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Cable, Jonathan 
ORCID: 0000-0002-2585-3419
(2015)
Hierarchies of Incredibility: The impact of different repertoires of protest on message propagation and press coverage.
Journalism and Discourse Studies, 1 (1).
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Abstract
This paper examines the tactical repertoires of three particular protest groups and how their internal objectives and decision making processes impacted upon their protest tactics and press coverage. The three groups cover a range of topics and used very different protest tactics, from a non-confrontational community campaign to a series of symbolic direct actions, and a mass demonstration. The concept of political opportunities is adapted for a more mediated politics to assess the success and failure of protest groups to propagate their messages, and the affect different media strategies and protest tactics has on this endeavour. The messages of each group are examined for their collective action frames and traced through protest group communications, protest actions, and into their framing in press coverage. The main argument put forward is that the success and failure of a protest group should be judged on what they do, their aims and goals, and not just the results of protest, such as press coverage. This gives a more complete picture to give a more complete of a protest group than just looking at the results of protest.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Article Type: | Article |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN4699 Journalism |
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Creative Arts |
| Research Priority Areas: | Creative Practice and Theory Culture, Continuity, and Transformation |
| Depositing User: | Joe Cable |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Mar 2018 15:43 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Aug 2023 16:05 |
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/5435 |
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