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Daniel J. Myers
Researcher at University of Notre Dame
Publications - 27
Citations - 2755
Daniel J. Myers is an academic researcher from University of Notre Dame. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social movement & Resource mobilization. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 27 publications receiving 2539 citations. Previous affiliations of Daniel J. Myers include University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Feminist Attitudes and Support for Gender Equality: Opinion Change in Women and Men, 1974–1998
TL;DR: This paper examined attitudes related to feminism and gender equality by evaluating the trends in, and determinants of women and men's attitudes from 1974 to 1998, finding that attitudes have continued to liberalize and converge with the exception of abortion attitudes.
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How events enter the public sphere : Conflict, location, and sponsorship in local newspaper coverage of public events
Pamela Oliver,Daniel J. Myers +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that 382 public events in police records for one year in a small U.S. city, 45% convey a message, 14% involve social conflict, and 13% are standard protest event forms.
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Where Do We Stand with Newspaper Data
TL;DR: It is concluded that newspaper data often do not reach acceptable standards for event analysis and that using them can distort findings and misguide theorizing, and a plea for more circumspect approaches to media data that fully and openly consider the implications of their inherent limitations.
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Individual Orientation Toward Engagement in Social Action
TL;DR: The Activism Orientation Scale (AOS) as mentioned in this paper is a measure to assess individuals' propensity to engage in social action in social movements, which is based on a measure of the orientation of an individual towards social action.
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All the Rioting That's Fit to Print: Selection Effects in National Newspaper Coverage of Civil Disorders, 1968-1969
TL;DR: The authors examined selection effects in newspaper reports about civil disorders in the late 1960s and found that fewer than half of all disorders are covered in these two newspapers combined, and that those reported are selected on the basis of event intensity, distance, event density, city population size, type of actor, and day of the week.