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Week 6: Post your Blog Entries as Comments to my Main Post Each Week
Post by Sunday at midnight.
We saw the power of media framing in encouraging social movements (or disencouraging them as well). Media can be 'social movement organizations' both ways, in other words: encouraging mobilization or encouraging 'erosion', as we learned that term previously.
I said I would post this. It's an interesting short documentary about 'pirate satellite service' in Islamic Iran, where the state dominates the media by banning any external media coverage in the country that is 'unfiltered' by the state itself.
The Dish (Covert Satellite TV in Islamic Iran)
8:43 min
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOWnaTR_AFk
You might additionally think about the filtering of the news in other countries and whether that encourages or demobilizes social movements and/or state policy legitimacy as a social movement itself.
We saw the power of media framing in encouraging social movements (or disencouraging them as well). Media can be 'social movement organizations' both ways, in other words: encouraging mobilization or encouraging 'erosion', as we learned that term previously.
I said I would post this. It's an interesting short documentary about 'pirate satellite service' in Islamic Iran, where the state dominates the media by banning any external media coverage in the country that is 'unfiltered' by the state itself.
The Dish (Covert Satellite TV in Islamic Iran)
8:43 min
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOWnaTR_AFk
You might additionally think about the filtering of the news in other countries and whether that encourages or demobilizes social movements and/or state policy legitimacy as a social movement itself.
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