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	Visual Framing Analysis	Framing Analysis
Field	Communication	Communication
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2011	1993
Originator	Visual framing scholarship (Rodriguez & Dimitrova; Messaris & Abraham)	Robert M. Entman (synthesis); roots in Goffman, Tuchman, Gitlin
Type	Analysis of how images frame issues through selection and emphasis	Interpretive-quantitative analysis of how messages select and emphasize aspects of reality
Seminal source	Rodriguez, L., & Dimitrova, D. V. (2011). The levels of visual framing. Journal of Visual Literacy, 30(1), 48–65.	Entman, R. M. (1993). Framing: Toward clarification of a fractured paradigm. Journal of Communication, 43(4), 51–58.
Aliases	Visual frame analysis, Image framing analysis, Levels of visual framing, Görsel Çerçeveleme Analizi	Frame analysis, Media framing analysis method, Frame mapping, Çerçeveleme Analizi
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Summary	Visual framing analysis examines how images — photographs, video stills, infographics — frame an issue by selecting and emphasizing certain aspects of reality, just as verbal frames do. Building on framing theory and the multi-level model articulated by Rodriguez and Dimitrova, it interprets visuals across levels from what is literally depicted to the ideological meanings they carry, recognizing that images frame powerfully and often covertly.	Framing analysis is a communication research method for studying how messages select certain aspects of a perceived reality and make them more salient — promoting a particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and treatment recommendation. Building on Robert Entman's influential 1993 synthesis, it moves beyond counting what is present to reconstructing the organizing ideas, or frames, that give media coverage its meaning and persuasive shape.