ABSTRACT This study investigates the site of intersection between legacy and social media, whereby it asks how local legacy media (St Louis Post-Dispatch and Richmond Times-Dispatch) invoked social media (Facebook and Twitter) discourse within their coverage of the Ferguson (2014) and Charlottesville (2017) events. It thus explores how gatekeeping is manifested and, consequently, how the protest paradigm emerged in a news landscape of proliferating social media. Thematic textual analysis indicates that coverage of Charlottesville and Ferguson clearly relied on indulging the social media sphere in important ways. Common themes of social media as multipurpose platforms, as interfacing with law and order, and as reconciling material and digital modes culminating in social activism were revealed. The study shows that the protest paradigm that has long characterized legacy media’s coverage of social protest is not as “pure” as it may once have been, since a social media component is helping define the contours and content of legacy media’s landscape.

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社交媒体、传统媒体和守门人：弗格森和夏洛茨维尔新闻中的抗议范式

摘要 本研究调查了传统媒体和社交媒体之间的交叉点，询问当地传统媒体（St Louis Post-Dispatch 和 Richmond Times-Dispatch）如何在其对 Ferguson（2014 年）的报道中调用社交媒体（Facebook 和 Twitter）话语) 和夏洛茨维尔 (2017) 事件。因此，它探讨了守门人的表现方式，以及抗议范式如何在社交媒体激增的新闻格局中出现。主题文本分析表明，夏洛茨维尔和弗格森的报道显然依赖于以重要的方式沉迷于社交媒体领域。社交媒体作为多用途平台、与法律和秩序的接口以及以社会行动主义告终的调和材料和数字模式的共同主题被揭示。