Media coverage and organizational support in the Dutch environmental movement

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Mobilization Pub Date : 2005-10-01 DOI:10.17813/MAIQ.10.3.PW25225470L850XN

R. Vliegenthart, Dirk Oegema, B. Klandermans

引用次数: 70

Abstract

Though social movement organizations (SMOs) depend heavily upon the media for their communication to the public, little is known about the relationships between media coverage and public support for SMOs. This research uses computer-assisted content analysis to assess the relationship between media coverage and membership figures for Dutch environmental organizations over the period 1991-2003. Our analysis provides evidence for direct influence of visibility of the organization and its main issue on membership support, while membership support does not influence visibility of an SMO and its issue. Furthermore, an SMO's media visibility is negatively affected by the visibility of other SMOs within the same sector. These results point to the necessity for SMOs to compete for attention in the public sphere and to the importance of using various strategies to compete for the limited space available in the media.

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荷兰环境运动的媒体报道和组织支持

虽然社会运动组织在与公众的沟通中严重依赖媒体，但媒体报道与公众对社会运动组织的支持之间的关系却鲜为人知。本研究使用计算机辅助内容分析来评估1991-2003年期间荷兰环境组织的媒体报道与成员数字之间的关系。我们的分析为组织的可见性及其主要问题对成员支持的直接影响提供了证据，而成员支持并不影响SMO的可见性及其问题。此外，SMO的媒体知名度受到同一部门内其他SMO知名度的负面影响。这些结果表明，SMOs必须在公共领域争夺注意力，并且必须使用各种策略来争夺媒体中有限的可用空间。

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Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

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3.80

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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.