La couverture médiatique des accommodements raisonnables dans la presse écrite québécoise : Vérifica...

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Beteiligte: Giasson, Thierry, Sauvageau, Marie-Michèle
In: Canadian Journal of Communication, 35, 2010, 3, S. 431-454
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
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Umfang: 431-454
ISSN: 0705-3657
1499-6642
DOI: 10.22230/cjc.2010v35n3a2309
veröffentlicht in: Canadian Journal of Communication
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> From March 2006 to May 2008, the province of Québec engaged in a contentious public debate on diversity and reasonable accommodation practices. This study examines the evolution of press coverage in eleven Québec dailies dedicated to the issue of reasonable accommodation over the intensive twelve-month period during which the concept entered the public agenda. We examine the “media tsunami” hypothesis, an expanded version of the media hype theory developed by Vasterman (2005). The hypothesis posits that the media, in dealing with an emergent social issue in a relatively short period of time, amplify the importance of the issue through successive waves of press coverage that gain in intensity and magnitude over time. In doing so, they can manufacture social “crises.” </jats:p>