Stories about Culture Shots

Culture Shot No. 8: Women in Canada

  April 16, 2018

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

  March 29, 2018

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.

Culture Shot No. 3: Heritage (Patrimoine)

  October 18, 2017

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. 1: Culture

  September 21, 2017

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.

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