Cascades of Coverage: Dynamics of Media Attention to Social Movement Organizations.

Gaining attention in the mass media is a key goal of many social movement organizations (SMOs). The dominant explanation of media attention to SMOs is that the media act like a filter, selecting some types of SMOs and events for attention, and ignoring others based on characteristics of these SMOs,...

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Published in:	Social Forces Vol. 94; no. 3; pp. 997 - 1021
Main Author:	Seguin, Charles
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Mar2016
Subjects:	United States Black Panther Party Social movements Mass media Activists Psychological feedback Demonstrations in the press American newspapers
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