Framing Protest in Online News and Readers’ Comments: The Case of Serbian Protest 'Against Dictatorship'

Autor: Kleut, J., Ana Milojevic
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Zdroj: International Journal of Communication
Scopus-Elsevier
Popis: This research examines the “protest paradigm” in the digital news environment of a politically polarized media system by considering relations between news and online readers’ comments about the Serbian protest Against Dictatorship, which was held in 2017. Applying content analysis to news and comments from two news websites, our study indicates the need to account for opposing framing of the protest (violence/peacefulness, de/legitimizing and un/democratic) in a polarized environment. The results show that the distribution of opposing frames is guided by the media relations with the government. Online readers’ comments generally enhance this polarized pattern of frame distribution, with the exception of the performance frame, which remains prolific in the media, but absent from readers’ comments. publishedVersion
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