Browsing by Subject "Media"
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Adapting Tristram Shandy
(2011-09-07)Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, has been noted as an unconventional eighteenth-century novel and it has long been considered unadaptable and unfilmable. In the last decade, however, ... -
And That’s the Way It Is: The Media’s Role in Ending the Vietnam War
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2011-03-31)The Vietnam War, also known as “The Living Room War,” was the first major American conflict to be so honestly documented by the media, as previous war correspondence focused mainly on the positive aspects of the war, to ... -
Beyond The Deepwater Horizon Explosion: What Shaped the Social and Political Engagement of the BP Oil Spill?
(2011-09-06)Drawing on social movement literature, my thesis examines if news media, NGO, business and government engagement of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico is affected by issue or event complexity, visuality, or issue ... -
Just the Tip of the Iceberg: Southern Media Depictions of Canadian Sovereignty in the Arctic
(2016-08-24)As climate change opens up the Arctic, Canada’s sovereignty in the region has received increasing attention in both federal politics and the media. Meanwhile, Inuit have lived in the Arctic since time immemorial. Many ... -
Monsters in our Midst? Examining the Construction of Sex Offenders in Canadian Policy and Media
(2021-06-02)In Canada, like elsewhere, surveillance tools have been increasingly used by the state to keep track of sex offenders. One such tool in Canada is the National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR). Understanding the complexity of ... -
Temporarily “Essential”: Canadian News Media Coverage of Migrant Agricultural Workers during the COVID-19 Era
This thesis analyzes news media representations of the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) to consider how the program and its workers are framed among stakeholder groups with particular attention to the COVID-19 ... -
"Walk-On Parts": The Diminished Agency of Grant Morrison's Superhero Celebrities
(2019-12-16)While several comic book writers have written superheroes as analogous to celebrities, Grant Morrison is the author who has done so the most frequently. Using Zenith, Animal Man and The Multiversity as its core examples, ...