Who is to Blame on July 22, 2011? Psychological and Sociological Blame Frames in the Reporting of Anders Breivik in the Dutch Speaking Broadsheet Press

Stefan Mertens

doi:10.1515/ipcj-2015-0005

Authors

Stefan Mertens University of Leuven

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1515/ipcj-2015-0005

Keywords:

Breivik, framing, content analysis, newspapers, causal attributions, ideology

Abstract

On July 22, 2011 Anders Breivik murdered a large amount of people in Norway. In this study we investigate a sample of articles that were published about Breivik and his deeds in the Flemish and Dutch press. We will investigate these articles looking for the so-called “attribution of responsibility frame.” The murders from Breivik could be explained psychologically (“he is insane”) as well as sociologically (far-right political parties are responsible because of having spread hate speech). We present a typology of subtypes of frames. We will furthermore investigate how many times these types of frames occur in different media outlets.

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Author Biography

Stefan Mertens, University of Leuven

Stefan Mertens, Ph.D. from Catholic University of Brussels, 2004, is a postdoctoral researcher working on the FWO-Vlaanderenproject “Cultural values in the news: a cross-cultural content analysis of the representation of Islam in the European press” (2012-2015) at the Brussels Campus of the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is also partner for the Dutch speaking part of Belgium in the international Worlds of Journalism Project (http://www.worldsofjournalism.org). His research interests include quantitative and qualitative content analysis, media policy analysis, survey research, research on cultural values and journalism cultures and audience reception studies.

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