Bastien Frédéric
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Montreal
Canada
Biography
Bastien Frédéric is an Associate Professor Contact : T elephone 514-343-6111 # 54796 Pav. PAV.M.CARON-L.GROULX-3200 JB \ bur. C-4037 at University of Montreal, Department of Political Science, Canada.
Research Interest
His teaching and research activities are mainly devoted to political communication. I am more specifically interested in political journalism, the political uses of the web and social media, the hybridization of genres between information and entertainment, and electoral campaigns which, by definition, are communication operations. The quality of the information and the effectiveness of its transmission to the citizens are the main concerns that motivate my research on these subjects. I work on these projects in solo or in team with colleagues from Quebec, Canada and Europe. I am also very interested in the research methodology, especially the survey and content analysis techniques that I use in my research. I am a researcher at the Research Group on Political Communication and at the Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, two research structures that allow master's and doctoral students who are part of it to meet, discuss their projects and to receive support from professors who are members. I am the co-organizer of the CÉCD Student Conference which is held every year.
Publications
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François Pétry and Frédérick Bastien (2013), " Follow the Pollsters: Inaccuracies in Media Coverage of the Horse-race during the 2008 Canadian Election, " Canadian Journal of Political Science 46 (1).
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Frédérick Bastien, Éric Bélanger and François Gélineau (eds.) (2013), Quebeckers at the polls: the parties, the media and the citizens in the field , Montreal, Presses de l'Université de Montréal.
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Frédérick Bastien (2013), Everyone's watching! Politics, journalism and infotainment on Quebec television , Quebec, Presses de l'Université Laval.
