Charlotte Ryan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4194820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlotte Ryan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlotte |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryan |
| SIGNATURE | RYAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Lowell |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pop‐Up Safety Town
BACKGROUND: Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children and adolescents in the United States. Traditional injury education interventions for children often are inaccessible due to cost and logistics in underserved communities, exacerbating injury disparities. A new approach is needed to close this gap for families with preschool children. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEORY: Collaborating with Head Start preschools …
Beyond Prime Time Activism
In this accessible introduction to communication activism, organizer Karen Jeffreys and sociologist Charlotte Ryan draw on more than two decades of ongoing collaboration, using the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless (RICH) as a case study. The book examines a community with shared values, decision-making, and conflict resolution procedures, tracking its organizing strategy and matched communication plan. The authors first describe a communic…
Building Public Will
Despite their documented successes, permanent supportive housing programs have not received adequate funding at federal or state levels. Building public will to fund permanent supportive housing, therefore, becomes the order of the day. Drawing on the work of the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless (RICH), the authors describe how RICH, housing advocates, activists representing the homeless and formerly homeless, and other allies forged an in…
Using Imperfect Opportunities to Build Movements
Knowing Your Adversary
Start Small, Build Big
We track the strategic choices of Rhode Island Coalition against Domestic Violence (RICADV), a statewide collective actor working in one media market to expand opportunities to promote its mission. We reconstruct an organizational life history describing how RICADV built its communications capacity and deepened internal and external relations, thereby increasing media standing with Rhode Island journalists. To measure growth in media standing qua…
It Takes a Movement to Raise an Issue
Modern market-driven mass media systems may present collective actors with communication opportunities, but these come laced with formidable costs and constraints. This paper argues that despite these barriers, collective actors, working intentionally and strategically, can develop effective media campaigns to communicate with mass audiences — audiences they cannot reach directly. To utilize these narrow opportunities, however, a collective actor…
Public Sociologies
This symposium brings together the theory and practice of public sociology. The introduction sets out the meanings of public sociology, emphasizing its plurality and its relation to multiple publics. From there, it frames public sociology in relation to policy, professional, and critical sociologies. This constellation of the division of sociological labor varies over time and between countries. We argue for a normative model of antagonistic inte…
The media war over welfare
Last summer, in the week between school's end and day camp, my six‐year old daughter and I were doing errands together. I was trying to enjoy her rather than obsess about work not done. As we sauntered out of the post office, a man in his sixties passed us and said pleasantly enough, “Another day out of work?” “Yes,” I said with resignation. He then started screaming at me, “You're a bunch of bums! Look at me. I'm old enough to retire and I still…
Unsilent Revolution
Twelve Episodes: 1. Police dogs, firehoses, and television cameras: shockwaves from the South 2. Exit Joe McCarthy 3. Television news and the ups and downs of Richard Nixon: the 1960 election 4. Television's march on Cape Canaveral 5. Television's supreme hour: the Kennedy funeral 6. In the eye of the storm: television news and the urban riots 7. Vietnam, 1965-1967 8. Vietnam, 1968-1975 9. Nixon's presidency: a difficult time for television news …
Public Sociologies
This symposium brings together the theory and practice of public sociology. The introduction sets out the meanings of public sociology, emphasizing its plurality and its relation to multiple publics. From there, it frames public sociology in relation to policy, professional, and critical sociologies. This constellation of the division of sociological labor varies over time and between countries. We argue for a normative model of antagonistic inte…
Start Small, Build Big
We track the strategic choices of Rhode Island Coalition against Domestic Violence (RICADV), a statewide collective actor working in one media market to expand opportunities to promote its mission. We reconstruct an organizational life history describing how RICADV built its communications capacity and deepened internal and external relations, thereby increasing media standing with Rhode Island journalists. To measure growth in media standing qua…
Knowing Your Adversary
It Takes a Movement to Raise an Issue
Modern market-driven mass media systems may present collective actors with communication opportunities, but these come laced with formidable costs and constraints. This paper argues that despite these barriers, collective actors, working intentionally and strategically, can develop effective media campaigns to communicate with mass audiences — audiences they cannot reach directly. To utilize these narrow opportunities, however, a collective actor…
The media war over welfare
Last summer, in the week between school's end and day camp, my six‐year old daughter and I were doing errands together. I was trying to enjoy her rather than obsess about work not done. As we sauntered out of the post office, a man in his sixties passed us and said pleasantly enough, “Another day out of work?” “Yes,” I said with resignation. He then started screaming at me, “You're a bunch of bums! Look at me. I'm old enough to retire and I still…
Unsilent Revolution
Twelve Episodes: 1. Police dogs, firehoses, and television cameras: shockwaves from the South 2. Exit Joe McCarthy 3. Television news and the ups and downs of Richard Nixon: the 1960 election 4. Television's march on Cape Canaveral 5. Television's supreme hour: the Kennedy funeral 6. In the eye of the storm: television news and the urban riots 7. Vietnam, 1965-1967 8. Vietnam, 1968-1975 9. Nixon's presidency: a difficult time for television news …
The media war over welfare
Last summer, in the week between school's end and day camp, my six‐year old daughter and I were doing errands together. I was trying to enjoy her rather than obsess about work not done. As we sauntered out of the post office, a man in his sixties passed us and said pleasantly enough, “Another day out of work?” “Yes,” I said with resignation. He then started screaming at me, “You're a bunch of bums! Look at me. I'm old enough to retire and I still…
It Takes a Movement to Raise an Issue
Modern market-driven mass media systems may present collective actors with communication opportunities, but these come laced with formidable costs and constraints. This paper argues that despite these barriers, collective actors, working intentionally and strategically, can develop effective media campaigns to communicate with mass audiences — audiences they cannot reach directly. To utilize these narrow opportunities, however, a collective actor…
Public Sociologies
This symposium brings together the theory and practice of public sociology. The introduction sets out the meanings of public sociology, emphasizing its plurality and its relation to multiple publics. From there, it frames public sociology in relation to policy, professional, and critical sociologies. This constellation of the division of sociological labor varies over time and between countries. We argue for a normative model of antagonistic inte…
Start Small, Build Big
We track the strategic choices of Rhode Island Coalition against Domestic Violence (RICADV), a statewide collective actor working in one media market to expand opportunities to promote its mission. We reconstruct an organizational life history describing how RICADV built its communications capacity and deepened internal and external relations, thereby increasing media standing with Rhode Island journalists. To measure growth in media standing qua…
Knowing Your Adversary
Using Imperfect Opportunities to Build Movements
Building Public Will
Despite their documented successes, permanent supportive housing programs have not received adequate funding at federal or state levels. Building public will to fund permanent supportive housing, therefore, becomes the order of the day. Drawing on the work of the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless (RICH), the authors describe how RICH, housing advocates, activists representing the homeless and formerly homeless, and other allies forged an in…
Beyond Prime Time Activism
In this accessible introduction to communication activism, organizer Karen Jeffreys and sociologist Charlotte Ryan draw on more than two decades of ongoing collaboration, using the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless (RICH) as a case study. The book examines a community with shared values, decision-making, and conflict resolution procedures, tracking its organizing strategy and matched communication plan. The authors first describe a communic…
Pop‐Up Safety Town
BACKGROUND: Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children and adolescents in the United States. Traditional injury education interventions for children often are inaccessible due to cost and logistics in underserved communities, exacerbating injury disparities. A new approach is needed to close this gap for families with preschool children. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEORY: Collaborating with Head Start preschools …
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