Exploring Online Narratives of Inequitable Policing in Ontario: An Analysis of Tweets and Initial Web-Based News Articles in 2020

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dc.contributor.advisorNielsen, Emilia
dc.contributor.authorBlyth, Emily Rose
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-15T15:56:57Z
dc.date.available2021-11-15T15:56:57Z
dc.date.copyright2021-08
dc.date.issued2021-11-15
dc.date.updated2021-11-15T15:56:57Z
dc.degree.disciplineCommunication & Culture, Joint Program with Ryerson University
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractDespite long standing narratives of policing as public protection in the colonial nation state of Canada, policing in this country constitutes an enduring and multifaceted health inequity for Indigenous, Black, and Mad populations. To create change it is vital to understand current conversations in our society around police interactions with the groups most harmed by these inequities and how these conversations inhibit or enable change. To this end, 2020 Ontario-based Tweets regarding interactions between these populations and police, and initial online news articles reporting on police use of lethal force against these population are analyzed. The articles are found to display baseline understandings of policing that reflect and promote the longstanding hegemonic narrative and, by minimizing harm done when police use lethal force, may inhibit change. The Tweets show counter-hegemonic understandings of policing as a source of injustice, but nonetheless are silent on racial issues when compared to Mad issues.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/38804
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectCanadian studies
dc.subject.keywordsSocial determinants of health
dc.subject.keywordsHealth inequity
dc.subject.keywordsState violence
dc.subject.keywordsBlack
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous
dc.subject.keywordsMad
dc.subject.keywordsMental health
dc.subject.keywordsPolice
dc.subject.keywordsPolicing practices
dc.subject.keywordsColonialism
dc.subject.keywordsSanism
dc.subject.keywordsRacism
dc.subject.keywordsHealth communication
dc.titleExploring Online Narratives of Inequitable Policing in Ontario: An Analysis of Tweets and Initial Web-Based News Articles in 2020
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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