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Vakbondsprotest tegen Di Rupo I en Michel I vergeleken University of Antwerp
Vier maanden geleden, op donderdag 6 november 2014, gaf het gemeenschappelijk vakbondsfront met een grote nationale manifestatie het startschot van wat een hete herfst beloofde te worden. Kop van jut was de nieuwe federale regering-Michel. In deze bijdrage vergelijken we de deelnemers aan deze nationale manifestatie met de vakbondsbetogers die drie jaar eerder op straat kwamen, op 2 december 2011, tegen de maatregelen van de regering- Di Rupo. ...
Degrees of frame alignment University of Antwerp
The frame alignment approach is one of the most influential mobilisation theories. This theory holds that frame alignment is a necessary condition for movement participation. The present study challenges this premise. Instead of treating frame alignment as a precondition for participation, the authors address it as something that should be empirically examined. And rather than distinguishing between either aligned or non-aligned protesters, they ...
The missing link in the diffusion of protest University of Antwerp
Mobilization for protest is a process of diffusion in interpersonal networks. Extant work has found that being asked by people one knows is a key determinant of participation, but the flip side asking others has been neglected. The authors examine which prospective participants are most likely to ask others to participate and whom they ask. Drawing on a new and unusual data set including evidence on more than 7,000 participants in 48 ...
From the street to the screen University of Antwerp
Media attention is a crucial resource for demonstrators seeking to influence policy. This article assesses the determinants of television coverage for protest events. Police archive data for the city of Brussels is compared to newscast data of the biggest public and commercial station in Belgium (2003-2010). Results show that few demonstrations pass the television gates (11%). Above all, protest size accounts for newsworthiness. Disruptive and ...
Selection, description, reaction University of Antwerp
Transnational collective identification University of Antwerp
Why do some people participating in transnational protest events identify with their foreign counterparts while others participating in the same events do not? We find that participants in a series of May Day and climate change events are aware that the events are part of a broader struggle, and many in fact identifiy with their overseas counterparts. However, there are differences between demonstrations. Some are populated with people who ...
The coverage of China in Belgian television news University of Antwerp
Abstract: This study examines the difference that stationing a foreign correspondent can make for news coverage. We focus on the particular case of the news coverage of China on Belgian television. In Belgium, the public broadcaster decided to station a correspondent in China for an extended period of time, while the private commercial competitor did not do so. Drawing on a database of news coverage of China before and after the deployment of ...