Learning about social movements through news media
Deconstructing New York Times and Fox News representations of Standing Rock
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7501110 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Judith Walker (0000-0003-3668-0442, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), Pierre Walter (0000-0001-7168-5260, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 401-418 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Lifelong Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0260-1370 • E-ISSN: 1464-519X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02601370.2018.1485184 |
| OpenAlex | W2808778753 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article critically examines how news media, as a form of public pedagogy, functioned to ‘educate’ the public about the Standing Rock pipeline protests in North Dakota, USA. Drawing on literature in public pedagogy, social movement learning and communication studies, we employed ethnographic content analysis to identify emergent patterns, emphases and themes in all online media coverage by the New York Times and Fox News of the Standing Rock protests from April 2016 to March 2017. We analysed representations of Standing Rock in 164 NYT articles, and 96 Fox News articles, respectively. This ethnographic methodology allowed us to understand how the Standing Rock movement, its actors and meaning were constructed through the use of imagery, metaphors and emphasis on particular voices, narratives and perspectives. Our findings showed how both Fox and NYT were able to effectively frame the protest as a fundamentally human story focusing on Indigenous people, celebrities and US war veterans, and address broad-based public concerns about global climate change, water pollution and land rights. These results point to the importance of mainstream media as public pedagogue shaping social movement learning, and to the need for further research on this topic in adult education
Media studies · News media · Political science · Politics · Social media · Social movement · Sociology · Media Influence and Politics · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics · Law
North American Extra-Activism and Indigenous Communications Practices
Indymedia and Standing Rock
Standing rock and the Indigenous commons
From Alcatraz to Standing Rock
Fox news cable consumption and trust in conservative political iconographies
Learning towards decolonising relationships at standing rock
Unsettling allyship, unlearning and learning towards decolonising solidarity
Public pedagogues of change
Learning about climate justice in times of drought and Covid-19
Educational research in authoritarian times
Technology and the Local Community
Handbook of Public Pedagogy
Constructing Reality
Constructing the political spectacle
Culturicide, Resistance, and Survival of the Lakota (Sioux Nation)
A Measure of Media Bias
Social and Political Convergence on Environmental Events
Liquid subjects
Anyone can make it, but there can only be one winner’
Agenda Setting and the Blogosphere
(Critical) learning in/through everyday life in a global consumer culture
Cascades of Coverage
From Protest to Agenda Building
Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Resistance
Cowboy and Indian Alliances in the Northern Plains
The Fox News Factor
The Public Policy Pedagogy of Corporate and Alternative News Media
Not All News Is the Same
The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media
Examining the Mediators of Agenda Setting
How the News Media Helped to Nominate Trump
The Matthew Effect in Science, II
Becoming public
Reflections
Culture and Customs of the Sioux Indians
Unlikely Alliances
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |