Thesis
The vocal minority: an analysis of mediated protest discourses
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2008
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/100992
Abstract
Media and political scholarship has directed much of its attention to how political movements and protest are characterized within news media. These studies often focus on how national and international media construct and deconstruct social and political movements and demonstrations. Comparatively, there has been little research into how local, regional and non-national media discuss protest action. This thesis complements protest literature by critically analyzing the coverage of a single 2003 anti-war protest offered by two local, commercial newspapers and two university newspapers. Among the initial findings, there is at least partial evidence for the following: 1) These commercial newspapers utilized many of the same discursive delegitimization tactics as national media; 2) There is some modest variation among the two accounts, possibly explained by their structurally variant communities; 3) The two university newspapers were both much more willing to validate the protest action and the participants themselves. It should also be noted that additional research is required to confirm these findings, particularly as they emerge from only four articles
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Details
- Title
- The vocal minority
- Creators
- Jared M. Bishop
- Contributors
- Elizabeth Blanks-HIndman (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Edward R. Murrow College of Communication
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Identifiers
- 99900525400301842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis