Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Narrative frames are a powerful way of conceptualizing and communicating complex, controversial ideas, however automated frame analysis to date has mostly overlooked this framing device.In this paper, we connect elements of narrativity with fundamental aspects of framing, and present a framework which formalizes and operationalizes such aspects.We annotate and release a data set of news articles in the climate change domain, analyze the dominance of narrative frame components across political leanings, and test LLMs in their ability to predict narrative frames and their components.Finally, we apply our framework in an unsupervised way to elicit components of narrative framing in a second domain, the COVID-19 crisis, where our predictions are congruent with prior theoretical work showing the generalizability of our approach.1 1 We release our code, data and annotations at https:// github.com/julia-nixie/narratives. Global warming fail: Study finds melting sea ice is actually helping Arctic animalsProponents of the theory humans are primarily responsible for rising global temperatures long claimed wildlife are harmed significantly by global warming, and that unless mankind stops producing significant amounts of carbon-dioxide emissions, the world's animals will not be able to thrive.While rising temperatures have certainly put a strain on species in some parts of the world, a new study by researchers at the University of Southern Denmark suggests animals in the Arctic region are thriving because of higher global temperatures.[...] USA Today recently declared the loss of sea ice "terrifying," but global warming sceptics have long suggested these claims are overblown when put into perspective.
Authors: Yulia Otmakhova, Lea Frermann
Institution: The University of Melbourne
Language: English
Subfield: General Social Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: gold
Funder: Australian Research Council
OpenAlex ID: W4412888529