scholarly journals SOSYAL MEDYA ORTAMINDA TOPLUMSAL HAREKETLERİN ÇERÇEVELENMESİ (COLLECTIVE ACTION FRAMES): UNITECYPRUSNOW ÖRNEĞİ

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dilan ÇİFTÇİ ◽  
Filiz SOYER
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Collective Action Frames

Mak nyahs and the dismantling of dehumanisation: Framing empowerment strategies of Malaysian male-to-female transsexuals in the 2000s

Sexualities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 114-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph N Goh ◽  
Thaatchaayini Kananatu
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Reparative Therapy ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
Collective Action Frames ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
International Recognition ◽  
Male To Female

The unrelenting ill-treatment suffered by mak nyahs, or Malaysian pre-operative and post-operative male-to-female transsexuals, indicates a steady process of dehumanisation that besieges mak nyahs in contemporary Malaysia. Nevertheless, the 2000s have seen a groundswell of strategies by mak nyahs to dismantle forces that seek to dehumanise them, and thus to embrace self-empowerment. By analysing online media resources, information from communication networks and legal cases pertaining to mak nyahs, we aim to explain the ways in which the strategies of mak nyahs and their allies to dismantle dehumanisation and empower themselves are framed and mobilised in Malaysia in the 2000s. To this end, we draw on a two-fold analytical framework that comprises David A Snow’s and Robert D Benford’s notion of collective action frames, and Michael W McCann’s legal mobilisation theory, in order to interpret our analysis. We argue that although mak nyahs have encountered dehumanising forces such as violence, pathologisation and reparative therapy, religious denunciations and moral policing, they have responded with diverse empowerment strategies that include the telling of personal stories, increasing public visibility, eliciting international recognition and support, forming alliances and organising collective action and legal recourse.

#MeToo as a Connective Movement: Examining the Frames Adopted in the Anti-Sexual Harassment Movement in China

2020 ◽  
pp. 089443932095679
Author(s):  
Pengxiang Li ◽  
Hichang Cho ◽  
Yuren Qin ◽  
Anfan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Treatment Recommendation ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Collective Action Frames ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Personal Action ◽  
Media Platform

This study was aimed to contribute to understanding how networked yet fragmented online actors create meaning in digital media–enabled movements like #MeToo. By drawing upon a multidimensional framing analysis, this study investigated how personal action frames, collective action frames, and issue-specific frames were adopted in #MeToo movement in China, and it also shed light on how different groups of social actors respond to sexual harassment issues on Sina Weibo, a Chinese social media platform. This study employed computational content analysis to extract frames from a huge amount of traceable data (i.e., 16,187 Weibo posts) and uncovered seven specific types of frames categorized as personal experiences and emotional commentary (as personal action frames), injustice and opposition (as collective action frames), and problem definition, treatment recommendation, and related news (as issue-specific frames). The results revealed that personal action frames and collective action frames were widely adopted by females and ordinary users, whereas issue-specific frames were more commonly applied by males and organizational users. These empirical findings enhance our understanding of meaning construction with regard to digital media–enabled movements.

scholarly journals The Media’s Construction of LGBT Pride Parades in Russia

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-292
Author(s):  
Ксения Сергеевна Семыкина
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Collective Action Frames ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Media ◽  
Pride Parades

This article analyses media representations of LGBT social movements, taking the case of Saint Petersburg LGBT pride parades. The analysis is developed through the use of framing theory, which views the media as an arena where interest groups promote their own interpretations of particular issues. Frames juxtapose elements of the text in such a way as to provide the audience with a scheme within which to perceive the message. Social movements are viewed as interest groups that introduce new frames in public debate. Two types of frames can be distinguished: collective action frames and status quo frames. In this study, the usage of two collective action frames (equality frame and victim frame), and two status quo frames (morality frame and propaganda promoting homosexuality frame) were examined. Additionally, the sources of quotes used in news stories were analyzed. The study focuses on articles dedicated to Saint Petersburg LGBT pride marches in the years 2010–2017 in the most popular local Internet websites. The analysis shows that the coverage of LGBT pride marches can be divided into two distinct periods: 2010–2013 and 2014–2017. In the first period, LGBT activists dominated the coverage, quoted about twice as much as government officials. Equality and victim frames were prevalent. In the second period, activists were cited significantly less often, with the propaganda promoting homosexuality frame dominating the discourse. However, contrary to findings of previous studies on social movement representation, across the whole period under consideration, LGBT activists were quoted more often than government representatives. This finding calls for a further exploration of the conditions which allowed for such coverage in the context of political heterosexism and homophobia.

The Discourse of the Consumer Resistance Movement

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Valor ◽  
Estela M. Díaz ◽  
Amparo Merino
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Attribution Of Responsibility ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Collective Action Frames ◽  
Consumer Resistance ◽  
Advocacy Strategies ◽  
Resistance Movement ◽  
And Control ◽  
Capacity To Change

Little work has been done on understanding the ways in which resistant consumers interpret the causes and responsible agents for structures of domination. Drawing on collective action frames, we examine how a consumer resistance movement defines both its antagonists (adversarial framing) and its advocacy strategies for response (prognostic framing). Discourses of resistant consumers are analyzed through the lens of power, since to explore these frames is also to study the question of who is perceived as the locus of power and how power/resistance is exercised to achieve the movement’s goals. A kaleidoscopic framing emerges that reveals multiple points and forms of resistance. To counteract the underlying attribution of responsibility (the materialistic ideology dominant in Western societies), consumers bring into play a repertoire of actions that enable them to construct both themselves and others as ethical persons. Based on these findings the research contributes to the literature on consumer resistance by broadening the most commonly held vision of power, namely, power as domination and control possessed by distinctly identifiable agents. This study, by contrast, provides evidence of discourses that assume power is exercised in a reticular, shifting, and productive manner, a vision of power that corresponds closely to that articulated in the work of Foucault and Arendt. An emphasis on this perception of power relationships in the realm of consumer resistance extends and enriches understanding of a movement’s dynamics, whilst also enhancing the movement’s capacity to change the materialistic ideology that it refuses to accept.

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