FOCUS ON THE TECH Internet centrism in global protest coverage
FOCUS ON THE TECH Internet centrism in global protest coverage
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DOI：
10.1080/21670811.2014.906926
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Jaymes, Taylor
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作者：
Freelon, Deen;Merritt, Sarah;Jaymes, Taylor
互联网中心主义，即网络工具在社会和政治进程中扮演重要角色的概念，经常被记者、专家和学者所引用。现有的研究已经在抗议的情况下直接探讨了这一观点，试图辨别互联网在抗议组织和动员中的实际作用。采用不同的方法，我们进行了内容分析，以检查美国主流报纸和科技博客上关于占领运动和阿拉伯之春的文章中讨论互联网中心主义的程度。我们的主要发现是，出版类型在预测网络中心主义中的作用取决于讨论的是哪种抗议活动，而抗议类型的作用取决于出版类型。这项研究为一个研究不足的新闻现象提供了一个理论视角，该现象有可能影响受众对抗议的原因和后果的看法。
Internet centrism, the notion that online tools play substantial roles in social and political processes, is frequently invoked by journalists, pundits, and academics. Existing research has explored this idea directly in the case of protest, attempting to discern the actual magnitude of the internet's role in protest organization and mobilization. Taking a different approach, we conduct a content analysis to examine the extent to which internet centrism is discussed in articles about the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring in mainstream US newspapers and technology blogs. Our main findings are that the role of publication type in predicting internet centrism depends upon which protest is being discussed, and the role of protest type depends upon publication type. This study lends a theoretical perspective to an under-studied journalistic phenomenon with the potential to influence how audiences think about the causes and consequences of protests.