Frame Analysis Activity

After you have identified the frames in the frame identification activity, the next step will be to analyze the implications of these frames. For each example you have selected, think about and discuss the following:

• What are the potential costs and benefits of seeing the conflict in this particular way?
• How would others react to this framing of the conflict?
• Are there other, competing ways of seeing this aspect of the conflict?
• What perspectives or features of the conflict does this framing "crop out"?
• Do you feel it is possible that the person would be open to thinking about the conflict differently?