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What is a frame?
A central organizing principle which provides meaning for issues or events.
What is the framing process?
Selecting some facets of events or issues and highlighting connections between them to promote a particular interpretation, evaluation, and solution.
What is the conflict of law and order vs. the injustice frame?
There is always competition that occurs between both frames all the time.
What are the two kinds of frames in the contest over frames?
Ideological frames and News frames
What are ideological frames?
This is the frame that a group of political actors will try to promote; it is their interpretation.
What are news frames?
These are frames adopted by the media when they transform political events into news.
What is Garrison's example of the changing frames of nuclear energy?
In the 1950s, nuclear energy had a dominant frame, which meant that it had no competitors and everyone generally supported it. In the 1970s, anti-nuclear power movements began and became the competing frame, taking away the favourable dominant frame that nuclear power once had.
What is the danger of having a dominant frame?
These frames can often make viewers believe false assumptions about reality, which can lead to great mistakes and faults.
What is an example of a dominant frame being dangerous?
During WWII, the Japanese were depicted as weak to american audiences so that the american public would not fear Japan. So when the radio broadcasted that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbour many people thought that the broadcast was a mistake and didn't take the necessary precautions, and as a result many members of the navy died.
Where does the power of dominant frames come from?
From being invisible.
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