The Take A Knee Movement against police brutality, started by former football quarterback, Colin Kaepernick was examined before and after Donald Trump’s election. Findings suggest a difference in mainstream media reporting on the movement following a September 2017 altercation between Trump and the NFL. Looking at 174 online articles, I witnessed the change in mainstream reporting over the movement from “un-American” to indicative of the rights and freedoms afforded Americans by the United States government. The media co-optation of the Take A Knee Movement, a shift from disapproving to approving coverage, signifies a trend in white America. The initial rejection and eventual adoption of Black and minority-led protest movements by the mainstream demonstrates an alteration of message which most movements must go through to continue servicing the status quo.
Thesis
Media Co-optation of the Take A Knee Movement: Pre and Post-Trump
University of Iowa
Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Iowa
Winter 2018
Abstract
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Media Co-optation of the Take A Knee Movement: Pre and Post-Trump
- Creators
- Aja Witt - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- Travis Vogan (Advisor) - University of Iowa, American StudiesTravis Vogan (Mentor) - University of Iowa, American Studies
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Project Type
- Honors Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Journalism and Mass Communication
- Date degree season
- Winter 2018
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- 28 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2018 Aja Witt
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Honors Program; CLAS Honors Theses
- Record Identifier
- 9984109915702771
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