Category: Social Movements

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New Media Cites on Protest During the Trump Administration

Here are some recent media stories that I was quoted in:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-protest-idUSKBN16316T

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/02/24/republican-lawmakers-introduce-bills-to-curb-protesting-in-at-least-17-states/?utm_term=.2874db8c3326

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-protest-idUSKBN16316T

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/20/rogue-twitter-accounts-form-resistance-against-tru/

 

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Chen Liang Presents Joint Work at Yale University

I am so proud of Chen Liang, a University of Michigan undergraduate student, for her presentation at Yale University this week. She presented a poster based on our joint work, titled “From Offline to Online: Protesters at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.”

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LSA / OS Honors Students Conduct Research in Washington, DC

LSA /OS Honors students Katherine Ruehrdanz and Rebecca Strauss conducted research during the Inauguration weekend in Washington, DC. Specifically, they conducted surveys at the Counter-Inaugural protests and the Women’s March on Washington. They were accompanied on the trip by Assistant Professor Michael Heaney. Both women are writing honors theses in Organizational Studies (OS).

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Media Coverage about Inauguration Protests, Women’s March, and More

Here are the links to the media coverage that I’ve received in the last few weeks:

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/2/14438382/protest-trump-resist-womens-march

http://wjla.com/news/nation-world/democrats-face-challenges-in-harnessing-support-of-anti-trump-resistance

http://www.wsj.com/articles/protesters-look-to-disrupt-trumps-inauguration-weekend-1484840632

http://www.wkbw.com/news/national/can-the-womens-marches-become-a-womens-movement

http://www.voaafrique.com/a/une-vague-rose-a-colore-la-capitale-americaine-pour-la-marche-des-femmes/3687196.html?nocache=1

http://www.kfdi.com/news/national/why-trumps-inauguration-weekend-could-attract-the-most-protesters-since-bushs-2005-swearing-in

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-delegation-inauguration-20170117-story.html

https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/udland/paa-usas-venstrefloej-naegter-de-anerkende-trump-som-praesident-det-er-nu-vi-skal-kaempe?utm_campaign=post&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=locked

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Edwin Amenta Reviews Party in the Street

Fabio Rojas and I are truly grateful to Edwin Amenta for an exceptionally generous review essay on Party in the Street in the journal Contemporary Sociology. The title of the essay, “Raising the Bar for Scholarship on Protest and Politics”, gives you a sense of how kind he has been. An excerpt is available here:

http://csx.sagepub.com/content/45/5/566.extract

The ungated full text is available here:

http://michaeltheaney.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Edwin_Amenta_2016.pdf