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Frames-as-Assemblages: Theorising Framing
in Contemporary Media Networks

simon collister
Royal Holloway, University of London


Full paper available. Email me at simon.collister@gmail.com
Twitter: @simoncollister | www.simoncollister.com
introduction
 continues to offer valuable
  insights into relationship
  between institutions,
  representations and audiences
   But does it?

 Media and communication
  theories need rethinking for
  networked age

 Framing theory needs
  reconfiguring to meet the
  demands of this new
The Context
hybridity & networks
 Internet-enabled media
  driving radical
  transformation of
  communications

 Much research wedded
  to an, arguably, outdated
  elite-mass media-
  audience paradigm (Davis
  2007)

 Media hybridity
  proposed as conceptual
  escape route (Chadwick
the material turn
 Media research influenced by
  materialist turn in humanities
  and social sciences, viz.
  Deleuze & Guattari and
  Actor-Network Theory

 Materialism can be
  infrastructure & physical
  space

 Terranova (2004) suggests
  representation is only half of
  communication
framing: limits of reductionism
 Framing origins led to macro-
  micro reductionism
  (Tewksbury & Scheufele
  2009, 17)

 Reinforced by meta-
  theoretical models (Entman
  1993; Scheufele 1999;
  DAngelo 2002)

 Pre-defined media actors;
  linear communication
  processes & limited
  materialist considerations
The Argument
framing as organising principle
 Reese (2001; 2007)
  asserts framing is bridging
  project

 Dynamic organising
  principle that structures
  reality through abstract
  principles

 Networks of signifying
  moments that are always
  in the process of gaining or
synthesising framing with assemblages
 Processes of assembly
  operating on two
  fundamental axes:
   1. Territorialization <>
      Deterritorialization
   2. Material<>Expressive


 Offers dynamic and
  materialist framework to
  augment Reeses notion
  of framing as
  gaining/losing
  organising value?
synthesising framing with assemblages
 Additional sub-processes
  contest stability, identify &
  durability of frames-as-
  assemblages

 Exterior relations connect
  assemblage parts creating
  non-linear emergence

 Coding stabilises identity &
  universal singularities structure
  enduring frames-as-
  assemblages long-term
  tendencies
analysing frames-as-assemblages
 causal intervention via
  inductive exegesis of
  discursive flows &
  material infrastructures
  frames-as-assemblages

 Achieved via discourse
  analysis and participant
  observation
conclusions & directions?
 Short-term: Analyse mediated
  power by accounting for the
  material & expressive
  components territorializing and
  coding frames-as-
  assemblages

 Longer-term: identify & map
  ideal types of frames-as-
  assemblages or process of
  production to gain insight into
  longer-term tendencies behind
  the hybrid media environment
Thanks. Questions?

simon collister
Royal Holloway, University of London


Full paper available. Email me at simon.collister@gmail.com
Twitter: @simoncollister | www.simoncollister.com
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Frames-as-assemblages: Theorising Frames in Contemporary Media Networks

  • 1. Frames-as-Assemblages: Theorising Framing in Contemporary Media Networks simon collister Royal Holloway, University of London Full paper available. Email me at simon.collister@gmail.com Twitter: @simoncollister | www.simoncollister.com
  • 2. introduction continues to offer valuable insights into relationship between institutions, representations and audiences But does it? Media and communication theories need rethinking for networked age Framing theory needs reconfiguring to meet the demands of this new
  • 4. hybridity & networks Internet-enabled media driving radical transformation of communications Much research wedded to an, arguably, outdated elite-mass media- audience paradigm (Davis 2007) Media hybridity proposed as conceptual escape route (Chadwick
  • 5. the material turn Media research influenced by materialist turn in humanities and social sciences, viz. Deleuze & Guattari and Actor-Network Theory Materialism can be infrastructure & physical space Terranova (2004) suggests representation is only half of communication
  • 6. framing: limits of reductionism Framing origins led to macro- micro reductionism (Tewksbury & Scheufele 2009, 17) Reinforced by meta- theoretical models (Entman 1993; Scheufele 1999; DAngelo 2002) Pre-defined media actors; linear communication processes & limited materialist considerations
  • 8. framing as organising principle Reese (2001; 2007) asserts framing is bridging project Dynamic organising principle that structures reality through abstract principles Networks of signifying moments that are always in the process of gaining or
  • 9. synthesising framing with assemblages Processes of assembly operating on two fundamental axes: 1. Territorialization <> Deterritorialization 2. Material<>Expressive Offers dynamic and materialist framework to augment Reeses notion of framing as gaining/losing organising value?
  • 10. synthesising framing with assemblages Additional sub-processes contest stability, identify & durability of frames-as- assemblages Exterior relations connect assemblage parts creating non-linear emergence Coding stabilises identity & universal singularities structure enduring frames-as- assemblages long-term tendencies
  • 11. analysing frames-as-assemblages causal intervention via inductive exegesis of discursive flows & material infrastructures frames-as-assemblages Achieved via discourse analysis and participant observation
  • 12. conclusions & directions? Short-term: Analyse mediated power by accounting for the material & expressive components territorializing and coding frames-as- assemblages Longer-term: identify & map ideal types of frames-as- assemblages or process of production to gain insight into longer-term tendencies behind the hybrid media environment
  • 13. Thanks. Questions? simon collister Royal Holloway, University of London Full paper available. Email me at simon.collister@gmail.com Twitter: @simoncollister | www.simoncollister.com