When Do Protests Succeed in Changing Public Discourse?

抗议何时能成功改变公共话语？

• 批准号: 2558502
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2558502
• 关键词: When; Do; Protests; Succeed; Changing

This research will aim to answer the question: when do protests succeed in changing public debate? This question is a matter of ongoing debate among social movement activists and is also of interest to theorists of democracy, who seek to understand the role that protests and social movements can and do play in elevating otherwise excluded voices. Previous studies of the discursive effects of social movements have tended either to be qualitative - focusing on a handful of cases and therefore limiting their ability to draw general conclusions - or if quantitative, have focused narrowly on attention to the movement's issue, and not dug deeper into whether the protest has changed the terms of the debate. This project will use text-as-data methods, capitalising on increasingly available textual data from digital news sources, social media, and parliamentary debates, to enable better and larger scale measurement of discursive impacts. Specifically, I will look to measure not just the salience of movements' issues, but also changes in the way they are discussed across public forums. With these measures, the research will seek insights into the effectiveness of various protest strategies using time-series cross-section analysis of a large sample of protests in multiple countries.

这项研究旨在回答这样一个问题：抗议活动什么时候能成功地改变公众辩论？这个问题是社会运动积极分子之间正在进行的辩论问题，也是民主理论家感兴趣的问题，他们试图了解抗议和社会运动在提高原本被排除在外的声音方面能够而且确实发挥了什么作用。以前对社会运动的话语效应的研究往往要么是定性的--集中在少数几个案例上，因此限制了他们得出一般性结论的能力--要么是定量的，要么狭隘地关注这场运动的问题，而不是更深入地挖掘抗议活动是否改变了辩论的措辞。该项目将使用文本即数据的方法，利用从数字新闻来源、社交媒体和议会辩论中获得的越来越多的文本数据，以更好地和更大范围地衡量话语影响。具体地说，我将不仅衡量运动问题的突出程度，还将衡量在公共论坛上讨论这些问题的方式的变化。通过这些措施，这项研究将通过对多个国家的大样本抗议活动进行时间序列横断面分析，寻求对各种抗议策略的有效性的洞察。