News Frames (159/95) -- Navigating Digital Media Literacy

News Frames Have students navigate to the student chapter News Frames. Have students choose a news outlet and identify one examples of each kind of framing in it. (Students can work individually, in pairs, or in groups as you prefer. When students have finished the activity, have them share some of the examples they found. Now ask students which forms of framing were harder or easier to spot. Framing by word choice or headline are easier to spot because we can compare them to the content of the story. Framing by image might be easier to spot if the image is just illustrating the story, as in the “heat wave” example, but not if the image is actually communicating something, as in the two photos of the rally. Framing through inclusion and omission might be the most difficult to detect because we don’t often think about what’s not in a story, or what news isn’t covered.