DRAMA / Subjects & Themes / Political & Protest

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

This study tests whether headline themes from news coverage of police use-of-force influence general public approval of legally reasonable police use-of-force. In a between-subjects survey experiment ( N  = 2,495), a nationally stratified sample of U.S. adults was randomly assigned to view four real newspaper headlines representing one of four thematic conditions or a neutral control. The headline themes …

Reference · Wikidata

civic demonstration

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

A political demonstration is an action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause or people partaking in a protest against a cause of concern; it often consists of walking in a mass march formation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint, or rally, in order to hear speakers. It is different from mass meeting.

Image · DPLA

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