Hands Up, Don't Shoot, Whose Side Are You On? Journalists Tweeting the Ferguson Protests

Bibliographic Data

ID2408789
AuthorsJosé Andrés Araiza, Heloisa Aruth Sturm, Pinar Istek, Mary Angela Bock
Year2016
Volume16
Issue3
Pages305-312
Publication date2016-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1532708616634834
OpenAlexW2291146571
LanguageEN
Citations received20
References cited26

This article represents a qualitative analysis of the Twitter feed from one news organization during the first phase of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after the shooting of Michael Brown in 2014. The tweets, images, and videos from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalists constitute a real-time record as the protests unfolded. By applying a strand of framing theory known as the protest paradigm, the analysis discovered that journalists' tweeting marganalized protesters and framed police officers as dispassionate protectors of social order. Journalists' tweeting of protesters took on a more sympthatic tone when they both were subjected to police tear gas.These findings have implications for the coverage of race, violence, and protests in the United States as well as the way Twitter binds and represents an interpretive community

Criminology · Framing (construction · Media studies · Political science · Social media · Sociology · Media Studies and Communication · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Media and Politics · History · Law

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