Protests, Social Movements and Media Legislation in Mexico 2012-2014

2017 ◽  
pp. 116-136
Author(s):  
Tonatiuh Lay
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Right To Communicate

The objective of this chapter is to describe and analyze the use of ICTs by social movements in Mexico in their attempt to keep proposed legislation from concentrating, or at least failing to dilute, the already concentrated power of the Mexican media. These technologies not only have been a means of organization and synchronization for protests and mobilization, but also, before restrictions in Mexican law, served as alternative media for citizens to obtain more truthful information and make use of their right to communicate.

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.

The Story of Resistance

2019 ◽  
pp. 509-527
Author(s):  
Hasan Turgut
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
New Media ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Transmedia Storytelling ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Channels

In today's world, it's impossible to think about social movements apart from the media, and it has become an obligation out of necessity to set alternative media channels in terms of social movements. The new media and social media networks have been used actively in the process of setting aforementioned alternative media channels. The use of alternative media as a means of criticism and resistance becomes possible with these media networks when they are used with effective communication strategies and techniques. Transmedia storytelling is the leading one among these effective communication strategies. Based on this assertion, in this study, how transmedia storytelling was used as a political advertising activity by the social movements will be analyzed through the example of Gezi Park protests that took place in Turkey in 2013.

Blogging down a dictatorship: Human rights, citizen journalists and the right to communicate in Zimbabwe

Journalism ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 745-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Last Moyo
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Shared Information ◽  
The Face ◽  
Postmodern Philosophy ◽  
Right To Communicate ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

This article examines the use of blogs to mediate the experiences of citizens during a violent election in Zimbabwe. It focuses specifically on how people disseminated and shared information about their tribulations under a regime that used coercive measures in the face of its crumbling hegemonic edifice. The article frames these practices within theories of alternative media and citizen journalism and argues that digitization has occasioned new counter-hegemonic spaces and new forms of journalism that are deinstitutionalized and deprofessionalized, and whose radicalism is reflected in both form and content. I argue that this radicalism in part articulates a postmodern philosophy and style as seen in its rejection of the elaborate codes and conventions of mainstream journalism. The internet is seen as certainly enhancing the people’s right to communicate, but only to a limited extent because of access disparities on the one hand, and its appropriation by liberal social movements whose configuration is elitist, on the other. I conclude by arguing that the alternative media in Zimbabwe, as reflected by Kubatana’s bloggers, lack the capacity to envision alternative social and political orders outside the neoliberal framework. This, I contend, is partly because of the political economy of both blogging as a social practice and alternative media as subaltern spaces. Just as the bloggers are embedded to Kubatana’s virtual space to self-publish, Kubatana is likewise embedded to a neoliberal discourse that is traceable to its funding and financing systems.

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