TY - JOUR
T1 - Proximity and Terrorism News in Social Media
T2 - A Construal-Level Theoretical Approach to Networked Framing of Terrorism in Twitter
AU - Kwon, Kyounghee
AU - Chadha, Monica
AU - Pellizzaro, Kirstin
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was supported by AEJMC Emerging Scholarship 2017.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Copyright © Mass Communication & Society Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
PY - 2017/11/2
Y1 - 2017/11/2
N2 - This study investigates networked framing of terrorism news in Twitter by distinguishing three proximity effects (geographic, social, and temporal proximity) on audience and media institutional frames (i.e., episodic/thematic and space frames), based on construal-level theory. An analysis of tweets during the Boston Marathon bombing and the Brussels Airport attack finds that institutional and audience frames show similarity but do not always converge on Twitter. Similarities in the audience and institutional frames are attributed to a universal human tendency for social categorization, inherent in the minds of not only ordinary citizens but also journalists. Proximity effects, however, were more salient on audience frames than on institutional frames.
AB - This study investigates networked framing of terrorism news in Twitter by distinguishing three proximity effects (geographic, social, and temporal proximity) on audience and media institutional frames (i.e., episodic/thematic and space frames), based on construal-level theory. An analysis of tweets during the Boston Marathon bombing and the Brussels Airport attack finds that institutional and audience frames show similarity but do not always converge on Twitter. Similarities in the audience and institutional frames are attributed to a universal human tendency for social categorization, inherent in the minds of not only ordinary citizens but also journalists. Proximity effects, however, were more salient on audience frames than on institutional frames.
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U2 - 10.1080/15205436.2017.1369545
DO - 10.1080/15205436.2017.1369545
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029458554
SN - 1520-5436
VL - 20
SP - 869
EP - 894
JO - Mass Communication and Society
JF - Mass Communication and Society
IS - 6
ER -