A115.
Rebich-Hespanha, S., Rice, R. E., Montello, D.R., Retzloff, S., Tien,
A.
&
Hespanha, J. P. (2015). Image themes and frames in U.S. print news
stories
about climate change. Environmental Communication, 9(4), 491-519.
Research on frames in
climate change (CC) news coverage has
advanced substantially over the past decade, but the emerging
understanding of
the framing role of visual imagery that often accompanies news texts
remains
fragmented. We report on a set of image frames identified through
content
analysis of 350 images associated with 200 news articles from 11 US
newspaper
and magazine sources from 1969 through late 2009. We reliably
identified and
quantified the occurrence of 118 image themes. We then hierarchically
clustered
the themes based on their co-occurrence in images to identify an
integrated
framework of 42 image frames. We highlight frames associated with
particular
types of images (e.g., photographs and maps) or geographic regions.
From among
the full set of frames, we identify 15 that commonly appear in US CC
news
imagery and discuss the ways in which image frames make salient (or
render
invisible) particular categories of people, geographic regions, aspects
of
science, and spheres of activity.
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