529 - Thematic Session. Social Movements and the News Media

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

This session will address the influence of movements on the news media and vice versa, including old media, such as print media and television, as well as new media, such as through the Internet, twitter, and other more decentralized electronic media. Some of the questions to be addressed potentially include under which conditions do movements receive coverage and coverage that is substantive or favorable in other ways in mainstream news media? What is the relationship between old media and new media? How have the possibilities for movements gaining attention changed with the decline of print newspapers and news magazines and the loss of centrality in television networks and rise of new forms of media? The session will be run as a “Koppel-style” session with a moderator and panelists answering questions circulated in advance.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Edwin Amenta, University of California, Irvine

Presider

• Neal Caren, University of North Carolina, Chapel HIll

Panelists

• Edwin Amenta, University of California, Irvine

• Kenneth (Andy) Andrews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Jennifer Earl, University of Arizona

• Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin