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To Bag the Ban or Ban the Bag: Analysing a shifting discourse in Canadian online news during the pandemic year, 2020
Download2021-06-01
Plastics pollution is an existential threat to the environment, and in particular to the world’s oceans. Pre-pandemic, a global response to this crisis was gaining traction, with news media reporting large scale policy implementation. For example, in Canada, the federal government made an...
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2010-08-31
As the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century sees yet another drop in print newspaper paid circulation and a sharp increase in newspaper operations closures in North America, the current financial crisis and the emergence and increasing popularity of the Internet are immediately...
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2012-01-25
Twenty journalists who regularly produce articles, televised reports and videos about the Alberta oil sands and issues pertaining to the oil sands participated in this study. Although most of the stories about the Alberta oil sands that appear in the news media have a business or economic focus,...
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Science Communication in Transition: Genomics Hype, Public Engagement, Education and Commercialization Pressures
Download2014-11-14
This essay reports on the final session of a 2-day workshop entitled ‘Genetic Diversity and Science Communication’, hosted by the CIHR Institute of Genetics in Toronto, April 2006. The first speaker, Timothy Caulfield, introduced the intersecting communities that promulgate a ‘cycle of hype’ of...
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Quantitative and Qualitative Content Analysis of Breast Cancer, Heart Disease, and Stroke Media Messages from Local Canadian Media
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This study examined media coverage of breast cancer (N=145) and heart disease and stroke (N=39) news articles, videos, advertisements, and images in a local Canadian context through quantitative and thematic content analyses. Statistical analysis (Cramer’s V) revealed significant differences in...
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PRRD survey data - women
2015-02-05
Survey data collected for the CIHR funded study \"Pink Ribbons and Red Dresses: the relationship between disease awareness campaigns, health-related cognitions and perceptions of preventive behaviours.\"