My colleague forwarded me articles on framing (I had brought this up in the "analyzing qualitative data" discussion). See below and thanks to Jennifer Proffitt! Ulla --- Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Department of Communication University Center C, Suite 3100 Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306 Email: ubunz@fsu.edu Phone: 850-644-1809 ----------------------------------------------- Here are some key readings on framing: Framing Public Life: Perspectives on Media and Our Understanding of the Social World. Edited by Stephen D. Reese, Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., & August E. Grant. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum (2001). D'Angelo, P. (2002). News framing as a multiparadigmatic research program: A response to Entman. Journal of Communication, 52, 870-887. Entman, R. (1993). Framing: Toward clarification of a fractured paradigm. Journal of Communication, 43, 4, 51-58. Gandy, O. H., Jr. (1994). Covering America: From bad to worse: The media's framing of race and risk. Media Studies Journal, 8, 39-48. Goffman, E. (1974). Frame Analysis: An essay on the organization of experience. New York: Harper and Row. Iyengar, S. (1991). Is anyone responsible? How television frames political issues. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pan, Z., & Kosicki, G. (1993). Framing analysis: An approach to news discourse. Political Communication, 10, 1, 55-75. Tuckman, G. (1978). Making news: A study in the construction of reality. New York: Free Press. Valkenburg, P. M., & Semetko, H. A. (1999). The effects of news frames on readers' thoughts and recall. Communications Research, 26, 550-569. If you want to find mine, they are: Fleming-Rife, A., & Proffitt, J. M. (2004). The more public school reform changes, the more it stays the same: A framing analysis of the newspaper coverage of Brown v. The Board of Education. The Journal of Negro Education, 73(3), 239-254. Santos, C. A., & Proffitt, J. M. (2004). The humor in it: Tourists and intercultural interaction. Tourism: An Interdisciplinary International Journal, 52(1), 51-64.