Digital Media Coverage of the 2017–2018 Banking Crisis in Ghana: A Framing Analysis

IF 1.1 4区社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES

Journal of Asian and African Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-08 DOI:10.1177/00219096231197734

Stephen Tindi, Rosemary Obeng-Hinneh

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Abstract

The literature on news framing largely focuses on political news. When Ghana experienced what came to be known as the “banking crisis” in 2017/2018, there was wide media coverage of the issues that came in its wake and that provided an avenue for studies on the framing of a financial phenomenon. This paper examines the online media framing of this crisis through the quantitative content analysis of 97 news articles from two online news portals: Myjoyonline and Graphiconline, which are private, and state owned. The comparative analysis of these two websites showed the predominance of the attribution of responsibility and conflict frames in their reportage, reflecting the infant stage of digital financial journalism in Ghana. Notwithstanding, the study revealed differences in how the websites used the news frames in some significant respects.

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数字媒体对加纳2017-2018年银行业危机的报道：框架分析

关于新闻框架的文献主要关注政治新闻。当加纳在2017/2018年经历了后来被称为“银行业危机”时，媒体对随之而来的问题进行了广泛报道，这为研究金融现象的框架提供了途径。本文通过对两家在线新闻门户网站Myjoyinline和Graphiconline的97篇新闻文章的定量内容分析，考察了这场危机的网络媒体框架。对这两个网站的比较分析表明，责任归属和冲突框架在其报道中占主导地位，反映了加纳数字金融新闻的萌芽阶段。尽管如此，该研究揭示了网站在一些重要方面使用新闻框架的方式存在差异。

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Journal of Asian and African Studies AREA STUDIES-

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