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Utilizing the #MeToo movement as its case, this article examines celebrities' symbolic power using social media's connectivity to enlarge the impact of social causes. This article adopts social network analysis as the primary method to explore the relationship between two #MeToo networks and media coverage regarding celebrities' roles. Based on theories of social capital and celebrity capital, the results of this article find that famous people's symbolic power in one social field can transfer into the social activism field through investment in their celebrity capital and social capital.

The old-growth forest debate involves two sides ("procut" and "prosave") presenting competing views of the issue. Television news stories may reflect one or the other of these frames through (1) choice of sources, (2) choice of visuals, and (3) reporter's summary remarks. We examined four years of coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC, and found that while the distribution of visuals was inconclusive, source use and reporter wrap-ups predominantly reflected the procut frame. This may be because the procut frame emphasized an unambiguous conflict that was more amenable to brief explanations.

Media Scholarship in a Transitional Age honors the significant and lasting contribution that Pamela J. Shoemaker has made to mass communications research. A collection with wide appeal to all media scholars, this book is particularly well suited to graduate student seminars on mass communications theory, media sociology and news scholarship