{"id":1393,"date":"2015-07-02T14:23:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T19:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~oliver\/wp\/?page_id=1393"},"modified":"2015-07-06T12:35:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T17:35:57","slug":"soc-626-news-as-data-news-as-actor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/teaching\/soc-626\/soc-626-readings-assignments-and-lectures-test\/soc-626-news-as-data-news-as-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"Soc 626 News as Data, News as Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"display: inline;\"><strong>News coverage of movements and repression in shaping movement cycles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">\u00a0 (<em>If you are doing reading notes, please do NOT waste your time taking pages and pages of notes about all these articles. \u00a0Instead use the abstracts a guides to what the main points are and then mostly &#8220;read&#8221; the tables and graphs and focus on the summaries of the results. \u00a0I will go over this in class and highlight the main points.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 15px;\">Read the 4 *&#8217;d articles for November 20. \u00a0Read the first two with *&#8217;s, and for the two Oliver articles, skim them more lightly trying to see if you can get the main points, which I will discuss more in class.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>*GJ26. The Media In The Unmaking Of The New Left (From The Whole World Is Watching): Todd Gitlin. [My notes on Gitlin are in a file for Nov 29]<\/li>\n<li>My lecture notes: <a href=\"http:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~oliver\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NewsDataActor.pdf\">My lecture notes<\/a>\u00a0(document file, outline only, 9 pages) <a href=\"http:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~oliver\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NewsDataActor1.pdf\">PDF<\/a>\u00a0of slide shots, includes lots of graphs, big file<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Articles about factors predicting whether protests and demonstrations get news coverage.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<em>I will summarize the findings from these articles in lecture. If you are doing pre-class reading notes, you should focus on the RESULTS of studies, what were their FINDINGS, not on the literature review at the beginning of the article. That is, just skim and do NOT take notes on the literature review. Focus on the data. You will also want to review the lecture slides, as soon as I get them posted.<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>* McCarthy, J. D., C. McPhail, et al. (1996). \u201cImages of Protest: Dimensions of Selection Bias in Media Coverage of Washington Demonstrations, 1982 and 1991.\u201d <i>American Sociological Review<\/i> <strong>61<\/strong>(3): 478-499.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ssc.wisc.edu\/~oliver\/SOC924\/Articles\/McCarthyMedia96.pdf\">PDF file<\/a> The first study of its type.<\/li>\n<li>(*) Pamela E. Oliver and Daniel J. Myers. \u201cHow Events Enter the Public Sphere: Conflict, Location and Sponsorship in Local Newspaper Coverage of Public Events.\u201d <i>American Journal of Sociology<\/i> <b>105<\/b>: 38-87. 1999. <a href=\"http:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~oliver\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/OliverMyers1999AJSEventsPublicSphere.pdf\">PDF file<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~oliver\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/AJS1999OliverMyersCorrected-Figures.pdf\">Legible copy of figures<\/a> (those in the article copy are illegible)This one assesses coverage of protest events relative to others: conflict gets you in the news, location and sponsorship matter. Non-conflictual message events have very low rates of coverage.<\/li>\n<li>(*) \u201cPolitical Processes and Local Newspaper Coverage of Protest Events: From Selection Bias to Triadic Interactions\u201d (Pamela E. Oliver and Gregory M. Maney) <i>American Journal of Sociology <\/i><b>106<\/b> (2 September) 2000: 463-505 <a href=\"http:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~oliver\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/olivermaneyajssep2000.pdf\">PDF file<\/a>. This one examines only protest events: ties to institutional politics increase coverage, but events compete with the legislature for space in the news hole.<\/li>\n<li>Mueller, Carol. \u201cInternational Press Coverage of East German Protest Events, 1989\u2033 <i>American Sociological Review<\/i>; 1997, <b>62<\/b>, 5, Oct, 820-832. Comparison of six nations\u2019 coverage in light of media selection models. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ssc.wisc.edu\/~oliver\/SOC924\/Articles\/MuellerMeidaASR.pdf\">PDF file<\/a>\u00a0 Proximity to the event mattes.<\/li>\n<li>Mueller, Carol. \u201cMedia Measurement Models of Protest Event Data.\u201d<i>Mobilization<\/i>; 1997, <b>2<\/b>, 2, Sept, 165-184. Mueller, Media measurement models of protest event data,\u00a0A theoretical article that gives a very clear review of the relevant issues.<\/li>\n<li>Almeida and Lichbach, \u201cTo the Internet, From the Internet: Comparative Media Coverage of Transnational Protests.\u201d Mobilization In Library Reserves Compares news coverage in different sources.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\"><strong>Articles about how the media aid or deter mobilization\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">(<em>Again, I\u2019ll be summarizing results from this work<\/em>)<\/p>\n<ol style=\"margin-top:15px;\">\n<li>Sampedro, Victor The Media Politics of Social Protest. <i>Mobilization<\/i>; 1997, <b>2<\/b>, 2, Sept, 185-205. Spain, media opportunities usually coincide with political opportunities, but sometimes there is a chance in the media. Sampedro in library reserves,<\/li>\n<li>Roscigno, V. J. and W. F. Danaher (2001). \u201cMedia and Mobilization: The Case of Radio and Southern Textile Worker Insurgency, 1929 to 1934.\u201d<i>American Sociological Review<\/i> <b>66<\/b>(1): 21-48. A nice piece, showing that worker-oriented radio stations facilitated insurgency. Available in JSTOR.<\/li>\n<li>Smith, J., J. D. McCarthy, et al. (2001). \u201cFrom Protest to Agenda Building: Description Bias in Media Coverage of Protest Events in Washington, D.C.\u201d <i>Social Forces<\/i> <b>79<\/b>(4): 1397-1423. Protest coverage focus on events, not issues, may undermine movement agendas. <a href=\"http:\/\/ssc.wisc.edu\/~oliver\/SOC924\/Articles\/SmithMcCarthyMedia.pdf\">PDF file<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rohlinger, D. A. (2002). \u201cFraming the Abortion Debate: Organizational Resources, Media Strategies, and Movement-Countermovement Dynamics.\u201d The Sociological Quarterly 43(4): 479-507. How opposed SMOs, the National Organization for Women (NOW) &amp; Concerned Women for America (CWA), get media coverage during critical moments of the abortion debate. Strategic construction of frames, responses to opponents, success in getting coverage.<\/li>\n<li>Wisler, D. and M. Giugni (1999). \u201cUnder the Spotlight: The Impact of Media Attention on Protest Policing.\u201d Mobilization 4(2): 171-187.<\/li>\n<li>Davenport, C. and M. Eads (2001). \u201cCued to Coerce or Coercing Cues? An Exploration of Dissident Rhetoric and Its Relationship to Political Repression.\u201d Mobilization 6(2): 151-171.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News coverage of movements and repression in shaping movement cycles. \u00a0 (If you are doing reading notes, please do NOT waste your time taking pages and pages of notes about all these articles. \u00a0Instead use &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1212,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1393\/revisions\/1431"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ssc.wisc.edu\/~peoliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}