“What’s going on” in Ferguson? Online news frames of protest at the police killing of Michael Brown
“What’s going on” in Ferguson? Online news frames of protest at the police killing of Michael Brown
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弗格森抗议警察杀害迈克尔·布朗的在线新闻框架“发生了什么”？
DOI：
10.1177/1368430220917752
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Colin Wayne Leach
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作者：
Travis A. Riddle;Kate M. Turetsky;J. Bottesini;Colin Wayne Leach
公众对抗议活动的反应往往存在分歧，一些人认为抗议活动是对不公正的合法回应，另一些人则认为抗议活动是非法的。我们考察了面向不同受众的在线新闻来源是如何构建抗议活动的，这可能会鼓励这些不同的反应。我们关注2014年黑人少年迈克尔·布朗被警察枪杀后的在线新闻报道。对标题和图片及其说明文字的预先注册分析表明，面向非裔美国人的消息来源更有可能包括传达种族不公正和随后抗议活动合法性的内容，而不是面向普通观众的消息来源。相比之下，普通观众来源强调抗议者和警察之间的冲突，较少提到抗议者的原因。虽然许多关于媒体隔离的研究解决了受众消费不同来源的倾向，但我们的工作表明，新闻来源也可能通过对相同事件进行不同的框架来导致信息碎片化。
Public reactions to protests are often divided, with some viewing the protest as a legitimate response to injustice and others perceiving the protest as illegitimate. We examine how online news sources oriented to different audiences frame protest, potentially encouraging these divergent reactions. We focus on online news coverage following the 2014 police shooting of a Black teenager, Michael Brown. Preregistered analyses of headlines and images and their captions showed that sources oriented toward African Americans were more likely to include content conveying racial injustice and legitimacy of the subsequent protests than sources oriented toward a general audience. In contrast, general audience sources emphasized conflict between protesters and police, making fewer references to the protesters’ cause. Whereas much work on media segregation addresses the propensity of audiences to consume different sources, our work suggests that news sources may also contribute to information fragmentation by differentially framing the same events.