Université Laval
Department of Political Science
Thierry Giasson

Université Laval
Department of Political Science
Address: Department of Political Science, Room 4435 - 1030, avenue des Sciences-Humaines, Québec, QC, G1V 0A6
Tel: (418) 656-2131, 7709
Fax: (418) 656-7861
Email: Thierry.Giasson@pol.ulaval.ca
URL 1: http://www.com.ulaval.ca/no-cache/departement/personnel/dic/retour-dic/14/nom/thierry-giasson/
Twitter URL: @ThierryGiasson
Education
Ph.D, Political Science, Université de Montréal;
M.Sc, Political Science, Université de Montréal;
B.A, Communication, Université du Québec à Montréal
Research
Thierry Giasson is a Professor of Political Science at Université Laval specializing in Political Communication. He studies online electoral campaigns and civic communication, political marketing as well as the mediatization of politics. He is currently carrying out research on digital citizenship and emerging online forms of political communication. Professor Giasson is also the lead investigator of the Research Lab on Political Communication (GRCP). Research Interests Content and media analysis Experimental research Media Analysis New Communication Technology Non-electoral forms of Political Participation Party Leaders Political Communication Political Parties Satisfaction with Democracy Survey research Voter Turnout and Other Forms of Electoral Participation Research Axis Axis 1: Learning Democratic Citizenship in an Unequal World - Cet axe se concentre sur l’acquisition de valeurs, d’attitudes et de comportements qui contribuent à une citoyenneté démocratique dynamique. La démocratie repose fondamentalement sur le principe de l’égalité politique, mais dans la pratique, le désavantage économique et social se traduit par un accès inégal au pouvoir politique et à la prise de décision (Schlozman et al 2012). L’inégalité a de profondes implications pour l’inclusion, la réactivité et, en fin de compte, la légitimité même de notre système démocratique. L’inégalité croissante détruit les fondements de la démocratie, entraînant une polarisation politique accrue et une désaffection de la politique (Kwon 2015). Plus que jamais, les démocraties efficaces exigent des citoyens engagés, responsables et bien informés. Comprendre les facteurs qui influent sur le développement de ce type de citoyenneté démocratique active est un objectif clé de l’axe 1.Axis 2: Practicing Citizenship in a Skeptical World - The practice of democratic citizenship is undergoing a multifaceted transition. There are fundamental changes in conceptions of democratic citizenship and in its practice as well as the targets of citizen action. Scepticism about representative democracy as a system of governance is growing and citizens across established democracies are withdrawing from politics. Their perception about the political world is impacted by transformations in the news media practices and by online content, including social media. Voting and party politics have been the basis of conventional interpretations of citizenship, but there is ample evidence that this conception is much too limited. New forms of communication are providing citizens with novel ways to gather information and to engage in politics. Axis 3: Representing and Governing Citizens in Critical Times - After learning and practicing democratic citizenship, the next critical steps are representation and governance. Democratic institutions are key elements. They shape the norms and incentives for active citizenship and they link citizens and their representatives in ways that foster accountability, legitimacy and representation. In Québec and Canada, as well as in other countries, confidence of citizens toward the institutions is low, as many dislike the way that members of parliaments behave and consider that politicians don’t honour their promises, hence various political endeavours to reform these institutions. Research on this axis will focus on the role of electoral systems, parliaments, parliamentary debates, and political parties.
Students
Postdocs
theme Varieties and Transformation in Citizen engagement Learning Across the Life Cycle Challenges for Learning Citizenship A Changing Media Landscape
Publications
Les politiciens maîtrisent-ils leur image ? Analyse des représentations visuelles souhaitées et projetées par les leaders politiques canadiens dans le débat télévisé francophone de l'élection fédérale
Journal: Communication
Volume: 25 issue: 1 Year: 2006 First Page: 46 Last Page: 83
La préparation de la représentation visuelle des leaders politiques. Le cas du débat télévisé francophone de l'élection parlementaire fédérale canadienne de 2000
Journal: Questions de communication
Volume: 9 issue: 1 Year: 2006 First Page: 357 Last Page: 381
Débats télévisés et évaluations des candidats: la représentation visuelle des politiciens canadiens agit-elle dans la formation des préférences de l'électorat québécois?
Journal: Revue canadienne de science politique/Canadian Journal of Political Science
Volume: 38 issue: 4 Year: 2005 First Page: 867 Last Page: 895
Un débat sans débat
Journal: La Presse
Year: 2005
La cible Harper
Journal: La Presse
Year: 2006 First Page: A23 Last Page: A23
La couverture médiatique des accommodements raisonnables dans la presse écrite québécoise. Vérification de l'hypothèse du tsunami médiatique
Journal: Canadian Journal of Communication
Volume: 35 issue: 3 Year: 2010 First Page: 432 Last Page: 453
Rapport d'évaluation de la couverture du site électoral réalisé par radio-canada.ca dans le cadre de l'élection générale québécoise de 2008
Journal: Rapport réalisé pour la Direction de l'information, Internet et Services numériques
Year: 2008 Place: Montréal Publisher: Radio-Canada
Blogueur politique. Pourquoi?.
Journal: Site Internet de Radio-Canada
Year: 2008
Un Dangeureux précédent
Journal: Site Internet de Radio-Canada
Year: 2008
Analyse des interviews et débats
Journal: In Radio parlée, élections et démocratie, Cahier-Médias
Volume: 18 Year: 2008 Place: Québec Publisher: Centre d'études sur les médias
Hypercitizens from a Distinct Society: Characterizing Quebec's Political Bloggers Online and Offline Political Involvement
Journal: International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies
Volume: 1 issue: 2 Year: 2011 First Page: 29 Last Page: 45
As (Not) Seen on TV: News Coverage of Political Marketing in Canadian Federal Elections
Journal: Political Marketing in Canada
Year: 2012 Place: Vancouver Publisher: UBC Press
Of tired brands and cashmere
Journal: Shopping for Votes blog, Toronto Star
Year: 2011 Place: Toronto
Part Two: The silence of the lambs, er, media
Journal: Shopping for Votes blog, Toronto Star
Year: 2011 Place: Toronto
Delivery: The Quebec City Conundrum
Journal: Shopping for Votes blog, Toronto Star
Year: 2011 Place: Toronto
Confession of a debate pundit
Journal: Shopping for Votes blog, Toronto Star
Year: 2011 Place: Toronto
Of Motors and Men
Journal: Shopping for Votes blog, Toronto Star
Year: 2011 Place: Toronto
The Marketing of Confidence
Journal: Shopping for Votes blog, Toronto Star
Year: 2011 Place: Toronto
Canada's Democratic Malaise : Are the Media to Blame ?
Journal: Strengthening Canadian Democracy
Year: 2005 First Page: 229 Last Page: 267
Investigating Canadian Parties' Political Marketing Management: A Mixed Method Approach
Journal: Journal of Political Marketing
Year: 2010
Citizen-Driven Political Blogs as Web-based Research Samples: Opportunities and Challenges
Journal: Graduate Journal of Social Science
Volume: 8 issue: 3 Year: 2011 First Page: 65 Last Page: 92
#Qc2012: l’utilisation de Twitter par les partis
Journal: Les Québécois aux urnes: les partis, les médias et les citoyens en campagne
Year: 2013 Thierry Giasson Gildas Le Bars Mélanie Verville Place: Montréal
The Perception of Political Advertising During an Election Campaign: A Preliminary Study of Cognitive and Emotional Effects
Journal: Canadian Journal of Communication
Volume: 38 issue: 2 Year: 2013 First Page: 1 Last Page: 22 Stuart Soroka Thierry Giasson
Politique PQ 2.0: Qui sont les blogueurs politiques québécois?
Journal: Politique et Sociétés
Volume: 32 issue: 3 Year: 2013 First Page: 3 Last Page: 28 Cyntia Darisse Vincent Raynauld
Investigating Canadian Parties' Political Marketing Management: A Mixed Method Approach
Journal: Journal of Political Marketing
Volume: 13 issue: 4 Year: 2013 17. Alex Marland
Le Bon, la Brute et le Raciste. Analyse de la couverture médiatique de l'opinion publique pendant la
Journal: Canadian Journal of Political Science
Volume: 43 issue: 2 Year: 2010 First Page: 379 Last Page: 406 COLETTE BRIN v Place: Canadian Journal of Political Science Publisher: des accommodements raisonnables au Québec
As (Not) Seen on TV: News Coverage of Political Marketing in Canadian Federal Elections
Journal: Political Marketing in Canada
Year: 2012 Place: Vancouver Publisher: UBC Press
Introducing Political Marketing
Journal: Political Marketing in Canada
Year: 2012 Jennifer Lees-Marshment Alex Marland Place: Vancouver Publisher: UBC Press
Challenges for Democracy
Journal: Political Marketing in Canada
Year: 2012 Publisher: UBC Press
Political Marketing in Canada
Year: 2012 Last Page: http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=299173582 Jennifer Lees-Marshment Alex Marland Publisher: UBC Press
Political Communication in Canada. Meet the press and Tweet the rest
Year: 2014 Alex Marland Tamara A. Small Place: Vancouver Publisher: UBC Press
Analyse des interviews et débats
Journal: Radio parlée, élections et démocratie, Cahier-Médias, Centre d’études sur les médias. Québec
Year: 2009 Colette Brin Dominique Payette
Les études et la vie étudiante. Conciliation – Flexibilité – FJ_GIASSON_144425.pdf 5 Adaptation. Avis sur les nouvelles réalités et les nouveaux défis en matière de vie étudiante
Journal: Commission des affaires étudiantes
Year: 2010 Jean Collin Michel Dorais Evelyne Guay Marc-Olivier Toupin
Investigating political marketing using mixed method: the case for campaign spending data
Journal: Journal of Public Affairs
Volume: 13 issue: 4 Year: 2013 First Page: 391 Last Page: 402 Alex Marland
La blogosphère politique québécoise : Une «société distincte» en Amérique du Nord ?
Year: 2009 Vincent Raynauld Conference Name: Congrès annuel de la Société québécoise de science politique
Constitution of Representative and Reliable Web-based Research Samples: The Challenges of Studying Blogs and Online Socio-Political Networks
Year: 2009 Cynthia Darisse Vincent Raynauld Conference Name: Canadian Political Science Association,
Canadian electoral advertisements: A preliminary study of physiological and cognitive effects,
Year: 2011 Stuart Soroka Place: Grenada Conference Name: 9th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities
Effets physiologiques et cognitifs de la publicité électorale canadienne: Une étude préliminaire
Year: 2011 Stuart Soroka Conference Name: 79e Congrès de l’Acfas
#elections: The Use of Twitter by Provincial Political Parties in Canada
Journal: Canadian Journal of Political Science
Year: 2016 Tamara Small
Are Social Media Transforming Canadian Electioneering? Hybridity and Online Partisan Strategies in the 2012 Québec Election
Journal: Canadian Journal of Political Science
Year: 2016 Gildas Le Bars
L'activité politique en ligne au Canada: surenchère et réalité
Journal: Revue parlementaire canadienne
Volume: 37 issue: 4 Year: 2014 First Page: 10 Last Page: 17 Tamara A. Small Harold Jansen Royce Koop
Online Political Activity in Canada: The Hype and the Facts
Journal: Canadian Parliamentary Review
Volume: 37 issue: 4 Year: 2014 First Page: 9 Last Page: 16 Tamara A. Small Harold Jansen Royce Koop
From brokerage to boutique politics:Political marketing and the changing nature of party politics in Canada
Journal: Canadian Parties in Transition. Fourth Edition
Year: 2016 Alex Marland
Blogging, Partisanship and Political Participation in Canada
Journal: Political Communication in Canada
Year: 2014 Harold Jansen Royce Koop Place: Vancouver Publisher: UBC Press
Introduction: The Triangulation of Canadian Political Communication
Journal: Political Communication in Canada
Year: 2014 Tamara A. Small Alex Marland Place: Vancouver Publisher: UBC Press
Political Communication and Marketing in Canada: Challenges for Democracy
Journal: Political Communication in Canada
Year: 2014 Alex Marland Tamara A. Small Place: Vancouver Publisher: UBC Press
La campagne du Bloc québécois. Quand on n'a rien à perdre?
Journal: Canadian Election Analysis: Communication, Strategy, and Democracy
Year: 2015 Publisher: UBC Press
Editors' Remarks: Recapping the 2015 Canadian Election
Journal: Canadian Election Analysis: Communication, Strategy and Democracy
Year: 2015 Anna Esselment Andrea Lawlor Alex Marland Tamara Small Publisher: UBC Press
Préface
Journal: Usurpation de l'identité citoyenne dans l'espace public. Astroturfing, communication et démocratie
Year: 2015 Publisher: Presses de l'Université de Montréal
Canadian Election Analysis: Communication, Strategy, and Democracy
Year: 2015 Alex Marland Publisher: UBC Press
Le journalisme politique en 140 caractères. Le cas du Québec
Journal: Sur le journalisme, About journalism
Volume: 4 issue: 1 Year: 2015
Riding the Media Waves: From Reasonable Accomodation to the "Charter of Values" debate in Quebec, 2007-2014
Journal: From Media Hype to Twitter Storm. The dynamics of self-reinforcing processes in news waves.
Year: 2016 Marie-Michèle Sauvageau Editors: P Vasterman Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Là, tout de suite? La gestion des crises gouvernementales à l'ère de l'instantanéité médiatique
Year: 2019 Véronique Prince Place: Montréal Publisher: Les Presses de l'Université du Québec
Political Elites in Canada. Power and Influence in Instantaneous Times
Year: 2018 Alex Marland Andrea Lawlor Place: Vancouver Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
L'impôt et Internet: un succès du gouvernement en ligne
Journal: Options politiques
Year: 2017 Harold Jansen Tamara Small Royce Koop
La eleccion de Trudeau en Canada. El contraste ganador / L'élection de Justin Trudeau au Canada. Le contraste gagnant
Journal: Beerderberg Magazine
Year: 2016 First Page: 34 Last Page: 37
Online political activity in Canada: The Hype and the Facts
Journal: Canadian Parliamentary Review
Volume: 37 issue: 2 Year: 2014 First Page: 9 Last Page: 16 Small, Tamara A Koop, Royce Jansen, Harold
Les effets des médias à l'ère du 2.0. Recension des écrits sur l'influence de la médiatisation dans la formation des opinions politiques à l'heure des médias sociaux
Year: 2015
What is the cost of not implementing TRC's calls to action regarding Aboriginal languages and cultures?
Year: 2015 Diana Cardenas
Le défi de la théorisation. Les grands axes de la production scientifique sur les pratiques de marketing politique
Journal: Histoire de la communication
Year: 2017 Jean-Charles Del Duchetto Catherine Ouellet Émilie Foster Publisher: Société québécoise de science politique, Montréal
Du marketing politique à la science électorale
Journal: Le parlementarisme canadien
Year: 2017 Place: Québec Publisher: Presses de l'Université Laval
Permanent Campaigning: Changing the Nature of Canadian Democracy
Journal: Permanent campaigning in Canada
Year: 2017 Anna Lennox Esselment Alex Marland Place: Vancouver Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Online, All the Time. The strategic objectives of Canadian Opposition Parties
Journal: Permanent campaigning in Canada
Year: 2017 Tamara Small Place: Vancouver Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Of Walls and Whispers: the Use of Facebook during the 2012 Quebec Election
Journal: What's #Trending in Canadian Politics? Understanding Transformations in Power, Media and the Public Sphere
Year: 2017 Michael Temporao Place: Vancouver Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Données, ciblage et positionnement. Les grands axes de la production scientifique sur les pratiques de marketing politique
Journal: Histoires de communication politique
Year: 2018 Jean-Charles Del Duchetto Catherine Ouellet Émilie Foster Place: Montréal Publisher: Presses de l'Université du Québec
From Media Wave to Media Tsunami. The “Charter of Values" Debate in Quebec, 2012-2014
Journal: rom Media Hype to Twitter Storm. The dynamics of self-reinforcing processes in news waves
Year: 2018 Marie-Michele Sauvageau Place: Amsterdam Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
La gestion des crises communicationnelles du gouvernment Couillard. Le cas de la démission du ministre Yves Bolduc
Journal: Bilan et réalisations du Gouvernement Couillard
Year: 2018 Véronique Prince Place: Québec Publisher: Presses de l'Université Laval
Conclusion: Emerging Voices, Evolving Concerns
Journal: Political Elites in Canada. Power and Influence in Instantaneous Times,
Year: 2018 Alex Marland Place: Vancouver Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Introduction: Political Elites in the Age of Digital Media
Journal: Political Elites in Canada. Power and Influence in Instantaneous Times
Year: 2018 Alex Marland Place: Vancouver Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
The “Old" and the “New" Media Elite. Changing Landscapes? Changing Players?
Journal: Political Elites in Canada. Power and Influence in Instantaneous Times
Year: 2018 Place: Vancouver Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
la couverture médiatique du projet de Charte des valeurs québécoises
Journal: From Media Hype to Twitter Storm
Year: 2018 Place: Amsterdam Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Les crises et les transformations contemporaines du régime partisan canadien
Journal: Le Canada dans le monde. Acteurs, idées et gouvernance
Year: 2019 Éric Montigny Place: Montréal Publisher: Presses de l'Université du Québec
Of Walls and Whispers: The Use of Facebook during the 2012 Quebec Election
Journal: What's #Trending in Canadian Politics. Understanding Transformations in Power, Media and the Public Sphere
Year: 2019 Michael Temporao Place: Vancouver Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
She's too tough and he's too soft. Measuring how gendered news frames affect voters' evaluation of party leaders
Journal: The Mediation of Gender and Identity
Year: 2019 Catherine Lemarier-Saulnier Place: Vancouver Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Is Social Media Transforming Canadian Electioneering? Hybridity and Online Partisan Strategies in the 2012 Quebec Election
Journal: Revue canadienne de science politique
Year: 2019 Gildas Le Bars Philippe Dubois
Hybridité et complémentarité. Les stratégies numériques des élections française et québécoise de 2012
Journal: Politique et Sociétés
Year: 2018 Fabienne Greffet
enpolitique.com. Stratégies, professionnels de la communication et internautes mobilisés dans les campagnes en ligne en France et au Québec
Journal: Politique et sociétés
Volume: 37 issue: 2 Year: 2018 Fabienne Greffet
"That's what I'm talking about". Twitter as a Promotional Tool for Political Journalists
Journal: Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture
Year: 2018 Geneviève Chacon
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