Search for dissertations about: "Western media"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 59 swedish dissertations containing the words Western media.
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1. Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism : Identity constructions in Arab and Western news media
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
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2. The Mediated Representation of Working Conditions in the Global South : Discourse, Ideology and Responsibility
Abstract : This thesis examines the mediated representation of workers’ working conditions in the Global South. Using a qualitative approach inspired by Critical Discourse Studies, it focuses on ideological representation in newspapers from Sweden, the USA, Chile and China/Hong Kong. READ MORE
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3. Cross-media News Work - Sensemaking of the Mobile Media (R)evolution
Abstract : This dissertation makes a longitudinal study of transforming tensions in media production processes. It focuses on the thoughts and actions of new and mobile media in the interplay between staff from editorial-, business and IT departments in an organization coupled with the old newspaper medium. READ MORE
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4. Perilous Silences and Counterproductive Narratives Pertaining to HIV/AIDS in the Ugandan, Lesotho and Namibian Press
Abstract : Research on Western mainstream media’s framing of HIV/AIDS in the 1980’s, showed that media narratives influenced audiences’ understanding of the epidemic, as well as society’s responses. Subsequently, by analyzing a society’s mass media and its framing of HIV/AIDS, it is possible to explore what understandings are given preferential treatment in that society, as well as explore what social change those narratives indirectly or directly facilitate. READ MORE
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5. Mobility is the Message : Experiments with Mobile Media Sharing
Abstract : This thesis explores new mobile media sharing applications by building, deploying, and studying their use. While we share media in many different ways both on the web and on mobile phones, there are few ways of sharing media with people physically near us. READ MORE