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Framing in a Fractured Democracy: Impacts of Digital Technology on Ideology, Power and Cascading Network Activation

Entman, Robert M, Usher, Nikki·2018·Journal of Communication
DOI 10.1093/joc/jqx019
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With the maturation of social media as a form of communication and the decline in mainstream institutional journalism, scholars must reevaluate the processes through which information is produced, distributed, assimilated, and acted upon. We consider five important, new, digitally enabled “pump-valves” in the flow of socio-political information and frames: platforms, analytics, algorithms, ideological media, and rogue actors. We revise the cascading network activation model of frame activation and spread, developed before digital media’s rise. This new integrated model illuminates how these five features of digitalization affect relationships among elites, traditional media, and individuals, and suggests research on whether they flatten and democratize hierarchies of information control and power or entrench dominant structures.

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Authors
Entman, R. M., & Usher, N.
Affiliations
George Washington University (US)
Corresponding author
Entman, Robert M
ORCID
Usher, Nikki
Venue
Journal of Communication
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2018-04-01
Volume
68
Issue
2
Pages
298-308
ISSN
  • 0021-9916 (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-2466
DOI
10.1093/joc/jqx019
OpenAlex
W2801754475
Cited by
234
References
26
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 42 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 32 · 2020: 37 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 6
FWCI
52.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
academic.oup.com/journals/pages/about_us/legal/notices (vor, 15 d)
Locations
Journal of Communication (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Media Studies and Communication
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Media Influence and Politics
Keywords
framing, social media, digital technologies, ideology, power, algorithms, media analytics, information control

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