Constructing 'reality': The portrayal of Internet child luring by Toronto-based newspapers 1998--2008
| dc.contributor.author | Greco, Christopher A.P | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-11-07T19:04:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-11-07T19:04:03Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2009 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.degree.level | Masters | |
| dc.degree.name | M.A. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Often simplistic and misleading, the reporting of child sexual abuse has long been a staple of commercial news media's portrayal of crime and criminal justice. A mixed quantitative/qualitative content analysis methodology is applied to the study of three Toronto-based newspaper's construction of Internet Child Luring, between the 1st of January, 1998, and August 1st, 2008. Erected as a serious problem, above which a sober appraisal of known facts could sustain, a Textual Panic is said to exist within newsprint's rendering of the information-age crime. Rational cogitating offenders, undeterred by weak legislation and underfunded police forces, are described as exploiting the communication medium in attempts to lure defenseless children into illicit sexual activity. | |
| dc.format.extent | 128 p. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 48-05, page: 2757. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28223 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-12452 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of Ottawa (Canada) | |
| dc.subject.classification | Journalism. | |
| dc.subject.classification | Sociology, Criminology and Penology. | |
| dc.subject.classification | Mass Communications. | |
| dc.title | Constructing 'reality': The portrayal of Internet child luring by Toronto-based newspapers 1998--2008 | |
| dc.type | Thesis |
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