Beyond the Battlefield: Framing Analysis of Media Coverage in Conflict Reporting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10421v1
• Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 07:20:54 GMT
• Title: Beyond the Battlefield: Framing Analysis of Media Coverage in Conflict Reporting
• Authors: Avneet Kaur, Arnav Arora,
• Abstract summary: We identify indicators of war and peace journalism in a corpus of news articles reporting on the Israel-Palestine war.<n>Our analysis reveals a higher focus on war based reporting rather than peace based.<n>We also show substantial differences in reporting across the US, UK, and Middle Eastern news outlets in framing who the assailant and victims of the conflict are.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Framing used by news media, especially in times of conflict, can have substantial impact on readers' opinion, potentially aggravating the conflict itself. Current studies on the topic of conflict framing have limited insights due to their qualitative nature or only look at surface level generic frames without going deeper. In this work, we identify indicators of war and peace journalism, as outlined by prior work in conflict studies, in a corpus of news articles reporting on the Israel-Palestine war. For our analysis, we use computational approaches, using a combination of frame semantics and large language models to identify both communicative framing and its connection to linguistic framing. Our analysis reveals a higher focus on war based reporting rather than peace based. We also show substantial differences in reporting across the US, UK, and Middle Eastern news outlets in framing who the assailant and victims of the conflict are, surfacing biases within the media.

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