Comparing BERT Sentence-Pair Classification and Few-Shot LLM Prompting for Detecting Threat and Solution Framing in German Climate News (opens in new tab)

News media play a central role in shaping public perceptions of climate change, and whether coverage emphasizes threats or solutions has measurable effects on audience engagement and policy support. Automated detection of these framing patterns at the sentence level would allow researchers to analyze large corpora that are infeasible to code manually. We present a systematic comparison of two approaches for classifying sentences from German-lang...