@article{Scanlan_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Assignment: Social Movements in the News}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/assignment-social-movements-in-the-news}, abstractNote={ In this assignment you are to become a "media expert" on a specific contemporary social movement by examining coverage of it using media outlets in the United States or from around the world. You are responsible for compiling a collection/journal of news, popular press or alternative media treatments and summarizing coverage of the social movement and its key components, issues, actors, framing, dynamics, or other elements of interest. In total you are to collect, analyze, and synthesize at least 3 but no more than 7 treatments discussing a social movement of choice. The movement can be the same one that you are examining for your term paper or another of interest.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Scanlan, Stephen}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }