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  2. 1. Pastor in the Shadow of Violence : Gustavo Gutiérrez as a Public Pastoral Theologian in Peru in the 1980s and 1990s

    Author : Olle Kristenson; Kajsa Ahlstrand; Jorge Castillo Guerra; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bartolomé de Las Casas; CELAM; discourse analysis; Christian hope; God of life; Gustavo Gutiérrez; hermeneutic of hope; human rights; institutionalised violence; La República; liberation theology; pastoral theology; political theology; political violence; preferential option for the poor; reconciliation; resurrection; theology of life; Roman Catholicism in Peru; Sendero Luminoso; social movements; Truth and Reconciliation Commission.; Missionsvetenskap; Studies of Missions;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a study of the role of Gustavo Gutiérrez as a public pastor in the 1980s and 1990s in Peru. His collaboration with the Lima newspaper La República from the early 1980s gave him a figurative pulpit from which he addressed the Peruvian public on specific occasions. READ MORE

  4. 2. Is the medium the message? : The impact of digital media on the newspaper concept

    Author : Sara Leckner; Marko Turpeinen; Saara Taalas; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Newspaper publishing; newspaper industry; strategy; convergence; new media; digital media; electronic media; display technology; media technology; presentation-style; user interface; newspaper layout; reading behaviour; perception; newspaper consumption; consumer needs; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Abstract : The impact of digital (new) media has caused both challenges and threats to newspapers’ continuing existence as a profitable and influential mass medium. While this is not the first time in history that new media appear to be challenging the future of the newspaper medium, from one perspective digital media offer not only direct competition, or alternative ways to produce and deliver news, but also possibilities for convergence, for making new media part of the traditional newspaper, inducing whole new possibilities for publishing. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Rhetoric of Pravda Editorials : A Diachronic Study of a Political Genre

    Author : Ludmila Pöppel; Milan Bily; Anatolii Shaikevich; Dmitrii Dobrovolskii; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; political discourse; discourse analysis; language of revolution; totalitarian language; Soviet political language; Pravda editorials; rhetorical changes; Slavic languages; Slaviska språk; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : The present study considers the diachronic changes that took place in Soviet political discourse as reflected in six selections of Pravda editorials from the 1920s through the 1950s, as well as slogans and headlines in that newspaper from 1917 through 1933. The principal goal of analyses conducted on various levels is to identify and investigate a number of tendencies demonstrating the gradual transformation of the language of revolution into totalitarian language. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Making of Resistance : Brazil’s Landless Movement and Narrative Enactment

    Author : Markus Lundström; Paulina de los Reyes; Fredrik Uggla; Stellan Vinthagen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MST; Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra; peasant; Brazil; social movement; autonomy; constructive resistance; historiography; narrative; collective memory; identity; subject formation; focus group interview; corpus analysis; meta-analysis; ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores the story of Brazil’s Landless Movement: its historiographical prequel, its narrative components, its modifications, its enactment. The study derives from a non-essentialist understanding of the resistance agent, here construed as political subject – a collective of individuals, contingently unified in a specific political struggle, not necessarily representing a mutual material need, nor a common identity. READ MORE

  7. 5. Assessment of media and communication from a sustainability perspective

    Author : Åsa Moberg; Göran Finnveden; Maria Enroth; Roland Clift; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; electronic media; e-reading device; print media; newspaper; book; invoice; information and communication technology ICT ; environmental assessment; life cycle assessment LCA ; social life cycle assessment S-LCA ; sector analysis; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN; Environmental engineering; Miljöteknik; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to assess potential environmental impacts of media and communication and to contribute to the development of methods for sustainability assessment. Although the main focus is on printed and electronic media products and environmental impacts, a broader sector analysis is also included and social aspects are discussed. READ MORE