Facebook framed
Portraying the role of social media in activism
Azi Lev-On | School of Communication, Ariel University
The study explores how Facebook was framed during the “tent protest” – the largest social protest in Israel’s history. Findings from of a content analysis of the local Israeli press indicate that Facebook was framed mainly as a political instrument assisting the protest, especially in the stages of recruitment, organization and dissemination of information to protesters. Alongside such positive framing, also evident, albeit less frequently, was negative framing that portrayed Facebook activities as incompatible with genuine political action, and portrayed the “Facebook generation” as lazy and spoiled.
Keywords: social Media, social movements, activism, Internet, Facebook.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1Framing the Internet in the mainstream media
- 1.2Facebook framing during social protests
- 1.3The local press
- 2.Method
- 3.Findings
- 3.1Theme 1: Facebook’s affordances as a political tool
- 3.1.1Facebook as a mainstay of the protest
- 3.1.2Facebook as a recruitment tool
- 3.1.3Facebook as a logistical tool for organizing the protest
- 3.1.4Facebook as a means of maintaining contact among protestors
- 3.1.5Facebook as a discursive sphere
- 3.1.6Facebook as an influential factor in the protest’s success
- 3.1.7Facebook as a source of quotes
- 3.2Theme 2: Facebook’s drawbacks as a political tool
- 3.3Theme 3: Facebook as a political tool in the Arab Spring (a global perspective)
- 3.1Theme 1: Facebook’s affordances as a political tool
- 4.Discussion and conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Note
-
References
Published online: 10 October 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.17058.lev
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.17058.lev
References
Andersen, Kurt
2011 “The protester: Cover story”. Time Magazine. http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2101745_2102132,00.html
Bastos, Marco T., Dan Mercea, and Arthur Charpentier
Campbell, Heidi A., and Diana Hawk
Cornish, Sabryna L.
Dumitrica, Delia, and Maria Bakardjieva
Fisher, Dana R., and Larry Michael Wright
Freelon, Deen, Sarah Merritt and Taylor Jaymes
Heider, Don, Maxwell McCombs, and Paula M. Poindexter
Hussain, Muzammil M., and Philip N. Howard
Larsson, Andres O., and Jakob Svensson
Lehman-Wilzig, Sam
Lev-On, Azi
Liran-Alper, Dalia, and Orly Tsarfaty
Manosevitch, Idit, and Azi Lev-On
Margetts, Helen, Peter John, Scott Hale, and Taha Yasseri
Marichal, José
Ogburn, William Fielding
Papacharissi, Zizi
Pavel, Tal
Rainie, Lee, Aaron Smith, Kay Kehman Schlozman, Henry Brady, and Sidney Verba
Rössler, Patrick
Tufekci, Zeynep, and Christopher Wilson
Van Dijk, Jan A. G. M.
Walla!
Wolfsfeld, Gadi, Elad Segev, and Tamir Sheafer
Ynet
2011 (September 3). “Huge demonstrations in the periphery.” www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4117335,00.html (Hebrew)
Cited by
Cited by 1 other publications
Roth-Cohen, Osnat
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 19 april 2022. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.