Framing Protest: News Coverage of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Movements
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ucin13947257892021-08-03T06:22:36Z Framing Protest: News Coverage of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Movements Zinser, William J., Jr. Sociology Occupy Wall Street Tea Party protest paradigm frames of dissent episodic and thematic framing mainstream media Abstract In regards to contemporary, American political movements, the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movement have both generated quite a bit of news coverage. In this thesis I examine what type of coverage each movement receive, determine how coverage differs across the two movements, and propose an explanation for the differences. There is an extensive sociological literature on news media, both in terms of institutional practices and media products. For the purpose of this project, the literature on media framing of protest movements is especially important. Drawing on a framework which employs McLeod and Hertog’s protest paradigm, Boykoff’s frames of dissent, and Iyengar’s distinction between episodic and thematic framing, this study uses a content analysis to discern if frames used by The New York Times and USA Today -when covering the Tea Party and Occupy movement- differ, and if so, how. The findings show that, overall, the Occupy movement receive less favorable coverage in that Occupy protesters are more likely to be represented as deviant in some way, whereas Tea Party activists are more likely to be represented as having credible political demands. These differences, I argue, are due to the Tea Party’s less threatening concerns to the capitalist system. These findings are helpful in understanding how media outlets which claim neutrality and objectivity still end up reinforcing the status quo by marginalizing movements that challenges the foundation upon which modern capitalist democracies are built. 2014-10-23 English text University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1394725789 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1394725789 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: some rights reserved. It is licensed for use under a Creative Commons license. Specific terms and permissions are available from this document's record in the OhioLINK ETD Center. |
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