Images of Protest: Dimensions of Selection Bias in Media Coverage of Washington Demonstrations, 1982 and 1991
Abstract
John D. McCarthy, Clark McPhail, Jackie Smith, Images of Protest: Dimensions of Selection Bias in Media Coverage of Washington Demonstrations, 1982 and 1991, American Sociological Review, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Jun., 1996), pp. 478-499
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Disruptive and conflict-ridden protests garner more attention.
“Disruptive and conflict-ridden protests garner more attention (McCarthy, McPhail, and Smith 1996; Oliver and Meyer 1999)”
From WHEN BLACK MOVEMENTS MATTER: CONTROLLING IMAGES AND BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTS IN MEDIA ATTENTION TO U.S. POLICE KILLINGS (2024) · cites this paper as McCarthy, McPhail, and Smith 1996
Cited by
Sorted by citations
State Repression and Political Order
Davenport, C. (2007) · Annual Review of Political Science · doi:10.1146/annurev.polisci.10.101405.143216 · Cited by 1,564 · see citing works
Smith, J., McCarthy, J. D., McPhail, C., & Augustyn, B. (2001) · Social Forces · doi:10.1353/sof.2001.0053 · Cited by 396 · see citing works
Self-citationThe Organizational Structure of Local Environmentalism
Andrews, K., & Edwards, B. (2005) · Mobilization: An International Quarterly · doi:10.17813/maiq.10.2.028028u600744073 · Cited by 200 · see citing works
Dynamics of Repression and Mobilization: The German Extreme Right in The 1990s
Koopmans, R. (1997) · Mobilization: An International Quarterly · doi:10.17813/maiq.2.2.e6g82877674x6048 · Cited by 183 · see citing works
Contemporary Social Movements in a Hybrid Media Environment
Caren, N., Andrews, K. T., & Lu, T. (2020) · Annual Review of Sociology · doi:10.1146/annurev-soc-121919-054627 · Cited by 108 · see citing works
News media and the racialization of protest: an analysis of Black Lives Matter articles
Leopold, J., & Bell, M. P. (2017) · Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal · doi:10.1108/edi-01-2017-0010 · Cited by 101 · see citing works
Dying Without Killing: Self‐Immolations, 1963–2002
Biggs, M. (2005) · Making Sense of Suicide Missions · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199276998.003.0005 · Cited by 93 · see citing works
Harlow, S., Brown, D. K., Salaverría, R., & García-Perdomo, V. (2020) · Journalism Studies · doi:10.1080/1461670x.2020.1776144 · Cited by 80 · see citing works
Lu, T. (2024) · Mobilization: An International Quarterly · doi:10.17813/1086-671x-29-1-19 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
- Authors
- McCarthy, J. D., McPhail, C., & Smith, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- University of Notre Dame (US)
- ORCID
- Smith, Jackie
- Venue
- American Sociological Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1996-06
- Volume
- 61
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 478
- ISSN
- 0003-1224 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2086493247
- Cited by
- 677
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 40 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 58 · 2019: 34 · 2018: 36 · 2017: 28 · 2016: 31 · 2015: 21 · 2014: 24 · 2013: 29 · 2012: 26
- FWCI
- 76.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Sociological Review (publishedVersion)
- D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh) (acceptedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Media Studies and Communication
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Media Influence and Politics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Journalism and Media Studies
- Keywords
- protest, media coverage, selection bias, news framing
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
