Democratic Theory and the Potential of Value Frames in Assessing Media Performance

Media users need information and knowledge to act as free citizens. From this basic democratic assumption, news standards for media performance can be derived. Porto’s (2007) model of the ‘interpreting citizen’ assigns a central role to the diversity of interpretive frames. These frames enable citiz...

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Main Authors: Ralph Weiß, Raphael Kösters, Merja Mahrt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cogitatio 2020-08-01
Series:Media and Communication
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Online Access:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3058