Sociology and Criminology-Open Access
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Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, UK

Publications

• Perspective   
  Alternative Media Framing of COVID-19 Risks
  Author(s): Martin Kelvin*
  
  Early media coverage of COVID-19, between 1 January and 31 March 2020, provided Alternative Media Personalities(AMPs) a chance to supply conspiratorial misinformation to their online audiences. Far-right AMPs may reframe sociopolitical aspects of risk to supply ‘fake-news’, amplifying future risks arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Social Amplification of Risk Framework (SARF) to define factors of risk amplification, this study conducted a framing analysis upon 1,895 minutes of streamed video content from a well liked, far-right, AMP regarding COVID-19. Significant differences in frame expression suggested that AMPs hold greater value in specific frames when providing infotainment based upon authentic interpretations of risk. A scarcity of serious change in frame expression over time suggests that AMPs may depend on media templates when communicating risk to the.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2375-4435.21.9.e118

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