TY - JOUR
T1 - Dead Today, Gone Tomorrow
T2 - The framing of workplace injury in Canadian newspapers, 2009-2014
AU - Foster, Jason
AU - Barnetson, Bob
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Canadian Journal of Communication Corporation.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Background How the media frames and presents a subject influences how society sees and responds to that issue. Analysis This study uses frame analysis to examine how Canadian English language newspapers portrayed workplace injuries between 2009 and 2014. Three frames emerge: Under Investigation, Human Tragedy, and Before the Courts. There is also a meta-frame casting injuries and fatalities as isolated events happening to "others" with no cause, thus the public ought not be concerned about workplace safety. Conclusion and implications The article concludes that media frames obscure issues of cause and fault, thereby denying workers a full understanding of why injuries happen in the workplace. These frames serve the interests of employers by obfuscating the employer's role in creating workplace injury and death.
AB - Background How the media frames and presents a subject influences how society sees and responds to that issue. Analysis This study uses frame analysis to examine how Canadian English language newspapers portrayed workplace injuries between 2009 and 2014. Three frames emerge: Under Investigation, Human Tragedy, and Before the Courts. There is also a meta-frame casting injuries and fatalities as isolated events happening to "others" with no cause, thus the public ought not be concerned about workplace safety. Conclusion and implications The article concludes that media frames obscure issues of cause and fault, thereby denying workers a full understanding of why injuries happen in the workplace. These frames serve the interests of employers by obfuscating the employer's role in creating workplace injury and death.
KW - Canada
KW - Framing analysis
KW - KeywordsWorkplace injury
KW - Narrative analysis
KW - Newspapers
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85030111694&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.22230/cjc.2017v42n4a3025
DO - 10.22230/cjc.2017v42n4a3025
M3 - Journal Article
AN - SCOPUS:85030111694
SN - 0705-3657
VL - 42
SP - 611
EP - 629
JO - Canadian Journal of Communication
JF - Canadian Journal of Communication
IS - 4
ER -