2373 - Political Communication and Social Movements

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

This session will examine how questions, theories, and findings from the interdisciplinary field of political communication may be used to further social movements research. Many areas in social movements research (e.g., framing research, research on social movement consequences) assume persuasion and influence are happening and yet little of this research problematizes audiences or persuasion processes. Drawing on over a half-century of focus on media, persuasion, and audiences, political communication may offer ways to jumpstart research within social movement studies that complicates simple models of information provision and reception as well as the causes and consequences of media coverage. This panel will examine ways to bring these two areas closer together. The session will be run as a moderated discussion panel in which a moderator asks panelists questions that have been circulated in advance and then also takes questions from the audience.

Sub Unit

• Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements

Session Organizer

• Jennifer Earl, University of Arizona

Presider

• Jennifer Earl, University of Arizona

Panelists

• Neal Caren, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

• David Karpf, George Washington University

• Deana Rohlinger, Florida State University

• Sarah Sobieraj, Tufts University

Discussant

• Jennifer Earl, University of Arizona