Communication Arts: Faculty Publications
Framing a Movement: Media Portrayals of the George Floyd Protests on Twitter
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2022
Publication Title
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
DOI
10.1177/10776990221109232
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.
Recommended Citation
Cowart, Holly S., Ginger E. Blackstone, Jeffrey K. Riley.
2022.
"Framing a Movement: Media Portrayals of the George Floyd Protests on Twitter."
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 99 (3): 676-695: Sage Journals.
doi: 10.1177/10776990221109232
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/comm-arts-facpubs/101
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Comments
Georgia Southern University faculty members, Holly S. Cowart , and Jeffrey K. Riley co-authored "Framing a Movement:Media Portrayals of the George Floyd Protests on Twitter."