Title

News as a Political Resource: Media Strategies and Political Identity in the U.S. Women's Movement, 1966-1975

Authors

Bernadette Barker-Plummer, University of San FranciscoFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1995

Abstract

This paper discusses news as a political resource for social movements. Specifically, the paper elaborates a conceptualization of news as a discursive resource, and suggests a dialogical model for media‐movement relationships. The paper then uses this framework to investigate the interactions with news media of U.S. women's movement groups. It describes how the two “branches” of the women's movement understood news differently and developed quite different and specific strategies which are called media pragmatism and media subversion. The study raises questions not only about what kind of resource news might be, and to whom it might be available, but also about the forms of knowledge that can be distributed widely in a society saturated with media “logics.”

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Studies In Mass Communication. Published online: 18 May 2009. Available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15295039509366939

Article also available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15295039509366939

DOI

10.1080/15295039509366939

Recommended Citation

Barker-Plummer, B. (1995). News as a Political Resource: Media Strategies and Political Identity in the U.S. Women's Movement, 1966-1975. Critical Studies In Mass Communication, 12(3), 306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15295039509366939