next 15 years. Thirty years ago, the Ottawa Charter defined health promotion and outlined key principles for global action on health, including the importance of advocating, enabling and mediating for health equity. Advocacy underscores a human right to health and suggests political action to support its attainment. Enabling speaks to health promotion's focus on the empowerment of people and communities to take control over their health and aspirations. Mediation draws attention to the critical intersectoral partnerships required to address health and social inequities. Underpinned by this approach, the aim of this paper is to consider how key health promotion principles, namely, rights, empowerment and partnership feature (and are framed) within the SDGs and to consider how these framings may shape future directions for health promotion. To that end, a critical frame analysis of the Transforming Our World document was conducted. The analysis interrogated varying uses and meanings of partnerships, empowerment and rights (and their connections) within the SDGs. The analysis here presents three framings from the SDGs: (1) a moral code for global action on (in)equity; (2) a future orientation to address global issues yet devoid of history; and (3) a reductionist framing of health as the absence of disease. These framings raise important questions about the underpinning values of the SDGs and pathways to health equity - offering both challenges and opportunities for defining the nature and scope of health promotion.
The goal of case frame analysis is to describe predicators. Predicators are words that authorize,by either requiring or permitting, the presence of other elements in a phrase.Danove refers to this authorization as licensing. The words that predicatorslicense are known as complements.Complements are then divided into two categories: arguments and adjuncts. Arguments are words that a predicatorrequires to actually mean something. Adjunctsare not required, but they provide additional meaning.
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This section illustrates the analysis and design of the lateral frame elements in an integrated model. This section can only be completed if you have licensed and installed the RAM Frame module. You may begin with the model that you generated in the previous portions of this tutorial, or you may open the model called Tutorial_v14_US_Complete.RSS from the RAM Manager.
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