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Is the Whole World Watching? Building a Typology of Protest Coverage on Social Media From Around the World

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Harlow, Summer, Brown, Danielle K., Salaverría, Ramón, García-Perdomo, Víctor·2020·Journalism Studies

Abstract

Previous research suggests that mainstream media coverage around the world follows a “protest paradigm” that demonizes protesters and marginalizes their causes. Given the recent increase in global protest activity and the growing importance of social media for activism, this paper content analyzes 1,438 protest-related English and Spanish news stories from around the world that were shared on social media, examining framing, sourcing, and marginalizing devices across media outlet type, region, language, and social media platform in order to create a typology of how the protest paradigm operates in an international and social media context. Results showed type of protest, location of protest, and type of media outlet were significantly related to whether news stories adhered to the protest paradigm. Social media shares were predicted by region of media outlet, English-language media, and type of protest.

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Authors
Harlow, S., Brown, D. K., Salaverría, R., & García-Perdomo, V.
Affiliations
  • University of Houston (US)
  • University of Minnesota (US)
  • Universidad de Navarra (ES)
  • Universidad de La Sabana, Autopista Norte de Bogotá, Colombia
Corresponding author
Harlow, Summer
Venue
Journalism Studies
Published
2020-06-12
Volume
21
Issue
11
Pages
1590-1608
ISSN
  • 1461-670X (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-9699
OpenAlex
W3035642173
Cited by
80
References
54
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 3
FWCI
13.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc-nd
Locations
  • Journalism Studies (publishedVersion)
  • Intellectum (Universidad de La Sabana) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Media Studies and Communication
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Journalism and Media Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Media Discourse and Social Analysis
Keywords
protest paradigm, media coverage of protests, social media, news framing, cross-national comparison, English-language media, Spanish-language media, news sharing, news sourcing

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