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Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Part 1 of this blog post discussed some of the issues concerning how social movements are named. Catchy titles such as Arab Spring, the Umbrella Revolution, and the Fishball Revolution are part of journalistic practices that grab readers’ attention. However, these names also frame a movement through the development of its name. These... More
Monday, September 11, 2017
Should people receiving social assistance be forced to accept work, with their benefits being cut if they turn down a job? And should the government be allowed to force these people to move to a different city in order to accomplish this? Thanks to Bill-70, which was passed into law last November (2016),... More
Sunday, September 10, 2017
I remember when sitting in a fourth year seminar class here at Carleton, listening to students engaged in a discussion on contemporary issues that arose from the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa/Maghreb (MENA). One thought I couldn’t keep out of my mind was: why is it called the “Arab... More
Thursday, September 7, 2017
There’s plenty of debate about the value of comments sections with online publishers. The Toronto Star is the most recent major Canadian newspaper to disable the comments section of their online news stories beginning December 16th after the CBC, the Sun, and many US media organizations have done the same thing since as early as 2012. ... More
We’ve probably all heard about “filter bubbles” by now – the idea that, despite having ready access to an effectively unlimited cache of information on any number of topics, people often end up in social media echo chambers. This doesn’t just happen through intentional selection (i.e., choosing to follow things online that reflect your... More
When I began my masters’ research, I wanted to learn more about how popular feminist blogs, such as Jezebel, are influencing the ways readers think about and understand contemporary feminist politics, written through popular culture news and gossip. Although my thesis project looked at more feminist blogs, for this blog post, I want to... More
When the federal government announced that the new Child Care Benefit (CCB) program will help lift 315,000 children out of poverty, I instantly wondered about the remaining million plus children left behind. After all, if the government knew going in that we currently have almost a million and a half children living in... More
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