A Clearer Picture: The Contribution of Visuals and Text to Framing Effects

Journal of Communication

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 997-1017

  Powell, Thomas E ^a   Boomgaarden, Hajo G ^a   De Swert, Knut ^a   de Vreese, Claes H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emotion; Framing Effects; Image; Multimodal; Text; Visual Framing

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGERY; MASS MEDIA; PSYCHOLOGY; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84958942086     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: 14602466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcom.12184     Document Type: Article

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