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Robert D. Benford
Researcher at University of South Florida
Publications - 30
Citations - 18512
Robert D. Benford is an academic researcher from University of South Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social movement & Framing (social sciences). The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 30 publications receiving 17313 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert D. Benford include University of Texas at Austin & University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
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Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment
Robert D. Benford,David A. Snow +1 more
TL;DR: The recent proliferation of research on collective action frames and framing processes in relation to social movements indicates that framing processes have come to be regarded, alongside resource mobilization and political opportunity processes, as a central dynamic in understanding the character and course of social movements.
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Frame alignment processes, micromobilization, and movement participation.
TL;DR: In this article, Frame alignment, of one variety or another, is a necessary condition for participation, whatever its nature or intensity, and that it is typically an interactional and ongoing accomplishment.
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An Insider's Critique of the Social Movement Framing Perspective*
TL;DR: In the last decade, the framing perspective has gained increasing popularity among social movement researchers and theorists as mentioned in this paper, but there has been no critical assessment of this growing body of literature, which suffers from several shortcomings including neglect of systematic empirical studies, descriptive bias, static tendencies, reification, reductionism, elite bias, and monolithic tendencies.
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Frame Disputes within the Nuclear Disarmament Movement
TL;DR: Hunt et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the dynamics of interorganizational frame disputes within the nuclear disarmament movement, including their organizational and ideological contexts, conditions conducive to theiremergence, patterns observed, and their effects.