News coverage of social protests in global society

IF 2 2区社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

International Journal of Comparative Sociology Pub Date : 2022-04-11 DOI:10.1177/00207152221085601

Yongjun Zhang, Sienna Thorgusen, Xinguang Fan

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Abstract

This article links media and social movement studies with world society theory to explain cross-national variations in media attention to domestic social protests. We compile a novel large-scale dataset with over 1.2 million protest-related news articles from 12,644 web news sites across 140 countries/areas in 2015–2020. Our cross-national analysis shows that both media- and country-level characteristics explain news coverage of domestic social protests. Our findings show that web news outlets with high web traffic and a propensity to report conflictual events tend to cover more protests. In addition, web news sites in nations with vibrant civil society organizations report more protest events. We also find that there is a positive relationship between online censorship and news coverage in general. But this is driven by news media in democratic countries, and news sites in authoritarian regimes experiencing strong censorship cover fewer protest events. Finally, news media in authoritarian nations with more organizational ties to the international community cover more domestic protests.

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全球社会社会抗议活动的新闻报道

本文将媒体和社会运动研究与世界社会理论联系起来，解释媒体对国内社会抗议关注的跨国家差异。我们汇编了一个新颖的大规模数据集，其中包含2015-2020年来自140个国家/地区的12644个新闻网站的120多万篇抗议相关新闻文章。我们的跨国分析表明，媒体和国家层面的特征都可以解释国内社会抗议的新闻报道。我们的研究结果表明，网络流量高、倾向于报道冲突事件的网络新闻媒体往往会报道更多的抗议活动。此外，民间社会组织活跃的国家的新闻网站报道了更多的抗议活动。我们还发现，网络审查和一般新闻报道之间存在着积极的关系。但这是由民主国家的新闻媒体推动的，而经历了严格审查的威权政权的新闻网站报道的抗议活动较少。最后，与国际社会有更多组织联系的威权国家的新闻媒体报道了更多的国内抗议活动。

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International Journal of Comparative Sociology SOCIOLOGY-

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3.00

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10.00%

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Comparative Sociology was established in 1960 to publish the highest quality peer reviewed research that is both international in scope and comparative in method. The journal draws articles from sociologists worldwide and encourages competing perspectives. IJCS recognizes that many significant research questions are inherently interdisciplinary, and therefore welcomes work from scholars in related disciplines, including political science, geography, economics, anthropology, and business sciences. The journal is published six times a year, including special issues on topics of special interest to the international social science community.