News from the Noninstitutional world: U.S. and Canadian television news coverage of social protest

Wittebols, James H.

doi:10.1080/10584609.1996.9963122

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“…For example, Wittebols (1996) confirmed the essence of the protest paradigm in a study of news coverage of international protest events and also found that the nation's foreign policy position toward the country from which the news agency originates predicted the nature of the coverage. In a study of Arab protests covered by Jewish media, Wolfsfeld et al (2000) found that Jewish media treated the Arab protesters negatively, de-legitimized their event, and exacerbated mentions of violence.…”

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A Global Trend

Armstrong¹,

Boyle²,

McLeod³

2012

Journalism Studies

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Social protest is truly a global phenomenon with recent examples including protests in Asia, North America, and the Middle East. This study investigates how gender representations in protest coverage differ not only based on characteristics of the protests but also location and other factors. Examining 220 newspaper stories from four global regions, a content analysis revealed that gender portrayals differ in part by the region of the world. Further, women were most likely to appear when the story was nonpolitical, the tactics were more peaceful, and when the disparity between male and female sources was lower. Implications for newspaper and gender research are discussed.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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A Global Trend

Armstrong¹,

Boyle²,

McLeod³

2012

Journalism Studies

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“…The YVM protest and the accompanying convoy quickly garnered national news attention without dramatic or violent protests. This could be explained by Wittebols’ (1996) conclusion that social movement campaigning on “issues that arouse elite controversy receive more coverage” (p. 358). Thus, the YVM and convoy were initially placed within an ongoing and highly charged debate over pipelines, the carbon tax and climate change, which involved the public as well as federal and provincial politicians.…”

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No Surrender. No Challenge. No Protest Paradigm: A Content Analysis of the Canadian News Media Coverage of the “Yellow Vest Movement” and the “United We Roll Convoy”

Cillia

McCurdy

2020

Canadian Review of Sociology

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This study's exhaustive content analysis (N = 538) examines how Canada's mainstream news media covered the nascent yellow vest movement from the first Canadian protests in December 2018 culminating in the February 2019 crosscountry United We Roll convoy. We demonstrate that Protest Paradigm scholarship does not offer a useful analytic for understanding the coverage of this right-wing social movement whose tactics were banal and law abiding. Furthermore, we argue that Canadian news media coverage of the protest movement was largely uncritical and decidedly hegemonic, raising questions about normative watchdog conceptions of the news media in Canadian democracy. Résumé Grâce' à une analyse de contenu (N = 538), cet article examine comment les médias d'information grand public du Canada ont couvert le mouvement naissant des gilets jaunes depuis les premières The authors wish to thank Prof. Maria Petrova Bakardjieva, Prof. Gregory Taylor, and the external referees for helpful comments on an earlier version of this article.

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“… Brasted, 2005 ; DeLuca et al, 2012 ). Unfortunately, there is little scholarly attention to Canadian media coverage of protest; the few published studies suggest that the protest paradigm is present, albeit certainly not uniformly reproduced across all media institutions ( Corrigall-Brown and Wilkes, 2012 ; Gulliver and Herriot, 2015 ; Wilkes et al, 2010 ; Wittebols, 1996 ).…”

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The personalization of engagement: the symbolic construction of social media and grassroots mobilization in Canadian newspapers

Dumitrica

Bakardjieva

2017

Media, Culture & Society

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This article explores the symbolic construction of civic engagement mediated by social media in Canadian newspapers. The integration of social media in politics has created a discursive opening for reimagining engagement, partly as a result of enthusiastic accounts of the impact of digital technologies upon democracy. By means of a qualitative content analysis of Canadian newspaper articles between 2005 and 2014, we identify several discursive articulations of engagement: First, the articles offer the picture of a wide range of objects of engagement, suggesting a civic body actively involved in governance processes. Second, engagement appears to take place only reactively, after decisions are made. Finally, social media become the new social glue, bringing isolated individuals together and thus enabling them to pressure decision-making institutions. We argue that, collectively, these stories construct engagement as a deeply personal gesture that is nevertheless turned into a communal experience by the affordances of technology. The conclusion unpacks what we deem as the ambiguity at the heart of this discourse, considering its implications for democratic politics and suggesting avenues for the further monitoring of the technologically enabled personalization of engagement.

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News from the Noninstitutional world: U.S. and Canadian television news coverage of social protest

Cited by 30 publications

References 8 publications

A Global Trend

A Global Trend

No Surrender. No Challenge. No Protest Paradigm: A Content Analysis of the Canadian News Media Coverage of the “Yellow Vest Movement” and the “United We Roll Convoy”

The personalization of engagement: the symbolic construction of social media and grassroots mobilization in Canadian newspapers

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