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Friend or Foe? The Media Coverage of Chicago’s Public Housing Transformation

Schoene, Matthew
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306526365

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2011, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Sociology.
How does the newspaper participate in public housing reform battles? Contemporary urban theory suggests that the local media tends to support elite actors in their quest for urban growth and redevelopment, but social movement research demonstrates that the press has the power to either help or harm groups. For low-income groups, media attention plays an especially important role. This question has consequences for both urban theory and social movement tactics, but it is unclear if media coverage is biased in any way, what factors motivate the media to pay attention in the first place, and how these factors contribute to both supportive and unsupportive coverage. This paper conceptualizes housing battles as a social movement and focuses on Chicago’s Plan for Transformation, the most radical example of public housing reform to date. A content analysis of a sample of Chicago Tribune newspaper articles indicates that newspaper coverage was skewed towards the pro-development side, but only slightly. Negative binomial regression then indicates that case-specific group actions rather than contextual, city-level issues better explain variation in both supportive and unsupportive coverage of the issue. Implications for urban theory, social movement strategy and future research are discussed.
Rachel Dwyer, PhD (Committee Chair)
Andrew Martin, PhD (Committee Member)
Claudia Buchmann, PhD (Committee Member)
61 p.
Sociology
urban redevelopment; public housing; social movements; media

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  • Schoene, M. (2011). Friend or Foe? The Media Coverage of Chicago’s Public Housing Transformation [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306526365

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Schoene, Matthew. Friend or Foe? The Media Coverage of Chicago’s Public Housing Transformation. 2011. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306526365.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Schoene, Matthew. "Friend or Foe? The Media Coverage of Chicago’s Public Housing Transformation." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306526365

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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