Com(ple)menting the news on the financial crisis: The contribution of news users’ commentary to the diversity of viewpoints in the public debate:

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Com(ple)menting the news on the financial crisis: The contribution of news users’ commentary to the diversity of viewpoints in the public debate:

Christian Baden¹, Nina Springer¹•Institutions (1)

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich¹

07 Jul 2014-European Journal of Communication (SAGE Publications)-Vol. 29, Iss: 5, pp 529-548

TL;DR: In this paper, the interpretations of the current financial crisis in the online coverage of five German newspapers and the subsequent commentary of news users were analyzed using an innovative strategy to identify the interpretative repertoires constructed by news and user frames, assessing how user commentary deviated from those viewpoints represented in the news.

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Abstract: Does news users’ commentary contribute to widening the diversity of viewpoints represented in the news? This article comparatively analyses the interpretations of the current financial crisis in the online coverage of five German newspapers and the subsequent commentary of news users. Using an innovative strategy to identify the interpretative repertoires constructed by news and user frames, it assesses how user commentary deviates from those viewpoints represented in the news. Findings show that user accounts mostly remain within the wider interpretative repertoires offered by the media. However, they utilize media frame fragments rather freely to construct their own views, shifting focus and elaborating upon new aspects. While no consistent alternative repertoires were constructed, users thus valuably complemented the diversity of concerns discussed on news websites.

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...It remains unclear what, then, is the correct level of abstraction for distinguishing diverse interpretations (Baden, 2010; Donati, 1992): Too much abstraction subsumes meaningful diversity within one category of frames; too detailed strategies, by contrast, fail to distinguish between frames that…...
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...However, this finding depends strongly on the definition of frames (Baden, 2010): Studies operationalizing frames at a high level of abstraction typically find that few major interpretations are competing with one another (e.g. Böcking, 2009; Van Gorp, 2005)....
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...Also, as reactions to news coverage, user commentary is inevitably influenced by the information and frames provided therein (Baden, 2010; Reese, 2010)....
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...In addition, the far-reaching domestic implications of crisis policy measures provide fertile ground for politicization and contention, motivating users to mobilize diverse background knowledge (Baden, 2010; Schaap, 2009) and formulate deviant interpretations (Springer, 2014)....
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