Media Framing and Framing by Politicians

ISEP YAHYA
2019 Journal of Government and Politics  
There is a substantial amount of academic research regarding how media do the framing on a specific issue. However, empirical research on the framing interactions is still challenging to find. This study endeavors to fill the void by questioning the mutual influences between media framing and framing by politicians on a specific issue during the political campaign ahead of the 2017 Jakarta Governor Election. Both quantitative and qualitative content analysis methods were employed in this
more » ... h. First of all, textual data from the media and politicians were coded using Atlas. Ti coding software to know the usage of five framing types: conflict, morality, economic consequences, responsibility, and human interest. After that, the mutual influence was investigated by looking at their most dominant frames, their similar trends in terms of framing quantity, and their textual interactions. This research then reveals a weak mutual influence between media framing and framing by politicians. It is indicated from their differences in using dominant frames. Conflict consistently dominated media framing, while economic consequences were generally dominant within politician's framing. Besides, media and politicians produced the different quantity of framing and presented different trends. Press and politicians also introduced an insignificant textual interactions by sharing the small number of similar keywords and mutual quotations.
doi:10.18196/jgp.10194 fatcat:grqquzaot5aqvmfzng22uoc4oq