The influence of new and traditional media coverage on public attention to social movements: the case of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests

Hunt, Kate; Gruszczynski, Mike

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2019.1670228

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“…Although arguably less rapidly, social media can also influence resource management (e.g., Kohl et al 2019). For example, online campaigns influenced public attention on the Dakota Access Pipeline protests by the Standing Rock Sioux tribes and allies, leading to changed regulatory processes and routing (until a new federal administration overturned the adjustments) (Hunt & Gruszczynski 2019).…”

Section: Social Media and Transformative Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Large carnivore hunting and the social license to hunt

Darimont

Hall

Eckert

et al. 2021

Conservation Biology

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The social license to operate framework considers how society grants or withholds informal permission for resource extractors to exploit publicly owned resources. We developed a modified model, which we refer to as the social license to hunt (SLH). In it we similarly consider hunters as operators, given that wildlife are legally considered public resources in North America and Europe. We applied the SLH model to examine the controversial hunting of large carnivores, which are frequently killed for trophies. Killing for trophies is widespread, but undertaken by a minority of hunters, and can pose threats to the SLH for trophy-seeking carnivore hunters and potentially beyond. Societal opposition to large carnivore hunting relates not only to conservation concerns but also to misalignment between killing for trophies and dominant public values and attitudes concerning the treatment of animals. We summarized cases related to the killing of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos), wolves (Canis lupus), and other large carnivores in Canada, the United States, and Europe to illustrate how opposition to large carnivore hunting, now expressed primarily on social media, can exert rapid and significant pressure on policy makers and politicians. Evidence of the potential for transformative change to wildlife management and conservation includes proposed and realized changes to legislation, business practice, and wildlife policy, including the banning of some large carnivore hunts. Given that policy is ultimately shaped by societal values and attitudes, research gaps include developing increased insight into public support of various hunting policies beyond that derived from monitoring of social media and public polling. Informed by increased evidence, the SLH model can provide a conceptual foundation for predicting the likelihood of transient versus enduring changes to wildlife conservation policy and practice for a wide variety of taxa and contexts.

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Section: Social Media and Transformative Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Large carnivore hunting and the social license to hunt

Darimont

Hall

Eckert

et al. 2021

Conservation Biology

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“…To test whether social movement organizations "exploited" the COVID-19 crisis as a discursive opportunity and how they did this, I conduct an analysis of the Twitter activities of the several organizations involved in the abortion debates in each country. Twitter is a platform many organizations use to communicate to audiences and to aid in efforts to attract news media attention and the attention of political elites and allies (Austin and Jin 2017;Bennett andSegerberg 2011, 2012;Conway, Kenski, and Wang 2015;Feezell 2018;Freelon and Karpf 2015;Graham, Jackson, and Broersma 2016;Hunt 2019;Hunt and Gruszczynski 2019;Stier, Schünemann, and Steiger 2018). Given that the COVID-19 crisis led to lockdowns and bans on normal social movement operations, their activities online and their discursive strategies to frame the crisis and maintain the organization despite not having access to other mobilization tools become particularly important to study.…”

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Exploiting a Crisis: Abortion Activism and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hunt¹

2021

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How do social movement organizations involved in abortion debates leverage a global crisis to pursue their goals? In recent months there has been media coverage of how anti-abortion actors in the United States attempted to use the COVID-19 pandemic to restrict access to abortion by classifying abortion as a non-essential medical procedure. Was the crisis “exploited” by social movement organizations (SMOs) in other countries? I bring together Crisis Exploitation Theory and the concept of discursive opportunity structures to test whether social movement organizations exploit crisis in ways similar to elites, with those seeking change being more likely to capitalize on the opportunities provided by the crisis. Because Twitter tends to be on the frontlines of political debate—especially during a pandemic—a dataset is compiled of over 12,000 Tweets from the accounts of SMOs involved in abortion debates across four countries to analyze the patterns in how they responded to the pandemic. The results suggest that crisis may disrupt expectations about SMO behavior and that anti- and pro-abortion rights organizations at times framed the crisis as both a “threat” and as an “opportunity.”

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“…Although current research usually places the Internet and, specifically, the social media platforms (Hunt & Gruszczynski, 2021;Jost et al, 2018;Mundt et al, 2018) as a fundamental resource for citizens and social movements (Castells, 2012), many studies also highlight the essential role that mainstream media still play (Amenta et al, 2017;Funke & Wolfson, 2014) both in their traditional version (paper, television, and radio) and in their foray into the digital realm (Cottle, 2008;Mattoni & Treré, 2014). Thus, mainstream news media continue to be relevant information sources for a large part of the population, which gives them a predominant influence in the process of selecting and framing the issues that will be part of the public agenda (Entman, 1993;McCombs & Shaw, 1972).…”

Section: Social Movements In the News Mediamentioning

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Variables de éxito mediático de los movimientos sociales. El 15-M y la PAH en España

Iranzo

Ruiz

2022

cdi

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El objetivo de este artículo es comparar el tratamiento mediático de dos movimientos sociales españoles: el 15-M (o Indignados) y la Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH). La cobertura periodística del 15-M ha sido objeto de muchos estudios. Sin embargo, el análisis comparativo ha sido muy poco utilizado, a pesar de sus posibilidades para ofrecer información relevante sobre las variables que pueden influir en cómo los medios retratan los movimientos sociales. Con este propósito, se ha aplicado un análisis de contenido cuantitativo a una muestra de noticias publicadas en las ediciones digitales de los medios de comunicación más relevantes de España. Los resultados cuestionan el paradigma de la protesta, dado el trato mediático mayoritariamente positivo o neutral recibido por ambos movimientos sociales. No obstante, la representación de la PAH es significativamente más favorable, lo que se deriva de la combinación de tácticas disruptivas (para atraer a los medios) e institucionales (para obtener un trato positivo). Esta combinación se refuerza mediante la estrategia comunicativa de la PAH.

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The influence of new and traditional media coverage on public attention to social movements: the case of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests

Cited by 33 publications

References 50 publications

Large carnivore hunting and the social license to hunt

Large carnivore hunting and the social license to hunt

Exploiting a Crisis: Abortion Activism and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Variables de éxito mediático de los movimientos sociales. El 15-M y la PAH en España

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