Drawing on and incorporating course readings to date in your analysis:
Choose a news story about an issue related to social work from a major Canadian news provider (newspaper or TV) and answer the following questions:
1) What lexical choices did the writer make and how did they affect the overall meaning of the text?
2) Are the issues represented in a binary fashion or are readers given multiple and nuanced options for understanding the news story? What impact does this have on you as a reader?
3) Who is quoted in the news story? Whose voices are excluded? Are those most affected by the issue/story given a voice in the story? What is the impact of the presence/absence of those voices on your understanding of the situation?
4) What ‘facts’ (statistics, numbers, quantitative data) has been included in the story? What other data could have been provided to give the reader (you) a more nuanced interpretation of the issue?
5) Is the meaning of the headline consistent with the substance of the story? If not, how does this impact the readers’ understanding of the issue? Who is most affected by that?
6) How is this issue mediated through social media? How is it similar? How is it different?
7) If you were to write this story on the issue how would it be different and why?
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