ABSTRACT
Framing analysis can contribute mightily to the understanding of social protest, social change, and social control. Major goals in the study of framing and social protest include identifying and outlining the dominant frame for a social controversy and variations within that frame as well as alternative frames promoted by challenge groups. A second goal of framing study is identifying the array of strategies and tactics groups employ to influence social framing of a topic. A third is determining the popular reading of newspaper stories, televised news coverage, and so forth, in terms of the ultimate framing of the controversy by the wider public. The text features that most distinguished alternative frames were: the nature of the conflict portrayal; metaphors and narratives used; the emphasis or lack there of concerning the social critique forwarded by the anarchists; the portrayal of the anarchists themselves; the portrayal of the police; and the role assigned to bystanders.
