Against the Frame: Local Media Coverage of Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot

IF 1 Q3 ECONOMICS Basic Income Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-12 DOI:10.1515/bis-2021-0048

M. Irons, Andrea M. L. Perrella

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Abstract

Abstract The 2017–2018 basic income pilot in the Canadian province of Ontario attempted to alleviate poverty in a precarious economy. With three communities participating, we examine how the pilot was framed by local media, permitting a look at the narratives that were dominant in the participating communities. In essence, were recipients framed as “deserving?” How the media addresses this question can set the foundation for whether policymakers can proceed with basic income. Given that media coverage of poverty alleviation in the United States generally follows an episodic frame, which puts focus on individuals and their particular circumstances (i.e. lifestyle choices), while major Canadian media generally shows a mix of frames, results of a media content analysis at the local level shows basic-income pilot was covered mainly through thematic frames, which emphasizes systemic factors and more general social conditions, which support state action on basic income.

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反对框架:当地媒体对安大略省基本收入试点的报道

2017-2018年加拿大安大略省的基本收入试点试图在不稳定的经济中减轻贫困。通过三个社区的参与，我们研究了当地媒体是如何构建试点的，从而了解了在参与社区中占主导地位的叙述。从本质上讲，接受者是“应得的”吗?媒体如何处理这个问题，可以为政策制定者能否推进基本收入奠定基础。鉴于美国媒体对扶贫的报道通常遵循情景框架，将重点放在个人及其特殊情况(即生活方式选择)上，而加拿大主要媒体通常呈现混合框架，地方一级媒体内容分析的结果表明，基本收入试点主要通过主题框架进行报道，强调系统因素和更一般的社会条件，这些因素支持国家在基本收入方面的行动。

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Basic Income Studies ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

2.40

自引率

18.20%

发文量

期刊介绍： Basic income is a universal income grant available to every citizen without means test or work requirement. Academic discussion of basic income and related policies has been growing in the fields of economics, philosophy, political science, sociology, and public policy over the last few decades — with dozens of journal articles published each year, and basic income constituting the subject of more than 30 books in the last 10 years. In addition, the political discussion of basic income has been expanding through social organizations, NGOs and other advocacy groups. Internationally, recent years have witnessed the endorsement of basic income by grassroots movements as well as government officials in developing countries such as Brazil or South-Africa. As the community of people working on this issue has been expanding all over the world, incorporating grassroots activists, high profile academics — including several Nobel Prize winners in economics — and policymakers, the amount of high quality research on this topic has increased considerably. In the light of such extensive scholarship on this topic, the need to coordinate research efforts through a journal specifically devoted to basic income and cognate policies became pressing. Basic Income Studies (BIS) is the first academic journal to focus specifically on basic income and cognate policies.