Media Framing through the Lens of Event-Centric Narratives

Rohan Das, Aditya Chandra, I-Ta Lee, Maria Leonor Pacheco


Abstract
From a communications perspective, a frame defines the packaging of the language used in such a way as to encourage certain interpretations and to discourage others. For example, a news article can frame immigration as either a boost or a drain on the economy, and thus communicate very different interpretations of the same phenomenon. In this work, we argue that to explain framing devices we have to look at the way narratives are constructed. As a first step in this direction, we propose a framework that extracts events and their relations to other events, and groups them into high-level narratives that help explain frames in news articles. We show that our framework can be used to analyze framing in U.S. news for two different domains: immigration and gun control.
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2024.wnu-1.15
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Proceedings of the The 6th Workshop on Narrative Understanding
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November
Year:
2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Yash Kumar Lal, Elizabeth Clark, Mohit Iyyer, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Anneliese Brei, Faeze Brahman, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu
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WNU
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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85–98
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.wnu-1.15
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.wnu-1.15
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Rohan Das, Aditya Chandra, I-Ta Lee, and Maria Leonor Pacheco. 2024. Media Framing through the Lens of Event-Centric Narratives. In Proceedings of the The 6th Workshop on Narrative Understanding, pages 85–98, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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