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The Effects of Political Conflict News Frame on Political Polarization: A Social Identity Approach

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: News media and journalists tend to focus on political conflicts between major parties rather than on issue content. Does this news reporting behavior encourage the psychological process of polarization? By linking framing with social identity and self-categorization theories, this study explores how news frames affect political polarization through the party identification process. Results of this experimental study showed that the political conflict news frame played an important role as a contextual/situational factor that momentarily increased people’s political identity salience, resulting in perceptual and attitudinal political polarization. Implications are discussed.

Source: International journal of communication

Authors: Young-Ju Kim, Shuhua Zhou

Institutions: Konkuk University, University of Missouri

Language: English

Topic: News Media Framing and Political Communication

Subfield: Communication

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W3005873740

FWCI: 1.754

Cites: 52

Cited by: 19

Related to: 10