Political News with a Personal Touch: How Human Interest Framing Indirectly Affects Policy Attitudes

被引：42

作者：

Boukes, Mark ^{[1
]}

Boomgaarden, Hajo G. ^{[4
]}

Moorman, Marjolein ^{[2
]}

de Vreese, Claes H. ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sch Commun Res, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands

[2] Univ Amsterdam, Dept Commun Sci, Polit Commun, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands

[3] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sch Commun Res, Polit Commun, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands

[4] Univ Vienna, Dept Methods Social Sci, Social Sci Methods, Vienna, Austria

来源：

JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY | 2015年 / 92卷 / 01期

关键词：

human interest framing; political attitudes; effects; experiment; TELEVISION-NEWS; SOFT NEWS; EXEMPLIFICATION; EXEMPLARS; JUDGMENTS; BEHAVIOR; HARD; SENSATIONALISM; PERCEPTION; MEDIATION;

D O I：

10.1177/1077699014558554

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

Journalists increasingly use personal exemplars in news stories about political issues. This study experimentally investigated how such human interest framing indirectly affects political attitudes via the way people attribute responsibility of an issue. Results show that exposure to human interest-framed television news increased attribution of responsibility to the government for the portrayed problem, which in turn decreased support for the government to cut public spending on this issue. This article explains how and why these findings are in line with exemplification theory but run counter to findings of studies on episodic framing effects.

引用

页码：121 / 141

页数：21

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