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Title
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Do targets react and third parties comment? Responsiveness and scope expansion in television news items of protest
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Author
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Abstract
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| Media-This study investigates reactions of political targets (responsiveness) and third parties (scope expansion) in news reports of protest events. It asks whether targets and third parties react to protest in the media, examines how they react, and explores when they are more likely to react. To date, scholars have primarily studied media selection and description of protest. This study explicitly puts reaction in news items of protest center stage. Media-independent data on protest events (police archives from Brussels) are combined with a content analysis of the resulting news reports (Belgian Television; N = 564) to test hypotheses drawn from journalism and protest impact literature. Results show that protester voices dominate protest reports and that reactions of targets are more prominent and negative than those of third parties. Demonstrations which are large, reactive, and which have a domestic and political target that is specifically addressed, are more likely to include target reactions. Disruptive demonstrations trigger negative third-party reactions, whereas large demonstrations trigger positive third-party reactions. Together, these findings shed light on the role that media play in the process from protest action to protest outcome. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Social movement studies : journal of social, cultural and political protest. - Abingdon, 2002, currens
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Publication
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Abingdon
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2016
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ISSN
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1474-2837
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1474-2829
[online]
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DOI
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10.1080/14742837.2016.1191339
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Volume/pages
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15
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(2016)
, p. 577-592
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ISI
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000383039300003
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Full text (open access)
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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