Constructing Relational and Verifiable Protest Event Data: Four Challenges and Some Solutions*

Oliver, Pamela; Hanna, Alex; Lim, Chaeyoon

doi:10.17813/1086-671x-28-1-1

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“…Cluster size is the number of events in a cluster, that is the number of events about the same specific issue. We know from previous research (Oliver, Hanna and Lim 2023) that having more events about an issue increases the amount of news coverage that any given event receives. This happens both because sustained contention makes events about an issue more newsworthy and because a greater number of articles about an issue increases the volume of discursive space for mentioning any particular event.…”

Section: Timing Figure 1 Number Of Episodes and Events By Year And So...mentioning

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Unarmed Violence, Police Perspectives, Community Struggle: Black- and White-centric news accounts of Black Protests about Policing in the U.S. 1994-2010

Oliver,

Gaede,

Milewski

et al. 2024

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Perceptions of Black protest movements by both the public and most academics are filtered through White-centric news sources that tend to associate Black people and Black protests with violence and downplay systemic inequality. Intentionally centering Black perspectives provides an important balance and corrective to mainstream distortions. Using a much wider range of original data than any study addressing comparable issues, this paper compares mainstream White-centric newswire and Black newspaper coverage of Black protests about policing between 1994 and 2010 using several different quantitative measures: whether an event was covered at all, the volume of coverage an event received, and the prevalence of significant keywords in stories about a given protest episode. All approaches show the mainstream newswires much more focused on Black violence and on official and police perspectives, as well as exhibiting more concentration of their attention on fewer episodes in media cascades. Black newspapers not only covered a more diverse array of episodes but gave more attention to systemic issues, Black perspectives and Black community organizing. The data show how markedly different collective memories of policing and protests about policing have been constructed in different news sources. These differences matter both for current politics and academic research about Black movements. Note: This is a working paper in process. Comments welcome. Please check with the authors for an updated version if you are citing after June 2024.

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Section: Timing Figure 1 Number Of Episodes and Events By Year And So...mentioning

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Unarmed Violence, Police Perspectives, Community Struggle: Black- and White-centric news accounts of Black Protests about Policing in the U.S. 1994-2010

Oliver,

Gaede,

Milewski

et al. 2024

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“…Following prior studies (Williamson, Trump, and Einstein 2018), BLM protest data come from the Elephrame database, which verifies protests with news reports and social media posts (https://elephrame.com/textbook/BLM/chart). 7 Following prior studies, I employ the number of events rather than protest size because media attention is more strongly driven by events than size (Oliver, Hanna, and Lim 2023). Replicating models with the size of protests yielded coefficients in the same direction as protest events.…”

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When Black Movements Matter: Controlling Images and Black Lives Matter Protests in Media Attention to U.S. Police Killings

2023

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Media attention is critical for movement success. Prior work highlights movement infrastructures, political contexts, and media norms influence media attention, yet little research has examined whether capacity of protests to direct attention is shaped by perceived worthiness of movement claims. Applying scholarship of controlling images around Black criminality, I examine whether victim armed status influences the extent Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests directed media attention to Black policing deaths. Negative binomial regression analysis on media coverage of 678 Black Americans killed by police from 2014-2016 in over three hundred print media indicates local BLM protests increased media attention to nearby Black Americans, but was moderated by armed status. Neither local political contexts nor organizational presence influenced attention, suggesting BLM relied on protests for agenda-setting. Findings suggest future research should account for how controlling images and racialized threat influence trajectories, outcomes, and repression of movements structured along a matrix of domination.

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The EU (strategic) partnering strategy: CAQDAS software in the service of detecting less obvious priorities and attitudes

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2024

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Constructing Relational and Verifiable Protest Event Data: Four Challenges and Some Solutions*

Cited by 6 publications

References 59 publications

Unarmed Violence, Police Perspectives, Community Struggle: Black- and White-centric news accounts of Black Protests about Policing in the U.S. 1994-2010

Unarmed Violence, Police Perspectives, Community Struggle: Black- and White-centric news accounts of Black Protests about Policing in the U.S. 1994-2010

When Black Movements Matter: Controlling Images and Black Lives Matter Protests in Media Attention to U.S. Police Killings

The EU (strategic) partnering strategy: CAQDAS software in the service of detecting less obvious priorities and attitudes

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