SOCI 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter Gilchrist: Class Discrimination, Heteronormativity, Homicide
19 Dec 2018
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Exploring differences in canadian local press coverage of missing/murdered aboriginal and. Accounting for 2 percent of canada"s population, aboriginal women are overrepresented as victims of sexual and physical violence and homicide. This paper adopts a feminist intersectional approach emphasizing the multiple and connecting dimensions of inequality racism, sexism, classism, and colonialism compound the vulnerabilities faced by aboriginal women in canada. Rather than objectively reporting events and facts, newsmakers engage in a highly subjective and selective process of news production based on socially and culturally constructed criteria. Notably, decisions about who/what is newsworthy are filtered through a predominantly western, white, heteronormative, middle-class, male lens. What makes an event eminently reportable is its spatial and cultural proximity to the audience. Readers react most strongly to events happening near them because it resonate with readers" values, beliefs, and concerns. There is a hierarchy of crime operating in the news media, meaning that not all crimes are seen as equally newsworthy.
