Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.18192/cjmsrcem.v18i1.6497
Lorna Ferguson, M. Eliasson
This study examines news media framing of the opioid crisis in Canada to advance an understanding of the dominant discourses and identify the narratives shaping public and policymakers’ opinions and preferred solutions. We conducted a content and frame analysis of 2,273 Canadian news articles published between January 2016 and December 2019. The analysis revealed that harm reduction and treatment were the preferred solutions instead of criminalization, and public health framing predominantly occurred. The overall tone emerged as empathetic and softer and, generally, the leading policy choices and opioid crisis were framed contradistinct from past drug epidemics.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.18192/cjmsrcem.v18i1.6500
James B. Gerrie
Based on a consideration of the outlooks of the Social Construction of Technology (SCOT), Actor-Network Theory (ANT), as well as theories in the philosophy of technology, this critical essay is an argument for a greater recognition of the need to preserve significant early computer games written in BASIC and to provide improved public access to these programs. Although many of these programs have been preserved and presented to the public by hobbyists, there are significant gaps that have the potential to prevent recognition by future researchers of the pivotal role played by non-corporate actors in the early development of the video-game industry. Such informal efforts at curating these items so that they can be easily accessed are also limited by copyright laws. Effectively addressing these issues requires increased support from museums and scholarly institutions.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.18192/cjmsrcem.v18i1.6498
Aimé-Jules Bizimana, O. Kane
L’essor du numérique bouleverse l’économie politique de la production indépendante. Cet article a pour objectif d’analyser les liens entre le réseau de langue anglaise du radiodiffuseur public canadien et la production indépendante dans le contexte des mutations technologiques et économiques. L’étude de nature qualitative recourt à l’analyse documentaire et à des entretiens semi-dirigés avec les responsables de la stratégie numérique du réseau public CBC et avec des producteurs indépendants. Le radiodiffuseur public s’adapte au numérique et les façons de faire des producteurs indépendants se modifient aussi dans un nouvel environnement audiovisuel caractérisé par un déséquilibre des rapports de force quant aux ententes commerciales avec la CBC et aux conditions de valorisation du contenu dans un contexte mondialisé.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.18192/cjmsrcem.v18i1.6499
Raphaela Nehme
The emergence of social media has created new means of intercultural engagement. On Instagram, there is a growing trend of travel pages and travel bloggers whose aim is to introduce and share the highlights of the destinations they travel to. Locals in these destinations also wish to portray their country positively and promote it as a tourist destination, particularly in certain countries of the Middle East where there is the added challenge of an ‘unsafe’ image to combat. This research focuses on Lebanon to find out to what extent Instagram can be considered a means to this end, and if users who come across depictions of Lebanon on Instagram perceive the country as a potential tourist destination. The study draws on Said’s conception of the ‘other’ (1978), Hall’s system of representations (1980) and Pieterse’s hybridization paradigm (1996), and it used a mixed methods approach combining surveys and semi-structured interviews with Canadian participants. Findings broadly show that while Instagram can effectively be considered a tool to counter the ‘unsafe’ image of Lebanon, and while the country may be branded as a potential tourist destination to users who come across favorable depictions of it, algorithm restrictions limit the potential for such contents to fulfill their potential as they do not always reach users who perceive Lebanon to be an ‘unsafe’ place.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-13DOI: 10.18192/CJMS-RCEM.V17I1.5884
Simon St-Denis
Book review.
书评。
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Pub Date : 2021-05-13DOI: 10.18192/CJMS-RCEM.V17I1.5880
Geoffroy Legault-Thivierge, P. Ross
Plusieurs recherches au fil des ans se sont penchées sur la consommation médiatique des Franco-Ontariens et les enjeux qui y sont reliés, notamment celui de la préservation de la langue française et de l’identité francophone dans un contexte minoritaire. La situation mérite une attention renouvelée aujourd’hui, vu la place qu’occupent le jeu vidéo et les pratiques de communication qui l’accompagnent dans le paysage médiatique. Notre objectif dans cet article est double : dresser un portrait actuel des usages et pratiques des jeunes Franco-Ontariens autour du jeu vidéo, et en explorer l’incidence sur les dynamiques linguistiques et identitaires. Notre recherche s’inspire de la sociologie des usages et mobilise deux méthodes : un sondage sous forme de questionnaire en ligne auquel ont répondu 33 joueurs franco-ontariens âgés de 18 à 22 ans; et des entretiens semi-dirigés réalisés auprès de six de ces derniers. L’analyse révèle que les joueurs franco-ontariens continuent de favoriser l’anglais dans leur consommation médiatique et que cette tendance vaut aussi pour le jeu vidéo, notamment en ce qui a trait aux aspects matériels, à la communication en situation de jeu, ainsi qu’à la consommation et à la production de contenus connexes. Les joueurs franco-ontariens attribuent par ailleurs au jeu vidéo une amélioration de leurs compétences en anglais et ils s’identifient davantage au terme « bilingue » que « francophone ».
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Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.18192/cjmsrcem.v16i1.6455
E. Rebouças
This study observes and analyses how Canada and Brazil are experiencing similar situations with respect to communications issues. Understanding that public hearings are the ideal locus for debating specific public policies, the Royal Commissions of Inquiry targeted at the cultural and media industries sectors were chosen as corpus for analysis. The intention here is to do more than merely describe those commissions’ activities; instead, it is to explore their unfolding, attempting to identify the interplay of the relations and interests involved. This study adopts the theoretical perspectives of Political Economy of Communications and of Cultural and Media Industries. The article proposal assumes that the Canadian model of public hearings might be applied to Brazil. Its conclusions indicate a crisis in which society in general has no interest in joining debates on media-related issues, reflecting the State’s failure to defend the public interest and a strong private lobby to influence those debates results.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.18192/cjmsrcem.v16i1.6456
M. Hayes, L. Mackinnon
This essay recounts a number of so-called “bizarre” news reports from Nova Scotia, and the reactions to them on social media, as a means of exploring the fruitfulness of a digital history approach to regionalism and the idea of the provincial “Folk.” Such stories might be considered a contemporary manifestation of the Folk - albeit one that is presented through a digital medium that creates opportunities for cultural producers and consumers to enter into conversation about the style, context, and meaning of such representations. The essay is exploratory and offers some tentative conclusions - particularly that the phenomenon of "bizarre" news reports from the province is very heavily affected by class conflict, but that social media allows a new generation of cultural producers the means to talk back to Folk representations of Nova Scotia. However, the essay is largely concerned with making a connection between media studies of what has been called “convergence culture” and more traditional studies of Atlantic Canadian society and culture.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.18192/cjmsrcem.v16i1.6454
Marc W. Edge
Newspaper companies in both Eastern and Western Canada have engaged in anti-competitive behaviour since 2010 by exchanging titles, increasingly through trades, and then closing them to create more lucrative local monopolies. This phenomenon reached its height in late 2017 when the country’s two largest chains, Postmedia Network and Torstar Inc., traded 41 mostly Ontario titles and closed almost all of them. The chains claimed there was no collusion involved, but a Competition Bureau investigation reportedly found detailed memos and non-compete agreements. The British Columbia chains Black Press and Glacier Media also engaged in this type of consolidation in the first half of the decade without legal consequence. Including non-daily community newspapers, Black Press and Glacier Media closed or merged twenty-four of the thirty-three titles they exchanged from 2010-2014, or a competitor one of them already owned. While this would appear to be classic anti-competitive behaviour, their dealings went without investigation by the Competition Bureau. This points up the laxity of Canada’s antitrust laws in dealing with newspaper mergers and takeovers.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.18192/cjmsrcem.v16i1.6453
S. Smeltzer
In this article, I provide an environmental scan of experiential learning (EL) activities – internships, community engaged learning, co-ops, and practicum placements – offered by Canadian communication / media studies programs. These forms of ‘hands-on’ pedagogy can provide students with an opportunity to put their academic training into practice, to gain ‘in the field’ experience, and to collaborate with myriad community partners. However, the growth of EL must be contextualized within the neoliberalization of higher education in Canada, including concerns that universities are being cultivated as utilitarian conduits for job preparedness in a capitalist society. With the demand for EL opportunities unlikely to diminish, I argue that our field needs to proactively engage in determining the future of this form of pedagogy and ensure that it is ethical for all involved in the process. This discussion is informed by anonymous, semi-structured interviews I conducted with faculty, staff, students, and community partners associated with a selection of communication / media studies programs in three Canadian provinces. Further, I highlight recent shifts that have taken place in Ontario vis-à-vis EL as a case study to demonstrate the fast and furious policy changes underway at a provincial level.
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