CATALOGING PROTEST: NEWSPAPERS, NEXIS UNI, OR TWITTER?*

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Mobilization Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.17813/1086-671x-28-3-343

Lesley J. Wood, Dyllan Goldstein

{"title":"CATALOGING PROTEST: NEWSPAPERS, NEXIS UNI, OR TWITTER?*","authors":"Lesley J. Wood, Dyllan Goldstein","doi":"10.17813/1086-671x-28-3-343","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"What is the best source for tracking protest activity? Newspaper sources remain dominant, but other options are tempting. This article compares three differently sourced catalogs of protest events in Toronto from July 15 to September 15, 2020. The widely discussed Movement for Black Lives and housing justice cycles of protest are visible in all three catalogs, but apart from this, the field of protest they reveal is very different. While the coverage by the newspaper with the largest circulation, the Toronto Star, shows Toronto protest as state-centered, domestic, and progressive, other catalogs that include television, radio, and social media content reveal a more diverse, fragmented, and globalized protest field. Catalogs sourced from Nexis Uni and Twitter show the significant presence of diasporic protest. These observations suggest new limits to relying on mainstream newspapers for representing the full array of protest activity. We recommend that, moving forward, researchers experiment with media aggregators to incorporate sources such as television coverage and social media into their research while remaining aware of the additional challenges such data generate.","PeriodicalId":47309,"journal":{"name":"Mobilization","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mobilization","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671x-28-3-343","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"SOCIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

What is the best source for tracking protest activity? Newspaper sources remain dominant, but other options are tempting. This article compares three differently sourced catalogs of protest events in Toronto from July 15 to September 15, 2020. The widely discussed Movement for Black Lives and housing justice cycles of protest are visible in all three catalogs, but apart from this, the field of protest they reveal is very different. While the coverage by the newspaper with the largest circulation, the Toronto Star, shows Toronto protest as state-centered, domestic, and progressive, other catalogs that include television, radio, and social media content reveal a more diverse, fragmented, and globalized protest field. Catalogs sourced from Nexis Uni and Twitter show the significant presence of diasporic protest. These observations suggest new limits to relying on mainstream newspapers for representing the full array of protest activity. We recommend that, moving forward, researchers experiment with media aggregators to incorporate sources such as television coverage and social media into their research while remaining aware of the additional challenges such data generate.

查看原文本刊更多论文

编目抗议:报纸、nexis uni还是twitter ?＊

追踪抗议活动的最佳来源是什么?报纸仍然占主导地位，但其他选择也很诱人。本文比较了2020年7月15日至9月15日多伦多抗议事件的三个不同来源的目录。被广泛讨论的黑人生命运动和住房正义周期的抗议在这三个目录中都是可见的，但除此之外，它们揭示的抗议领域非常不同。发行量最大的报纸《多伦多星报》(Toronto Star)的报道将多伦多的抗议活动描述为以国家为中心的、国内的、进步的，而包括电视、广播和社交媒体内容在内的其他目录则揭示了一个更加多样化、碎片化和全球化的抗议领域。来自Nexis Uni和Twitter的目录显示了大量海外抗议活动的存在。这些观察结果表明，依靠主流报纸来代表全部抗议活动存在新的局限性。我们建议，研究人员在继续研究的同时，对媒体聚合器进行实验，将电视报道和社交媒体等来源纳入他们的研究，同时意识到这些数据产生的额外挑战。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

CiteScore

3.80

自引率

0.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： Mobilization: An International Quarterly is the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Mobilization was first published in 1996 to fill the need for a scholarly review of research that focused exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. Mobilization is fully peer-reviewed and widely indexed. A 2003 study, when Mobilization was published semiannually, showed that its citation index rate was 1.286, which placed it among the top ten sociology journals. Today, Mobilization is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December. The editorial board is composed of thirty internationally recognized scholars from political science, sociology and social psychology. The goal of Mobilization is to provide a forum for global, scholarly dialogue. It is currently distributed to the top international research libraries and read by the most engaged scholars in the field. We hope that through its wide distribution, different research strategies and theoretical/conceptual approaches will be shared among the global community of social movement scholars, encouraging a collaborative process that will further the development of a cumulative social science.