Making news and making space: Framing Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. (4th December 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Liu, Sikee; Blomley, Nicholas
• Is Part Of: Canadian geographer. Volume 57:Number 2(2013)
• Page Start: 119
• Page End: 132
• Publication Date: 2012-12-04
• Subjects: Geography -- Periodicals; 910
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2012.00453.x
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0008-3658

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p> <italic>How is inner city space represented and by whom? Drawing from an extensive framing analysis of print media portrayals of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside between 1996 and 2008, we offer a detailed assessment of the predominately negative portrayal of the neighbourhood, and the centrality of three frames: medicalization, criminalization, and socialization. Certain social actors are given a privileged position in the media in the representation of the inner city. Outsiders are privileged over insiders, with the neighbourhood constituted as a problematic space and its residents as passive victims. The effect is to further the stigmatization of an already marginalized neighbourhood, and to accentuate the disempowerment of its residents.</italic> </p> </abstract>