A Study of Framing in Social Media News Report

Abstract

As Chinese software spreads all over the world, TikTok has been used by most Americans, but recently, one of the states of America that proposals to ban this app for citizen in this state, and the TikTok will against this ban. Despite the vast research by scholar on mass media, little is known about framing in media news reports. Many different news reports have confirmed the necessity of constructing a framework of news. This study aims to determine how framing could better frame a news report and make different influences. For this purpose, this study uses two kinds of news reports from two different media outlets to compare the framework of each report. Besides, the framing of news has the same effect in some aspects, such as the field of feminism and political relations field. Through the application of news framing in these areas, it can be used for research the meaning of framing. Framing of news report can construct different reports form which can create different impacts in public’s minds.The results show that different frame constructs explanations which can cause different influence on public.