Deana A. Rohlinger

Examines how the reputation of activist groups affects their ability to move their ideas into mainstream media outlets.

Assesses how movements can use Internet Communication Technology to engage average citizens and keep them involved over time. 

Uses longitudinal data to assess who stayed and who left the Tea Party movement and how this may have helped fuel the Trump-Train in 2016.

Outlines how contemporary movements can cultivate relatively strong and weak collective identities among its supporters, and discusses the implications of these identities for electoral politics. 

Argues that women use their political generation, and the gains of the women’s movement specifically, to oppose cultural constructions of aging. Discusses how The Red Hat Society provides a “free space” for women to foster a collective identity that both visibly challenges aging norms and provides its members new standards for self-approval. Emphasizes the importance of focusing on political generation to understand collective action over the life course and call for more scholarship on the function of political generation in social change.

Discusses the many angles surrounding the Terri Schiavo’s case. Argues that mainstream newspapers are relatively inclusive of diverse ideas and perspectives - regardless of whether the newspaper is independently or corporately owned, the political leanings of the target audience, and the geographic location of the outlet. Suggests that local outlets downplay ideas that are likely to be regarded as controversial by their target audiences.

Discusses how activists use a variety of mediums, sometimes simultaneously, to agitate for – and against – legal abortion. Examines why some activist groups are more desperate than others to attract media attention and sheds light on what this means for policy making and legal abortion in the twenty-first century.

Shows how individuals critical of President Bush’s “War on Terror” used digital communities to engage in political activism after 9/11.

Looks at how politicians and movement leaders constructed frames that united – and then divided – the Conservative Christian Political Movement in the United States.