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

• Main Author: Stefan Mertens
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lodz University Press 2015-12-01
• Series: International Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal
• Subjects: breivik; framing; content analysis; newspapers; causal attributions; ideology
• Online Access: https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/international/article/view/6496

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.