Framing International Protests on Romanian News Portals
Framing International Protests on Romanian News Portals

Summary/Abstract: This Article outlines some of the contemporary approaches of the framing theory and argues on the fact that media usually conveys the protests as violent. Within the protest framing context by different media, the Article investigates how one mainstream Romanian news website (hotnews.ro) framed – both in terms of text and images – four different protest occasions: the Egyptian protests that took place in Tahrir square in Cairo, the protests that took place in Taksim square in Istanbul, the Indignants movement that took place in different countries, and the Indignants movement that led to Occupy Wall Street movement. The challenging question of the present study is: what kind of representations is mostly raised by the mainstream Romanian news websites with regard to international protests? The goal of the study is to go beyond the surface and underline the mechanics of media coverage of contemporary protests.

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