What Gets Covered? An Examination of Media Coverage of the Environmental Movement in Canada

Corrigall‐Brown, Catherine

doi:10.1111/cars.12092

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“…Yet, the theatrics—or even tactics—of the YVM and convoy were, however, rarely, if at all, challenged. The lack of critique can perhaps be explained by Corrigall‐Brown's (2016) recent argument in this journal that a social movement's tactic can impact its media coverage. Similarly, Boyle et al.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

No Surrender. No Challenge. No Protest Paradigm: A Content Analysis of the Canadian News Media Coverage of the “Yellow Vest Movement” and the “United We Roll Convoy”

Cillia

McCurdy

2020

Canadian Review of Sociology

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This study's exhaustive content analysis (N = 538) examines how Canada's mainstream news media covered the nascent yellow vest movement from the first Canadian protests in December 2018 culminating in the February 2019 crosscountry United We Roll convoy. We demonstrate that Protest Paradigm scholarship does not offer a useful analytic for understanding the coverage of this right-wing social movement whose tactics were banal and law abiding. Furthermore, we argue that Canadian news media coverage of the protest movement was largely uncritical and decidedly hegemonic, raising questions about normative watchdog conceptions of the news media in Canadian democracy. Résumé Grâce' à une analyse de contenu (N = 538), cet article examine comment les médias d'information grand public du Canada ont couvert le mouvement naissant des gilets jaunes depuis les premières The authors wish to thank Prof. Maria Petrova Bakardjieva, Prof. Gregory Taylor, and the external referees for helpful comments on an earlier version of this article.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

No Surrender. No Challenge. No Protest Paradigm: A Content Analysis of the Canadian News Media Coverage of the “Yellow Vest Movement” and the “United We Roll Convoy”

Cillia

McCurdy

2020

Canadian Review of Sociology

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“…Finally, protestors' choices of tactics and rhetorics have key roles in media selection. By stressing a protest story's novelty and drama, protestors can arouse the media's interest in sensational and contentious actions (Corrigall-Brown, 2016).…”

Section: Protest Mediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Protest Rhetoric’s Appeal: How Brands as Moral Entrepreneurs Recruit the Media into Moral Struggles

Wieser¹,

Hemetsberger²,

Luedicke³

2019

Research in the Sociology of Organizations

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Whenever the news media feature brand-related moral struggles over issues such as ethicality, fairness, or sustainability, brands often find themselves in the position of the culprit. However, brands may also take the opposite position, that of a moral entrepreneur that proactively raises and addresses moral issues that matter to society. In this chapter, we present a case study of the Austrian shoe manufacturer Waldviertler, which staged a protest campaign against Austria's financial market authorities (FMA) in the wake of the authorities demanding that the company closes its alternative (and illegal) consumer investment model after 10 years of operation. In response to this demand, the company organized protest marches, online petitions, and press conferences to reclaim the moral high ground for its financing model as a way out of the crunch following the global credit crisis and as a way to fight unfair administrative burdens. We present an interpretive analysis of brand communication material and media coverage that reveals how this brand used protest rhetoric on three levels-logos, ethos, and pathos-to reverse moral standards, to embody a rebel ethos, and to cultivate moral indignation. We also show how the media responded to protest rhetoric both with thematic coverage of context, trends, and general evidence, and with episodic coverage focusing on dramatic actions and the company owner's charisma. We close with a discussion of how protestainment, the stylization of a leader figure, and marketplace sentiments can ensure sustained media coverage of moral struggles.

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“…Considerably fewer studies look at coverage of SMOs as such and their issues (but see, e.g., Amenta et al. ; Andrews and Caren ; Corrigall‐Brown ). Furthermore, scholars foremost take SMOs as their starting point, investigating how movements (try to) influence media reporting.…”

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Tracing Protest Motives: The Link Between Newspaper Coverage, Movement Messages, and Demonstrators’ Reasons to Protest

Ketelaars

2017

Sociological Forum

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Within the social movement literature, it is mostly assumed that the reasons why people join a protest demonstration are in line with the collective action frames of the organizations staging the protest. Some recent studies suggest, however, that protesters’ motives are only partly aligned with the messages that are broadcasted by social movements. This study argues that activists’ motives are for an important part shaped by mass media coverage on the protest issue. It investigates the link between people's reasons to protest, the campaign messages of the protest organizers, and newspaper coverage prior to the demonstration. Data cover 14 anti‐austerity demonstrations in Belgium, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Results show that social movements depend a lot on other political actors to gain media visibility for their messages. Furthermore, the relationship between social movement frames and protest participant motives is mediated by newspaper coverage. Protest organizers’ are able to reach demonstrators via their own communication channels to some extent, but for many of their messages, they also rely on journalists’ reporting about the protest issue.

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What Gets Covered? An Examination of Media Coverage of the Environmental Movement in Canada

Cited by 16 publications

References 51 publications

No Surrender. No Challenge. No Protest Paradigm: A Content Analysis of the Canadian News Media Coverage of the “Yellow Vest Movement” and the “United We Roll Convoy”

No Surrender. No Challenge. No Protest Paradigm: A Content Analysis of the Canadian News Media Coverage of the “Yellow Vest Movement” and the “United We Roll Convoy”

Protest Rhetoric’s Appeal: How Brands as Moral Entrepreneurs Recruit the Media into Moral Struggles

Tracing Protest Motives: The Link Between Newspaper Coverage, Movement Messages, and Demonstrators’ Reasons to Protest

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