“The Police and the Populace”: Canadian Media’s Visual Framing of the 2010 G20 Toronto Summit

ABSTRACT The clash between the slick marketing slogans of the police and the democratic protections of political dissent was on full display throughout citizen protests during the 2010 G20 meetings in Toronto, Canada. In addition to the summit’s excessive costs and organizational lapses, the eruptio...

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Published in:Canadian journal of communication 2014-06, Vol.39 (2), p.175-192
Main Author: Douai, Aziz
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activists
Communication
Communication research
Community policing
Economic summit conferences
Frames
Framing
Globalization
Internet
Marketing
Mass media
Media coverage
Meetings
Narratives
News media
NGOs
Nongovernmental organizations
Police
Political activism
Political dissent
Politics
Power
Priming
Principles
Prisms
Salience
Social activism
Society
Threats
Tone
Violence
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Summary:ABSTRACT The clash between the slick marketing slogans of the police and the democratic protections of political dissent was on full display throughout citizen protests during the 2010 G20 meetings in Toronto, Canada. In addition to the summit’s excessive costs and organizational lapses, the eruption of violence and questionable police tactics dominated media coverage of the summit. This research investigates the media’s visual framing of the policing of the G20 Toronto summit through an analysis of 852 news images published in several print and online media outlets in Canada. The article examines how the “visual tone” of the images, news ideology, and the news medium affect the visual framing of the anti–corporate globalization movement in communications research.
ISSN:0705-3657
1499-6642
DOI:10.22230/cjc.2014v39n2a2710