Go to ACL ARR 2024 December homepageA Framework of Narrative Media Framing in Political Discourse
Abstract: Narrative frames are a powerful way of conceptualizing and communicating complex, controversial ideas. However, while the impact of narrative framing in media has been widely acknowledged, few NLP studies have considered the aspects which make them an effective framing device. In this paper, we show how elements of narrativity in such frames link to 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, and perform extensive experiments with LLMs to test their ability to understand narrative frames and their components. Then, we apply the framework in an unsupervised way to discover components of narrative framing in an unrelated domain of COVID-19 crisis, and show how it can generalize across topics to arrive at insights consistent with theoretical narrative framing analysis.
Paper Type: Long
Research Area: Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics
Research Area Keywords: frame detection and analysis
Contribution Types: Data resources, Theory
Languages Studied: English
Submission Number: 2283
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