Do emotions fit the frame? A critical appraisal of visual framing research approaches

Glück, Antje 2018. Do emotions fit the frame? A critical appraisal of visual framing research approaches. JOMEC Journal (12) , pp. 101-127. 10.18573/jomec.166

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Abstract

With the rise of a visibly more emotional public sphere, this article asks if visual framing approaches can be enriched by the integration of emotive elements. Focussing on television news, I ask in what way emotions manifest within audio-visual material, and how these representations of emotions and emotive elements can be analysed using visual framing analysis. This understanding is grounded in two recent turns: the turn to the visual and to the affective. Both turns provide the background for current framing understandings and visual framing approaches, and for a discussion of three empirical models of analysis and their varying potential to integrate emotive elements. I distinguish here between a holistic ‘emotion frame’, emotions as narrative structures, and emotion as frame element. I argue that emotions can be best conceptualized as a frame element; and three practical realizations are discussed to what extent they are helpful to analyse emotions empirically in audio-visual news material.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	visual framing, emotions, journalism, television news
Publisher:	Cardiff University
ISSN:	2049-2340
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	9 February 2018
Date of Acceptance:	1 February 2018
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 14:47
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/108989

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