AI RESEARCH
How English Print Media Frames Human-Elephant Conflicts in India
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2604.21496v1 Announce Type: cross Human-elephant conflict (HEC) is rising across India as habitat loss and expanding human settlements force elephants into closer contact with people. While the ecological drivers of conflict are well-studied, how the news media portrays them remains largely unexplored. This work presents the first large-scale computational analysis of media framing of HEC in India, examining 1,968 full-length news articles consisting of 28,986 sentences, from a major English-language outlet published between January 2022 and September 2025.