Carolina Media & Protest Research Group


The Carolina Media & Protest Research Group (CMAP) is a collection of faculty, graduate students and undergraduates affiliated with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Sociology Department studying collective action and the media.

Recent Publications

Reassessing the Economy-Environment Tradeoff: Do Industry Sectors, Green Jobs Opportunities, and Regulatory Threats Affect Environmental Concerns?
Economic effects on environmental concerns assess macroeconomic pressures or microeconomic status differences but overlook …
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Reassessing the Economy-Environment Tradeoff: Do Industry Sectors, Green Jobs Opportunities, and Regulatory Threats Affect Environmental Concerns?
Beyond the Protest Paradigm: Four Types of News Coverage and America's Most Prominent Social Movement Organizations
What determines the quality of coverage received by social movement organizations when they appear extensively in the news? Research on …
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Beyond the Protest Paradigm: Four Types of News Coverage and America's Most Prominent Social Movement Organizations
When Black Movements Matter: Controlling Images and Black Lives Matter Protests in Media Attention to U.S. Police Killings
This study investigates how the portrayal of Black criminality influences Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and media attention to …
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When Black Movements Matter: Controlling Images and Black Lives Matter Protests in Media Attention to U.S. Police Killings
Mountains of Evidence: Processual “Redpilling” as a Sociotechnical Effect of Disinformation
How do people come to believe far-right, extremist, and conspiratorial ideas they encounter online? This paper examines how …
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Comparing Perceived Disruptiveness and Effectiveness of Protest Tactics
How do U.S. voters view the disruptiveness and effectiveness of social movement tactics? Strategically used assertive tactics can …
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Comparing Perceived Disruptiveness and Effectiveness of Protest Tactics
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Recent Presentations

"Assholes in the Media": How Social Movements and Media Interact
Right-wing social movements often communicate their ideologies to the public through their own right-wing media ecosystems. …
Last updated on Aug 14, 2024
Adapting to Green Development or Transforming Society: How Labor and Environmental Leaders Evaluate Green Jobs
U.S. federal climate investments have begun to reshape policy coalitions around green economic transition. One accomplishment is to …
Last updated on Aug 14, 2024
Connection Through Isolation: An Exploration of the One Direction Fandom
Previous research demonstrates that while the stigmatization of fandom members has decreased over time, many members, especially …
Last updated on Aug 14, 2024
Determinants of Participation in Graduate Student Worker Unions
In recent years, a wave of labor organizing among graduate student workers has swept across the United States. Confronting escalating …
Last updated on Aug 14, 2024
Social Media and College Students' Digital Legitimacy
How does social media use impact patterns of unequal protection and harm at a U.S. public flagship university? Social media and U.S. …
Last updated on Aug 14, 2024
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