Commenting on Health: A Framing Analysis of User Comments in Response to Health Articles Online

被引:62
作者
Holton, Avery [1 ]
Lee, Nayeon [2 ]
Coleman, Renita [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Utah, Dept Commun, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
[2] Univ Texas Austin, Sch Journalism, Austin, TX 78712 USA
关键词
MOBILIZING INFORMATION; NEWS; OBESITY; MEDIA; MESSAGES; CONTEXT; GAIN; DISCOURSE; COVERAGE; INTERNET;
D O I
10.1080/10810730.2013.837554
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
Public health officials have continually urged journalists and other members of the news media to ease off health frames that focus on individuals and to instead promote broader societal frames. Although some scholarly research has reinforced these pleas, none has examined the interplay between frames of health news coverage and resulting public comments. The current online environment invites such an analysis, allowing news organizations to post articles online and the public to comment on those articles. Using a content analysis, this study reveals thematic frames in online health stories may drive down gain-oriented responses, while episodic frames may prompt the public to share more personal comments. Furthermore, the findings examine other textual factors-gain and loss frames and mobilizing information-that may be driving the volume and frames of user comments to health stories online.
引用
收藏
页码:825 / 837
页数:13
相关论文
共 42 条
[11]   Public Health Framing of News Regarding Childhood Obesity in the United States [J].
Hawkins, Katherine W. ;
Linvill, Darren L. .
HEALTH COMMUNICATION, 2010, 25 (08) :709-717
[12]   Answering the Call for a Standard Reliability Measure for Coding Data [J].
Hayes, Andrew F. ;
Krippendorff, Klaus .
COMMUNICATION METHODS AND MEASURES, 2007, 1 (01) :77-89
[13]   The health buck stops where? Thematic framing of health discourse to understand the context for CVD prevention [J].
Higgins, JW ;
Naylor, PJ ;
Berry, T ;
O'Connor, B ;
McLean, D .
JOURNAL OF HEALTH COMMUNICATION, 2006, 11 (03) :343-358
[14]   Is Internet content different after all? A content analysis of mobilizing information in online and print newspapers [J].
Hoffman, Lindsay H. .
JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY, 2006, 83 (01) :58-76
[15]  
Holton A., 2011, FUTURE NEWS AGENDA P, P139
[16]   The Blame Frame: Media Attribution of Culpability About the MMR-Autism Vaccination Scare [J].
Holton, Avery ;
Weberling, Brooke ;
Clarke, Christopher E. ;
Smith, Michael J. .
HEALTH COMMUNICATION, 2012, 27 (07) :690-701
[17]  
Holtz A., 2010, LOOKING SKEPTICS VIE
[18]  
Iyengar S., 1991, Is Anyone Responsible? How Television Frames Political Issues
[19]   No cure for what ails us: The media-constructed disconnect between societal problems and possible solutions [J].
Kensicki, LJ .
JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY, 2004, 81 (01) :53-73
[20]   A decade of research on health content in the media: The focus on health challenges and sociocultural context and attendant informational and ideological problems [J].
Kline, KN .
JOURNAL OF HEALTH COMMUNICATION, 2006, 11 (01) :43-59