Part 1. Initial Post – News Article & Framing
Each student will look for a current news article (published within the past 12 months) on their topic. Cast a wide net – look in local media, national media, print, TV – consider both those with an explicit ideological orientation and those without.
Post your news article (attach a PDF or include a link) along with a short (no more than 300 words) explanation of how you think the health or social issue is framed. For each group, there should be 5-6 different ways of framing the same health or social issue.
Address the following questions in your explanation of how the issue is framed in your chosen article:
What are the implicit or explicit causes of the problem? What are the solutions?
Who is quoted as an expert?
Whose voice is not included?
What actors or sectors in society are attributed responsibility for the problem?
Here is a more descriptive definition of bullying that I found in a research article:
‘Bullying. . .comprises repeated forms of physical, verbal, social, or emotional aggression that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The victim, perpetrator, and the witnesses of bullying may suffer from serious long-term consequences, including devastating effects on the individuals’ mental, social, and physical health.’
