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Expert in federal housing programs. Mom. Committed to eliminating homelessness and eradicating poverty. Avid reader. Proud public servant.
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every single republican in office is a fucking oathbreaker who is selling out the constitution and our democratic birthright
February 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Omg
February 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Now, imagine a simple model in which activists opt to engage in nonviolent or violent resistance and then the state responds with typical or excess force. (To be clear, the world is more complicated, but these simplifying assumptions help us describe some common patterns.) 3/
Figure 2 from paper "Agenda Seeding" shows a decision-tree like diagram in protesters choose nonviolent or violent tactics and the state responds with violent or more restrained forms of force. Figure 2 summarizes the model. In the first period, subordinate group activists attempt to raise awareness through agenda seeding that involves activists employing tactics, possibly nonviolent or violent, which might make the news. News organization still set public agendas but social movements, like any group seeking greater attention or publicity, attempt to entice media to prioritize their concerns. Southern civil rights protests, for example, were often planned for mornings so footage could be flown to New York in time to air nationally on the evening news (Torres Reference Torres2018). Similarly, movement leaders selected Selma, AL, as a site for voting rights protests partly for its proximity to television network affiliates in Montgomery (Torres Reference Torres2018). Media attention, however, can be sympathetic or hostile. Even presented with similar facts, different reporters and news organizations often structure stories in systematically different ways (Davenport and Litras Reference Davenport and Litras2003). Civil disobedience, for example, can be covered as a form of justifiable protest or unjustifiable criminality. Kinder and Kam (Reference Kinder and Kam2010) find that whether an issue can overcome societal biases to become salient depends significantly “on the ability of the issue to command the public’s limited and fickle attention and on how the particular issue is framed” (38). Activists, attuned to the ways in which media can frame an issue, routinely fought to craft narratives through a kind of political theater in which protests were “staged” and injustice “dramatized” (King Jr. Reference King1964; Lewis Reference Lewis2017).
February 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Consider photos like these from recent protests. Imagine the narrative these images construct for the media and the larger public. How do these images fit our ideas of who is a “good guy” or who is a “bad guy”? 2/ www.npr.org/2025/02/05/g...
Photo of a protester holding a sign that reads "Did you vote for Musk?" Photo of a group of protesters holding signs. Three signs read "USAID Saves Lives." Two more signs say "The Faces of Foreign Aid."
February 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM