Framing Indigenous protest in the online public sphere

A comparative frame analysis

Bibliographic Data

ID12656295
AuthorsP Lupien (0000-0002-6698-9910, Brock University, corresponding author), Adriana Rincón (Athabasca University), Andrés Lalama (University of Toronto), Gabriel Chiriboga (0000-0003-3392-3728, Universidad Técnica del Norte)
Year2022
Volume26
Issue3
Pages1566-1584
Publication date2022-02-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Media & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14614448221074705
OpenAlexW4210304780
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited62

Indigenous social movement organizations are increasingly using social media to engage in strategic framing, a dynamic discursive process that seeks to attribute meaning to events and circumstances. But there remains a gap in our knowledge with respect to the impact of social media on the capacity of Indigenous actors to engage in frame competition in the virtual world. Based on a comparative frame analysis of online content in three Latin American countries where Indigenous organizations have recently engaged in large-scale protest, we ask to what extent the frames generated by Indigenous actors on social media are reflected in the online public sphere. We examine how their protest action is framed by Indigenous organizations themselves, the media, and government agencies. We find that social media do provide an outlet for Indigenous actors to disseminate counter-hegemonic frames. But state and media actors do not engage with Indigenous frames disseminated over social media, and their messages do not change the tone or direction of online discourse

Content analysis · Frame analysis · Framing (construction · Geography · Hegemony · Indigenous · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Public sphere · Social media · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · Law · Social Media and Politics

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