Protesting Youth

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacquelien van Stekelenburg ◽  
Bert Klandermans
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
News Media ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Social Embeddedness ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Connective Action

Abstract. “Twitter protests” and “Facebook revolutions” imbue the coverage of contentious politics in news media and academic outlets alike. As long as such protests are not compared to conventional mobilized events it is hard to ascertain the supposed differences between connective and collective action. We report a study that does just that: we examine if it makes a difference whether people are recruited through self-organized rather than organization-centered routes. We surveyed participants and nonparticipants in both actions (N = 319), asking who participated in the respective action, how they were mobilized, and why they participated. Results reveal that in some ways the recruitment route does make a difference, while in others it doesn’t. Recruits of connective action were lower educated, felt politically efficacious, and mainly mobilized via informal (virtual) mobilizing channels, while recruits of collective action were highly educated, politically interested, and mainly mobilized via formal mobilizing channels. Social embeddedness played a crucial role in both campaigns, but more so in self-organized actions: approving networks increase the chances of being asked, influenced, and motivated by significant others, while disapproving milieus decrease the chance of being asked, influenced, and motivated by others. Approving networks thus expand informal mobilization, the more so for self-organized connective action.

Ideas and Leaders in Contentious Politics: One Parish Priest in El Salvador's Popular Movement

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 76-101
Author(s):  
PETER M. SANCHEZ
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Parish Priest ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Resource Mobilisation ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis paper examines the actions of one Salvadorean priest – Padre David Rodríguez – in one parish – Tecoluca – to underscore the importance of religious leadership in the rise of El Salvador's contentious political movement that began in the early 1970s, when the guerrilla organisations were only just beginning to develop. Catholic leaders became engaged in promoting contentious politics, however, only after the Church had experienced an ideological conversion, commonly referred to as liberation theology. A focus on one priest, in one parish, allows for generalisation, since scores of priests, nuns and lay workers in El Salvador followed the same injustice frame and tactics that generated extensive political mobilisation throughout the country. While structural conditions, collective action and resource mobilisation are undoubtedly necessary, the case of religious leaders in El Salvador suggests that ideas and leadership are of vital importance for the rise of contentious politics at a particular historical moment.

Theory Into Practice: Framing, the News Media, and Collective Action

2001 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Ryan ◽  
Kevin M. Carragee ◽  
William Meinhofer
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
News Media

scholarly journals News Media Exposure and Political Communication among Libyan Elites at the Time of War

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 330-339
Author(s):  
Abdul-Karim Ziani ◽  
Mokhtar Elareshi ◽  
Khalid Al-Jaber
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
News Sources ◽  
The Media

Abstract Many critical questions concerning the relationship between the news media and political knowledge involve the extent to which the media facilitate learning about news, war and politics. Political awareness - via the news media - affects virtually every aspect of citizens’ political attitudes and behaviours. This paper examines how Libyan elites adopt the news media to access news and information regarding the current Libyan war and politics and how they use political communication and new media to build/spread political awareness. With the expansion of private and state-owned television in Libya, concern has grown that these new TV services will survive in providing information about citizens’ interests, including the new, developing political scene. A total of 134 highly educated Libyan professionals completed an online survey, reporting their perceptions of issues covered by national TV services. This account centres on how those elites consume the media and what level of trust they have in the media and in information and what the role of the media in their country should be. The results show that most respondents, especially those who live outside the country, prefer using different Libyan news platforms. However, 50 per cent of these do not trust these channels as a source of information regarding the civil war, associated conflicts and politics in general. They have grown weary of coverage that represents the interests of those who run or own the services and consequently place little trust in the media. Spreading ‘lies as facts’ has affected the credibility of these services. Politically, these respondents wish the media to discuss solutions and act as a force for good, not for division. They also differed in the number and variety of national news sources that they reportedly used. This paper also highlights the role of social media, mobile telephony and the Internet, as well as the rapidly proliferating private and national media. These findings are also discussed in relation to the growing impact of online sources in Libyan society, social and political change and the emergence of new media platforms as new sources of information.

Patronage Politics and Contentious Collective Action: A Recursive Relationship

2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (03) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Auyero ◽  
Pablo Lapegna ◽  
Fernanda Page Poma
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Patronage Politics

AbstractBased on ethnographic reanalysis and on current qualitative research on poor people's politics, this article argues that routine patronage politics and nonroutine collective action should be examined not as opposite and conflicting political phenomena but as dynamic processes that often establish recursive relationships. Through a series of case studies conducted in contemporary Argentina, this article examines four instances in which patronage and collective action intersect and interact: network breakdown, patron's certification, clandestine support, and reaction to threat. These four scenarios demonstrate that more than two opposing spheres of action or two different forms of sociability, patronage, and contentious politics can be mutually imbricated. Either when it malfunctions or when it thrives, clientelism may lie at the root of collective action.

Whatever Happened to The Women's Movement?

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Staggenborg ◽  
Verta Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
International Expansion ◽  
Movement Organizations

Analyses of the women's movement that focus on its "waves" and theories of social movements that focus on contentious politics have encouraged the view that the women's movement is in decline. Employing alternative perspectives on social movements, we show that the women's movement continues to thrive. This is evidenced by organizational maintenance and growth, including the international expansion of women's movement organizations; feminism within institutions and other social movements; the spread of feminist culture and collective identity; and the variety of the movement's tactical repertoires. Moreover, the movement remains capable of contentious collective action. We argue for research based on broader conceptions of social movements as well as the contentious politics approach.

“We Are All Broncos”: Hockey, Tragedy, and the Formation of Canadian Identity

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Kennedy ◽  
Derek Silva ◽  
Madelaine Coelho ◽  
William Cipolli
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
News Media ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Canadian Identity ◽  
Qualitative Approaches

There exists a broad body of scholarly work that focuses on how communities, and individuals therein, mobilize, respond, and harvest collective action in response to tragedy. Despite this interest, there remains a dearth of empirical investigation into the complex intersections of tragedy, sport, and community. Utilizing qualitative approaches to discourse analysis and quantitative measures of sentiment, semantic, and content analysis of news media articles (n = 151) and public tweets (n = 126,393), this paper explores the ways in which public responses to the 2018 Humboldt Broncos bus crash present a relatively narrow representation of both Canadian and local Prairie identity. We conclude with a discussion of some of the implications of collective action in response to specific forms of tragedy.

ACTIVISM WITHOUT ACTIVISTS: NEWS MEDIA COVERAGE OF YOUTH AS ILLEGITIMATE POLITICAL AGENTS IN THE VIRGINITY-PLEDGE MOVEMENT AND GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCES*

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Hensman Kettrey
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Political Agents

How do news media portray collective action involving activists who are deemed illegitimate political actors? The news media has a well-documented tendency to disparage adult activists by excluding their voices from coverage, attacking their political identities, and minimizing their collective action outcomes. However, the perceived illegitimacy of youth activists suggests they have no voices to be excluded, no political identities to be attacked, and no outcomes to minimize. This study analyzes coverage of the virginity pledge movement and gay-straight alliances in nationally circulated newspapers across two decades. Findings indicate youth activists' illegitimacy actually guaranteed youth a voice in the news media, but this came with unintended consequences. The news media used this perceived illegitimacy to undermine youth activists in three ways: (1) restricting youth voices to personal (apolitical) testimonies, (2) engaging in displaced disparagement by attacking adults and other legitimate targets, and (3) holding adults accountable for collective action outcomes.

scholarly journals Networked publics and the organizing of collective action on Twitter: Examining the #Freebassel campaign

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rong Wang ◽  
Kar-Hai Chu
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
News Media ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Boundary Crossing ◽  
Advocacy Organizations ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Sharing Patterns ◽  
Networked Publics

This study applied collective action theories and network theories to examine the information sharing patterns among Twitter users to obtain sociopolitical legitimacy of their collective goal. The role of Twitter in facilitating private–public boundary crossing was defined in relation to main challenges of collective action. The hypotheses and research question were examined using Twitter data collected from an online campaign, which was created to bring about the release of a detained Syrian activist. Network analysis results showed significant geographic homophily effect, that is, participants located in the same region tended to share information with each other. In addition, the results indicated that more influential Twitter users tended to connect with less influential users to help spread information on the movement. Further content analysis showed that to better mobilize potential collective action participants, Twitter users utilized strategies to draw attention from citizen news media organizations, nonprofit advocacy organizations, public figures, and corporations.

scholarly journals Repertoires of Terror: News Media Classification of Militant Groups, 1970 to 2013

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237802312199016
Author(s):  
Eric W. Schoon ◽  
Colin J. Beck
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Annual Data ◽  
Print News ◽  
Militant Groups ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Key Events

The authors examine how print news media classify militant groups as terrorist. Drawing on a relational view of news media and contentious politics, the authors develop a theory of repertoires of contention and classification. The authors argue that news media interpret the social standing of actors from the categories implied by the tactics they use and that variation in tactical repertoires explains the variation in classification among different groups and within individual groups over time. Using newly collected annual data on media coverage of 746 groups across 589,779 news articles from 1970 through 2013, statistical analyses support the authors’ argument. Moreover, consistent with scholarship on the evolution of political violence, the authors show that the effects of repertoires are sensitive to historical developments and vary in relation to key events, further supporting a relational repertoire view of the classification of terrorism.

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