Research project RP. 14.09 This paper provides an overview of the best available
contemporary evidence on the way news and information media portray violence against …

Violence against women is a global public health problem. There is growing international
interest in how to prevent this pervasive human rights violation. It is within this context that …

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Framing battles in public health illustrate the tension in our society between individual
freedom and collective responsibility. This article describes how two frames, market justice …

This study examines whether changing the way news stories report on health can induce
shifts in readers' perceptions of problems of obesity, diabetes, immigrant health, and …

By examining the publicily identified top two health problems in the United States, this
research, using an experimental design, investigates whether different news frame …

Previous studies have examined the experiences of either women or minority journalists to
determine whether newsroom diversity makes a difference in news content, concluding that …

Media representations of violence against transgender individuals have implications for
public opinion, awareness and policy. A sample (N= 212) of US mainstream news articles …

Sensitive issues, such as rape, need to be handled with special care in the media, as the
media's framing impacts how the audience perceives an event. Using framing theory, this …

Media discourse has a profound effect on public opinions. Prior research, the majority of
which has been conducted internationally, shows that print media constructions of intimate …