Frame Dynamics: Deficits and Opportunities: A Longitudinal Perspective

Manuscript under review. Presented at the ICA Annual Conference, 2021.

This paper advances framing theory by treating frames not as fixed textual categories, but as dynamic structures that vary across time, media contexts, and forms of presentation. Using a longitudinal dynamic topic-modeling design, it examines how issue emphases and lexical perspectives develop across a decade of Swedish news coverage. The contribution is both theoretical and methodological: it develops a framework for studying framing environments as temporally, contextually, and interactionally conditioned processes.