70363 Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada.
200293 Department of Communications, Faculty of Humanities, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
Int J Aging Hum Dev. 2022 Mar;94(2):234-250. doi: 10.1177/00914150211024173. Epub 2021 Jun 21.
We conducted a constructivist grounded theory approach in which discourse analysis was used to explore how Canadian news media portrays older adults and aging in a disaster context. We analyzed 119 articles covering five Canadian disasters and identified four themes: (a) stereotypes of older adults are presented on a positive-negative continuum in journalistic coverage of disasters, (b) journalistic coverage tends to exclude perspectives of older adults from relevant discourse, (c) journalists assess the value of losses for older adults-"home" as a central concept, and (d) disasters are framed as disrupting retirement ideals. A model was created to provide an overview of the journalistic coverage of older adults in disaster contexts. Understanding how old age and aging are presented by the media in a disaster context is important because it has further implications for informing and structuring disaster risk reduction policies.
我们采用建构主义扎根理论方法，运用话语分析探讨了加拿大新闻媒体如何在灾难背景下描绘老年人和老龄化问题。我们分析了涵盖加拿大五个灾难的 119 篇文章，确定了四个主题：(a) 在对灾难的新闻报道中，老年人的刻板印象呈现出积极-消极的连续体，(b) 新闻报道往往将老年人的观点排除在相关话语之外，(c) 记者评估老年人损失的价值——“家”是一个核心概念，(d) 灾难被描述为破坏退休理想。创建了一个模型来概述新闻媒体对灾难背景下老年人的报道。了解媒体在灾难背景下如何呈现老年和老龄化问题很重要，因为这对告知和构建灾难风险减少政策具有进一步的影响。
