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This gives an example as to how framing works in real life. It provides practice questions which will allow you to apply the methods....

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Scheufele & Tewksbury 2007 Framing Agenda Setting and Priming: Evolution of 3 models 1. What is the article thesis? 2. What is the difference between framing, agenda setting and priming? 3. How has scholarly thinking about media effects evolved over time (what are the different periods of effects research)? 4. What factors influence the frames journalists use? Internal and external? 5. How do framing and agenda setting/priming differ in terms of the way in which audiences process news?

Cacciatore, Scheufele and Iyengar The end of framing as we know it….. 1. What is the article thesis? 2. What meant by the concepts of ‘emphasis’ and ‘equivalence’ as two distinct types of framing? 3. The authors argue it is important to study equivalence framing than emphasis framing. Do you agree? 4. Is the concept of framing too broadly defined to be useful? How could it be improved?

Lance Bennett and Shanto Iyengar A new era of minimal effects? 1. What is the article thesis? 2. Do you agree that we are in an era when the media has ‘minimal effects’? 3. In 1991 Iyengar said ‘The media doesn’t tell people what to think, but what to think about’. Today, does the audience lead the media—does the audience tell the media what to think about? Are there examples of an issue people have got on the agenda that a government didn’t want to deal with? 4. To what extent are the media a factor in declining public participation in politics? 5. How important is the election campaign period to the outcome of a ballot? Do election campaigns make a difference? How important are they to you in how you decide to vote (or not)?

6. Do you agree that politics is becoming more polarised? 7. What influences your views on political matters the most (media, friends, family, own experiences, opinion leaders etc)? 8. Is it possible to get audiences to engage more with opinions contrary to their own? Is this necessary/desirable?

Bennett, W.L. & Pfetsch, B. (2018) Rethinking Political Communication in a Time of Disrupted Public Spheres 1. What evidence is there that the press/legacy media today have difficulty engaging and/or representing the public? 2. What are the three ages of political media communication according to Blumer and Kavanagh? 3. Is the ‘market for quality news’ shrinking, especially among the young? Are the authors too utopian about the information levels of the public in the past? Is their argument too anecdotal? 4. Has the breakdown in trust of the legacy media led to a crisis of the public sphere? The legacy media were the place where politicians and the public interacted. The authors argue this space has been fragmented by social media and new digital technologies to the point where audiences can ‘no longer communicate across differences. 5. What do the authors mean by ‘disruptive communication processes’? 6. How do the authors argue the concept of gatekeeping has evolved? 7. How do the authors argue the concept of framing has evolved? 8. How has fragmentation of the media affected the ability of the media to set ‘the’ agenda?...