Portrayals and Perceptions of the Supreme Court in a New Media Landscape

新媒体环境下最高法院的描绘和看法

• 批准号: 1849286
• 负责人: Justin Wedeking
• 金额: $ 27.5万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-05-15 至 2023-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1849286&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Portrayals; Perceptions; Supreme; Court; New

The media is the primary conduit by which Americans learn about the Supreme Court and the country's most important legal rulings. Yet with the explosion of online news coverage, Americans now routinely consume information from a wide variety of sources, including many that did not exist a decade ago. In this new media landscape, citizens encounter information that depicts the Supreme Court as deliberative, unbiased, and apolitical; or they may receive coverage that is very negative, ideologically polarized, and even inaccurate. Because the authority of the Court rests on the public's understanding of its procedures and guiding principles, the coverage that citizens encounter has significant ramifications for the rule of law. This project provides the first large scale investigation of Supreme Court media coverage across thousands of news outlets and explores the implications when it comes to support for the Court and the rule of law.The project consists of three main components. First, the project develops a web application that allows for the automated collection of Supreme Court news coverage from a wide variety of mainstream and non-traditional news sources online, in real time. The project will make text and image data from the application publicly available in a user-friendly format, so that scholars will be able to search and refine coverage based on dates, keywords, and sources, among other features. Second, the project develops a theoretical framework for understanding the most important features of coverage in a new media landscape. The framework highlights differences in the frames, tone, and complexity of coverage across mainstream and non-traditional outlets, specifically as they apply to Supreme Court news. The insights are tested by leveraging multiple text analysis tools and applying them to the coverage corpus. Third, the project explores the effects of both the content of coverage and media fragmentation more generally. The theoretical framework highlights the content and number of choices as two key aspects of the new media landscape. The project highlights how coverage that is simplistic, ideological, and negative in tone may increase the perception of the Court as a political institution, affecting the public's support for the Court and the rule of law. Using an experimental approach, the theory is tested with a series of novel survey experiments administered to U.S. citizens.This project is jointly funded by the Law and Social Sciences program and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research(EPSCoR).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

媒体是美国人了解最高法院和国家最重要的法律的裁决的主要渠道。 然而，随着在线新闻报道的爆炸式增长，美国人现在经常从各种各样的来源消费信息，包括许多十年前不存在的信息。 在这种新的媒体环境中，公民遇到的信息将最高法院描述为审议，公正和非政治的;或者他们可能会收到非常负面的报道，意识形态两极分化，甚至是不准确的。由于法院的权威取决于公众对其程序和指导原则的理解，公民所接触的报道对法治有重大影响。 该项目提供了对最高法院媒体报道的第一次大规模调查，涉及数千家新闻媒体，并探讨了对最高法院和法治的支持所产生的影响。该项目包括三个主要部分。 首先，该项目开发了一个网络应用程序，可以真实的从各种主流和非传统的在线新闻来源自动收集最高法院的新闻报道。该项目将以用户友好的格式公开提供来自应用程序的文本和图像数据，以便学者能够根据日期，关键字和来源等特征搜索和改进覆盖范围。第二，该项目开发了一个理论框架，用于理解新媒体环境中报道的最重要特征。 该框架强调了主流和非传统媒体报道的框架、基调和复杂性的差异，特别是适用于最高法院新闻的差异。 通过利用多个文本分析工具并将其应用于覆盖语料库来测试见解。 第三，该项目更普遍地探讨了报道内容和媒体碎片化的影响。该理论框架突出了新媒体景观的两个关键方面的内容和选择的数量。该项目强调，简单化、意识形态化和消极语气的报道可能会增加人们对法院作为一个政治机构的看法，影响公众对法院和法治的支持。 使用实验的方法，该理论是测试了一系列新的调查实验管理的美国公民。这个项目是由法律和社会科学计划和既定计划，以刺激竞争力的研究（EPSCoR）共同资助。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。