Stories about Culture Shots
April 16, 2018
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.
March 29, 2018
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.
February 8, 2018
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?
January 30, 2018
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.
January 11, 2018
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.
October 19, 2017
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.
October 18, 2017
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.
October 2, 2017
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.
September 21, 2017
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.
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