TY - JOUR
T1 - Dominant and Emerging News Frames in Protest Coverage
T2 - The 2013 Cypriot Anti-Austerity Protests in National Media
AU - PAPAIOANNOU, Tao
N1 - Funding Information:
Although the Eurozone crisis is typically identified by a singular term, it actually consists of a series of interrelated economic crises that have generated public discontent and exacerbated conflicts and divisiveness within the European Union (EU). During these national crises, a number of anti-austerity protests have taken place in EU member-state countries including Cyprus, Greece, Portugal, Ireland, and Spain, against the leading neoliberal rationale of the crises and austerity-based policies as the solution (della Porta et al., 2017). The scope and scale of these protests and their opposition to hegemonic doctrine on the crisis have produced opportunities for the protests to be portrayed and interpreted in multiple ways in news media, nationally and globally. As the institutional politics and social demands that animate citizen protests have become more extensively mediated (Cammaerts, 2012), examining relevant media discourses and embedded news values within the ongoing Eurozone crisis and how they bear on public deliberation in national and European political spheres is of critical significance. Accordingly, it is necessary to explore dominant and emerging strategies deployed by news media in reporting anti-austerity protests, whereby Tao Papaioannou: [email protected] Date submitted: 2018‒02‒26 1 This work was supported by the European Commission under the Together (LC – 00865164 – MILT; http://milt.ulusofona.eu/el/.
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Copyright © 2020 (Tao Papaioannou).
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Research on news coverage of protests has revealed evidence of a protest paradigm: framing strategies that disparage protestors and diminish protest claims and significance. However, recent studies are detecting less predictable media responses, indicating the need to identify the extent of application of the paradigm and the underlying determinants for variations within media politics of dissent. This analysis of the framing of the 2013 Cypriot anti-austerity protests by three national newspapers and a public television channel indicated that the coverage deviated from the protest thesis. The results showed little emphasis on the law and (dis)order frame but validation of the protests in varying magnitudes through frames articulating national sovereignty, social injustice, and acceptance of austerity policies, wavering between blaming international and national political actors for irresponsible politics. Finally, this article examines the conditions under which news media relax some conventions of reporting protests, permitting more constructive coverage of social conflicts.
AB - Research on news coverage of protests has revealed evidence of a protest paradigm: framing strategies that disparage protestors and diminish protest claims and significance. However, recent studies are detecting less predictable media responses, indicating the need to identify the extent of application of the paradigm and the underlying determinants for variations within media politics of dissent. This analysis of the framing of the 2013 Cypriot anti-austerity protests by three national newspapers and a public television channel indicated that the coverage deviated from the protest thesis. The results showed little emphasis on the law and (dis)order frame but validation of the protests in varying magnitudes through frames articulating national sovereignty, social injustice, and acceptance of austerity policies, wavering between blaming international and national political actors for irresponsible politics. Finally, this article examines the conditions under which news media relax some conventions of reporting protests, permitting more constructive coverage of social conflicts.
KW - Eurozone crisis
KW - media politics of dissent
KW - news framing
KW - protest news
KW - protest paradigm
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099453006
SN - 1932-8036
VL - 14
SP - 3289
EP - 3308
JO - International Journal of Communication
JF - International Journal of Communication
ER -