Political Reform and the Historical Trajectories of U.S. Social Movements in the Twentieth Century

Amenta, Edwin; Caren, Neal; Stobaugh, James E.

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“…In addition, even though movement actors are considered to be potential causes of coverage, theories of mobilization may also apply to their coverage: the larger the presence or the greater the activity of a movement player, the more likely it is to be newsworthy. As we indicate above, many scholars focus on triadic interactions between news organizations, movement actors, and political and social contexts (Amenta et al, 2012a;Baumgartner & Jones, 1993;Elliott et al, 2016;Ferree et al, 2002;Oliver & Maney, 2000;Rohlinger, 2007). We first address newspapers, movement actors, and contexts separately.…”

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“…Such violence makes events more likely to be covered, but they will usually be featured in crime-related reporting (Bennett, 2007;Gitlin, 1980;Oliver & Maney, 2000;Smith et al, 2001;Sobieraj, 2011) and lack substance. Research finds that at the movement level, having disruptive capacities significantly increases coverage (Amenta et al, 2012a) but also that the coverage of disruptive collective action is less likely to be substantive (Smith et al, 2001). The impact on coverage of violence by police on movement actors is less studied (cf.…”

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“…The most useful accounts of movement news coverage focus on what Oliver and Maney (2000) call "triadic" interactions: those between news organizations, practices, and actors, movement actors, and the political and social contexts in which they engage (Amenta et al, 2012a;Baumgartner & Jones, 1993;Elliott, Amenta, & Caren, 2016;Ferree et al, 2002;Oliver & Maney, 2000;Rohlinger, 2007). But because news institutions and journalists make all calls on movement coverage, we start with how these institutions are organized and operate.…”

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From bias to coverage: What explains how news organizations treat social movements

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Why do newspapers cover social movement actors, and why is this coverage sometimes favorable? Early scholarship saw the news media mainly as a source of data on collective action, and sought to ascertain its biases, but scholarship has increasingly focused directly on why movements gain coverage, especially coverage that can advance their goals. To understand why and how newspapers cover movement actors, we start with the insight that movements rely on the news media for many reasons, but their coverage is largely in the control of news institutions. In this review, we focus on perspectives that specify 3-way interactions between the characteristics of newspapers, social movement actors, and the social and political contexts, but we begin with how news media institutions are organized. We conclude with suggestions for future research that take advantage of the digital revolution of the last generation.

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“…Empirically, there are many more studies of the coverage of collective action (see review in Earl et al 2004) than of movement organizations, despite the fact that the latter are more extensively covered. Moreover, on the one hand, existing overtime studies of movement coverage (Amenta et al 2009;Amenta et al 2012a) do not address why individual organizations within a movement gain coverage. On the other hand, studies of the coverage of individual organizations within a movement (Andrews and Caren 2010;Corbett 1998) are typically snapshots that neglect contextual circumstances that may be influencing the results and usually focus on only one or some organizations, not all, organizations within the movement (Barakso and Schaffner 2006;Rohlinger 2006;Rohlinger et al 2012).…”

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“…Under which conditions do organizations receive extensive coverage? Scholars have identified characteristics of organizations, movements, and political contexts that influence media coverage (Amenta et al 2012a;Andrews and Caren 2010;Corbett 1998). However, these studies are limited as they address the organizational characteristics and actions that may spur media coverage or the wider political and social contexts that may do so-but not both.…”

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Recipes for Attention: Policy Reforms, Crises, Organizational Characteristics, and the Newspaper Coverage of the LGBT Movement, 1969–2009

2016

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Why do some organizations in a movement seeking social change gain extensive national newspaper coverage? To address the question, we innovate in theoretical and empirical ways. First, we elaborate a theoretical argument that builds from the political mediation theory of movement consequences and incorporates the social organization of newspaper practices. This media and political mediation model integrates political and media contexts and organizations' characteristics and actions. With this model, we hypothesize two main routes to coverage: one that includes changes in public policy and involves policy-engaged, well-resourced, and inclusive organizations and a second that combines social crises and protest organizations. Second, we appraise these arguments with the first analysis of the national coverage of all organizations in a social movement over its career: 84 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights and AIDS-related organizations in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal from 1969 to 2010. These analyses go beyond previous research that provides either snapshots of many organizations at one point in time or overtime analyses of aggregated groups of organizations or individual organizations. The results of both historical and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analyses support our media and political mediation model.Our media and political mediation model starts with the political mediation model of movement political outcomes (see reviews in Amenta et al. 2010;Giugni 2007). That model holds that social movements and organizations seeking political Recipes for Attention 929 930 Elliott et al. 932 Elliott et al. Recipes for Attention 941

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Challenging the Turkish State’s Denial of the Armenian Genocide

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Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe

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Political Reform and the Historical Trajectories of U.S. Social Movements in the Twentieth Century

Cited by 29 publications

References 15 publications

From bias to coverage: What explains how news organizations treat social movements

From bias to coverage: What explains how news organizations treat social movements

Recipes for Attention: Policy Reforms, Crises, Organizational Characteristics, and the Newspaper Coverage of the LGBT Movement, 1969–2009

Challenging the Turkish State’s Denial of the Armenian Genocide

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