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- Title
Making news and making space: Framing Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
- Authors
Liu, Sikee; Blomley, Nicholas
- Abstract
How is inner city space represented and by whom? Drawing from an extensive framing analysis of print media portrayals of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside between 1996 and 2008, we offer a detailed assessment of the predominately negative portrayal of the neighbourhood, and the centrality of three frames: medicalization, criminalization, and socialization. Certain social actors are given a privileged position in the media in the representation of the inner city. Outsiders are privileged over insiders, with the neighbourhood constituted as a problematic space and its residents as passive victims. The effect is to further the stigmatization of an already marginalized neighbourhood, and to accentuate the disempowerment of its residents.
- Subjects
MASS media &; society; PRINT materials; INNER cities; PUBLICATIONS -- Social aspects; MEDICALIZATION; SOCIALIZATION; MASS media &; crime
- Publication
Canadian Geographer, 2013, Vol 57, Issue 2, p119
- ISSN
0008-3658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1541-0064.2012.00453.x