If you Google the name Amanda Knox roughly 7.1 million results will be returned. Her name became one of the most recognized names in the world in 2007, but not in a way you would want to be remembered. “She devil with an angel face” and “heartless manipulator” became synonymous with the name Amanda Knox, not for any established or proven wrong doing by criminal proceedings, but for her perceived wrong doing embellished by the media.
Background
On November 2nd 2007, British exchange student Meredith Kercher was found murdered in an apartment she shared with American exchange student Amanda Knox. The events of that night were unclear and while investigators were trying to piece it together the media's focus was not on Kercher as one would expect it to be, but it had quickly shifted to her roommate Amanda Knox. No more than a day after the body was discovered images of Knox and her boyfriend, Raffaele …show more content…
The basis of this concept of framing is that the media focuses its attention on certain events or aspects of an individuals character, and then places those perceptions within a field of meaning. To put it simply, framing suggests that how something is presented to an audience influences the way people process said information. In this regard, information is constructed, mostly by journalists, in a way that tells the audience what to think and how to react to a given situation. The media's framing of Knox during the four year trial portrayed her in various ways: as a man eating sexual predator nicknamed “Foxy Knoxy,” as an American psychopath with a pretty face, and as the victim of a judicial system gone awry. The press became incredibly influential in the subsequent conviction of Knox, if not the sole reason for her conviction as found by the Italian Supreme
Background
On November 2nd 2007, British exchange student Meredith Kercher was found murdered in an apartment she shared with American exchange student Amanda Knox. The events of that night were unclear and while investigators were trying to piece it together the media's focus was not on Kercher as one would expect it to be, but it had quickly shifted to her roommate Amanda Knox. No more than a day after the body was discovered images of Knox and her boyfriend, Raffaele …show more content…
The basis of this concept of framing is that the media focuses its attention on certain events or aspects of an individuals character, and then places those perceptions within a field of meaning. To put it simply, framing suggests that how something is presented to an audience influences the way people process said information. In this regard, information is constructed, mostly by journalists, in a way that tells the audience what to think and how to react to a given situation. The media's framing of Knox during the four year trial portrayed her in various ways: as a man eating sexual predator nicknamed “Foxy Knoxy,” as an American psychopath with a pretty face, and as the victim of a judicial system gone awry. The press became incredibly influential in the subsequent conviction of Knox, if not the sole reason for her conviction as found by the Italian Supreme