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The Place of News Media Analysis within Canadian Disability Studies
- Author
- Beth Haller, Mihaela Dinca-Panaitescu, Marcia Rioux, Andrew Laing, Jessica Vostermans, Paula Hearn
- Year
- 2012
- Publisher
- Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
- DOI/Link
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- Abstract
- This paper advocates for increased news media analysis within the disability studies field. Using a media research project about Canadian news media coverage of disability, this paper explores the shifting nature of recent disability coverage within Canadian newspapers between 2009 and 2010. As a group of researchers in Canada and the USA, who have undertaken numerous content analyses of news media representations of disability, we argue that a paradigm shift is taking place in which some traditional news media representations of people with disabilities are now being framed through a disability rights lens. This paper’s analysis is based on data collected by the Toronto-based Disability Rights Promotion International (DRPI). The project investigates Canadian news coverage of disability issues through Joseph Gusfield’s theory of societal “ownership” of a public problem, which in this case means discrimination against and societal barriers for people with disabilities become identified problems that need to be solved within Canadian society.
- Keywords
- Media Ethics
- Tags
- Stereotypes and identity
- PGDMIL Course
- C03 – Audiences and Representation
- PGDMIL Block
- C03-B4: Inclusive Media Practices
- Has Part
- C03-U16: Disability Representation in the Media
- Corpus Status
- Pending Review