Media Portrayal of Framing in the Edwards Aquifer Dispute
Funder: Interdisciplinary Research Initiatives Program, Texas A&M University
This project, conducted by researchers from the Institute's former Program on Conflict and Dispute Resolution (PCDR), focused on the way that newspapers have portrayed the stakeholders involved in the Edwards Aquifer dispute. It examined newspaper articles for a ten-year period to understand how the media has cast the conflict, how different stakeholders are represented in the articles, and how stakeholders cited in the media characterize each other. PCDR researchers also examined changes in media portrayal across time and location.
Research team members included Drs. Linda L. Putnam (communication), Tarla Rai Peterson (communication), Charles D. Samuelson (psychology), and Ronald Kaiser (recreation, park, and tourism sciences).
