Framing the Black Lives Matter Movement: An Analysis of Shifting News Coverage in 2014 and 2020

IF 1.8 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

Social Currents Pub Date : 2022-05-24 DOI:10.1177/23294965221092731

Nikita Carney, Jasmine Kelekay

引用次数: 3

Abstract

The police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd sparked a resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests throughout the summer of 2020, reminiscent of the wave of Black Lives Matter protests that occurred after several police killings in 2014 including the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Based on qualitative analysis of mainstream media coverage of the protests, this paper examines key themes in the discourse surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014 and 2020. Our findings highlight the ways in which mainstream news sources situate the Black Lives Matter protests within a broader history of Black uprisings. We also emphasize the erasure of violence against Black women in mainstream media depictions of the BLM movement, as well as the erasure of Black women’s leadership in the movement.

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构建黑人生命也重要运动:对2014年和2020年新闻报道变化的分析

警方杀害布伦娜·泰勒和乔治·弗洛伊德的事件在2020年夏天引发了“黑人的命也是命”抗议活动的死灰复燃，让人想起2014年发生的几起警察谋杀案后发生的“黑人的生命也是命”（Black Lives Matter）抗议浪潮，其中包括迈克尔·布朗（Michael Brown）和埃里克·加纳（Eric Garner）的死亡。基于对主流媒体对抗议活动报道的定性分析，本文考察了2014年和2020年围绕“黑人的命也是命”运动的话语中的关键主题。我们的研究结果突出了主流新闻来源将“黑人的命也是命”抗议活动置于更广泛的黑人起义历史中的方式。我们还强调，在主流媒体对土地管理局运动的描述中，消除了对黑人妇女的暴力行为，也消除了黑人妇女在运动中的领导地位。

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Social Currents SOCIOLOGY-

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2.80

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期刊介绍： Social Currents, the official journal of the Southern Sociological Society, is a broad-ranging social science journal that focuses on cutting-edge research from all methodological and theoretical orientations with implications for national and international sociological communities. The uniqueness of Social Currents lies in its format. The front end of every issue is devoted to short, theoretical, agenda-setting contributions and brief, empirical and policy-related pieces. The back end of every issue includes standard journal articles that cover topics within specific subfields of sociology, as well as across the social sciences more broadly.