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Framing the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests: a socio-legal study of partisan news coverage

Clément, Daniel Leander LU (2022) SOLM02 20211
Department of Sociology of Law
Abstract
The 2020 Black Lives Matter protests brought national attention to the issue of
police brutality against black Americans. Across the US, millions of people
participated in the protests. This study was conducted with the aim to study news
coverage of those events from a socio-legal perspective. The purpose was to better
understand the nexus of social movements, news media, and the law through the
concept of legal culture as well as discerning how the legal issue of racially biased policing was framed by the news media. 180 news articles from two liberal (CNN and NYT) and one conservative news outlet (Fox News) were coded. The study concluded that the news coverage was highly polarized. The liberal coverage was mostly favorable to... (More)
The 2020 Black Lives Matter protests brought national attention to the issue of
police brutality against black Americans. Across the US, millions of people
participated in the protests. This study was conducted with the aim to study news
coverage of those events from a socio-legal perspective. The purpose was to better
understand the nexus of social movements, news media, and the law through the
concept of legal culture as well as discerning how the legal issue of racially biased policing was framed by the news media. 180 news articles from two liberal (CNN and NYT) and one conservative news outlet (Fox News) were coded. The study concluded that the news coverage was highly polarized. The liberal coverage was mostly favorable to BLM, while the conservative coverage was mostly unfavorable. Furthermore, the polarized news coverage contained different descriptive meanings of racially biased policing which reflected different moral priorities of Democrats and Republicans. (Less)
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author
Clément, Daniel Leander LU
supervisor
organization
course
SOLM02 20211
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Black Lives Matter, Protest Paradigm, Moral Foundations Theory, police brutality, racial bias, news coverage, CNN, Fox News, New York Times, framing, legal culture, socio-legal, sociology of law
language
English
id
9085713
date added to LUP
2022-08-01 13:55:17
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2022-08-01 13:55:17
@misc{9085713,
  abstract     = {{The 2020 Black Lives Matter protests brought national attention to the issue of 
police brutality against black Americans. Across the US, millions of people 
participated in the protests. This study was conducted with the aim to study news 
coverage of those events from a socio-legal perspective. The purpose was to better 
understand the nexus of social movements, news media, and the law through the 
concept of legal culture as well as discerning how the legal issue of racially biased policing was framed by the news media. 180 news articles from two liberal (CNN and NYT) and one conservative news outlet (Fox News) were coded. The study concluded that the news coverage was highly polarized. The liberal coverage was mostly favorable to BLM, while the conservative coverage was mostly unfavorable. Furthermore, the polarized news coverage contained different descriptive meanings of racially biased policing which reflected different moral priorities of Democrats and Republicans.}},
  author       = {{Clément, Daniel Leander}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Framing the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests: a socio-legal study of partisan news coverage}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}