Sentences with phrase «as social movement actors»

«Emergence of participatory media may change the power media have to frame social movements, as social movement actors can forcefully offer their framing, diffuse their preferred framing to large audiences in ways that would have been simply impossible or prohibitively costly before social media, challenge journalists directly, or create a strong enough attention around their own framing that it becomes harder to ignore.»

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This project will shift our understanding of teachers» unions as simply «self - interested» or «selfless,» to a more nuanced assessment of the role teachers play in politics, the diversity of political groups within unions, and the ways that teachers» unions in diverse contexts go beyond self - interest and become social movement actors.

To use the word «campaign» is not meant to connote an organized conspiracy led by one or a few entities who coordinate all actors, but rather a social movement that creates widespread, predictable, and strong opposition to climate change policy and that consistently uses scientific uncertainty arguments as the basis of its opposition.