Thursday, May 27th, 2010
12:00pm – 1:00pm EST
This webinar is transcribed into Chinese
Dr. Cynthia Boaz, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Sonoma State University, uses frame analysis to analyze some of the common ways in which mainstream media coverage of nonviolent struggles and civil resistance tends to reinforce key distortions in knowledge about these struggles and even defaults to the perspective of the oppressor. She also makes suggestions for ways in which conscious citizens, activists, and media audiences can help counter these misconceptions. Key case studies are Iran’s “Green Revolution” and Burma’s “Saffron Revolution.”