The Media School, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
School of Human Kinetics, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
J Child Sex Abus. 2020 May-Jun;29(4):373-392. doi: 10.1080/10538712.2019.1703233. Epub 2020 Feb 10.
The framing of child sex abuse in media has previously been examined to uncover the potential ways news media could influence public perception about the issue. This mixed methods analysis of the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal involving USA gymnastics and Michigan State University, grounded in the principles of framing theory, examines the patterns in coverage, as well as the episodic and thematic frames evident in the coverage of the scandal and its victims. Findings fall in line with past research on child sex abuse; framing is done primarily at the episodic level, focusing on the individual responsible, detailed accounts of the abuse of the victims, and isolating the instances of abuse to the specific organizations, while ignoring the broader themes of prevention and societal impacts. Implications for framing, attitudes toward girls and women in sport, and implications for abuse in sport are discussed.
媒体对儿童性虐待的报道方式曾受到过审查，以揭示新闻媒体可能影响公众对此问题看法的潜在方式。本项研究采用混合方法，以框架理论为基础，对涉及美国体操队和密歇根州立大学的拉里·纳萨尔性虐待丑闻进行分析，考察了该丑闻报道中的模式，以及报道中明显存在的阶段性和主题性框架及其受害者。研究结果与过去有关儿童性虐待的研究一致；框架主要在阶段性层面进行，侧重于负责的个人、对受害者虐待的详细描述，以及将虐待事件孤立到特定组织，而忽略了更广泛的预防和社会影响主题。本文讨论了框架、运动中对女孩和妇女的态度以及运动中虐待的影响。
