Repetitive and Competitive News Framings

Effects of Repetitive and Competitive News Framings

A research study is described as an exhaustive and carefully conducted study
that aims to investigate on specific problems, issues or concerns using scientific
techniques (Lecheler and Vreese, 2013). A research study is practiced best when the
issue to be studied is framed into a question. The aim of the research study is,
therefore, to answer the question. This paper is a report of a research study carried out
in Europe on the effects of contending and recurring news framings over the duration of
time.
Hypothesis
The research study aimed at showing whether there could be any effects caused
by competitive and repetitive news presentations over a period of time. Opinion
formation among individuals is not strengthened by repetitive news framing but by short
intervals between the framings (Druckman and Leeper, 2012). Competitive news also
has a strong impact on opinion form.
Methodology
Online surveys were done using five-dimensional points among an illustrative
specimen from Holland. To conduct the study, a topic subject relating to the
enlargement and entry of Bulgaria and Romania states into the European Union was
used. The topic subject was very relevant to the European Union members as it affects
their economic welfare. The process started by establishing whether a newscast frame
contained an important instant effect on the reliant variable idea. Then the population
samples were split into subgroups and the effects of competitive and recurring framing
were determined in the four described dimensional points. Finally, the impact of the
political acquaintance on those effects for all subgroups and dimensional points was
sampled.
Results
On completion of the research, it was found that individuals recurrently exposed
to similar news updates over a certain period of time, their news framings tend to
become bolder. However, it was also noted that the cumulative impact of recurring news
exposure, was not stable across time, but it was more likely to be recalled when the
delay between two successive news exposures is small. From the results, an individual

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exposed to contending news frames over the period of time will have an opinion molded
on the latest news exposure. Additionally, the latest impacts are expected to be bolder
the longer it is from a specific news frame to another. Individuals with a low level of
knowledge tend to have strong framings for repetitive news. It was observed that
individuals, who had a high level of knowledge, were in support of Bulgaria and
Romania when the positive news frames were used as opposed to their illiterate
counterparts. Political knowledge was found to have to hold a short-term impact on the
tendency for the latest effects. According to the research study, news framings can
determine individuals’ way of interpreting issues, offering opinions and their behavior.
The formation of ideas is not affected by recurrent news framings. Repeated
news framings showed no effects whereas competitive framing was characterized by
bold recency effects. Recent news frames affected the idea formation. Political
information holds a short-term impact on a reputed accumulation and latest impacts
which were against the study’s expectations (Lecheler, Keer and Hänggli, 2015). With a
higher degree of political information, it was detected that short intervals between two
news frames resulted in weak recency impacts. Findings based on contending news
framing demonstrate that long-term news exposure led to a substantial idea reversals. It
was also observed that individuals previously exposed to other news frames are more
susceptible to the latest news frame they come across (Chong &Druckman 2010). The
research’s findings tend to contradict the theory of liberated media operators since it is
not necessary that long time news framing is dictated by a continuous rear and forth.
Conclusion
The choice on political information as the topic subject was based on knowledge
that political knowledge is closely related to the learning of political communication. And
it can act as an arbitrator, dependent or independent variable. In both contending and
repetitive news, it was found out that political information had a short term arbitrating
influence over time. The short-term impacts are explained due to the propensity of high
degree knowledge individuals having greater levels of accessibility, processing and
recalling information rapidly. The research study was indeed successfully carried out.
The findings from the research study should act as a single step in a long pattern of

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upcoming studies concentrating on latest and existing measurements of framing
research.