Search for dissertations about: "social news"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 132 swedish dissertations containing the words social news.
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1. Loneliness among older people in the Swedish media : Constructions, discourses and the designation of responsibility
Abstract : Feelings of belonging or not belonging to other people are commonly seen as an essential and universal part of human existence. How loneliness is talked about and understood is, however, found to differ depending on historical, cultural and societal contexts. READ MORE
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2. Gamifying the news : Exploring the introduction of game elements into digital journalism
Abstract : For over a century, crosswords, puzzles, and quizzes have been present in newspapers. Digital journalism has only increased the trend of integrating game elements in news media, often blurring the traditional boundaries between news and games. READ MORE
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3. #InFlux. Journalists' adoption of social media and journalists' social roles
Abstract : #InFlux investigates journalists’ adoption of social media and social network sites (SNS) from the theoretical perspective of journalistic roles. It shows how the social roles of journalists are situated along the axes of formal– personal and news media logic–social media logic: skeptical shunners and activists, lurkers and networkers, news hubs and celebrified marketers, coordinators and ambassadors, professional marketers and pragmatics, entrepreneurs and journalists in incognito mode. READ MORE
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4. Destabilising Citizenship Practices? : Social work and undocumented migrants in Sweden
Abstract : Globalisation of the economy, as well as movement of people and increasing securitisation of borders, have challenged and to different degrees destabilised forms of national belonging and solidarity. Such developments produce new borders and boundaries, separate citizens from non-citizens and create hierarchies of “deservingness”. READ MORE
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5. (Re)producing a periphery : popular representations of the Swedish North
Abstract : The discourse on Norrland (literally ‘North land’ in English) as essentially ‘different’ has been(re)produced in literature, politics and science for as long as the idea of ‘Norrland’ has existed. Thus,when investigating the discourse that constructs the identity of Norrland in opposition to a Swedishnational identity, it is important to connect these representations to their contemporary (andchanging) political-economic contexts. READ MORE