Can Rev Sociol. 2014 Aug;51(3):216-38. doi: 10.1111/cars.12045.
This paper examines how and when newspapers, environmental nongovernmental organizations, businesses, and the government converge on environmental events. Using data on the 2010 BP Oil Spill from newspaper articles in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, press releases by Greenpeace and Sierra Club, press releases by BP, Halliburton, Transocean, ExxonMobil, and Shell, and press statements by the White House Press Secretary, we examine an event's potential to trigger convergence of social and political action. By treating events as political actants, we examine arguments from the agenda-setting and social movement literatures on timing, simplicity, and visuality to understand when political actors converge. We find that convergence is related to temporal cycles but not simplicity or visuality.
本文探讨了报纸、环境非政府组织、企业和政府如何以及何时在环境事件上达成一致。利用美国、加拿大和英国报纸文章、绿色和平组织和塞拉俱乐部的新闻稿、BP、哈里伯顿、越洋公司、埃克森美孚和壳牌的新闻稿以及白宫新闻秘书的新闻声明中关于 2010 年英国石油泄漏事件的数据，我们研究了一个事件是否有可能引发社会和政治行动的趋同。通过将事件视为政治行为体，我们研究了议程设置和社会运动文献中关于时间、简单性和可视性的论点，以了解政治行为体何时趋同。我们发现，趋同与时间周期有关，但与简单性或可视性无关。
