Independent Media, Social Movements, and the Traditional News Media in Taiwan

2017 ◽  
pp. 215-235
Author(s):  
Yuan-Hui Hu
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
News Media ◽  
Independent Media

scholarly journals Why Do Movements Make Big News When They Do? Institutional Mediation, Investigations, and Path Dependence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin Amenta ◽  
Neal Caren ◽  
Weijun Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
News Media ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Negative Binomial Regression ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Magic Bullet ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Binomial Regression ◽  
News Organizations

Why do social movements receive extensive news attention in the mainstream news media? We address this question with an institutional mediation model that argues that news-heightening characteristics of movements and political contexts in combination can bring extensive attention to movements. The internal characteristics of movements include their disruptive capacities, organizational resources, and political orientation. The political contexts include a partisan regime being in power, benefiting from national policies, and being under investigation. We also argue that movements that have achieved prominence in the news are likely to remain prominent, but only under specific conditions. We appraise these arguments across 29 social movements, four national newspapers, and 100 years with negative binomial regression analyses and qualitative comparative analyses (QCA). The results support the model and show that movements have no magic bullet to gain extensive news attention, though Congress may have one through investigations. The arguments and results imply that the influence of movements on institutions depends on the nature of those institutions. The drivers of movement influence over news organizations are not the same as those over political and other institutions.

Visual Landscapes and the Abortion Issue

2011 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deana A. Rohlinger ◽  
Jesse Klein
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Abortion Debate ◽  
Over Time

Despite increased scholarly interest in how activists use visuals in claim-making and mobilization, little is known about how mainstream news media visually represent social movements and their causes over time. Given the number of studies that argue that journalistic routines, norms, and conventions create hegemonic discourse around political issues, this gap is surprising. In this article, the authors examine whether the images used to visually represent the abortion issue are homogenized. Drawing on an analysis of 2,093 print and electronic news images associated with the abortion debate, the authors find that the visuals used in media coverage are very similar. Likewise, the authors find that the most frequently shown visual landscapes for the abortion issue are relatively stable across six different kinds of events including commemorations, incidents of clinic violence, legislation, Supreme Court decisions, presidential elections, and executive nominations. The authors conclude with a discussion of the implications of this work for the study of social movements and call for more research on how visual landscapes influence audience understanding of both new and enduring issues.

scholarly journals Framing protest in Missouri : framing protest on Missouri newspaper coverage of Concerned Student 1950 protest

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jennifer Para
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Minority Students ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University

Research over the past 30 years has shown that mainstream news media have been biased against social movements through journalists' use of framing. This trend, called the protest paradigm, delegitimizes, marginalizes, and demonizes a protest through sources, issue-action depiction, and syntax. Using quantitative framing analysis, this research examined six Missouri newspapers' coverage of the Concerned Student 1950 protest that occurred at the University of Missouri to find whether newspapers followed the protest paradigm. Results showed that the overall framing was sympathetic toward the movement, thus not following the protest paradigm. The papers showed that racism exists on campus, the protests were justified and honorable, and the protesters spoke truthfully about their experiences as minority students. The alternative newspapers were extremely sympathetic toward the protesters, adhering to previous studies comparing mainstream and alternative media coverage of protests. Differences between local and state reporting were minimal. The coverage may have pursued more sympathetic frames toward Concerned Student 1950 protest because its demonstrations were not violent and because journalists may be more aware of the racial divides in society than in the past.

scholarly journals ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’—Australian media industry attitudes to regulation and accountability reforms

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Lidberg
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Independent Media

When the Australian Independent Media Inquiry (IMI) published its report most mainstream media reporting focused on the suggested statutory-based News Media Council and largely ignored any discussion of the underlying issues—public trust in journalism and news media and accountability for its practices. The aim of this study was to capture the attitudes held by the media industry toward these issues. Based on a content analysis of 33 submissions to the IMI and the Convergence Review it can be concluded that only 15 percent of the submissions addressed trust or media accountability issues. Furthermore, the submissions illustrate a disconnect between the attitudes held by some media proprietors and the trust deficit reality displayed in multiple studies of the public’s attitudes to journalism and news media.

scholarly journals Social Movement based on Religiosity as a New Model of Social Movements in Jakarta (The 212 Social Movement in Jakarta 2016)

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Ubedilah Badrun
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
News Media ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
National Monument ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Main Motive ◽  
New Social Movement

Social movements can be understood as a group of people organized in self-awareness that continuously challenges the existing system and values. This study aims to read the phenomenon of the 212 Movement (2016) in Jakarta, Indonesia using the perspective of the theory of social movements (1848-2013). This research used qualitative approach with descriptive methods. Data collected through observation, interviews and analysis of literatures and news media. This case study found the Movement 212 was able to mobilize millions of people including the category of the Social movement Based on Religiosity because militancy that mingled with voluntary attitudes that were seen in the behavior of the figures and the mass of the action. The religious basis is the main motive for the new social movement 212. The 295.8 km long march carried out by the Ciamis community led by K.H. Nonop Hanafi towards the Jakarta National Monument which later inspired the Bogor and Bekasi people to do the same is a fact of militancy and voluntary which is carried out with a high and sincere awareness on the basis of their religiosity. There are five main actors of this movement, K. H. Nonop Hanafi, Bachtiar Nasir, Muhammad Zaitun Rasmin, Muhammad Alkhathath, and Habieb Rizieq Shihab. This movement has a semi-moderate Islamic ideology with the Islamic model Ahlussunnah Waljama'ah. The implication of this research is the New social movement 212 can uphold Islamic values by upholding the law against what they call the Islamic oppressors. And the other side, the New social movement 212 can be strengthening ukhuwah Islamiyah (Islamic brotherhood), ukhuwah wathoniyah (nationalism), and demanding justice for all the people of Indonesia.

scholarly journals SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ORGANIZED BUILT ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS IN BRAZIL: A STUDY OF HOW TRADITIONAL MEDIA EMBRACED THESE NOVEL FORMS OF CONNECTION AND COMMUNITY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Felipe De-Lima-Santos ◽  
Wilson Ceron
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Political Turmoil

The political turmoil unleashed in recent years has influenced how people interact and organize themselves. Social media platforms played an important role in the organization of these movements that spilled across the globe. In a scenario of political turmoil, Brazil is suffering from an economic downturn and a lack of political leadership in recent years that made an unprecedented crisis. Influenced by these social dynamics of the platforms, three social movements emerged in this period, June Journeys, diesel crisis, and panelaço, and have influenced in traditional news media agenda. These movements represent evolving power dynamics in society, attempting to replace a dominant belief system that legitimizes the status quo by supporting collective action for change. This study, under the lens of sociology and social media theory, examines the evolution of these movements using data gathered from Google News API. Preliminary results indicate that there is a strong critique about some of these movements by traditional news media as they are challenging pre-existing power relationships. However, the promises to break from the constraints of traditional media and embrace novel forms of connection and community are yet limited. This study concludes with an agenda for future research.

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