Framing a movement: media portrayals of the George Floyd protests on Twitter

Holly Cowart, Ginger E. Blackstone, Jeffrey Riley

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Abstract

This study examines the way news media framed the protests following the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. It utilizes 510 tweets from 13 different U.S. media outlets in a mixed-methods content analysis of images tweeted by those media outlets. It looks at how protestors and police are portrayed as well as the role of race in the news images. Civil liberties, as opposed to law and order, are found to be a dominant frame. These findings suggest a change from previous research. Images of protestors were likely to include signs that are readable. Implications are discussed.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)676-695
Number of pages19
JournalJournalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
Volume99
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022

Keywords

  • race
  • framing
  • content analysis
  • protest imagery
  • Twitter

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