Du Bois, W.E.B. 1921. “Chamounix.” The Crisis 23 (2): 56–58. www.dareyoufight.org/Volumes/23/0...
Speaking of shiny new toys, I’m impressed you didn’t get distracted by today’s new Claude model
Wow! That's impressive.
8B or 70B? I've played around with 8B but haven't done anything useful. Semi-related: is there a canonical qualitative data set with codes? I've toyed around with coding interviews, but I'm not sure where to start.
Our work shows journalists use different templates to cover SMOs based on the action that puts them in the spotlight. We need to look beyond just protest coverage & examine the multiple lenses applied to movement organizations. doi.org/10.1111/socf... 6/6
Other actions fell in between. Strikes had substantive but negative coverage, civic action was positive but unsubstantive, and nonviolent protest yielded middling coverage. The protest paradigm oversimplifies the nuanced ways SMOs are covered when they make major news. 5/6
Qualitative comparative analysis shows there are multiple news paradigms for SMOs. Violence, trials & investigations yielded substantively weak, negative coverage. But political assertiveness brought relatively substantive, positive coverage - better than the protest paradigm predicts. 4/6
Using topic modeling on nearly 50K articles, we found SMOs mainly made news for actions like being politically assertive, strikes, civic action, investigations, trials & violence - not just nonviolent protest. The reason behind coverage strongly shaped its quality. 3/6
The protest paradigm argues that news trivializes & negatively portrays activists, hindering their cause. But our analysis of the 100 most covered 20th century U.S. SMOs shows they made news for many reasons beyond protest, with coverage varying widely in substance & sentiment. 2/6