Hybrid and Complex Frames to Inform about Cooperation

Abstract

The study of the coverage of the international cooperation in a set of 112 reports from diffrent Spanish and Catalan media shows that it does not follow exclusively either the so-called “Aid and Charity” frame nor the “Justice and Equity” one, but very oftn both together. Furthermore, taking into account the interviews held with reporters and editors, it can be implied that the resulting frame is a function of a complex combinations of variables: the action itself, the source-actor explaining it, the social culture on cooperation, the medium’s ideology, the section where it is published and the journalist’s ideology.