ces of articles on American-born scholars and immigrant scholars with respect to positive/negative attributions, (c) placement within a newspaper of an article on a scholar, and (d) length of the article (column inches).
Background literature is reviewed in the remainder of this section of the research protocol. Literature is reviewed in two topical areas. The initial literature review covers framing theory and analysis. The second literature review covers mass media depiction of Jews.
As stated in the introduction to this research protocol, the assertion of framing theory is that the way that information is presented affects opinion formation by recipients of the information on the issues addressed in the information (Gandy, Kopp, Hands, Frazer, & Phillips, 1997, p. 162). According to Entman (2004, pp. 104-105), framing is an effective method for assessing the effects of mass media coverage on the development of public opinion. Further, framing analys
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