# Media Framing through the Lens of Event-Centric Narratives

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03151 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.03151/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 12 of its 41 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 4 Oct 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 12 of 12)

- [The Llama 3 Herd of Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.21783/) (2024)
- [RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.11692/) (2019)
- [Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.10084/) (2019)
- [ASER: A Large-scale Eventuality Knowledge Graph](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.00270/) (2019)
- [Framing and Agenda-setting in Russian News: a Computational Analysis of Intricate Political Strategies](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.09386/) (2018)
- [Modeling Framing in Immigration Discourse on Social Media](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.06443/) (2021)
- [Weakly Supervised Learning of Nuanced Frames for Analyzing Polarization in News Media](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.09609/) (2020)
- [A Systematic Media Frame Analysis of 1.5 Million New York Times Articles from 2000 to 2017](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.01803/) (2020)
- [Corpus-based Open-Domain Event Type Induction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.03322/) (2021)
- [Salience-Aware Event Chain Modeling for Narrative Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.10475/) (2021)
- [Framing Unpacked: A Semi-Supervised Interpretable Multi-View Model of Media Frames](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.11030/) (2021)
- [Towards a Formal Model of Narratives](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.12872/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [Narrative Theory-Driven LLM Methods for Automatic Story Generation and Understanding: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.15851/) (2026)
- [MGM: Global Understanding of Audience Overlap Graphs for Predicting the Factuality and the Bias of News Media](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.10467/) (2024)
- [A Structured Clustering Approach for Inducing Media Narratives](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.10368/) (2026)
- [Structuring the Space of Perspectives](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.12113/) (2026)
- [Uncovering Temporal Framing in the News](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.00294/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

From a communications perspective, a frame defines the packaging of the language used in such a way as to encourage certain interpretations and to discourage others. For example, a news article can frame immigration as either a boost or a drain on the economy, and thus communicate very different interpretations of the same phenomenon. In this work, we argue that to explain framing devices we have to look at the way narratives are constructed. As a first step in this direction, we propose a framework that extracts events and their relations to other events, and groups them into high-level narratives that help explain frames in news articles. We show that our framework can be used to analyze framing in U.S. news for two different domains: immigration and gun control.