Search for dissertations about: "media violence"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the words media violence.

2. 1. Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism : Identity constructions in Arab and Western news media

   Author : Mahitab Ezz El Din; Stig-Arne Nohrstedt; Leonor Camauër; Åsa Kroon; Göran Eriksson; Peter Hervik; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Orientalism; Occidentalism; Arab; West; Othering; identity; media constructions; tolerance; multiculturalism; xenophobia; Peace Journalism; Global War on Terror; Media and Communication Studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Journalistik; Medievetenskap och journalistik; Media and Communication Science;

   Abstract : This study examines how the media construct the identities of the Other by creating various ‘us’ versus ‘them’ positions (Othering) when covering non-violence-based intercultural conflicts in Arab and Western news media. Othering in this study is understood as an umbrella concept that in general terms refers to the discursive process of constructing and positioning the Self and the Other into separate identities of an ‘us’ and a ‘them. READ MORE

4. 2. Operational Military Violence : A Cartography of Bureaucratic Minds and Practices

   Author : Anders Malm; Marie Demker; Dan Öberg; Annika Bergman-Rosamond; Försvarshögskolan; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; military violence; bureaucratisation; operational level; targeting; military masculinity; Krigsvetenskap; Krigsvetenskap; military violence; bureaucratisation; operational level; targeting; military masculinity;

   Abstract : Western use of military violence is becoming increasingly centralised, partly through the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (or more commonly referred to as “drones” in the literature). Drone technology allows control and command of military operations to be put under one roof, and as military organisations traditionally have a close dependence on technological developments, procedures and regulations for centralised command and control have developed in close concert with advances in drone technology. READ MORE

5. 3. Psychosurgery in Sweden 1944 - 1958 : the practice, the professional and media discourse

   Author : Kenneth Ögren; Marie Åsberg; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; lobotomy; Sweden; schizophrenia; mortality; gender; behaviour; implementation; media; discourse; profession; neurosurgeon; psychiatrist; medical superintendent; Psychiatry; psykiatri;

   Abstract : Background. The pioneering early experiments of prefrontal lobotomy were performed in 1944 by neurosurgeons in Stockholm in collaboration with psychiatrists. There was a rapid implementation of the new surgical approach. In 1946 and 1947 the two state mental hospitals, Umedalen and Sidsjön, introduced prefrontal lobotomy on a large scale. READ MORE

6. 4. Underwater Worlds : An Ethnography of Waste, Pollution, and Marine Life

   Author : Rasmus Rodineliussen; Bengt Karlsson; Helena Wulff; Marianne Lien; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Aquabiopolitics; Lake Mälaren; Marine Life; Pollution; Relations; Science; Social Media; Stockholm; The Baltic Sea; Time; Trash Diving; Violence; Visibility; Waste; Water; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

   Abstract : In this dissertation, I investigate relations between humans, waste, pollution, and marine life. I introduce the concept of Aquabiopolitics as a means to understand how humans govern life in water in order to enrich human life on land. READ MORE

7. 5. The dis/appearances of violence : When a 'peace-loving' state uses force

   Author : Tua Sandman; Ulrika Mörth; Cecilia Åse; Martin Hall; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sweden; peace-enforcement; use of force; representation of violence; narrative structuration; identity and foreign policy; de politicisation; dislocation; in visibility; critical war studies; statsvetenskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : The research problem that this dissertation addresses is how and with what implications the use of force in ‘distant’ places is made seen and known at home. As practices change and ‘peacework’ is becoming increasingly violent, the book argues that it is imperative to examine how war ‘comes home’ and to what extent the narratives emerging in public discourse open up for public reflection and (re)consideration. READ MORE