HCC Core: Medium: Making Meaning out of Crisis: Mixed-Methods Investigation into the Nature and Impact of Framing Processes During the COVID-19 Pandemic

HCC 核心：中：危机的意义：对 COVID-19 大流行期间框架过程的性质和影响的混合方法调查

• 批准号: 2212265
• 负责人: Eric Baumer
• 金额: $ 119.9万
• 依托单位: Lehigh University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2212265&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HCC; Core; Medium; Making; Meaning

This research investigates the role in online media of framing processes, the concepts and logical structures that individuals and communities develop to understand major current events. It focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic, a global health crisis that has been unique not only for its unprecedented magnitude and severity, but also for the media environment in which people communicated about it. Government organizations, news services, online groups, local communities, and individual persons all interact as they seek to understand, orient toward, and situate themselves in relation to events unfolding in real time. These diverse participants continually frame and reframe events across multiple communication platforms in ways that reinforce, undermine, subvert, fracture, or even entirely replace one another. It is important to understand not only the dynamics of these processes themselves but also how they relate with individual, community, and societal beliefs and behaviors. Addressing global health events requires understanding how individuals and communities interpret those events. The work will contribute to communication and media studies, computational linguistics, and social computing. The research findings will also inform the development of educational modules designed to enrich students' understanding of the role that technology can play in mediating our understanding of major current events.To analyze framing as a process that occurs within a diverse media ecology, this project synergistically combines perspectives and methods from varied disciplines across four interconnected phases. Phase 1 will apply qualitative methods from media studies, health humanities, and science and technology studies to analyze dominant framings of the pandemic, as well as how people understand their responses to and participation in those framings. Phase 2 will place the methods and findings from Phase 1 in dialog with computational techniques, both informing the implementation details of those techniques and offering textual foci for further qualitative analysis. Phase 3 will derive testable hypotheses from Phase 1 and Phase 2 about how framing processes interact with people's beliefs and behaviors, and it will develop innovative methods that can experimentally test those hypotheses in real world settings. In Phase 4, reflexive engagement with diverse stakeholders will enrich both researchers' and stakeholders' understandings of their role in framing the pandemic within a diverse media ecology. Analyses across all phases will generate findings that advance research on how individuals, communities, and societies communicate within heterogeneous, sometimes volatile networked media environments to form understandings that guide both beliefs and behavior about major current events.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.

这项研究调查了在线媒体中框架过程的作用、个人和社区为理解重大时事而发展的概念和逻辑结构。它重点关注新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 大流行，这是一场全球健康危机，其独特性不仅在于其前所未有的规模和严重性，而且还在于人们传播这一危机的媒体环境。政府组织、新闻服务、在线团体、当地社区和个人都在寻求理解、定位和定位实时发生的事件时进行互动。这些不同的参与者不断地在多个通信平台上构建和重构事件，以加强、破坏、颠覆、破坏甚至完全取代彼此的方式。重要的是不仅要了解这些过程本身的动态，还要了解它们与个人、社区和社会信仰和行为的关系。应对全球健康事件需要了解个人和社区如何解释这些事件。 这项工作将有助于传播和媒体研究、计算语言学和社会计算。研究结果还将为教育模块的开发提供信息，这些模块旨在丰富学生对技术在调解我们对重大时事的理解方面所发挥的作用的理解。为了将框架分析为发生在多元化媒体生态中的一个过程，该项目协同结合了四个相互关联的阶段中不同学科的观点和方法。第一阶段将应用媒体研究、健康人文学科和科学技术研究中的定性方法来分析大流行的主导框架，以及人们如何理解他们对这些框架的反应和参与。第二阶段将把第一阶段的方法和发现与计算技术进行对话，既告知这些技术的实现细节，又为进一步的定性分析提供文本焦点。第三阶段将从第一阶段和第二阶段得出关于框架过程如何与人们的信念和行为相互作用的可测试假设，并将开发可以在现实世界环境中通过实验测试这些假设的创新方法。在第四阶段，与不同利益相关者的反思性参与将丰富研究人员和利益相关者对他们在多元化媒体生态中构建大流行的角色的理解。跨所有阶段的分析将产生研究结果，推动对个人、社区和社会如何在异构、有时不稳定的网络媒体环境中进行沟通的研究，以形成指导对重大时事的信念和行为的理解。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。