Framing War and Conflict: Introduction to the Special Issue

Sumaya Al Nahed, Philip Hammond

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Abstract

This special issue of Media, War & Conflict marks 25 years since Robert Entman’s seminal 1993 essay, ‘Framing: Towards clarification of a fractured paradigm’, sought to ‘constitute framing as a research paradigm’ for the field of communication. In the intervening quarter century, framing analysis has been widely taken up as a key method for investigating news coverage of war and conflict, and this special issue aims to initiate a fresh discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of framing as a method for analysing contemporary war coverage, of how and why the method has been refined and modified over the years, and of how it might be developed further.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)365-368
Number of pages4
JournalMedia, War and Conflict
Volume11
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2018

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