Tweeting for a cause: Microblogging and environmental advocacy

Merry, Melissa K.

doi:10.1002/1944-2866.poi335

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“…Media represented in the YouTube videos were categorized by coders as either traditional (newspapers, magazines, radio, and television) or new media (nontraditional: sources with on-demand access, interactive user feedback, and real-time generation of new, unregulated content). Similar to what Merry (2013) found in her study of Twitter, traditional media sources are often embedded within new media tools. Thus in our coding, sources coded as traditional at times contained some nontraditional content; that said, for those coded as traditional it was determined that the main focus of the video was a traditional report from newspapers, magazines, radio, or television (mainly embedded mainstream U.S. cable or network news stories).…”

Section: Views Per Monthsupporting

confidence: 54%

Do New Media Support New Policy Narratives? The Social Construction of the U.S.–Mexico Border on YouTube

Lybecker¹,

McBeth²,

Husmann³

et al. 2015

Policy & Internet

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Narratives, or the telling of stories, are a powerful tool used to gain support for public policies. The advent of new social media, including YouTube, provides opportunities for less-mainstream narratives of cooperation, but are these opportunities being realized? Using the Narrative Policy Framework and Schneider and Ingram's Social Construction of target populations as the theoretical basis, we analyzed 95 English and Spanish YouTube videos focusing on the U.S.-Mexico border and found they demonstrate a maintained focus on mainstream, divisive issues such as security and violence, immigration, and drugs. However, although new media often cover mainstream issues, YouTube videos appear to construct more favorable perspectives of the border region than traditional media: 52 percent of the videos constructed a sympathetic view of the border, including the people associated with it, while 48 percent of the videos constructed an unsympathetic view. Understanding the use of these narratives can have real-world impacts for developing policy along the U.S.-Mexico border; possibly creating greater cooperation vital to solving many of the urgent problems border communities face on a day-to-day basis.

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confidence: 54%

Do New Media Support New Policy Narratives? The Social Construction of the U.S.–Mexico Border on YouTube

Lybecker¹,

McBeth²,

Husmann³

et al. 2015

Policy & Internet

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“…While this research provides insight into the types of content political actors provide on Twitter, these broad categories do not capture the ways that actors frame specific policy issues. There is some work suggesting that groups utilize Twitter to assign blame and propose solutions in the wake of disasters (see Hamdy & Gomaa, ; Merry, ), but more work is needed to examine how groups frame specific issues, both during crises and periods of normal politics.…”

Section: Social Media and Politicsmentioning

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Constructing Policy Narratives in 140 Characters or Less: The Case of Gun Policy Organizations

Merry¹

2015

Policy Studies Journal

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108

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This study examines interest groups’ framing of gun policy issues via an analysis of nearly 10,000 tweets by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the National Rifle Association spanning from 2009 to 2014. Utilizing the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF), I investigate the extent to which interest groups use social media to construct policy narratives. This research shows that much can be conveyed in 140 characters; both gun control and gun rights organizations used Twitter to identify victims, blame “villains,” commend “heroes,” and offer policy solutions. This research sheds light on the politics of gun control by revealing trends over time in groups’ framing and suggests refinements for hypotheses of the NPF. Finally, this work underscores the importance of social media for public policy scholarship.

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“…Studies have also focused on the impact of media use on the satisfaction with environmental government public services. For example, based on a content analysis of 40 national environmental organization blogs, studies found that media provide information to understand and evaluate the performance of the government's environmental public services [24,25]. However, the previous literature has not directly answered the following questions: What effects do traditional media use and new media use have on environmental public service satisfaction?…”

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Media Use and Environmental Public Service Satisfaction—An Empirical Analysis Based on China

Zeng

2019

Sustainability

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Previous research has produced conflicting findings on the relationship between media use and environmental public service satisfaction. Using survey data from the China General Social Survey 2015 (hereafter referred to as CGSS2015), this study examined the impact of media use on environmental public service satisfaction. The findings showed that traditional media use was positively associated and new media use was negatively associated with environmental public service satisfaction. Individuals who used new media as their primary source of information were less satisfied with environmental public services than individuals whose primary source of information was traditional media. This study confirmed that authoritative value propositions and government trust have a significant mediating effect between traditional media use and environmental public service satisfaction, and government trust has a significant mediating effect between individuals' main information sources and their environmental public service satisfaction.

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Tweeting for a cause: Microblogging and environmental advocacy

Cited by 29 publications

References 50 publications

Do New Media Support New Policy Narratives? The Social Construction of the U.S.–Mexico Border on YouTube

Do New Media Support New Policy Narratives? The Social Construction of the U.S.–Mexico Border on YouTube

Constructing Policy Narratives in 140 Characters or Less: The Case of Gun Policy Organizations

Media Use and Environmental Public Service Satisfaction—An Empirical Analysis Based on China

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