News framing heads vs. tails: an empirical study on immigration information treatment In Spanish press

  1. Lifen Cheng
  2. Juan Jose Igartua 1
  3. Elena Palacios
  4. José Antonio Otero
  5. Tania Acosta
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Actas:
ICA 2008: 58th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association

Editorial: International Communication Association

Año de publicación: 2008

Tipo: Aportación congreso

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Resumen

A study of news frames with an empirically approached conceptualization is developed in this paper, using the issue of immigration in the local newspapers of the Spanish autonomic region Castilla y Leon as a case study. In it, 586 news articles were examined to detect the type of news frames in the immigration news coverage. Two framing devices -the Index of importance and the Index of evaluation, apart from two frame packages, the Issue frame and Visual frame were created to interpret and map the interactions of these frames found in the news content. Analysis outcomes made it possible to observe how the information in terms of immigration and immigrants has been treated in these regional news media.