Framing the Covid-19 Pandemic's Impacts on Fan Conventions

Abstract

Some initial findings are presented from a media monitoring project on the Covid-19 pandemic's impacts on comic cons and other fan events during 2020. We analyzed a sample of 77 items from a corpus of 813 articles, identifying story lines and themes that framed this moment of upheaval and uncertainty.

Keywords

• comic cons
• discourse analysis
• frame analysis