Foreign protest frames shaped how Brazilians interpreted their own uprising

Evidence

By 2013, the Brazilian people and media already had a ready-made set of concepts that could be used to interpret their incipient protest movement. Some outlets ended up calling the June demonstrations the “Brazilian Spring.” On the night of June 13, the crowd erupted into a chant as we were tear-gassed: “Love is over. Turkey is here!” They were referring to protests and repression going on at the same time in Istanbul. I put this on Twitter and—in one of my first experiences with the ups and downs of social media—it went viral. Over the next few weeks, I received photos and messages from people in Gezi Park, the site of the Turkish protest, holding signs saying things like “the whole world is São Paulo” and “Turkey and Brazil are one.” — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 45

Categorization

• XREF: Cross-national protest ‘contagion’ through media framing relates to the reader’s standing interest in communication systems shaping collective action. — connects to: Distant commentators applied wrong foreign frames to Brazil’s protests. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 416; 2011 uprisings crossed continents through imitation of tactics and solidarity; A US-funded think tank network spread free-market ideology into Brazil’s protests. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 417 (+2 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Distant commentators applied wrong foreign frames to Brazil’s protests. #corroborates (0.80) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 416
• 2011 uprisings crossed continents through imitation of tactics and solidarity #corroborates (0.78)