It has been a long time, the impact of violent message has become one of the most concerned issues to the researchers. Basically. Violent messages has effects on behavior, also on some aspects of cognition. However, this study concerns the effects on emotion. It is supposed that the crime news will frame fear of crime.
From the cognition theory point of view, people has knowledge about crimes and world knowledges, so-called cognitive structure or prior knowledge or schema, with that people receive stimulus from media, this procedure can be a selective process. On the other hand, the representation of discourses is full of structures which will frame the thinking of people. Basically, this study concerns the framing effect on emotion.
Using the information processing approach, this study will deal with the interaction between crime news and audience with an experimental design. This is a one factor with two different treatment experiment, the independent variable is emotional meaning words, and dependent variable is degree of fear of crime emotion.
The research finding is that the using words of crime news have emotional effects on audiences, therefore it is called framing fear of crime.
中文關鍵詞
犯罪新聞，害怕犯罪，框架，語言分析，修辭，言說，資訊處理，先前知識，認知結構，基模，語言結構
英文關鍵詞
crime news，fear of crime，frame，language analysis，discourse，information processing，prior knowledge，schema，cognitive structure，linguistic structure