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Beyond Pill-Billies: TikTok’s visual framing responsibility of the Appalachian opioid crisis

Higgs, Cory Beyond Pill-Billies: TikTok’s visual framing responsibility of the Appalachian opioid crisis. 2022. Radford University, Thesis. Radford University Scholars' Repository.

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Abstract

This paper aims to develop the growing body of visual framing research by addressing the framing of responsibility through a visual lens, expanding upon the Levels of Visual Framing (Rodriguez & Dimitrova, 2011), allowing for the allocation of responsibility presented in visuals. Additionally, it provides a new way to view episodic and thematic frames, and said frames within the context of social media, specifically TikTok. Further, it explores the user attributed causes for the ongoing Appalachian opioid crisis and how the users and people of Appalachia are viewed within the social media landscape of TikTok.

Item Type: Thesis
Uncontrolled Keywords: TikTok, framing theory, visual framing, Appalachia, opioid crisis
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Divisions: Radford University > College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences > School of Communication
Date Deposited: 15 Jul 2022 20:39
Last Modified: 20 Apr 2023 18:11
URI: http://wagner.radford.edu/id/eprint/868

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