There’s More to the Story: Both Individual and Collective Policy Narratives Can Increase Support for Community-Level Action
Chris Skurka; Jeff Niederdeppe; Liana B. Winett · 2020 · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
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Abstract
Narratives can convey the need or community-level action to address social problems. Yet narratives often tell stories about specific individuals rather than the broader collectives these problems affect. Some theorists argue that individualizing collective problems inhibits audiences from recognizing upstream causes and solutions. This study tested how narrative individualization (whether a story focuses on an individual case or a larger collective) might produce trade-offs when mobilizing support for community-level policies to address childhood obesity. We also investigated whether narrativ
Abstract by Chris Skurka; Jeff Niederdeppe; Liana B. Winett, DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (2020) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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