Media Studies A-Level
Framing
What Framing means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
One of the production choices, alongside selection, editing, casting, lighting and language, through which media texts build a version of the world.
Describes how media select and emphasise certain aspects of an issue, offering an angle or interpretive frame through which audiences read it.
Concerns how an issue is presented rather than whether it is selected.
Topics that use Framing
- Reception theory (AQA A-Level)
- Theories of representation (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Audience reception
- Audience understanding
- Consent versus coercion
- Constructed reality
- Decoding and preferred meaning
- Distortion and omission
- Dominant ideology in media
- Evidence-based reading of representation
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