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The paper addresses the ties of Political Psychology with the disciplines of Communications and International Relations studies by demonstrating its pivotal role in understanding the influence of news media on decision-making during conflict. It draws upon the importance of news framing as a reflection of the power relations among politicians, the media and the public and seeks to unpick the psychological implications that governmental loss of control over news frames can have on decision-making during conflict.
Using prospect theory, the paper builds a theory-based analysis of the impact of the media’s constructed meanings on the way politicians frame their position in relation to gains and losses in a conflict. By unfolding the underpinnings of the production of news frames, the paper explains how news frames that divert from official interpretations can place political leaders in the domain of losses prompting them to take bigger risks. To put the theory into practice, this theoretical framework is applied to two real-life situations, namely the Bosnia conflict and a Greek-Turkish territorial crisis, illustrating the influence of dissenting news frames on the conduct and outcome of the conflict in question. In effect, by portraying the news framing process as integral in the heuristic through which politicians frame and act in a given situation, the paper uncovers one significant dimension of the contribution of political psychology in unfolding complex interdisciplinary explanations of world events. |
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Name: ISPP 31st Annual Scientific Meeting URL: http://ispp.org
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| Touri, Maria. "Understanding the role of Media Framing in International Relations: the contribution of Prospect Theory" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISPP 31st Annual Scientific Meeting, Sciences Po, Paris, France, Jul 09, 2008 <Not Available>. 2008-12-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p254677_index.html> |
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| Touri, M. , 2008-07-09 "Understanding the role of Media Framing in International Relations: the contribution of Prospect Theory" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISPP 31st Annual Scientific Meeting, Sciences Po, Paris, France Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2008-12-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p254677_index.html |
Publication Type: Paper (prepared oral presentation) Abstract: The paper addresses the ties of Political Psychology with the disciplines of Communications and International Relations studies by demonstrating its pivotal role in understanding the influence of news media on decision-making during conflict. It draws upon the importance of news framing as a reflection of the power relations among politicians, the media and the public and seeks to unpick the psychological implications that governmental loss of control over news frames can have on decision-making during conflict.
Using prospect theory, the paper builds a theory-based analysis of the impact of the media’s constructed meanings on the way politicians frame their position in relation to gains and losses in a conflict. By unfolding the underpinnings of the production of news frames, the paper explains how news frames that divert from official interpretations can place political leaders in the domain of losses prompting them to take bigger risks. To put the theory into practice, this theoretical framework is applied to two real-life situations, namely the Bosnia conflict and a Greek-Turkish territorial crisis, illustrating the influence of dissenting news frames on the conduct and outcome of the conflict in question. In effect, by portraying the news framing process as integral in the heuristic through which politicians frame and act in a given situation, the paper uncovers one significant dimension of the contribution of political psychology in unfolding complex interdisciplinary explanations of world events. |
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| Dr Maria Touri Department of Media and Communications University of Leicester Understanding the role of Media Framing in International Relations and Conflict: The Contribution of Prospect Theory Abstract The paper addresses the ties of Political Psychology with the disciplines of Communications and International Relations studies by demonstrating its pivotal role in understanding the influence of news media on decision-making during conflict. It draws upon the importance of framing as a reflection of the power relations among politicians the media |
| Eleftherotypia http://archive.enet.gr) 30 January ‘The government has to provide evidence and argumentation about the status of the islets’ ‘They [the government] have to resist’ (E. Typos pages 10-11) 31 January ‘We have to make them step back without engaging into a war’ (Eleftherotypia http://archive.enet.gr) ‘One of the two sides has to withdraw or there will be a war’ (E. Typos pages 22-28) ∗ The specific strategic alternatives are being reproduced by the four newspapers throughout the crisis 35 |
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