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Re-gendering Depression: Risk, Web Health Campaigns, and the Feminized Pharmaco-Subject
Authors: Gardner Paula M.
Published: March 2017

This article analyzes the textual and visual discourse of recent depression campaigns and advertisements generated by state-policy, advocacy, and pharmaceutical organizations, drawing on the work of Anne Balsamo, Nikolas Rose, and Paul Rabinow, among others. A variety of recent Web campaigns are critiqued, addressing the new pharmaceutical strategy of identifying a broad spectrum of depression. These campaigns re-gender subjects by targeting common social and biological factors in the lives of women and girls as risks, while framing male depression as patriarchal opportunity. This analysis of the discourse of gender, risk, and depression in the context of neo-liberalism indicates how health subjects are imagined as consumers and how this situation creates new constrained forms of “responsibilized,” gendered subjectivity.
Communicating the Modern Body: Fritz Kahn’s Popular Images of Human Physiology as an Industrialized World
Authors: Borck Cornelius
Published: March 2017

The visualization of the human body has always been a highly popular affair, and popular science writing has been particularly perceptive as to how new media has revolutionized science. This article analyzes the intertwining of science, culture, and technology by investigating the lavishly illustrated publications of Fritz Kahn, arguably one of the most successful popular science writers internationally between 1920 and 1960. His illustrations developed a specific style of visualization that positioned the human body firmly in an industrial modernity of machine analogues, which he eventually copyrighted as a product line. This visual crossover between industrialization and science demonstrates surprisingly accurately how human nature becomes historically contingent and culturally encoded.
Asymmetrical Talk between Physicians and Patients: A Quantitative Discourse Analysis
Authors: Li Han Z. , Desroches Naghmeh G. , Yum Young-Ok , Deagle George
Published: March 2017

This study examined the discursive dynamics between physicians and patients in order to understand associations between physicians’ communication patterns and patient satisfaction. Fieldwork was conducted in a clinic in northern British Columbia. Thirty-one physician-patient consultations were audiotaped, and follow-up questionnaires on satisfaction were filled out by patients. The Roter Interaction Analysis System was used to examine nine categories of talk. Our study confirmed previous assertions that physicians’ and patients’ talk patterns are highly asymmetrical. Physicians controlled the medical consultation by asking more questions than patients, and patients did not necessarily appreciate this type of communication. Male physicians tended to make more facilitative remarks when interviewing female than male patients, which was negatively correlated with patient satisfaction.
Communicating Health Information: The Community Engagement Model for Video Production
Authors: Murphy David , Balka Ellen , Poureslami Iraj , Leung Diana E. , Nicol Anne-Marie , Cruz Trent
Published: March 2017

The Community Engagement Model was developed as a tool for the production of health communication videos for broadcast on local television stations. The model, a hybrid of participatory video design and social marketing techniques, uses iterative design principles for both production and evaluation. This article reports on the use of this model for the design and production of a series of videos aimed at promoting awareness of the BC NurseLine (a 24-hour telephone health service) among Farsi speakers in the Greater Vancouver area. Statistical analysis of project-related data suggests that the use of an extensive, culturally engaged process to produce and evaluate the videos was integral to its success. The steps taken in this campaign are described to show how the Community Engagement Model can be used to produce effective, culturally sensitive, participatory media targeted at specific communities.
“More and Better” Research? Critical Communication Studies and the Problem of Policy Relevance
Authors: Abramson Bram Dov , Shtern Jeremy , Taylor Gregory
Published: March 2017

This article is a programmatic and reflexive report on a conference-workshop entitled Converging in Parallel: Linking Communications Research and Policy in Emerging Canadian Scholarship, held at McGill University November 9-10, 2006, and what we believe it suggests about improving the policy relevance of critical research in the field of communication studies in Canada. After canvassing three broad areas of communication policy research activity—methodology, linkages, and research topics—the report suggests several steps to address challenges identified in these areas.
Put on Your Bunny Ears, Take Your TV around the Block: Old and New Discourses of Gender and Nation in Mobile, Digital, and HDTV
Authors: Bociurkiw Marusya
Published: March 2017

In this article I examine discourses of national progress and technological change surrounding digital and high definition (HD) television. Via an examination of various texts—television and web content as well as advertising on and offline—I argue that these contemporary narratives echo older discourses from the early years of television and the Internet. Similarly, I suggest that while it’s necessary for television and communications theories to address new questions of spatiality, and of global movements of information and technologies, classical theories of television are still highly pertinent. As such, I identify a multidirectional flow between technologies of digital television, cellphone, and the body which both supports and subverts a global meaning economy of consumption and intertextuality amid rapidly converging technologies.
How Usable Are Outdoor Wireless Networks?
Authors: Potter Amelia Bryne
Published: March 2017

This report discusses the usability of outdoor Wi-Fi networks. Based on a study of wireless networks in Toronto, the report outlines usability challenges related to device availability, technical limitations, and constraints of the physical usage environment. Guidelines are offered to improve the design of outdoor Wi-Fi networks, but it is also noted that other options may prove to be more feasible for the provision of broadband access in municipalities.
“No Apple iPhone? You Must Be Canadian”: Mobile Technologies, Participatory Culture, and Rhetorical Transformation
Authors: Pedersen Isabel
Published: March 2017

Participation with new mobile devices drives new social practices. This article engages in a close analysis of a so-called participatory culture surrounding iPods and iPhones. It offers close rhetorical readings of object phenomena including advertisements, Canadian news stories, and consumer reactions in electronic media. More specifically, this article reveals a rhetorical transformation between the iPod Silhouettes advertising campaign and the iPhone release campaign, causing a shift in subjectivity; iPod subjects are afforded a degree of freedom and play, while iPhone subjects are bound to regimes of work. It is also argued that news stories that emerged in the summer of 2007, when the iPhone was not released in Canada, structure a rhetoric of the “excluded Canadian.”
Conditional Hospitality: Framing Dialogue on Poverty in Montréal Newspapers
Authors: Nielsen Greg M.
Published: March 2017

A paradox of the mainstream press is that while the poor are represented regularly in supportive but conditional tones of hospitality in newspaper reports, journalists rarely address the poor as their imagined or implied audience. Not engaging the poor as an audience in a civic dialogue means that our understanding of poverty is diminished and remains conditional even when the press pleads for greater hospitality or refuge. Following Jacques Derrida, Mikhail Bakhtin and Robert Entman, I develop a dialogic framing analysis of the relations between journalists, their implied audiences, and the poor as subjects of the reports. Analysis of three online mainstream newspapers in Montréal illustrates how the conditional discourse of hospitality is established through particular forms of address.
Racializing the Audience: Immigrant Perceptions of Mainstream Canadian English-Language TV News
Authors: Mahtani Minelle
Published: March 2017

This paper offers an analysis of a pilot project that examines the perceptions of English-language TV news among two racialized groups: self-identified Iranian-Canadians and Chinese-Canadians. This research indicates that, according to participants, mainstream Canadian English-language TV news does not necessarily offer racialized immigrant audiences a space through which to see themselves reflected accurately as part of Canada’s rich social life beyond the celebration of ethnic events and festivals. Participants explained that they appreciated Canadian English-language television news, with important caveats. They would like to see the Canadian English-language television news media create spaces in which they could see their own ethnic, racial, cultural, and immigrant identities reflected within the backdrop of the Canadian multicultural state.
Branding Beef: Marketing, Food Safety, and the Governance of Risk
Authors: Blue Gwendolyn
Published: March 2017

This article situates brand-based marketing within broader processes of risk communication. Over the past few decades, branding has become more pronounced in the Canadian beef industry, due in large part to structural changes that have placed greater emphasis on marketing and promotion as ways of responding to and managing consumer concerns. Government-mandated levies on the sale of livestock provide funds for these initiatives, blurring the line between industry and government support for agricultural commodities. To illustrate, I examine the Alberta beef industry’s branding initiatives prior to and following the BSE-inspired trade ban. These campaigns negotiate messages about risk by enhancing the links between beef consumers and small-scale producers while rendering opaque more complex processes of industrialization and globalization.
From the “War on Poverty” to the “War on the Poor”: Knowledge, Power, and Subject Positions in Anti-Poverty Discourses
Authors: Jeppesen Sandra
Published: March 2017

Anti-poverty discourses are interrogated through a case study of articles on the websites of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) and The Toronto Star covering a tenant activism campaign. An autonomous media article by OCAP on direct actions to “stop the war on the poor” is compared with an article in The Toronto Star depicting tenant-activists lobbying government in the “war on poverty.” Subjectivity and power relations are analyzed by deconstructing binaries, including deserving/undeserving poor, pride/shame, and dignity/stigmatization. I find productive interdiscursive relations emerging, whereby the two discourses are mutually implicated in creating possibilities for social transformation. I also argue that critical discourse analysis needs to become a more participatory engaged methodology, taking direction from and providing accountability to its research subjects.
TheGlobeon Saturday, TheWorldon Sunday: Toronto Weekend Editions and the Influence of the American Sunday Paper, 1886-1895
Authors: Gabriele Sandra , Moore Paul
Published: March 2017

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Between 1886 and 1895, the Sunday newspaper in U.S. cities became a cauldron for an emerging mass, popular culture—one with reach into Canada. The concurrent development of weekend newspapers in Toronto, Canada, distinguished local innovations against the unspecified, general influence of the “American Sunday paper.” The Sunday World and the Saturday Globe followed and refuted, respectively, the ideal set by the American Sunday paper, but together defined Canadian weekend leisure reading. The reference in Canadian newspapers to an idealized American Sunday model offers an example of an emergent continental mass popular culture where cultural forms circulated, and were transformed, producing interesting local specificities.
CCTV Surveillance and the Poverty of Media Discourse: A Content Analysis of Canadian Newspaper Coverage
Authors: Greenberg Josh , Hier Sean
Published: March 2017

This article examines newspaper coverage about closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance in Canada and considers its implications for public opinion and policymaking. The study addresses several issues, including the rise and fall of media attention to the themes that structure the news coverage and patterns of source access and the implications of these themes for how citizens understand the role of surveillance in their lives. As more Canadian cities explore using CCTV surveillance as a policing tool for monitoring public space, news coverage should strive to enhance the public conversation about surveillance. The data reported in this study show that the coverage has been a very poor resource for helping citizens and policymakers to understand the complex issues involved in the surveillance of public areas in Canada.
When Mobiles Go Media: Relational Affordances and Present-to-Hand Digital Devices
Authors: Best Kirsty
Published: March 2017

This article argues that the reasons people adopt—or resist adopting—media capabilities on their mobile devices are largely concerned with their experience of control over technology. In particular, the ever-present, ready-to-hand nature of media on mobile devices plays a strong role in establishing and mediating these relationships of control. To substantiate this argument, I draw on findings from a qualitative research study undertaken of Canadian users of digital screen devices. This work is significant not only in helping us to understand why certain technologies fail to catch on, but also to shed light on our continued concerns about technology. These concerns may be voiced as worries about our needs, our pleasures, our identity or our status, but they boil down to our ability to feel in control of our technologies.
Fear and No-Fly Listing in Canada: The Biopolitics of the “War on Terror”
Authors: Werbin Kenneth C.
Published: March 2017

Canada’s no-fly list is examined here as a biopolitical plot line of the “war on terror”: one that is constructed on techno-scientific language and practices that authorize and legitimize “us” versus “them” discriminatory dichotomies and thinking. Given that the misidentification of “normal” people on no-fly lists is a rampant story in media reporting, this analysis also reveals that the “truth” of the efficient and effective policing of high-risk milieus of circulation, like airports, through discriminatory logics is a precarious one at best. The author argues that the no-fly list plot line of the “war on terror” masks the techno-deterministic and discriminatory thinking behind these post-9/11 security measures—that the right technological arrangement, deployed in the right way, can invariably solve any governmental problem, including terrorism.
Designing Monitoring to Promote Cultural Diversification in TV
Authors: Murray Catherine A.
Published: March 2017

This article reviews key international and national precedents in democratic media monitoring of race relations at the height of concern about interracial and intercultural security after 9/11, primarily between 2001 and 2004. None of these studies has received much academic or policy attention. The history, context, politics, and methods of media monitoring of race and representation are reviewed in the Canadian context. Four options are set out for developing continuous monitoring of media content of the type established in other countries. The article argues for an independent institute for media monitoring in Canada involving racial equity–seeking groups, scholars, media professionals, and students in the production of empirical research to promote cultural diversification in Canadian TV.
“Somebody Going to Get Hurt Real Bad”: The Race-based Comedy of Russell Peters
Authors: Hirji Faiza
Published: March 2017

The popularity of comedian Russell Peters, with his ethnic-based humour, bears examining for what it may tell us about the acceptable limits of racialized discourse. Peters, a Canadian of South Asian descent, has an extensive, ethnically diverse fan base around the world. In his work, Peters skewers all of these fans, often drawing upon heavy accents, caricatures, and in-jokes informed by common stereotypes of each group. Such techniques can validate racist assumptions but may also diminish them by bringing them into the open. This article examines comedy’s potential as a venue for frank and engaging discussions of race and diversity.
The Compelling Story of the White/Western Activist in the War Zone: Examining Race, Neutrality, and Exceptionalism in Citizen Journalism
Authors: Mahrouse Gada
Published: March 2017

This article explores the racialized dimensions of the witnessing, documenting and reporting practices of White/Western activists. Drawing from in-depth interviews conducted with Canadian activists who have travelled mainly to Palestine and Iraq to report on the effects of military violence, it considers how racialized power is (re)produced through their practices. The article weaves postcolonial feminist theory, scholarship on citizenship journalism and narrative data. It explores several pitfalls that activists encounter in their representational practices, showing how easily and frequently they slide into a position of dominance. It asserts the need for an ongoing critique of the taken-for-granted virtues of “alternative” or “independent” media practices by nonprofessional or “citizen” journalists. Specifically, it challenges the prevalent notion that citizen journalism is a sure means to subvert power relations.
The Demonization of Aboriginal Child Welfare Authorities in the News
Authors: Harding Robert
Published: March 2017

This study compares news representations of Aboriginal child welfare agencies with those of provincial authorities such as BC’s Ministry of Children and Family Development. News coverage of critical incidents involving children under the care of provincial bodies focused on systemic problems such as programs cuts, scarcity of resources and organizational deficiencies—conditions over which individual social workers had little control. In contrast, these contextual factors were largely absent from reportage of delegated Aboriginal agencies. Instead, most news reports and opinion pieces focused on blaming Aboriginal social workers and agency officials as well as questioning the competence of Aboriginal service providers in general. On the other hand, opinion pieces written by Aboriginal people introduced structural issues and contextual factors not included in the news.
Exercising Agency in an International Socioscientific Controversy: The Use of Human and Material Agents to Assert Canada’s Sovereignty in the Arctic
Authors: McDonald James
Published: March 2017

What determines a nation’s sovereignty over a particular territory? This question is now the subject of a heated debate on the international political scene, with global warming having rendered previously unreachable Arctic resources accessible to the five countries that have territorial claims in the far North: Canada, the United States, Russia, Denmark, and Norway. By building on the concepts of human and material agency, I demonstrate how both human and material agents represent the collective of Canada and thus give the Canadian government a material presence in the Arctic. This presence is key to actors such as the Canadian prime minister who are making the case for Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic region. This article therefore shows that the agency of participants in deliberation over socioscientific issues is largely influenced by the action of both other humans and material entities.
Busy Bee, Tough Mom, Farmer’s Daughter: The Canadian Business Press Portrayal of Annette Verschuren
Authors: Grandy Karen
Published: March 2017

This article challenges assertions made by business magazine editors that the business press plays no role beyond reporting on women’s executive advancement—or lack thereof. The study begins with the latest reported statistics on women’s leadership roles in corporate Canada and a summary of the most common explanations for these numbers. The second half of the paper goes on to examine the Canadian print media coverage of Annette Verschuren, a woman who defied the executive odds. It argues that although Verschuren is prominently featured in the business press, gendered stereotyping, which has been identified as a major obstacle to women’s promotion, is reinforced in that coverage by both the framing of her story and the language and imagery used to describe her and her accomplishments.
Methamphetamine Discourse: Media, Law, and Policy
Authors: Boyd Susan
Published: March 2017

This article examines the emergence of methamphetamine use and production as a social problem in Canada, particularly through media discourse. Rather than confine our discussion to print media, we also examine news photographs and headlines as cultural products. In addition, we briefly discuss several drug scares and media campaigns in Canada in the nineteenth century to contextualize the “crystal meth scare.” We discuss the tendency of contemporary newspaper articles, photographs and Internet sites about methamphetamine to reiterate conventional ideas about drugs and the people who use and produce them. Our analysis of print media and photos about methamphetamine centres on a special 2005 supplement to Vancouver newspaper The Province. Drawing from critical researchers whose analyses of media argue that news is a cultural product and that “law and order” is an important news category, we conclude with an examination of Canadian federal, provincial, and local responses to the crystal meth threat, which most often support law-and-order initiatives.
Communication and Management Challenges in Large, Cross-sector Research Networks: A Canadian Case Study
Authors: Klenk Nicole L.
Published: March 2017

In large cross-sector research networks, good communication is critical to the effective management of research partnerships. In this paper we report on a communication audit conducted to identify the communication pathways and flow of information within the Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Network, a Canadian Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE). The results indicate a range of communication challenges that can be related to an inherent problem in network management—that of orchestrating some kind of “harmony” among the different and sometimes competing voices of the multiple sectors involved. Our findings confirm the need to design and implement formal organizational communication structures to facilitate the process of creating a shared language and unified goals for the different sectors entering into partnerships in large, collaborative network organizations.
From Social Celebration to Social Deliberation: The Rise of Liberal-Pluralist Symbolism in Ontario
Authors: Cairns James
Published: March 2017

This article analyzes the postwar emergence of liberal-pluralist symbolism in newspaper coverage of the ceremonial Opening of the Legislature in Ontario. It argues that in the era of Social Celebration (1900 to 1940s), Ontario newspapers framed the legislative opening as a spectacular festival of provincial unity through colonial identity; whereas, by contrast, in the era of Social Deliberation (1950s to the present), the same civic ritual is depicted as a province-wide policy debate among competing politicians, interest groups, and citizens. Viewing Social Deliberation news coverage as a specific moment that contributes to the reproduction of liberal-pluralist democracy as a whole, the author concludes that, like liberal-pluralist politics in general, liberal-pluralist symbolism encompasses contradictions, normalizes systemic inequalities, and restricts the range of legitimate forms of political action.
Innovating in a Crisis: Canadian Media Actors Assess the State of Convergence
Authors: Brin Colette , Soderlund Walter
Published: March 2017

Our content analysis conducted in 2007 revealed little evidence of convergence practices in television networks and newspapers owned by Canwest Global, CTVglobemedia, and Quebecor. In 2009 and early 2010, we interviewed executives and journalists of the media groups studied, as well as other stakeholders, to assess the current situation and speculate about the future of convergence in Canada. Respondents generally acknowledged that TV/print newsroom integration had not succeeded and that future convergence efforts would focus on delivering content online and developing a viable economic model for news production. Respondents offered diverse perceptions of conventional media’s ability to reinvent and sustain themselves as the principal news sources for Canadians. Emerging models include the development of a corporate news service, specialization in certain topic areas, and cross-media collaboration.
Les journalistes face à la convergence des médias au Québec : un aperçu des raisons d’un rejet massif
Authors: Bernier Marc-François
Published: March 2017

A quantitative study conducted in 2007 on unionized journalists who work for the larger media in Quebec revealed that 82% of them estimate that media convergence does not have a positive effect on journalism, while about 70% believe that it threatens the public’s right to quality information. In the course of qualitative research done in 2009 on the members of the two main journalism associations, we tallied the reasons for such negative reactions. Our analysis reveals that the journalists raise concerns mainly about the loss of diversity of information, the disappearance of jobs, an increase in workloads and a decline in freedom. Rare are those journalists who defend the convergence strategies of news enterprises.
Metaphors for Democratic Communication Spaces: How Developers of Local Wireless Networks Frame Technology and Urban Space
Authors: Powell Alison
Published: March 2017

Communications policies, like many other social policies, are founded on an ideal of democracy that connects the development of communication infrastructures with democratic public spheres. This framing is a constructivist endeavour that takes place through language, institution, and infrastructure. Projects that aim to develop these capacities must grapple with the way such new media technologies are integrated into existing contexts or spaces, often using metaphors. This article analyzes how such metaphors are employed in the case of local wireless networking. Referring to empirical research on networks located in Montréal and Fredericton, Canada, the article critiques the narrow approach to democratization of communication spaces inherent in networks of this type. This narrow focus is associated with metaphors used to describe a co-evolution of wireless technology and urban space. The article identifies that the design processes that shape these networks could benefit from a more radical democratization associated with metaphors of recombination of space and technology.
Peering Ahead: An Examination of Peer-to-Peer Signal-Sharing Communities that Create Their Own Affordable Internet Access
Authors: Shaffer Gwen
Published: March 2017

This study expands upon existing research by shedding light on the challenges and opportunities facing participants in peer-to-peer wireless signal-sharing initiatives. The study relies on resource mobilization theory to gain a deeper understanding of why members of community mesh networks in the United States join the movement and how they sustain it. The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with the founders of 12 unique U.S. networks. The projects examined illustrate the desire for alternatives to traditional ISPs, as well as deep commitments to digital inclusion and local ownership. Informants reported feeling personally invested in the future of their projects because they contribute technical support and other forms of labour. However, the deployment of mesh technology creates a unique set of legal and policy issues.
The Elusive Allure of “Aura”: Sample-based Music and Benjamin’s Practice of Quotation
Authors: Chapman Owen
Published: March 2017

This article discusses both sample-based and electronic music in relation to Walter Benjamin’s infamous text, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” The applicability of “aura” to such music is questioned, in favour of other considerations, such as practices of collecting, remembering, selecting, and connecting. The relationships between performance, “liveness,” and technologically enabled forms of music are explored. Authors who have written about Benjamin’s text in relation to modern audio (re)production are compared and contrasted. I also reference interviews I conducted with a group of sample-based sound artists from Montréal, Canada, between 2004 and 2005. My discussion brings me to Benjamin’s use of Leonardo da Vinci’s disparaging comments about music compared with painting in the latter’s Paragone. I conclude by asserting that Benjamin’s practice of quotation is more relevant than his conception of “aura” in terms of discussing “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” in relation to contemporary, reproduction-based artistic practices such as electronic and/or sample-based music.
Erasing Race in the Canadian Media: The Case of Suaad Hagi Mohamud
Authors: Odartey-Wellington Felix
Published: March 2017

This article proposes a critical race theoretical approach to news discourse to counter the erasure of race in Canadian public discourse, using media coverage of the Suaad Hagi Mohamud affair as a case study. Between May and August 2009, Mohamud, a Canadian of Somali origin, was stranded in Nairobi, Kenya, because Canadian authorities voided her passport on the erroneous grounds that she was an impostor and consequently procured her prosecution by Kenyan authorities. While Mohamud’s case received extensive media coverage in Canada, much of the coverage failed to interrogate the possibility that her experience was racially motivated, despite facts that should have raised such concerns. Consequently, this article adopts a critical race perspective in discussing mainstream media coverage of the case and suggests alternative media discourses that engage with the race question in relevant cases.
Les 16 jours à Pékin de Chantal Petitclerc : discussion autour de la constitution d’une contre-mémoire de paralympienne
Authors: Valois-Nadeau Fannie
Published: March 2017

Former Canadian Paralympian Danielle Peers (2009) shows how the dominant historical narrative of the Paralympic Movement renders disabled athletes anonymous while portraying them as being passive and tragic. To study in more detail the perspective of an athlete, we analyze the book 16 jours à Pékin (literally, “16 days in Beijing”) by Canadian Paralympic champion Chantal Petitclerc. Part autobiography, part travelogue, this book offers a different understanding of Paralympians by acting as a memory technology, i.e., both as a specific mode of archiving and as a narrative technique. Petitclerc presents herself as an elite athlete and as a woman, lover, and friend, in a way that challenges the dominant Paralympic narrative of anonymous and de-individualized athletes.
Elections, Wars, and Protests? A Longitudinal Look at Foreign News on Canadian Television
Authors: Goodrum Abby
Published: March 2017

This study reports on the Canadian data from a recent international content analysis of broadcast news in 18 countries. With a mind to Robert A. Hackett’s longitudinal analysis of foreign news on CBC and CTV in 1989, the current study addresses questions of foreign news prominence, geographic distribution, topic coverage, and variation between networks, noting differences and similarities in the content of foreign news in light of shifting cultural, political, and economic environments; news production processes; and communication technologies. This analysis provides an update to Hackett’s seminal work, painting a picture of the Canadian foreign news landscape two decades later.
Style over Substance: Newspaper Coverage of Early Election Campaigns in Canada, 1820-1841
Authors: Koerber Duncan
Published: March 2017

Election coverage today is criticized for its obsession with individual candidates, appearances, and images, a focus on style over substance. During elections, there seems to be little space or air time in the mass media for substantive deliberation of campaign issues. However, this kind of election coverage is not new, despite implications that the age of television brought it about. The first competitive media environment in Canada (1820-1841), which this article documents, saw elections covered in a similar way. More importantly, this article argues that “style over substance” coverage served an important purpose in educating citizens about candidates and encouraging voting in a burgeoning partisan democratic system when the public sphere was still in its infancy.
Same-Sex Marriage, Social Cohesion, and Canadian Values: A Media Analysis
Authors: Bannerman Sara
Published: March 2017

This article considers issues of social cohesion, national identity, and national values as they appeared in Canadian newspaper coverage of the same-sex marriage debate between September 2003 and the federal election of June 2004. Media reports in Canada about the issue of same-sex marriage reflected a range of reactions. For some, same-sex marriage was a symbol of fracture, of a split in the country over core values—a split that could undermine the very commonality that makes Canada a society. For others, same-sex marriage was an affirmation of the high value Canadians place on equality and diversity. This article examines the roles played by newspapers in their coverage of same-sex marriage as it relates to Canadian values and social cohesion.
Cutting, Driving, Digging, and Harvesting: Re-masculinizing the Working-Class Heroic
Authors: Fleras Augie , Dixon Shane Michael
Published: March 2017

Television portrayals of working-class males in blue-collar jobs have in the past proven unflattering at best, demeaning at worst. But a new breed of unscripted TV shows articulates a fundamentally different narrative about the unsung heroism of working-class men. This article explores the narratives and images associated with the re-masculinization of blue-collared working-class males as real men in contrast to conventional working-class misrepresentations as persons lacking self control, motivation and commitment. This genre of “macho” male programs constitutes a key ideological tool by which “hegemonic” narratives of conventional masculinity are internalized through the “pleasures of the media.” The authors conclude that, despite the recent valorization of blue-collar values, contributions, and identities, representational distortions and content omissions persist in portraying working-class realities.
Television Frames of the 2008 Liberal and New Democrat Accord
Authors: Miljan Lydia
Published: March 2017

This article examines how the Liberal and New Democratic Accord was framed through and by national television news during the first week of December 2008. Using new institutionalism theory, this article argues that politicians must negotiate with journalists to present their framing of issues. While journalists may repeat and even balance competing frames, they also interpret politics strategically, and this is what dominates coverage. Based on a frame analysis, the study examines the national television coverage of the proposed coalition government. The analysis finds that TV news presented the preferred frames of the government and the coalition in similar proportion. However, the coverage spent significantly more time assessing performance and strategy and was highly critical of the strategy and performance of the key political players.
Students' group work contribution: Influence of work preference, gender, and individual assessment
Authors: Joo Min-Ho
Published: March 2017

I explored the factors related to individuals' contribution to group work, using 649 undergraduate students as participants. The focal variables were the individual characteristics of gender, age, academic year, and group work preference, and the group work conditions of duration of
group work, group size, and the existence or lack of individual assessment methods. Results of a self-report survey indicated that both the students' gender and their group work preference were significant factors in determining their contribution. Comparisons of group work contribution with
the group work conditions showed that the existence of an individual assessment method was the only factor to influence group work contribution. Practical implications for organizing group work are discussed on the basis of these findings.
Women scientists' workplace and parenting role identities: A polynomial analysis of congruence
Authors: Kim Myung-Hui , Choi Suk Bong , Kang Seung-Wan
Published: March 2017

We empirically examined the congruence effect of work- and parenting-role identities on women scientists' perception of organizational support. With the assistance of the staff of the Center for Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology in South Korea, we obtained data from 215
women employed as scientists by responses to a survey. The results of polynomial regressions showed a positive congruence effect of their employment and parenting role identities on perceived organizational support (POS); the more closely aligned the two identities were, that is, the higher
the level of congruence of the role identities, the stronger was the POS. These findings highlight the pivotal role played by the balance between workand parenting-role identities in promoting a positive attitude in the workplace among women scientists. The theoretical and practical implications
and limitations are also discussed.
Envy takes you further: The influence of benign envy on risk taking
Authors: Kwon Mijin , Han Youngjee , Nam Myungwoo
Published: March 2017

We conducted 2 studies to investigate whether or not benign envy prompts risk taking, suggesting that, compared to malicious envy, benign envy would motivate individuals to improve themselves and to be less sensitive to potential losses in risk taking. In Study 1 (N = 111), we
found that individuals who experienced benign, as opposed to malicious, envy were more likely to engage in risk taking, even when the risky behavior was not directly related to the envy-eliciting situation. In Study 2 (N = 57), we replicated in a different domain this risk-taking tendency
of benignly envious individuals, examined the process by which benign envy increases risk taking, and demonstrated that individuals who feel benign, compared to malicious, envy perceive less threat in risk taking. Our findings suggest that benign envy can lead to risk taking and self-improving
behavior, owing to the motivation to improve oneself.
Ownership structure, audit quality and firm performance moderating and direct-effect models: An empirical study
Authors: Al-Matari Ebrahim Mohammed , Al-Matari Yahya Ali , Mohammed Sulaiman Abdullah Saif
Published: March 2017

This paper had two main objectives, with the first being to examine the direct impact of concentration and managerial ownership on firm performance (ROA) among non-financial firms in Oman for the years 2010 until 2014. Secondly, this paper aimed to examine the moderating impact of audit quality on the ownership concentration, managerial ownership-firm performance relationship of the same sample. The study made use of leverage as the control variable. Moreover, in order to test the direct relationship between independent variables and dependent variable, this study used OLS regression. Aside from this, the study focused on the non-financial sector owing to the distinction between the structure and regulations between the two sectors (financial and non-financial sector) for the years 2012-2014. More importantly, this study revealed that the ownership concentration has a positive and significant effect on ROA. In the same path, the managerial ownership has a positive but insignificant association with ROA. Moreover, the study failed to find a moderating effect of the audit quality on the relationship between ownership concentration and managerial ownership, and firm performance of Omani companies. Lastly, the study listed and discussed the study limitations and recommendations for future studies.
Improvement of recovered activity and stability of the Aspergillus oryzae β-galactosidase immobilized on duolite A568 by combination of immobilization methods
Authors: Falleiros Larissa , Cabral Bruna , Fischer Janaína , Guidini Carla , Cardoso Vicelma , de Resende , Ribeiro Eloízio
Published: March 2017

The immobilization and stabilization of Aspergillus oryzae ?-galactosidase on Duolite??A568 was achieved using a combination of physical adsorption, incubation step in buffer at pH 9.0 and cross-linking with glutaraldehyde and in this sequence promoted a 44% increase in enzymatic activity as compared with the biocatalyst obtained after a two-step immobilization process (adsorption and cross-linking). The stability of the biocatalyst obtained by three-step immobilization process (adsorption, incubation in buffer at pH 9.0 and cross-linking) was higher than that obtained by two-steps (adsorption and cross-linking) and for free enzyme in relation to pH, storage and reusability. The immobilized biocatalyst was characterized with respect to thermal stability in the range 55-65 ?C. The kinetics of thermal deactivation was well described by the first-order model, which resulted in the immobilized biocatalyst activation energy of thermal deactivation of 71.03 kcal/mol and 5.48 h half-life at 55.0 ?C.
Recanalization of coronary artery chronic total occlusion by retrograde approach
Authors: Ivanovic Vladimir , Cankovic Milenko , Ivanov Igor , Dejanovic Jadranka , Stojsic-Milosavljevic Anastazija , Petrovic Milovan
Published: March 2017

Introduction. Chronic total occlusion (CTO) is defined as a 100% obstruction of the blood vessel lumen with Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction grade 0 flow in the occluded segment at least three months old. Advancement of technological devices and techniques used during the percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) in the past years brought more success in blood vessel recanalization. According to the latest guidelines for myocardial revascularization, the CTO treatment should be considered when there are symptoms or objective proof of viability or ischemia in the occluded area. The aim of this work is to present two cases with a recanalization of the coronary artery CTO by the retrograde approach. Outline of cases. The first patient had a single vessel coronary disease which led to a decision to first attempt PCI. During the attempt of antegrade recanalization, the guidewire penetrated subintimally, risking blood vessel dissection below the occluded area as well as serious complications. Retrograde approach enabled easier and safer passing of guidewire through the occlusion and then successful establishment of the antegrade flow. In the second case, the antegrade approach was also first attempted. Since it could not pass through the occluded area despite changing several guidewires, the strategy was changed during the intervention. It was continued with the retrograde approach, which led to the successful revascularization. Conclusion. These two cases demonstrate that retrograde approach and new technological improvements in dedicated guidewires can be implemented in everyday angiography practice for successful recanalization of CTO lesions.
KELENTINGAN KELUARGA, DUKUNGAN SOSIAL, DAN KESEJAHTERAAN KELUARGA NELAYAN JURAGAN DAN BURUH DI DAERAH RAWAN BENCANA
Authors: Sunarti Euis , Praptiwi Rahma Nur , Muflikhati Istiqlaliyah
Published: March 2017

Abstrak Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis perbedaan kelentingan keluarga, dukungan sosial, dan kesejahteraan keluarga antara nelayan juragan dan buruh di daerah rawan bencana; menganalisis hubungan antar peubah-peubah tersebut, dan menganalisis faktor kelentingan keluarga. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain cross sectional study melibatkan 80 keluarga yang dipilih secara acak proporsional. Data dianalisis dengan uji beda T Test, korelasi Pearson, dan analisis faktor eksploratori. Dibandingkan dengan nelayan juragan, nelayan buruh lebih merasakan kemalangan, lebih rendahnya kolaborasi penyelesaian masalah, kesejahteraan objektif pada musim panen serta pada musim biasa, dan dukungan sosial dari pemerintah.  Kelentingan keluarga berhubungan signifikan positif dengan dukungan sosial (dari keluarga luas dan pemerintah) dan dengan  kesejahteraan subjektif, namun berhubungan negatif dengan kesejahteraan objektif. Kesejahteraan keluarga yang dianalisis adalah pada masa paceklik. Analisis faktor  mengkonfirmasi tiga faktor laten kelentingan keluarga menurut Walsh (2008), namun terdapat perpindahan subkomponen pola organisasi dan proses komunikasi ke dalam subkomponen sistem kepercayaan.     Family Resilience, Social Support, and Fisherman Family Well-being at Disaster Prone Area Abstract The aim of this research were to analyze the differences of family resilience, social support, and well-being between “juragan” and labor of fisherman family at disaster prone area; the correlation between research’s variables; and factor analysis of family resilience. This cross sectional study involved 80 families selected by using proportional random sampling. The data analyzed by using Independent-Sample's T Test,  Pearson's correlation, and exploratory factor analysis. It was compared with Juragan, labor fisherman felt more adversity, less collaborative problem solving, and less well-being at normal and harvest season. Family resilience had significant positive correlation with social support  (from extended family and government) and subjective family well-being, but inversely with objective family well-being. Exploratory factor analysis confirmed keys process of family resilience according to Walsh (2008), but there was a subcomponent displacement of organization pattern and communication processes into a belief system subcomponents.
FUNGSI PENGASUHAN DAN INTERAKSI DALAM KELUARGA TERHADAP KULITAS PERKAWINAN DAN KONDISI ANAK PADA KELUARGA TENAGA KERJA WANITA
Authors: Puspitawati Herien , Setioningsih Shely Septiana
Published: March 2017

The aim of study was to analyze social supports, parental function, family’s interaction, marital quality, and child’s condition at family of migrant woman worker. The study implemented cross sectional and retrospective study design. The total sample was 47 family of migrant woman workers who had school-age’s children. Data was analyzed by descriptive, Pearson correlation test, independent sample t-test, and regression test. The results found out that families had social support in moderate category and parenting in high category. Husband-wife interaction and father-child interaction falls into the high category, while the mother-child interaction in the moderate category. However, more than half of children had moderate stress and low achievement at school. Mostly families had high marriage quality. Father-child interaction and husband-wife interaction had positive affects to marriage quality. The length of the wife as migrant had negative affects to child’s conditions. However, income had positive affects on the conditions of child.