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.

本研究探讨了网络媒体的框架过程中的作用，概念和逻辑结构，个人和社区发展，以了解重大时事。它聚焦于2019冠状病毒病大流行，这场全球性的健康危机不仅因其前所未有的规模和严重性而独一无二，而且也因为人们传播它的媒体环境而独一无二。政府机构、新闻服务、在线团体、当地社区和个人都在寻求理解、定位和自我定位时与真实的事件发生联系。这些不同的参与者不断地在多个通信平台上以加强、破坏、颠覆、破坏甚至完全取代彼此的方式来构建和重新构建事件。重要的是不仅要了解这些过程本身的动态，而且还要了解它们如何与个人，社区和社会信仰和行为相关联。应对全球卫生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我们对重大时事的理解中所扮演的角色的理解。为了分析框架作为一个发生在多元化媒体生态中的过程，该项目协同结合了跨四个相互关联的阶段的不同学科的观点和方法。第一阶段将应用媒体研究、卫生人文学和科学技术研究的定性方法，分析流行病的主要框架，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对话，既告知这些技术的实施细节，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中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，并将开发创新方法，可以在真实的世界环境中通过实验测试这些假设。在第四阶段，与不同利益相关者的反思性接触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流行病的作用的理解。所有阶段的分析将产生的结果，推进研究如何个人，社区和社会在异质的，有时是动荡的网络媒体环境中进行沟通，形成理解，指导双方的信念和行为有关的重大时事。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。