How journalists and experts metaphorically frame emerging information technologies: The case of cyberinfrastructure for big data

Ellen Droog; Christian Burgers; Kerk Kee

doi:10.1177/0963662520952542

How journalists and experts metaphorically frame emerging information technologies: The case of cyberinfrastructure for big data

Ellen Droog^*
, Christian Burgers
, Kerk Kee

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Journalists and experts contribute to the creation of frames (frame-building) of innovations. However, little is known about the specific contribution of these different societal actors to the frame-building of emerging information technologies. This article focuses on a specific emerging information technology – cyberinfrastructure for big data. In particular, we investigated the role of metaphors in the frame-building of cyberinfrastructure during its early development, and contrast the metaphorical framing of cyberinfrastructure by journalists in a corpus of US news texts (Study 1) with the metaphorical framing of experts in a corpus of interviews (Study 2). Results show considerable differences between the frames by journalists and experts in the frame-building process. Journalists, to a great extent, employ their own frames in conceptualizing cyberinfrastructure rather than drawing on the frames used by experts. Future research should investigate the impact of these different metaphorical frames on audience members.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	819-834
Number of pages	16
Journal	Public Understanding of Science
Volume	29
Issue number	8
Early online date	30 Aug 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662520952542
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2020

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: The contribution of Ellen Droog was supported by the Institute for Societal Resilience (ISR) research grant for the project ‘Figurative Frames of Cyberinfrastructure’. The contribution of Christian Burgers was supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO VENI grant 275-89-020). Burgers’ chair in Strategic Communication at the University of Amsterdam is supported by Logeion ( www.logeion.nl ). The contribution of Kerk F. Kee was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF; Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure grant 1322305).

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Keywords

cyberinfrastructure
emerging information technology
frame-building
framing
journalists
metaphors
science communication
technology experts

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