Source interests and news frames : An agency-structure perspective on U.S. newspapers’ coverage of genetically modified food

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Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 27 May 2017

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Title67th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association
LocationHilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel
PlaceUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period25 - 29 May 2017

Abstract

Informed by the agency-structure theory, this study examines news sources as social actors and the relationship between sources’ interests and news frame, risk delineation and bias of the coverage. Through a content analysis of U.S. newspapers’ coverage of genetically modified food from 1994 to 2015, the study found that sources’ interests were associated with news frame, risk delineation, but not story bias of the coverage. Disinterested sources were associated with the public interest frames more than interested sources who had some embedded interest in the production and consumption of GM food, but not the interested sources to gain from the production and consumption of GM food. Interested sources to gain from the production and consumption of GM food were associated with less risk delineation than disinterested sources. Both disinterested sources and interested sources were associated with stories that presented relatively equal amounts of pro and con arguments.

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Source interests and news frames: An agency-structure perspective on U.S. newspapers’ coverage of genetically modified food. / LI, Xigen; LIANG, Zerui; Wu, Xiaohua.
2017. Paper presented at 67th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, San Diego, California, United States.

Research output: Conference PapersRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (without host publication)peer-review