Civic journalism meets civic social science: foregrounding social determinants in health coverage

Civic journalism meets civic social science: foregrounding social determinants in health coverage

Many of the intricacies of health feature regularly in news reports depicting, medical practices, specific diseases, breakthroughs in treatment, and lifestyle-orientated interventions. Despite social scientists also demonstrating the importance of economic prosperity, community cohesion, stress, material hardship and stigma for health, such social determinants are often absent from health news....

Investigating Civic Engagement in Social Media

In the field of Information Systems, scholars have empirically investigated the use of social media as an IT artifact and its influences, offering various understandings of online human behaviour, particularly for business, psychology and sociology implications. Very often, research on social media usage can be classified into internal (e.g. entertainment and satisfaction) and external factors ...

Civic Journalism: News as Transactional Pedagogy

As is widely known, John Dewey’s philosophy of education depicts humanity as an evolved product of and participant in nature. People are not Cartesian observers who learn best by reading text books and absorbing lectures. Thus, the “learner is a seeker after truth” who progresses “through active participation,” not a “recipient of the truth” (Gruber, 1961, p. 172). This approach overrides any s...

Civic Engagement, Social Cohesion and Social Integration in Toronto, Canada

Building civic health.

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