“Their Rising Voices”: A Study of Civil Rights, Social Movements, and Advertising in the New York Times

1998 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 518-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Dente Ross
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The South ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Receive

This content analysis of the New York Times and review of NAACP records documents strategic use of advertising in the New York Times by the civil rights movement between 1955 and 1961. The advertisements are scrutinized in light of theories of social movements, communication, and sociology, and the history of the civil rights movement. The ads framed the civil rights movement to prime the audience to receive radical messages from marginalized speakers, to encourage media legitimization of the movement, to popularize movement goals, and to mobilize support and resources beyond the South.

Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movement: A Comparative Analysis of Two Social Movements in the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 448-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dewey M. Clayton
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Issue Framing ◽  
Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter (BLM) has arisen as a social movement in response to the numerous killings of unarmed African Americans. It has been criticized by some as too confrontational and divisive. The purpose of this study is to undertake a comparative analysis of the BLM Movement and the civil rights movement (1954-1965). As social movements, both have evolved out of the need to continue the Black liberation struggle for freedom. I have conducted a content analysis of the New York Times newspaper during a 2-year period for both social movements to examine the issue framing of each. I argue that the civil rights movement framed its issues in a more inclusive manner than BLM. BLM should take a lesson from the civil rights movement by boldly taking on an issue like police brutality of African Americans and expanding the boundaries of something that is politically unacceptable to being acceptable.

How a copy desk “edit” influenced corrections at the New York Times

2021 ◽  
pp. 073953292110135
Author(s):  
Kirstie Hettinga ◽  
Elizabeth Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
International News ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Times ◽  
Editing Process

The New York Times “streamlined” its editing process in 2017 and reduced the editing staff by nearly half. Through content analysis on corrections (N = 1,149), this research examines the effects of these cuts. Analysis revealed the Times published more corrections before the changes, but that corrections appeared more quickly after the original error occurred and there were more corrections for content in the A section following the staffing cuts. The A section includes national and international news and thus often contains political content, which is rife for heightened scrutiny in an age of media distrust. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.

The Language of Conflict in the Focus of Quantitative Content Analysis of the USA Press Reports (on the Example of New York Times Article Archive for the Period from 1851 to 2019)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
M. Chekunova
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Quantitative Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of

The presented article tests the application of the method of quantitative content analysis to identify the spread of confrontational tendencies in the public consciousness. It proves the broad possibilities of monitoring and forecasting conflicts in society on the basis of it. The source base of the study was the archives of the New York Times newspaper for the period from 1851 to 2019. The author calculated the number of used indicative conflict-containing lexemes, the integrated dynamics of which expresses the coefficient of confrontation. The coefficient of confrontation correlates with the dynamics of conflicts in the history of the United States and the world, explanations of the increase and decrease of the corresponding indicators are given. The maximum phases of the confrontation coefficient fall on the period of the Second World War and the modern period. Modern maximization is viewed as a significant threat to the security of Russian society.

Narcos addiction: A three-decade content analysis of the representation of Colombia in The New York Times and on IMDb.com

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 504-516
Author(s):  
David Bockino
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
South American ◽  
South American Country ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Setting Theory

Building on research into media representation of countries and agenda-setting theory, a content analysis analyzed the way Colombia was portrayed in The New York Times headlines and IMDb plot summaries during 1980 to 2013. This unusual longitudinal study compares the representation of Colombia to other South American countries. Among other conclusions, this study finds that over the 34-year period the word “drug” was included in a New York Times headline with the word “Colombia” more times than any other word with any other South American country.

All the Movements Fit to Print: Who, What, When, Where, and Why SMO Families Appeared in the New York Times in the Twentieth Century

2009 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 636-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin Amenta ◽  
Neal Caren ◽  
Sheera Joy Olasky ◽  
James E. Stobaugh
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Resource Mobilization ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Political Partisanship ◽  
Civil Rights Movements

Why did some social movement organization (SMO) families receive extensive media coverage? In this article, we elaborate and appraise four core arguments in the literature on movements and their consequences: disruption, resource mobilization, political partisanship, and whether a movement benefits from an enforced policy. Our fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analyses (fsQCA) draw on new, unique data from the New York Times across the twentieth century on more than 1,200 SMOs and 34 SMO families. At the SMO family level, coverage correlates highly with common measures of the size and disruptive activity of movements, with the labor and African American civil rights movements receiving the most coverage. Addressing why some movement families experienced daily coverage, fsQCA indicates that disruption, resource mobilization, and an enforced policy are jointly sufficient; partisanship, the standard form of “political opportunity,” is not part of the solution. Our results support the main perspectives, while also suggesting that movement scholars may need to reexamine their ideas of favorable political contexts.

scholarly journals Assessing the media visibility of China’s President Xi Jinping’s first 3-year governance in The New York Times

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-480
Author(s):  
Xiaoqun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Composite Measure ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The Media ◽  
Multiple Frames ◽  
Two Parameters

This study assessed the media visibility, a composite measure of attention and prominence, of China’s President Xi Jinping’s first 3-year governance in The New York Times. The assessment was based on the content analysis of 317 news articles focusing on Chinese President. Qualitative content analysis was used to identify three major frames, 12 mid-level frames, and 18 sub-frames. Quantitative content analysis was used to measure the attention, prominence, and the combination of these two parameters of these frames. The findings showed that The New York Times employed multiple frames to report Chinese President, and the two frames with the highest media visibility are (Domestic) Campaigns and Strategies and China-United States (relations), rather than Human Rights.

The “Not-So-Genial” Conspiracy: The New York Times and Six Presidential “Honeymoons,” 1953–1993

1995 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 841-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Front Page ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Press

Scholars and political actors generally believe that presidents enjoy a period of sanguine rapport with the press gallery during a honeymoon of about two months at the beginning of each new administration. The honeymoon is characterized by a minimum of hostile questions by reporters and relatively gentle media treatment of the new president. However, this content analysis of front-page headlines in the New York Times during the first 100 days of the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton administrations suggests that all honeymoons are not equal.

International News and Borrowed News in the New York Times: An Update

1993 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 638-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Riffe ◽  
Charles F. Aust ◽  
Rhonda J. Gibson ◽  
Elizabeth K. Viall ◽  
Huiuk Yi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Trend Analysis ◽  
Third World ◽  
New York Times ◽  
International News ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
News Organization ◽  
Second World

This content analysis shows the number of international news items in the New York Times has decreased over the last 22 years. Roughly one in five items contained second-hand or borrowed news (material first disseminated by and attributed to another news organization), though trend analysis indicates increasing news borrowing. Borrowed news was most common in items from Second World (Communist) nations, but the proportion has dropped significantly during the ′80s. Third World borrowed news continues to increase significantly.

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