The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social MovementsRoutledge, 2006 - 375 pages Despite longstanding traditions of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy in the United States, dissident citizens and social movements have experienced significant and sustained - although often subtle and difficult-to observe - suppression in this country. Using mechanism-based social-movement theory, this book explores a wide range of twentieth century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the modern-day globalization movement. |
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Page 228
... Frames not only overlap and reinforce each other , but frequently they also compete with each other . For instance , mass - media coverage of social movements that features a frame emphasizing violence clashes with - or at least ...
... Frames not only overlap and reinforce each other , but frequently they also compete with each other . For instance , mass - media coverage of social movements that features a frame emphasizing violence clashes with - or at least ...
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... frames that were adopted by the media to convert these episodes of contention into news stories : the Disruption Frame , the Violence Frame , the Freak Frame , the Ignorance Frame , and the Amalgam of Grievances Frame . As we shall see , ...
... frames that were adopted by the media to convert these episodes of contention into news stories : the Disruption Frame , the Violence Frame , the Freak Frame , the Ignorance Frame , and the Amalgam of Grievances Frame . As we shall see , ...
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... Frame and the Violence Frame resembles Gitlin's ( 1980 ) con- ception of mass - media marginalization . FREAK FRAME Another recurrent frame in mass - media accounts of dissidents in Seattle and Washington , DC focuses on the non ...
... Frame and the Violence Frame resembles Gitlin's ( 1980 ) con- ception of mass - media marginalization . FREAK FRAME Another recurrent frame in mass - media accounts of dissidents in Seattle and Washington , DC focuses on the non ...
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