Who is to Blame on July 22, 2011? Psychological and Sociological Blame Frames in the Reporting of Anders Breivik in the Dutch Speaking Broadsheet Press

• Authors: Stefan Mertens
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

On July 22, 2011 Anders Breivik murdered a large amount of people in Norway. In this study we investigate a sample of articles that were published about Breivik and his deeds in the Flemish and Dutch press. We will investigate these articles looking for the so-called “attribution of responsibility frame.” The murders from Breivik could be explained psychologically (“he is insane”) as well as sociologically (far-right political parties are responsible because of having spread hate speech). We present a typology of subtypes of frames. We will furthermore investigate how many times these types of frames occur in different media outlets.

Keywords

EN

Breivik; framing; content analysis; newspapers; causal attributions; ideology

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 17
• Pages: 59-72

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2015-12-30

Contributors

author

Stefan Mertens

• University of Leuven – Campus Brussels, Warmoesberg 26, B-1000 Brussels – Belgium

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ipcj-2015-0005