Abstract
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440
Canal St., Suite 2315, TW19, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA, beaudoin@
tulane.edu
/ This study investigates the prevalence of news frames in SARS news
coverage from the Xinhua News Agency and the Associated Press (AP),
as well as whether the frames were predicted by news environment
and the SARS timeline. Factor analysis supported four frame dimensions:
attribution of responsibility, human interest, economic consequences
and severity. Frame prevalence was considered in terms of, first,
the story as the unit of analysis and, second, word count as the
unit of analysis. For both types of measurement, attribution of responsibility
and severity frames were more common in AP. For economic consequences,
story frame prevalence was higher in AP, while word frame prevalence
was higher in Xinhua. For both types of measurement, economic consequences
decreased over time, while attribution of responsibility and severity
increased. Attribution of responsibility and human interest frames
increased more over time in AP, while the severity frame increased
more over time in Xinhua.
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