During the 1980s the Latin American indigenous people have made successful advancements to protect their rights as human beings by strategic framing, the Sami on the other hand has not made the same progress. The gap in the literature is that scientific papers concerning the Sami are very few, to my knowledge, none of the scientific papers cover framing at all in their content. The gap is then, framing related to Sami activity. My aim of this thesis is to analyze the kinds of arguments and “frames” a Sami organization uses to argue for Sami rights. Three successful frames that are in use by other indigenous organizations around the world are used to categorize the frames that the Sami Council is using. The data that has been gathered are from the Sami Council, I will look for frames that the Sami Council are using by the method known as core frame task. What I found out was that the Sami do use Discrimination frame and Cultural identity frame to a large extent which other successful indigenous organizations also uses, and thus the Sami should be as successful as the Latin American indigenous people. The findings of Sami Council frames will be of help for other scholars to find out what the real cause of the Sami´s slow progress towards self-determination.

I denna uppsats har vi valt att undersöka om den landsortsbaserade dagstidningen Östgöta Correspondenten visar upp ett nazistiskt förhållningssätt åren 1933 och 1938 vad gäller rapportering och om det återfinns eventuella ställningstaganden i denna rapportering, samt om det förekommer en skillnad mellan dessa årtal. I uppsatsen har vi sökt svara på hur Östgöta Correspondentens rapportering om Nazityskland såg ut, vilka källor tidningen använde och hur källkritisk tidningen var till dessa. Vidare har vi sökt svara på hur eventuella nazistiska tendenser i Östgöta Correspondenten såg ut och hur de har utvecklats under undersökta årtal. Vi har även undersökt om tidningens tolkningsramar präglats av en nazistisk agenda samt hur självständig tidningen varit mot nazistisk propaganda. Vår teoretiska utgångspunkt har varit teorin om framing. Vi har undersökt 202 texter och har här gjort ett urval på 84 texter, som vi anser representera övrigt undersökt material. Vi har gjort en kvalitativ analys på materialet. Resultatet pekar på att Östgöta Correspondenten år 1933 och främst 1938 visar upp sympatier till Nazityskland i sin rapportering, att tidningen år 1938 genomgående präglas av en nazistisk agenda samt att tidningen är okritisk i sitt användande av nazistisk propaganda, som tidvis används som källa. Slutsatsen är därför att Östgöta Correspondenten under undersökta år visar upp tydliga nazistiska tendenser och att detta utvecklats till att bli än mer påtagliga år 1938.

Current research on account behavior has focused on responses to failure events in which one person is the victim and another is the transgressor. This study builds on this research by using a framing lens to examine account behavior in a conflict situation in which individuals are both actors and recipients of failures. After establishing the relationship between organizational conflict and failure events, the study explored the relationship between account behavior and three aspects of issue development framing: conflict naming, conflict blaming, and intentionality. Employees of nonprofit organizations were asked to read and respond to a vignette-based scenario depicting a conflict between two directors of a nonprofit organization. The research findings indicated that conflict framing was a significant predictor of account strategies. Specifically, the use of mitigating statements was more likely when the event was cast as intentional and the reproacher accepted blame. A clear interaction emerged between gender and conflict naming. In all, this research indicated that more attention should be paid to conflict framing when studying individuals' or corporations' use of account strategies.

American cities have a combination of policies that both provide emergency services and restrict the movements and activities of homeless people. These policies are the product of active public debates that construct narratives that explain the causes of homelessness and characterize homeless people. I identify both the policy opportunities and limits created by the way interest groups talk about homelessness by weaving together framing theory with analysis of discursive units employed in the public discussions about homelessness published in the St. Petersburg Times, in Pinellas County, Florida. This county is representative of other metropolitan regions that experienced rapid growth, gentrification, and are now seeing skyrocketing rates of foreclosures. I situate this local debate within the nationally circulated publications referring to homelessness to identify underlying assumptions that shape the outcomes in Pinellas County and set the stage for similar discussions across the United States. I examine how these narratives function in collective action frames of homelessness, the resulting opposing views of who should respond, and how the issue of homelessness should be treated given the legal division between public and private property in our capitalistic society. Frames must be considered rhetoric because they are employed to advance persuasive arguments. The various issue and collective action frames used to shape city policies each form an argument about homelessness. Discursive units are the building blocks of these arguments. Hence, I examine the place of the discursive units of thematic values, anecdotal narratives, and characterizations within these frames. I find that the city council responds to the competing interest group frames by selectively adopting different discursive units from each group in order to frame the situation of homelessness in the region as a crisis. While maintaining the use of the same thematic values and anecdotal narratives, the government is able to transcend competing characterizations of the homeless, creating space for their new policies to pass and succeed with the support of constituents from opposed interest groups.

McCombs and Shaw¡¦s studies of agenda-setting theory showed that mass medium can not only maintain or change acceptors¡¦ perceptions of political issues but also guide electors¡¦ favoritism by setting agenda. Thus, in this thesis, we want to find the relation between framed-issues and the political positions of China Times and The Liberty Times by analyzing and comparing the agenda-setting behaviors of these two newspapers(including headline news, editorials, and their contents¡K) during the period of 2006 Kaohsiung mayoral campaign. The conclusion shows that in the same period of time there exist different framed-objects and attitudes toward those political issues operated by these two medium. It means that mass medium aim at framing issues to conduct what people would focus on. Nevertheless, this thesis find that the agenda-setting behaviors of China Times during the period of 2006 Kaohsiung mayoral election was intended to use error issues so agendas could connect with the framed political issues, while the agenda-setting behaviors of The Liberty Times, especially political issue, was of uncertainty. Most of its headlines are not related to politics, but still the framing activity occurred in the political edition.

In daily negotiation, decision maker often affected to change the evalution of negotiation results by the offers which the opponent brought up in either positive or negative description. This is what the negotiation researcher callled ¡§framing effect¡¨. Framing theory first poposed by Kahneman & Tversky (1982) and researchers found there are many framing types and the framing effects proofed in many negotiation areas. On the other hand, the development of electronic bargainging is ofthen based on the assumption that human decision making is rational behavior, and there is no research applying framing theory on internet. Therefore this research would like to discuss whether framing could change electronic bargaining results. This research adopts attribute framing and goal framing proposed by Levin et al. (1998) and apply it with negotiation model to develop a virtual bargin store, then we play a role as seller to do field experiment. After collecting the experiment data and analyze them, we found framing do affect electronic bargining. Framing match concession will influence the seller¡¦s gain. General speaking, attribute framing effect is better than goal framing, and the difference between positive and negative attribute framing effect looms larger when it corporates with concession. However the difference between positive and negative goal framing looms less when it ties up with concession.

Originally published as first author's thesis. / "May 2004." "John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University." Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2010. / Mode of access: Internet. Title from PDF title page; viewed on March 19, 2010. Major professor: Graham Archer, Ph.D., P.E. "Presented to the faculty of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo." "In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree [of] Master of Science in Architecture with a specialization in Architectural Engineering." "February 2010." Includes bibliographical references (p. 73).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lehigh University, 2003. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 320-339).

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