Framing Dissent: Mass-Media Coverage of the Global Justice Movement

Boykoff, Jules

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“…Such coverage focuses on protester confrontation with the police, juxtaposing the troublemaker protester with the agent of authority, who safeguards the public order. In these cases, peaceful actions on behalf of the protesters are skillfully overlooked together with protesters' demands and causes of such actions (Boykoff, 2006). McLeod and Hertog (1999) developed several categories of violent activity, and their ideas have been revised and updated ever since.…”

Section: Framing Protest: the "Protest Paradigm" Geopolitics And Medmentioning

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“…Within this rationale, protests are also presented as a threat to community values and unpatriotic regarding their ideological background (Boykoff, 2006;Di Cicco, 2010). Boykoff (2006) examined the media coverage of the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999 and the World Bank or International Monetary Fund (IMF) protests in Washington, DC, in 2000, and he came across five key frames among which an amalgamation of grievances (the other four being: violence, disruption, freak, and ignorance). As Xu (2013) argues, "by highlighting the negative aspects of the protest, news reports framed the protest as a disruption to social order" (p. 2416).…”

Section: Framing Protest: the "Protest Paradigm" Geopolitics And Medmentioning

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Media Ecology and the Politics of Dissent: Representations of the Hong Kong Protests in The Guardian and China Daily

Veneti

Karadimitriou

Poulakidakos

2016

Social Media + Society

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The phenomenon of protests, currently on the rise in worldwide democracies, is made known to citizens mainly through representations in the media. This article, responding to the need for a broader view of protest media coverage in an international context, examines the ways the 2014 Hong Kong (HK) protests were covered by the online versions of two highly influential and appealing newspapers, belonging to contrasting media systems: The Guardian and China Daily. By revising a typology of previously used frames and inventing new ones, this study conducts a quantitative content analysis of news articles with the view to (a) highlight similarities and differences in the media coverage of protests within the abovementioned media systems, (b) find out whether the media coverage of such events with political ramifications is affected by the geopolitical interests of the countries. Based on our analysis, this study suggests the need for revising the protest paradigm as important factors-the protests' momentum, the media systems, the new information communication technologies, and certain geopolitical interests-are involved in the dynamics surrounding media coverage of protests and as such they greatly influence the framing process. Moreover, our findings demonstrated that the media coverage of the 2014 HK protests by the two newspapers was reflective of both the media systems in which they function and the distinctive national standpoints.

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Section: Framing Protest: the "Protest Paradigm" Geopolitics And Medmentioning

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Section: Framing Protest: the "Protest Paradigm" Geopolitics And Medmentioning

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Media Ecology and the Politics of Dissent: Representations of the Hong Kong Protests in The Guardian and China Daily

Veneti

Karadimitriou

Poulakidakos

2016

Social Media + Society

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“…This is an important point to emphasize, as the choice of news sources can "promote a particular interpretation" (Entman, 2004, p. 5) of an event or issue. Through an analysis of news sources, it is possible to understand how and why news stories are presented as they are (Johnson-Cartee, 2005, p. 218), which is especially timely and relevant given that the positive portrayal of the antiMubarak opposition protesters stands in contrast to previous studies not only highlighting the negative portrayal of domestic political protests within American and British media outlets (Turner, 1969;Halloran et al, 1970;Gitlin, 1980;Shoemaker, 1984;McLeod, 1995;McLeod & Detenber, 1999;Boykoff, 2006;Boyle et al, 2004;Boyle et al, 2005;Jha, 2007), but also the pervasiveness of reductionist characterizations of the Middle East present within Western news coverage of the region after 9/11. (Karim, 2006;Pintak, 2006;Mishra, 2008;Kumar, 2010).…”

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Sourcing Patterns Within British And American Newspaper Coverage of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution: The Rise of Non-Elite Primary Definers

Fitzgerald

2017

JMC

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Previous studies have noted the dominance of official sources within the news process and their unique ability to shape media narratives. This research addresses the role and implications of news sources in contributing to the overwhelmingly positive portrayal of the anti-Mubarak opposition protesters within British and American newspaper coverage of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Furthermore, this paper will assess how the position of global political elites towards the protests in Egypt possibly opened up the editorial space within the news coverage of the revolution for the anti-Mubarak opposition movement to emerge as the dominant voice within the reporting.

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“…Fillmore's (1977) linguistically based theory of framing was developed shortly after and focused on how words can activate or evoke a semantic frame. Since that time, frame analysis has become interdisciplinary and been applied widely in social movement and media studies research (Boykoff, 2006;Entman, 1993;Gamson & Meyer, 1996;Sivek, 2008;Snow & Benford, 1988, 1992. Scholars such as Altheide (1996Altheide ( , 1997 have studied how the framing process is related to communication format (organization, timing, and style of a program), themes (parts of the storytelling process that are recognizable to an audience), discourse (a way of discussing an issue), and frames (a boundary for discussing an issue or event).…”

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Progressive and Conservative “Freedom” Through the Lens of FOX and MSNBC

McDonald

Morgaine

2016

SAGE Open

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This research examines the framing of health care and immigration policy debates by high profile cable television (TV) pundits on FOX News and MSNBC. The study uses an interpretive framework to apply Lakoff’s (2006) conceptualization of “freedom” as a contested idea within political discourse in the United States. Qualitative content analysis was used to examine 322 TV transcripts. Findings indicate that in both the health care debates of 2009 and immigration debates of 2010, conservative and progressive cable TV pundits overtly drew on deep frames that produced inherently contradictory conceptualizations of “freedom” in political discourse. Conservatives framed government health care as an intrusion on personal freedom, yet applauded government intervention on the issue of immigration in the name of security, whereas progressives framed access to health care as security for the greater good, while viewing immigration legislation as racial profiling and a violation of personal freedom. Employing a qualitative approach to the study of cable TV pundits provides insight into how framing processes are communicated and reinforced in the midst of political debate.

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Framing Dissent: Mass-Media Coverage of the Global Justice Movement

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Media Ecology and the Politics of Dissent: Representations of the Hong Kong Protests in The Guardian and China Daily

Media Ecology and the Politics of Dissent: Representations of the Hong Kong Protests in The Guardian and China Daily

Sourcing Patterns Within British And American Newspaper Coverage of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution: The Rise of Non-Elite Primary Definers

Progressive and Conservative “Freedom” Through the Lens of FOX and MSNBC

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