Stories about Culture Shots
Culture Shot No. 8: Women in Canada
While Canada is often ranked high in terms of women's well-being, and often portrayed as a good place for women, dominant frames in English-language Canadian media seem less rosy.
Culture Shot N° 7: Privacy
How does the US media look at privacy? Looking critically at stories around privacy from US Top Online News sources, it seems as though many feel that privacy may be under threat.
Searching for ‘indios’ in Ecuador and Venezuela: A Lesson in Language and Data
What happens when the data doesn’t support the story we first set out to tell?
Culture Shot No. 6: Honor/honour
What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word honor / honour? A dive into US and Pakistani media.
Culture Shot No. 5: Homeland (Patria)
What does “the Homeland” (patria) have to do with an ID card? For a Venezuelan, the answer to that question is obvious.
Culture Shot No. 4: Orthodoxy (православ)
For this latest edition of Culture Shots, we decided to look at how Orthodoxy, the traditional religion of the majority of the Russian citizens, is represented in the mainstream Russian media.
Culture Shot No. 3: Heritage (Patrimoine)
Do you know which country is the "best restored country in the world"? We discovered the answer to this question through our investigation around media coverage around the French word patrimoine or "heritage": France.
Culture Shot No. 2: Generous
What does it mean to be generous? A look at recent media coverage using the term in the US and India.
Culture Shot No. 1: Culture
Culture Shots will look at how different communities, countries and languages report on culture as a bridge into—or way of looking at—similarities and difference in different communities’ ways of looking at the worlds. It seemed fitting to make our first “shot” about the word culture—or cultural—itself.
