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Article: Framing and temporality in political cartoons: a critical analysis of visual news discourse *.
- Article from:
- The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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THAT THE NEWS MEDIA CAN BE SEEN as a forum within which institutions, groups and individuals struggle over the definition and construction of social reality is now something of a sociological truism. This process sees certain issues and events become the foci of collective concern or anxiety, that is, defined as "social problems," not by virtue of the objective severity or frequency of the isssue or event in question, but as a result of the organization and process of people talking and writing about them. Social problems become "visible" to mass publics, then, only when they are socially defined within "knowledge or knowledge-processing" institutions such as the mass ...