How time and platform impact coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement
How time and platform impact coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement
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时间和平台如何影响“黑人生命也是命”运动的报道
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Xi Zou
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Wenjun Xie;Rong Qi Liew;Yuan Wu;Xi Zou
The rise of the modern Black Lives Matter movement can be traced back to two key events, the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin and the 2014 death of Michael Brown. Research routinely showed that mainstream media ’ s narrative choices marginalize and delegitimize protesters and their causes, a pattern known as the protest paradigm. This study provides a longitudinal examination of how the same mainstream media system varied in their coverage of similar events and the degree to which journalists challenged the predicted paradigms conceptualized in other aca-demic work. A content analysis of national newspaper coverage revealed that news before the judicial rulings focused on protesters ’ tactics (violence versus peaceful) and changed to the realm of ideas (grievances and demands) after the assailants were considered not guilty of wrongdoing. No progression was found in legitimizing coverage of protests between the two cases. Wilson. Ultimately, the analysis in this study shows how traditional news media talk about ongoing Black protests in the United States, providing another constituent of contemporary research that examines recent protests and unrest (Elmasry and el-Nawawy 2016; Mourão, Brown, and Sylvie 2018; Steiner and Waisbord 2017). Our results offer insight into the relationship between coverage and the reality of progressive, race-based protest movements, and its connection with the legal system that contributes to continued Black oppres-sion (e.g. Alexander 2010).