Dissertations / Theses: 'Global Media Studies'

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Haupt, Adam. "Stealing Empire : debates about global capital, counter-culture, technology and intellectual property." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8646.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-246). This thesis examines the agency of marginalised subjects in the context of global capitalism and the information age. The key question that is addressed is whether transnational corporations have appropriated aspects of cultural identity, creative expression and technological innovation for their own enrichment - to the detriment of civil society. Where this is the case, this thesis considers what opportunities exist for issuing challenges to the power of global corporations. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's concept of Empire provides the theoretical foundation for examining cultural, technological and legal conﬂicts between the interests of citizens and those of corporations. Hardt and Negri theorise the ways in which former imperial powers continue to extend their military, economic and political power in former colonies. The authors argue that former imperial powers no longer compete with each other for the same resources because they now co-operate with each other through multilateral organisations and trade agreements. Ultimately, the key beneﬁciaries of these modes of co-operation are global corporations that tend to monopolise the production and distribution of technological and cultural products at the expense of the public interest and the functioning of democracy. This work considers the possibilities of responding to Empire and resisting globalisation through strategies that employ some of the same decentralised, network-based techniques that benefit global corporate entities. Hardt and Negri's concept of 'the multitude' as a multiplicity of singularities makes sense of the diverse struggles under discussion in this study, providing the conceptual basis for possibilities of multiple engagements with Empire that are not reductive and that do not exclude certain interest groups. This is an interdisciplinary project that uses case studies to analyse the relationships between law and policy documents, technological development, and the production of cultural texts (such as hip-hop music). Specifically, this work explores the MP3 revolution and Napster (version one); digital sampling in hip-hop; hip-hop activism on South Africa's Cape Flats and these activists' use of new media in their pursuit of social justice. It addresses concerns about the commodiﬁcation of youth culture as well as debates about intellectual property and the United States' use of trade agreements as enforcement mechanisms that serve the interests of its own corporations. This thesis presents an overview of copyright and trade agreements in order to examine the vested interests that underlie them. In keeping with the focus on globalisation and cultural imperialism, US legislation - such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act - is discussed in relation to alternatives to proprietary approaches toward intellectual property, such as open source software and Creative Commons licenses.

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Brooks, Stephanie. "US Media Representations of Transnational Indian Surrogacy: Pre 2016 Surrogacy Conditions and Connections with Global Inequality." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1610386281440116.

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Burbidge, Jonathan J. "Understanding Student use of Social Media: Education and the Possibilities for Civic Engagement." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1403712335.

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Chetty, Lee-Roy. "Understanding Web 3.0 - the Semantic Web : how the evolution to a third generation of the Web will impact upon the Internet and media environment within a global and South African context." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10232.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-174). This thesis examines the potential evolution of the current version of the Internet, popularly referred to as Web 2.0, to a third generation of the Web, referred to as the Semantic Web or Web 3.0. The paper provides an overview of the change in architecture and structure that the current version of the Web will need to undergo in the form of a standardised ontology development in order for the Web to evolve. The evolution to a third generation of the Web will ultimately improve the overall user experience both within a global and South African online context, through the innovation and development of Semantic Web technologies and capabilities. The thesis also discusses the role of the political economy of media and how this concept needs to be refreshed in terms of dealing with the advent of 'new' or digital media which are characterised by the Internet. The role of traditional media is also discussed and how, due to the advent of the Internet, there has been a movement away from a model of traditional centralised media to one of a more decentralised model. The challenges of intellectual property rights and copyright are analysed in terms of online users developing their own content online in the form of user generated content and how, through the evolution to a Web 3.0 version of the Internet, these challenges can be potentially solved through the use of Semantic Web innovation and technologies. One of the major challenges which Web 2.0 currently faces is that of privacy infringement, but through the adoption of Semantic Web technology these challenges which currently affect all users on the Web can potentially be solved. Finally, the paper looks at the way that South African online users interact with the Internet and how the potential evolution to a third generation of the Web could potentially impact their user behaviour online.

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Henlin-Stromme, Sabine Brigitte. "Nature, nation and the global in contemporary Norwegian cinema." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2892.

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In late 19th century Norway, a small urban elite chose nature as a distinctive trait to define the young Norwegian nation. Ever since, this constructed nature mythology, based on real nature (dark forests, fjords and high mountains), has been a recurrent symbol equated with Norwegianness in the rhetoric of the nation. While this foundational narrative has been represented in most of the arts, it is depicted in a more complex manner in contemporary Norwegian films. Thus the main question in "Nature, Nation and the Global in Contemporary Norwegian Cinema" is the following. What is the relationship between Norwegian national culture (as established in national Romanticism) and contemporary Norwegian cinema in a globalization context? My hypothesis is that investigating the national category of nature in Norwegian films discloses Norwegian cinema as a transnational cinema. To this day, there has only been one major study on Norwegian nature mythology applied to literature and culture. However, the relation between nature and national identity in Norwegian cinema has not been the subject of a thorough study either in English or in Norwegian. Thus, "Nature, Nation and the Global in Contemporary Cinema" is the first study to investigate the representation of nature in Norwegian cinema in a global context. This dissertation thus fills a gap in providing a study of nature in Norwegian cinema. This dissertation joins other recent studies of a minor national cinema, originating in a small nation, that place their cinemas in a global context. Methodologically, I rely on cultural, genre, global, and transnational cinema studies. Each chapter takes one type of natural geography as a starting point (the wild forest, the sea and the mountain) in order to analyze how, in the film texts, each aspect of nature negotiates the local and the global contexts. Thus, each chapter creates a bridge between cinematic representations, Norwegian national and global culture. As a result, this project has demonstrated that the relationship between cinema and culture is complicated by the relationship both have cultivated with nature. This dissertation has confirmed that as a mode of representation cinema is fundamentally transnational, crossing borders and, thus, contradicts the attempts of national ideologies to contain culture and identities within enclosed borders. At the same time, I have shown that cinema and nature are equally transnational, fluid and porous and that they are places of negotiation between the local and the global.

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Alvi, Ali Ahsan. "The changing global domestic political conditions and the role of media organization Wiki Leaks to shape these conditions." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Statsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-15546.

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Barkho, Leon. "Strategies of power in multilingual global broadcasters : How the BBC, CNN and Aljazeera shape their Middle East news discourse." Doctoral thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Sektionen för kommunikation, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-7217.

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This study deals with the Middle East reporting of three gigantic media companies which together are largely responsible for refining and shaping our views of events in the world. The informational and communicative arm of these giants – Aljazeera, the BBC and CNN – is unprecedented in the history of human communication. The BBC, for example, broadcasts in 33 languages and has an army of nearly 10,000 journalists. In only one decade Aljazeera has turned into the kind of media whose power policy and decision makers can hardly ignore. The recent addition of an English language satellite channel has turned the network into a global media player. CNN, the world’s first 24-hour news satellite channel, has services in 12 languages and several English editions covering the four corners of the world. But the study is not about Aljazeera, the BBC or CNN as new phenomena in world media and communication. Its purpose, approach, data and analysis focus mainly on their Middle East reporting and specifically how they represent the voices involved in the conflict in Iraq and the ongoing struggle between the Palestinians and Israelis. The investigation is mainly concerned with the language of hard news discourse and how the broadcasters intentionally or otherwise produce and reproduce certain linguistic items and patterns to interpret both the discursive and social worlds of the events they carry. The study comprises five papers all published in international journals dealing with issues of critical discourse analysis. Together, the papers highlight the significant role power holders have in shaping the discourse of their institutions. They provide a new theoretical framework to arrive at the discursive patterns and social assumptions to uncover how the strings of power help refine and shape these patterns and assumptions relying on a variety of sources and empirical data besides textual material. The ultimate aim is to increase awareness and consciousness among both reporters and audiences of how discursive choices are made and the social relationships of power behind them are enacted. The picture painted in the five papers is not a happy one for readers who have long taken the ‘neutrality’ and ‘objectivity’ of the BBC, CNN and Aljazeera for granted. A vital role of a critical analyst is to help readers first to become conscious of how the more powerful in the society work to control our lives through their discourse and that we cannot be emancipated unless we can recognize how and why they do that. It will be rather shocking for many readers to realize that the language we read and listen to is mostly what the broadcasters intentionally have selected to shape the world of both conflicts their own way and not the way the observers (journalists) want it to be or we as audiences expect it to be.

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Robertson, Kylie. "Climate change discourse in Canadian print media : A quantitative and qualitative analysis of print media from two Canadian regions." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-42753.

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Over the last 30 years, awareness of anthropogenic climate change has increased and quickly become the one of the most pressing issues facing our planet. Canada is both a nation that has contributed to the acceleration of the climate problem and one that aims to help address the issues through commitments to global climate accords and other accountability actions. Global journalism is both a theory and practice born of the evolution of our world into a more global collective. Climate change, as a problem that is faced by every nation in the world, is one subject matter area that has been difficult to report on in the past but more necessary than ever to discuss. It is crucial work for journalists to normalize the connections between people, places, problems, and how they are interrelated throughout the world. This thesis aims to explore the presence or absence of global journalism in two different regions of Canada: Alberta and Ontario, represented by the cities of Calgary and Ottawa. Through quantitative and qualitative analysis, articles that mention“climate change” or “global warming” over a six-month period in 2015 are collected and catalogued. The quantitative data provides a macro view of the amount and kinds of discourse taking place in each city around the topics of climate change and global warming, giving a sense of the scale and framing of the issue. Four of these articles and two headlines are then reviewed through the lens of critical discourse analysis for their choice of words, quotations, the voices that are present and absent, and the local coherence of the article. Collectively, this information is collated and reviewed to argue for the presence or absence of global journalism in the reporting. The final results should a stark difference in the representation of climate change in Calgary and Ottawa. There are promising signs of global journalism in action throughout the Calgary Herald, while the Ottawa Citizen has missed opportunities to reflect the same global perspective.

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Pisha, Nicolette Lucinda. "Anime in America, Disney in Japan: The Global Exchange of Popular Media Visualized Through Disney's "Stitch"." W&M ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626617.

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Abuljadail, Mohammad Hatim. "Consumers' Engagement with Local and Global Brands on Facebook in Saudi Arabia." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1496849044166664.

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KIM, JU OAK. "THE KOREAN WAVE AS A LOCALIZING PROCESS: NATION AS A GLOBAL ACTOR IN CULTURAL PRODUCTION." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/385105.

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Media & Communication Ph.D. This dissertation research examines the Korean Wave phenomenon as a social practice of globalization, in which state actors have promoted the transnational expansion of Korean popular culture through creating trans-local hybridization in popular content and intra-regional connections in the production system. This research focused on how three agencies – the government, public broadcasting, and the culture industry – have negotiated their relationships in the process of globalization, and how the power dynamics of these three production sectors have been influenced by Korean society’s politics, economy, geography, and culture. The importance of the national media system was identified in the (re)production of the Korean Wave phenomenon by examining how public broadcasting-centered media ecology has control over the development of the popular music culture within Korean society. The Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)’s weekly show, Music Bank, was the subject of analysis regarding changes in the culture of media production in the phase of globalization. In-depth interviews with media professionals and consumers who became involved in the show production were conducted in order to grasp the patterns that Korean television has generated in the global expansion of local cultural practices. In conclusion, the Korean Wave has rekindled national forces in spreading local popular content globally in three ways: 1) by deconstructing a binary approach of West vs. non-West, and Global vs. Local in order to understand media cultures and practices; 2) by understanding the rise of Northeast Asian media connections as part of a global culture; and 3) by decolonizing non-US/UK state actors to perceive their actions, which hinges on the ongoing centrality of nation-states in the global media sphere. Temple University--Theses

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Möller, Alexandra, and Angelica Palmqvist. "Good Morning, Vietnam! : En studie om hur svenska medieföretag bör gå tillväga för att effektivt anpassa sig till den vietnamesiska kulturen." Thesis, University of Kalmar, School of Communication and Design, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-1951.

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Introduction and research question: In the global media field, global expansion has become more common and is a way for media companies to reach out to a broader audience. Both advantages and disadvantages come with a global expansion and there are several cultural differences that have to be considered. This thesis will deal with the cultural differences and discuss how a Swedish media company efficiently goes about establishing in Vietnam. This leads us to this thesis' research question: How does a Swedish media company succeed in Vietnam? Purpose: This thesis' purpose is to find out what media companies do to successfully acclimate to the Vietnamese culture and the important aspects of the cultural differences to consider.Delimitation: In order to present a thesis with greater depth and acquire a deeper understanding, the study is limited to examine Swedish media companies and what intercultural aspects are important to consider when establishing in Vietnam. Method: The research we have done is based on interviews, which we thought could give us the accurate information and a good base to stand on. We have interviewed five people who, in different ways, have something to do with Vietnam's media or intercultural communication. The interview question is based on the information we have found in the theory chapter. The interviews gave us a deeper understanding about the subject and lead to interesting answers that could help us answer our research question. Conclusion: There are many things a company needs to think about when setting up an establishment in a new county. In our study we have found out the differences between Vietnam and Sweden and we have examined the most suitable way for a company to communicate with the market in Vietnam. This thesis can be seen as a guideline for media companies in Sweden that are going to expand their organization to the Vietnamese market. Keywords: intercultural communication, Vietnam, global expansion, media companies, foreign establishment

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Suddason, Kelvin. "Rethinking Rhetoric: An investigation of political persuasion online. A case study of Mauritian electoral interviews livestreamed on Facebook." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33038.

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The live-commenting feature Facebook Live offers a unique look into how persuasion operates online. By giving citizen-users, or the viewertariat (see Anstead & O'Loughlin, 2011), the opportunity to comment on live political performances, Facebook Live presents a worthy site of investigation into how traditionally-powerful performer-persuaders (electoral candidates) now face off with traditionally-excluded masses of audience-persuadees (citizen-users). The livestream then becomes a mediated space of contestation, where the boundaries between persuader-persuadee and performer-audience fades, where, this study proposes, persuadee becomes persuader, rendering, in the process, the traditional persuader less persuasive, and thus less powerful. The study sought to understand how electoral persuasion operates online in Mauritius by using the Facebook livestreamed interviews of three candidates (incumbent, long-time, and first-time candidate) running in the December 2017 By-Election. A combined rhetorical and content analysis was conducted on candidates' representative claims (see Saward, 2006) and the viewertariat responses to these claims. This study finds that candidates employ a self-centred rhetoric, focusing on their ‘candidateness' rather than their representativeness, which, this study proposes, has ramifications on how candidates approach politics in contemporary Mauritius. The study also finds that the viewertariat is actively engaged in counter-persuasion, constructing their own (re)representative claims and exchanging primarily with other viewertariat members and lurkers (see Hill & Hughes, 1997). The viewertariat exhibits horizontal persuasion which, this study discusses, dilutes the vertical persuasion employed by candidates. The overall findings lead to the conclusion that rhetoric as a theoretical framework must be extended to adequately capture the persuasive dynamics in online electoral public spheres. A new theoretical framework is finally proposed, with the tripartite distinction between performer-text-audience rearranged to include performer-persuasive text-viewertariat-lurkers, and complemented with an argument as to the growing conceptual obsolescence of the ‘audience' in studying rhetoric online.

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Jones, Bernadine. "Desperately seeking depth: global and local narratives of the South African general elections on television news, 1994 - 2014." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27846.

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Eric Louw, Jesper Stömbäck, and W. Lance Bennett call the trend in late-20th century political journalism "mediatisation", where the televisualisation of Western elections favours episodic, dramatic, fragmented, and event-driven reporting. This "hype-ocracy" results in narrow and shallow frames that entertain rather than enlighten. This thesis, titled "Desperately Seeking Depth", examines this trend in both international and local news about South African elections. While scholarship of Western elections on TV news is blossoming, analyses of news coverage of South African elections is sparse. There is particularly little analysis of the visual dimensions of TV news coverage, which remains a methodological challenge for media and communication scholars. This thesis draws together a comprehensive analysis of South Africa's general elections on international and local television news over two decades. It develops an innovative, multimodal analysis method dedicated to television news and adds meaningful data to the overall study of South African media and politics, and international communication. It combines analysis of previous studies of each election with the original analysis of over 150 news broadcasts to uncover the news narratives about the South African general elections between 1994 and 2014. This thesis demonstrates the difference between global and local journalism about South African elections. Restricted by mediatised news values that favour episodic reporting, Western journalists present entangled, contradictory narratives over the years. The fixation on 1994's violent-turned-miracle election narrative ignored the complexities of the new democracy, while an increasingly detached approach in covering the 2009 and 2014 ANC victories left journalists perplexed and unable to explore deeper narratives. Meanwhile, South African channels become progressively more hesitant to investigate controversial topics or criticise the ruling party. Avoidance of important issues such as the 1994 election violence, the AIDS crisis in 2004, and Zuma's Nkandla fiasco in 2014 results in narrow reporting that limits the substantive information available during the election periods. All channels to some extent seek narratives that attempt to explain and explore South Africa's complex democracy, but these narratives are often contradictory. The decline in journalists' engagement with political leaders and citizens means that the full picture of the elections is reduced to a few easily digestible frames that confirm neoliberal news values. This thesis offers a new model for the analysis of TV news coverage of elections that can provide the basis for future studies. "Desperately Seeking Depth" ultimately uncovers a picture of news industry that, both locally and globally, works as an echo chamber of sound bites that focused on elite voices.

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Vachalek, Lisa M. "The Making of a Crisis in Mexico| An Inductive Analysis of Media Sentiment and Information Cascades on the Value of the Mexican Peso during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis." Thesis, University of Kansas, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1569692.

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In the two decades prior to the 2008 financial crisis, the Mexican government pursued policies aimed at liberalizing markets, while simultaneously trying to ensure the stability of the peso. These policies consisted of monetary and fiscal controls to keep inflation low and free trade agreements to reduce Mexico's dependence on the United States. The policies significantly reduced the country's public deficit and were implemented in hopes that they would help reduce the country's exposure to currency crises. Yet, despite all provisions the Mexican government put in place, the country's peso still lost two percent of its value in the first three days following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the US-based investment firm. The loss was significant given the average appreciation of the peso in the months leading up to the crisis was one percent per month, and given that not enough time had passed to fully understand the impact that bankruptcy would have had on Mexico. By the following Monday, the peso recovered all of its lost value, suggesting that investors were uncertain about the true impact the events unfolding in the United States would have on Mexico's economy. It also suggested that the uncertainty and negative sentiment within the market during the initial week of the global crisis played a stronger role in the rapid depreciation and recovery of the peso than changes in market fundamentals. Using an inductive analysis of the historical events, this thesis suggests the circumstances in which sentiment engendered by mainstream media and distributed through digital channels during the financial crisis could have contributed to the dramatic short-term swings in the price of the peso. Specifically, this paper focuses on the new, digital information technologies, their use among investors as a means for financial research, and the role of high-frequency trading (HFT) algorithms in initiating information cascades. HFT algorithms account for nearly 70 percent of daily trading volume in financial markets and can magnify negative market sentiment among rational investors. Utilizing historical trading data for the peso and headlines and tweets published by the Thomson Reuters news group during the crisis, I seek to illustrate the correlations between market sentiment manifest in digital media and the price movements of the peso, indicating possible herd behavior tendencies in the form of information cascades. Though it is not possible to empirically separate the market movements of informed decision-makers from the information cascades of investors and HFT algorithms reacting to media, the fact that information cascades can and do exist as demonstrated by specific examples in this paper has significant implications for the Mexican peso. The existence of information cascades implies that having strong macroeconomic fundamentals is no longer an adequate safe guard against the immediate impacts of external crises. As social media becomes the main source of breaking news and market sentiment for mainstream media and investors, it becomes vital for emerging countries such as Mexico to monitor social platforms for sentiment related to the domestic economy in order to proactively address investor pessimism. Finally, emerging country governments can utilize these platforms to push out relevant and truthful information about the economy in order to diminish investor uncertainty and minimize the impact of externally-induced information cascades.

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Kursinskis, Jacob Andrew. "How News Media Influences Readers’ Attitudes Toward the United States: A case study of Global Times and People’s Daily reporting." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu153210474686963.

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Swayne, Holly Lynne. "Star Power, Pandemics, and Politics: The Role of Cultural Elites in Global Health Security." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7581.

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Celebrities have historically served a variety of roles in society ranging from the inspirational to the cautionary, utilizing their platforms of visibility to promote themselves, their work, as well as their social and political causes. This study focuses on celebrities as activists engaging with global health issues, with particular attention to the form this engagement takes, the publicity it receives in the mass media, and the types of global health issues that receive the most celebrity attention. An interdisciplinary approach drawing from theories of power, social movement theory, agenda-setting, and cultural studies is used to achieve greater understanding of underlying components of the framework within which this activism exists. Guiding this research is the primary question, “How do cultural elites prominent in U.S. media impact global health security?”, where the specific subset of cultural elites examined are the most influential Hollywood celebrity actors in film. A series of secondary research questions provide insight on the multiple dimensions of celebrity influence and impact in the context of global health security. Specifically, how does celebrity activism affect global health security discourses? What “truths” are created by celebrity activism in global health? Finally, are the issues these celebrities are advocating for, the most pressing global health concerns? Utilizing a mixed-methods approach (quantitative-qualitative-quantitative), I demonstrate the most frequent forms of celebrity engagement with their affiliated global health organizations, as well as the media attention devoted to this engagement in the most prominent U.S. newspapers. Furthermore, I offer empirical evidence of how global health engagement of the most influential celebrities compares to the most pressing global health concerns, as expressed through an analysis of the global health issues that claim the most lives globally. Results demonstrate the most effective application of celebrity resources, and determine whether celebrities can be differently situated for greater impact in global health security overall.

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Johansson, Lotta, and Maria Svenningsson. "Evigt offer eller alltid gärningsman? : Framställning av invandraren i den nätbaserade dagspressen." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, SV, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-10472.

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The purpose of this study is to examine how immigrants are portrayed in the Swedish daily newspapers online reporting. The essay investigates in what context immigrants, as individuals, are made visible and how they and their origins are reproduced. The study focuses on the roles victim and aggressor, and is also investigating potential differences between morning and evening newspapers. Present theories are discursive discrimination, critical discourse analysis, cultural racism, stereotypes and structural discrimination. Adopted methods are qualitative and quantitative content analysis, based on the Global Media Monitoring Project-tool. The results show that immigrants are not individually stereotyped or depicted negatively, but that their immigrant origins often have a central part of the story, that they are mentioned mainly in connection with negative news and that negatively charged words occur frequently.

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Adelman, Rebecca A. "The Shadow Rules of Engagement: Visual Practices, Citizen-Subjectivity, and America's Global War on Terror." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1243903538.

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Maguth, Brad M. "Investigating Student Use of Technology for Informed and Active Democratic Citizenship in a Global and Multicultural Age." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1248880262.

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Ezz, El Din Mahitab. "Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism : Identity constructions in Arab and Western news media." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-51936.

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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.’ This process is analysed using a mixed method approach. A content analysis is used to map the data, and then a closer examination of the discourse is conducted using a qualitative approach inspired by critical discourse analysis. Two empirical studies are conducted based on this analysis: 1) the case of the Swedish newspaper Nerikes Allehanda’s publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohamed in 2007 and 2) the media coverage of the headscarf ban in French state schools in 2004. This study also employs Galtung’s Peace Journalism model as a frame of reference in the conclusions to discuss how this model could contribute, if applied in journalistic texts, to more balanced constructions of intercultural conflicts. The results show that Othering is a central discursive practice that is commonly adopted in both Arab and Western media coverage of non-violent intercultural conflicts, but it appears in different forms. Many of the previous studies have devoted considerable attention to rather conventional dichotomous constructions of Eastern and Western Others. The present study, in contrast, brings to the fore more non-conventional constructions and, while recognizing the occurrence of the conventional constructions, goes beyond these binary oppositions of ‘us’ and ‘them’. Variations in the types of identity constructions found in my study can be attributed to the mode of the article, the actors/voices included, the media affiliations and the topic and its overall contextualization. The different types of identity constructions in the media coverage may bring about a less black and white understanding of an event and help bring forth a more nuanced picture of what is going on and who is doing what in a conflict situation. Their occurrence in the media can possibly be linked to a new vision of a global society that does not necessarily constitute homogenous groups with the same characteristics, but rather is more consistent with a hybrid identity. This research is timely, as with the recent arrival of large groups of migrants from the Middle East, the ‘fear of Islam,’ and the right wing propaganda regarding Muslims as a threat is increasing. Islamophobia can be seen as a new form of racism used by elites to serve particular agendas. If media practitioners applied a more critical awareness in their writings so as not to reproduce culturally rooted stereotypes, which can inflame conflicts between people and nations, we might see less hostility against migrants and achieve a less racist world.

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Rodríguez, Bruno. "Purchasing behaviour on aesthetic items in online video games with real currency : The case of Counter Strike: Global Offensive." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-331012.

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Over the last decade, buying in-game content with real money has become a more common practice among players in order to unlock exclusive content in video games. Prior research has mainly focused on those functional digital items that provide an advantage to the buyer. This thesis aims to determine the underlying factors that influence video game players to purchase purely aesthetic virtual items.Prior studies on the field of video games, gaming business models and purchasing behaviour were reviewed and a theoretical framework focused on behavioural sciences, psychology and customer culture related theories was designed to interpret the results of a quantitative study. The popular FPS (First Person Shooter), Counter Strike Global Offensive was the selected game to carry out the study. A web-based questionnaire was distributed in various specialized online forums, providing a total of 1006 respondents. A linear regression was the selected method to test the formulated model. Results showed a strong influence of emotional and symbolic perceived values in the purchase intention of aesthetic virtual items, while gaming experience and enjoyment had a minor impact.

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Petrovic, Maria. "Global form av reklam och dess vetenskapliga debatt : En kvalitativ studie av fyra globala kampanjer." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-5137.

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I’ve chosen primary to analyze commercial form of advertising by world leading companies; McDonald’s, Coca-Cola and HP due to their implementation of global advertising. The fourth campaign that’s being analyzed is not of commercial type instead it’s characterized as an informative campaign that the ideal organization Amnesty is carring out. The study has been successful in gathering data that could be presented in correlation with already established theories and then comparing the results. The goal of the research is to create an understanding regarding global advertising as well as the scientific debate that’s going on within the subject. The scientific research has been debated for a long time regarding advertising that’s positioned globally; whether it should be standardized or adapted. This means whether advertising should look the same in all countries or if it should be adapted to a nation’s specific culture. Scientists haven’t yet been successful in establishing what’s considered to be more prominent due to various diverse opinions.By implementing content analysis together with semiotic analysis as a reinforcer, the study was able to examine the global advertising’s design and their common characteristics. Within this study the campaigns have been studied both visually and verbally in addition to their messages and values. The McDonald’s and Coke campaign has been categorized as advertising that reflect specific kinds of lifestyles and therefore characterized as “lifestyle format”. HP campaign on the other hand was using celebrities. This contributed that their global campaign became very personal because the celebrities were reflecting their own personality in the commercials. That’s why HP was categorized as the “personalized format” while Amnesty remained characterized as an informative campaign. Results show that these campaigns’ global form of advertising weren’t only implementing standardized form but also incorporated adapted commercial characteristics as well. This is what the theorizers Hassan, Craft and Kortam call a”hybrid strategy” that’s by their opinion most effective form of global advertising. Another important result was that the “creative strategy” (its promise/statement) is what makes the campaign cohesive. While the “creative tactic” (the visual elements) differs more or less within an advertising campaign. Jag har valt att främst analysera kommersiella kampanjer från de världsledande företagen McDonald’s, Coca-Cola och HP eftersom de tillämpar global form av reklam. Den fjärde kampanjen som analyseras är inte av kommersiellt slag då den karaktäriseras som en informativ kampanj som den ideella organisationen Amnesty har genomfört. Studien har lyckats generera data som kunde sättas i relation med de redan fastställda teorierna och på så vis jämföra resultaten.Forskningens mål är att skapa en förståelse angående global reklam samt den vetenskapliga debatten i ämnet. Den vetenskapliga forskningen har länge debatterat angående om reklam som appliceras globalt borde vara standardiserad eller anpassad, det vill säga om den ska se lika ut i alla länder eller om man borde anpassa den till varje lands individuella kultur. Forskarna har fortfarande inte kommit fram till vad som anses vara mest effektivt då en splittrad syn angående denna fråga uppstår. Genom kvalitativ innehållsanalys med förstärkning av den semiotiska analysen så kunde studien granska den globala reklamens utformning och dess gemensamma karaktäristiker som uppstår. I denna studie så har reklamkampanjerna granskats både visuellt och språkmässigt samt dess budskap och värderingar. Reklamkampanjerna McDonald’s och Coca-Cola blev kategoriserade som den form av reklam som reflekterar specifika livsstilar och därför karaktäriserades som ”livsstilsformatet”. HP är den reklamkampanj som använde sig av kändisar. Detta gjorde att deras globala reklam blev väldigt personlig då den reflekterade kändisarnas personligheter. Därför kategoriserades HP:s reklamkampanj som det” personifierade formatet” medan Amnesty förblev karaktäriserad som informativ form av kampanj. Resultatet visade att dessa reklamkampanjers globala reklam inte endast implementerade standardiserad form utan likaså integrerade anpassad form. Detta kallar teoretikerna Hassan, Craft och Kortam för ”hybridstrategi” och anses enligt dem vara mest effektivt tillvägagångssätt när det gäller global reklam. En annan viktig sak som resultatet påvisade var att den ”kreativa strategin” (dess utlovande/påstående) är det som gör kampanjen sammanhängande medan den ”kreativa taktiken” (dess visuella element) mer eller mindre skiljer sig inom en kampanj.

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van, der Merwe Justin Daniel Sean. "Sub-imperialism in crisis? : South Africa's government-business-media complex and the geographies of resistance." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:db92e002-d7ae-4bf1-b2a0-cd9029242e1e.

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This study develops a geographic theory relating to sub-imperial states and resistance to them. The theory is centred on what can be called the government-business-media (GBM) complex, whilst resistance to such states is characterised as counter-imperialist discourses. The theory is applied primarily to South Africa’s (SA’s) interactions with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. The aim is to assess the state of SA’s sub-imperialism and evaluate the claim that this sub-imperialism is in crisis. The research findings are based on media material drawn from, and interviews conducted in, Botswana, Zambia and SA. The thesis outlines how sub-imperialism should be regarded as a distinct analytical and theoretical phenomenon. It explores the theoretical context in which the GBM complex and counter-imperialist discourses may be viewed. Using this theoretical framework, the study then traces the historical geographical development of SA’s GBM complex. Building on this, the thesis identifies and examines regional responses and attitudes to SA’s post-apartheid political, business and cultural-media engagement with the region, by analysing counter-imperialist discourses to SA during this period. In order to assess the current state of SA’s sub-imperialism, case studies were taken from the following four areas which cover crucial aspects of SA’s post-apartheid engagement with the region: SA’s parastatal expansion (Eskom); SA’s peacemaking role (Zimbabwe); SA’s state-driven rhetoric of multiculturalism and tolerance (xenophobia); and SA’s hosting of mega-events (2010 Football World Cup). In each of these areas the intended geopolitical and geoeconomic discourses of the GBM complex, and the corresponding responses in the region, are investigated. It is concluded that there is a discrepancy between the intended discourses of the GBM complex and the responses from the region, giving rise to counter-imperialist discourses. These discourses support the claim that SA’s sub-imperialism is in crisis.

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Arthur, Tori. "The Reimagined Paradise: African Immigrants in the United States, Nollywood Film, and the Digital Remediation of 'Home'." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1467889165.

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Lindell, Johan. "Cosmopolitan Divide? : Examining the Tension Field Between Media, Residential Patterns and Cosmopolitan Attitudes." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-4457.

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Today, global media such as the Internet provides media audiences scattered across the globe with the possibility of cross-cultural moral interaction upon a plethora of global digital public spheres. Such trends have been the catalyst for increased academic attention to the field of media and morality and the notion of media audiences as global citizens – ‘cosmopolitans at home’, consuming a wide array of mediated, global images and thus enforcing a proximity with the ‘distant Other’. Parallel to such trends is the dichotomous relationship between rural- and urban areas that have emerged as increasingly ambivalent in ‘network society’. Due to the ‘urbanization of media culture’ and the ‘digital divide’, it is argued that rural areas, in an era characterized by global interconnectedness, are rendered dysfunctional. On the other hand however, media can be argued to promote inclusion and new possibilities for rural people. This study set out to empirically examine the tension field between residential patterns (rural/urban), the media (Internet) and cosmopolitanism. Setting out from the research questions: (1) What variables determine a ‘cosmopolitan outlook’ in Sweden?, (2) Does media use/access promote a ‘cosmopolitan outlook’, and under what circumstances?, and (3) Is there a ‘cosmopolitan divide’ between different residential patterns – and if so: how does it relate to different patterns of media use and access?. To attend the research questions, data from the annual national survey, Riks-SOM 2008, was analysed and the findings indicated the general trends for the Swedish cosmopolitan was, in accordance with other empirical accounts, young and well educated. Furthermore, respondents ‘high’ on Internet use where more likely to be cosmopolitans – confirming theoretical accounts of e.g. Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck and Dick Hebdige. Also, ‘locality’ proved to be more important for rural people than for people living in metropolitan areas. Finally, men and women displayed different ‘cosmopolitan patterns’: rural women being more cosmopolitan than metropolitan women in terms of a ‘willingness to move to a country outside of Europe’ while men displayed the opposite, following the hypothesis.

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Lindström, Anna, and Åkermark Nina. "Kriskommunikation i ett förändrat medielandskap." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-5120.

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Uppsatsen, Kriskommunikation i ett förändrat medielandskap, är en fallstudie på webbplatsen www.krisinformation.se. Utgångspunkten för uppsatsen är det förändrade medielandskapet och vad det innebär för kommunikation i kris. Uppsatsen berör flera olika hörnstenar som är viktiga för framgångsrik kriskommunikation. Hörnstenarna rör bland annat vilken tillit och vilket förtroende användarna har för Krisinformation.se, dess innehåll samt Internet som medium i den förändring som skett i medielandskapet när det gäller kriskommunikation.Fallstudien undersöker även om det är privatpersoner eller yrkesverksamma som besöker Krisinformation.se. Den undersöker även vad användarna anser är viktigast när de ska ta del av information i en krissituation gällande om informationen är snabb, kortfattad, relevant eller tydlig. Vi har i fallstudien också studerat vilket medium de använder i olika situationer samt hur de agerar på webbplatsen när det gäller att följa hyperlänkar till vidare information.Teoretiska utgångspunkter är teorierna om kriskommunikation och teorin global village. Forskning inom andra områden berörs också, då de är relevanta för uppsatsen och dess syfte. Dessa områden är gatekeeping-teorins förändring, fördelar och nackdelar med Internet, vilka medievanor människor har haft i tidigare kriser, samt forskning om vilket medium människor föredrar i kris.Resultatet som framkommit bekräftar tidigare forskning och indikerar på att Internet kan ses som en framgångsrik kanal vid kommunikation i kris. Respondenterna har ett högt förtroende för Krisinformation.se som avsändare och ett ännu högre förtroende för innehållet. De har även högt förtroende för Internet som medium när de ska ta del av information i kris. De prioriterar att informationen förmedlas snabbt, oavsett informationens form i det läget. Något anmärkningsvärt är att respondenterna föredrar att ta del av krisinformation via myndigheters webbsidor. De väljer dock först att hämta informationen på nyhetssidor på Internet, vilket ytterst få har störst förtroende för. Det paradoxala i detta, är att majoriteten av respondenterna föredrar att informationen ska vara sann. De agerar alltså inte som de säger att de vill göra.Resultatet som avviker från tidigare forskning, är att det finns fler aktörer än traditionell media som fungerar som guider i det förändrade medielandskapet. Vilka dessa aktörer är och hur de agerar, är värt att undersöka vidare.

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Valladares, Gisel Corina. "Maybe She's Born With It, Maybe it's Mexicanidad: Depictions of Mexican Feminine Beauty and the Body in Visual Media During the 1950s." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1493336026688153.

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Andersson, Lisette, and Kajsa Lundin. "Katastrofal rapportering : En kritisk diskursanalys av svenska dagstidningars rapportering om jordbävningen i Haiti respektive översvämningen i Pakistan 2010." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Akademin för humaniora, utbildning och samhällsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-14523.

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This study deals with the distinct difference in media attention the earthquake-disaster in Haiti and the flood-disaster in Pakistan got in 2010. There may be many reasons to this divergence, but this study focuses on how news articles can create compassion. This study, with its critical perspective, examines how two daily papers in Sweden portray the suffering of the victims of the catastrophes in Haiti and Pakistan, and create compassion for them. Furthermore it asks the question who benefits from the newspaper’s description of human suffering in the third world. The result shows that the manner of which Swedish daily newspapers report from the catastrophe in Haiti creates an emotional involvement, which most likely leads to compassion. Furthermore it shows potential to lead the readers to identify with the suffering people in Haiti. The Swedish daily newspapers report of the catastrophe in Pakistan on the other hand, does not involve the reader on an emotional level, but gives them the role of a spectator. However the result also indicates that the distance between the victim and the reader is reducing. In that remark the report have potential to create compassion for the victims in Pakistan, although it is more likely that this does not occur. In conclusion the study shows that the Swedish daily newspapers report of the catastrophes in Haiti and Pakistan is embedded in an ideology, which reproduces a global hierarchy of suffering by reproducing the construction of an Us and Them. In addition this study reveals a social conception of the West as more worthy compassion than the third world, and therefore the Swedish daily newspapers report of the catastrophes reproduces the West’s dominance and power in the society.

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Yartey, Franklin Nii Amankwah. "Digitizing Third World Bodies: Communicating Race, Identity, and Gender through Online Microfinance/A Visual Analysis." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1329782791.

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Good, Hillevi. "Att tala till hela världen : - en kvalitativ studie av Röda Korsets globala kommunikationsstrategier och relationen till det lokala." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Information Science, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-6769.

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AbstractAim: The aim of this essay is to study the global communication strategies of Red Cross/Red Crescent designed to help stop the hiv/aids-pandemic. The essay is also part of a cooperational project with the comprehensive purpose to investigate the relationship between the global and the local.Material and method: The study draws on different materials and methods. Four interviews with Red Cross/Red Crescent coworkers, and a qualitative text analysis of different text documents of relevance for the global communication strategies have been carried out. These constitute the main material and methods, but two occasions of direct observations at seminars have also been carried out.Main results: Due to the many differences between the localities of the world, the external global communication strategies of the Red Cross/Red Crescent are ment to be further developed at national level. The internal global communication strategies have an important mobilizing function, where the coworkers at national level are urged to commit to the fight against hiv/aids related stigma. The communications strategies at global level are constructed on basis of very broad and generalised conceptions about the target groups. The global dimensions of a global arena, global consciousness and global planning still appears important in the fight against the hiv/aids-pandemic.Keywords: centralisation, decentralisation, mass communicaion, interpersonal communication, diffusion of innovations theory, global anena, global interdependence, global consciousness

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Eidmark, Lina. "Ögon och öron i främmande land : En studie av utrikeskorrespondenter och deras arbete i svensk dagspress." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Discourse Studies, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-485.

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Det här är en studie om svenska utrikeskorrespondenter. Utrikeskorrespondenter ger kanske ofta den bästa rapporteringen men blir allt färre i takt med att medieföretagen sparar. Samtidigt borde behovet av utrikesnyheter öka i en globaliserad värld. Uppsatsens syfte är att få bättre kännedom kring hur de svenska reportrar som arbetar utomlands själva ser på sitt arbete och genom en skissartad undersökning se hur utrikesnyheterna förändrats under en novembervecka 1975, 1985, 1995 och 2005. Jag har gjort kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra svenska utrikeskorrespondenter och en kvantitativ skissundersökning av utrikesnyheterna i Aftonbladet, Expressen, Svenska Dagbladet och Dagens Nyheter.Resultatet av de kvalitativa intervjuerna visar att de utrikeskorrespondenter som deltog i studien tycker att det finns mycket att vinna med deras arbete; större självständighet i nyhetsvärdering, högre textmässig kvalitet och personligt berättande är några exempel. Samtidigt visar det kvantitativa stickprovet att de egna utrikesnyheterna och korrespondenterna blir färre. I kvällspressen består utrikesnyheterna i dag nästan bara av omskrivna och översatta utländska artiklar och i dagspressen har antalet utrikesnyheter minskat till följd av omläggningen till tabloid-format. En av slutsatserna i arbetet är att begreppet utrikeskorrespondent kan vidgas och innefatta många olika källor som ger upphov till utrikesnyheter.

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Söderlind, Molly, and Amanda Lindström. "Världen i Dagens Nyheter : En kvantitativ studie av globaliseringen i Dagens Nyhetersnyhetsjournalistik under perioden 1988-2013." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30450.

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Reflekterar en av Sveriges största tidningar, Dagens Nyheter världens intensifierande interrelationer och ömsesidiga beroenden? Syftet med den här studien är att finna uttryck för globalisering i Dagens Nyheters huvudbilaga under perioden 1988 till 2013. För att uppnå detta, har vi använt oss av en kvantitativ innehållsanalys, där vi analyserat 1492 nyhetstexter från Dagens Nyheter. I studien undersöks uttryck för globalisering på tre sätt: genom att mäta mängden utrikesmaterial, vilka länder, regioner och världsdelar som finns representerade i bevakningen samt huruvida nyhetstexterna innehåller nyhetsgenren ”global journalistik”. Av studien framgår att andelen utrikesmaterial har ökat på bekostnad av andelen inrikesmaterial, att inte alla länder, regioner och kontinenter finns representerade och att texterna innehåller global journalistik i viss uträckning. Does one of the major Swedish newspapers Dagens Nyheter reflect the intensifying interrelations and interdependences in the world today? The aim of this study is to find expressions for globalization in the main section of Dagens Nyheter during the period between 1988 and 2013. To achieve this, we applied quantitative content analysis on 1492 news articles from Dagens Nyheter. Here, expressions for globalization are examined in three ways: the amount of foreign reporting, which countries, regions and continents are represented in the reporting and whether the news style” global journalism” is present in the reporting. This study finds an increase in foreign reporting at the expense of domestic reporting, that not all countries, regions and continents are represented and that global journalism is present to some extent.

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Andersson, Matilda, and Sofie Hallén. "Borta bra men hemma bäst : En kvalitativ studie av hur det globala påverkar det kulturella i Elle Decorations hemma hos-reportage." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMK), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-39879.

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Syfte/problemställningar: Att med en kvalitativ undersökning studera om det tydligt via text och bild går att urskilja några globala och kulturella influenser i utvalda reportage från magasinet Elle Decoration, från fem olika länder. Vi studerar även skiljelinjerna mellan vad som är privat och vad som är offentligt genom framställningen av hemmet och dess inredning. Teori: Birgit Öbergs kulturperspektiv, John Tomlinsons globaliseringsperspektiv, Anja Hirdman, Madeleine Kleberg och Kristina Widestedts teorier kring intimiseringen av journalistiken och Jürgen Habermas offentlighetsteori. Metod: Semiotisk bildanalys och textuell diskursanalys. Resultat och slutsats: Via undersökningen har vi kommit fram till att det globala kan ses som ett nytt ideal inom heminredning där en gemensam underliggande mall ligger till grund för hemmens utformning och framställning. Personvalet för hemma hos-reportaget påverkar uppfattningen av reportaget genom att det endast blir en form av elit som porträtteras. Detta i sin tur bidrar till att upprätthålla magasinets profilering som ett exklusivt heminredningsmagasin. Någon tydlig skiljelinje mellan vad som anses vara privat eller offentligt syns inte mellan de olika ländernas utgåvor. Det går genom framställningen av alla de utvalda hemma hos-reportagen att via text och bild se hur globaliseringen verkar på mikronivå. Framställningen av hemmet har kommit att bli en plats för representation, mer än en privat sfär.

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Nordkvist, Emma, and Nike Ingelmo. "Stopp! Jag äger min egen kropp : Kroppen och sociala medier - en kvalitativ studie." Thesis, Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIH, Institutionen för rörelse, kultur och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:gih:diva-6538.

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Abstract AimThe main purpose of the study is to analyze young women´s views on how a body is displayed in social media. ● What body ideals do young women perceive as being prominent on Instagram? ● How do young women relate to how influencers expose their bodies on Instagram? ● How are young women affected by Instagram from a health perspective? Method In our study, a qualitative approach was used and the results were based on semi-structured interviews opened with an initial free discussion based on six different images of famous influencers exposing their bodies on Instagram. The people we interviewed were six young women attending Upper Secondary school in the Stockholm area. After the interviews, the material was transcribed and data could be analyzed based on three themes: health, ideals and body. To get a more in-depth analysis, the discussion is based on a phenomenological perspective and salutogenic perspective. Results The results of our study demonstrate that the young women we interviewed do not place a lot of emphasis on following influencers who expose their bodies, but rather follow funny friends. Furthermore, the results indicate that there is still a strong and narrow image of the ideal body. Finally, our image is strengthened by how social media, such as Instagram can affect young people´s health in a negative but also sometimes positive way. Our results are strengthened by the previous research presented in the study. Conclusions Despite the fact that the body ideal is strong, we see that it may be opening up more towards greater acceptance in society among our young adults. To some extent we witness a change, where young women opt out of influencers because they contribute to poorer health. There is a great need to continue research with new studies in the field andadults must be involved in the development and together take part in experienced situations and work with what creates health. Syfte och frågeställningar Studiens övergripande syfte var att analysera unga kvinnors syn på hur kroppen framställs isociala medier. - Vilka kroppsideal upplever unga kvinnor är framträdande på Instagram? - Hur förhåller sig unga kvinnor till hur influencers exponerar sina kroppar på Instagram?' - Hur påverkas unga kvinnor av Instagram sett ur ett hälsoperspektiv? Metod Vi har använt en kvalitativ ansats och resultatet grundas på semistrukturerade intervjuer sominleddes med en fri diskussion utifrån sex olika bilder på kända influencers som exponerar sinakroppar på Instagram. Personerna som vi intervjuade var sex unga kvinnor som går pågymnasiet i Stockholmsområdet. Efter genomförda intervjuer transkriberades materialet ochdata kunde analyseras utifrån tre teman; hälsa, ideal och kropp. För att få ett mer djup i analysenbaseras diskussion på ett fenomenologiskt perspektiv samt ett salutogent perspektiv. Resultat Resultatet för vår studie visar att de unga kvinnor som vi intervjuade inte lägger så stor vikt påatt följa influencers som exponerar sina kroppar utan hellre följer sina egna kompisar somlägger ut roliga klipp. Samtidigt finns det fortfarande en stark bild av idealkroppen som smal.Avslutningsvis stärks vår bild av hur sociala medier såsom Instagram kan påverka unga hälsatill ofta något negativt men även ibland positivt. Slutsats Det kroppsideal som finns i samhället är starkt men trots det ser vi att det kan vara på väg moten större acceptans i samhället bland våra unga vuxna. Vi ser till viss del förändring där deunga kvinnorna väljer bort influencers på grund av att de bidrar till en sämre hälsa. Det finnsett stort behov av att fortsätta forskningen med nya studier inom fältet och vi vuxna måste varamed i utvecklingen och tillsammans ta del av upplevda situationer och arbeta med vad somskapar god hälsa.

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Granberg, Kajsa, and Victor Gustafsson. "Global studentrekrytering via sociala medier : En jämförande studie av KTH och Chalmers kommunikation på Facebook." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-29407.

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Presumtiva studenter finns på sociala medier och det viktigt att högskolor/universitet använder sig av strategisk och effektiv kommunikation för att påverka utfallet av hur många och vilka studenter som söker sig till skolan. Vi tagit reda på vilka budskap som Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan och Chalmers Tekniska Högskola kommunicerar ut via deras Facebooksidor med hjälp av ett analysverktyg som är baserat på studenters rationella och emotionella aspekter när de söker utbildning utomlands. Vi har också undersökt var de är lika och olika i sin kommunikation genom kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Vi har använt oss av Angulo’s personlighetsteorier, Costumer Relationship Marketing-teorin och Sökbeteende på internet för att hitta ett resultat. Resultatet på totalt 16 analysenheter visar att KTH bland annat sänder ut budskap om att ha kul, trygghet, skapa en bra karriär och att det är vackert i Stockholm. Chalmers inlägg är kortare och de är mer fokuserade på kvalité och personliga mål än emotionella aspekter för att övertyga studenten. Prospective students are using social media to find information about higher education. It is important for universities to use an effective communication to affect the outcome of how many and what kind of students that apply for the specific school. With an analyzing tool that is based on student’s rational and emotional aspects when they apply for a university, we found what messages that KTH and Chalmers communicate through their Facebook pages. We have also looked at where they are similar and different in their communication. We have used Angulo’s Personality Theory, Costumer Relationship Management and Searching behavior in internet to find a result. The result from a total of 16 analysis units shows that KTH is sending out messages about having fun, social security, career prospects and that it is beautiful in Sweden and at KTH. This is communicated through stories from students. Chalmers publications are shorter and more focused on quality and personal goals then any emotional factors to persuade students.

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Larsson, Lisa. "Kunskap som vaccin : - En kvalitativ studie av Svenska Röda Korsets lokala kommunikationsstrategier och relationen till det globala." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Information Science, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-6774.

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AbstractPurpose/Aim: This essay deals with The Swedish Red Cross Society and their work concerning strategical information and communication about HIV and AIDS in the Swedish context. In a broader sense the relation between the global and the local will be investigated and a discussion about what it means to work in an organization operating on a global arena will be held.Material/Method: This essay is based on relevant theories about culture and health communication which I have studied, selected and put together, with purpose to analyse The Swedish Red Cross Society and their informational work with HIV and AIDS- prevention. Furthermore I have interviewed four of the organizations co- workers to collect data about their experiences in working in the Red Cross organization with this specific mission. Moreover I and my colleague Hillevi Good attended at seminars and lectures to observe activities held by the organization and to get inside information about what people working with HIV and AIDS are discussing and considering as critical issues. The study holds a qualitative approach focusing on understanding this typical case rather then generalizing facts in a larger sense.Main results: The Swedish National Society of The Red Cross has a difficult mission in their work to inform the public about HIV and AIDS, although it is the perfect organization when it comes to communication due to their well-known profile and a huge geographical spread. Foremost this is due to the fact that the problem in Sweden concerns attitudes rather than medical supplies, access to information and other more practical issues.The Swedish citizen is individualistic and the HIV- problem does not exist in his/hers reality in the same way as in a high- endemic country, a fact that complicates information and communication. The organization is well aware of the situation and has a good informational approach with networking and education as examples among others, but this is not enough. Changing behaviour and attitudes takes a long time and a lot of resources that does not exist because of HIV and AIDS low priority in Sweden. Although we have an envied situation when it comes to the number of HIV- positive the situation is critical when it comes to knowledge and empathy among the population.Keywords: HIV and AIDS, The Swedish National Society of The Red Cross, Stiftelsen Noaks Ark- Röda Korset, Culture, Structure of Society, Health communication, Behavioural Change, Knowledge and Information

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Althin, Julia, and Oscar Bang. "Att välja rätt medium : En studie om olika virtuella mediers påverkan på kommunikationen inom globala virtuella team." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-415521.

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Globala virtuella team (GVT) utgör ett konkurrenskraftigt alternativ till traditionella internationella uppdrag och blir därmed allt vanligare, inte minst i kölvattnet av covid-19- pandemin. Denna utveckling riskerar dock att bli på bekostnad av den interna kommunikationens effektivitet. Följande studie syftar till att undersöka möjligheter och utmaningar som finns kopplade till olika virtuella medier och därigenom utreda hur medieval påverkar kunskapsöverföringen inom GVT på multinationella teknologiföretag. Genom fyra djupgående intervjuer med GVT-medlemmar på multinationella teknologiföretag i kombination med en sekundär datainsamling har information samlats in och analyserats. Resultatet visar tydliga mönster i hur kunskapsöverföringen påverkas av medieval beroende på den kommunicerade informationens karaktär. Vidare indikerar studien att medievalet har stor betydelse för hur utmaningarna och möjligheterna med de olika medierna upplevs samt hur framgångsrik kommunikationen är inom GVT. Samtidigt saknas det i dagsläget rutiner och riktlinjer för hur medieval ska genomföras inom teknologiföretagen.

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Andreas, Rödlund. "STRESS OCH SOCIALA MEDIER : En kvantitativ studie om sociala medievanor och stress bland ungdomar i Västmanland." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-43545.

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Background: In recent years, the mental health has decreased among adolescents. They experience stress, and this is especially most evident amongst girls in school age. The usage of internet and social media has increased since the beginning of the twenty-first century. There are previous studies proving that social media have a profound impact on individuals. Research shows that social media creates an unhealthy comparison between individuals resulting in skewed norms and the phenomena of cyberbullying is increasing. Other studies indicate that people experience it as stressful to constantly be connected. However, research has also showed that social media increases globalization as well as access to a new social context for individuals. Aim: To investigate the occurrence and correlation between social media use and stress, the occurrence and connection of violations on social media and stress and whether there are differences in gender in social media habits and stress among adolescents in Västmanland. Method: Quantitative method with cross-sectional design was used to analyze the occurrence and correlation between adolescent’s social media habits and stress. This study is based on data from the Survey of “Adolescent Life in Västmanland - 2017” which included 3951 students from the 9th grade of primary school and 2nd in high school. Results: The results of this study show there is stress among adolescents, use of social medias and cyberbullying occur. There is a correlation between social media use and stress. Adolescents who use social media one or more times an hour are also “quite” or “very “stressed. Adolescents who experienced cyberbullying are more likely to be “quite” or “very” stressed. There occurs a difference in gender between adolescents that use social medias one or more times an hour. Girls use social media more frequently than boys. There are also difference in gender regarding stress, girls are more likely to be “quite” or “very” stressed. Conclusions: A correlation can be found between high-frequency social media use and adolescents who are quite or very stressed. There is also a correlation between adolescents who experience cyberbullying and adolescents who are quite or very stressed. There different reasons for that, but subjective standards that require constant connection, an unhealthy comparison between individuals and different ruling techniques online are factors that influence. Bakgrund: Den psykiska ohälsan ökar bland ungdomar, under tid har sociala medieanvändandet ökat. Det finns studier som visat att sociala medier påverkar individens hälsa, exempelvis genom stress. Sociala medier kan ge tillgång till ett nytt socialt sammanhang samtidigt medför det en stress att exempelvis vara konstant uppkopplad mot dessa plattformar. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka förekomst och samband mellan sociala medieanvändning, kränkningar på sociala medier och stress samt att undersöka om det finns könsskillnader hos ungdomar i Västmanland. Metod: I föreliggande studie används kvantitativ metod med tvärsnittsdesign. Studien baseras på sekundärdata från”Liv och Hälsa ung Västmanland – 2017”. Resultat: Studien visar att det föreligger samband mellan sociala medieanvändning och stress samt mellan kränkningar och stress. Ungdomar som är uppkopplade mot sociala medier en eller flera gånger i timmen är med högre sannolikhet också stressade. Ungdomar som blivit kränkta på sociala medier är också med högre sannolikhet stressade. Det råder även könsskillnader inom sociala medieanvändning, tjejer är mer aktiva än killar. Tjejer är även mer stressade än killar. Slutsatser: Det finns samband mellan sociala medieanvändning och stress samt kränkningar på sociala medier och stress. Det förekommer även könsskillnader i sociala medieanvändning och stress.

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Berg, Miriam, and Sara Zaaroura. ""Att mata monstret" : en kvalitativ studie om gymnasieelevers kroppsuppfattning." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för hälsovetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-20017.

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Background: Previous research has shown that body image can have an impact on wellbeing. A negative body image can increase psychological suffering and have physical implications on health. A positive body image can provide protection against external factors that could lead to a negative body image. Aim: The aim of the study is to explore high school students body image and which situations and environments that has an impact on their body image. Method: The study was conducted through a qualitative method with semi structured interviews, the high school students was in the age range of 15-18. The data was gathered without any pre decided codes for analyzing. Result: The study showed that body image was not static within the high school students, body image could change from day to day and from situation, often depending on the mood. Negative body image could have effect on wellbeing overall, like thinking less of themselves, and also limit the high school students in their everyday life. Most high school students felt strongly that the body is something that you can control, with the right amount of motivation, physical activity and limited food intake, everybody could achieve their dream body. Social media had a negative impact on many of the high school students but could, for some work as a way of controlling what images they meet by unfollowing accounts that made them feel bad about themselves. Conclusion: The result of this study shows that body image can be fluid and strongly affected on the situation. Further research, focusing on what influences body image in this specific target group, could have a great impact on future interventions to improve body image. Bakgrund: Tidigare forskning visar att kroppsuppfattning kan påverka välmående. En negativ kroppsuppfattning kan medföra psykiskt lidande och fysiska konsekvenser för hälsan. En positiv kroppsuppfattning kan medföra ett skydd mot yttre påverkansfaktorer som skulle kunna leda till en negativ kroppsuppfattning. Syfte: Studiens syfte är att undersöka gymnasieelevers kroppsuppfattning samt vilka situationer och miljöer som har en påverkan på deras kroppsuppfattning. Metod: Studien har genomförts med kvalitativ metod i form av semistrukturerade intervjuer där 10 gymnasieelever i åldersgruppen 15–18 fått representera resultatet. Analys skedde löpande under insamling av data enligt induktiv ansats där koderna tog form under arbetets gång. Resultat: Sammanfattningsvis visar resultatet att gymnasieeleverna kunde känna både positiva och negativa känslor inför den egna kroppen, där kroppsuppfattning kunde variera beroende på situation, dagsform samt umgänge. En negativ kroppsuppfattning kunde begränsa i vardagen genom undvikande beteende men det kunde även påverka tankemönster och däri skapa lidande. Kroppen ansågs vara något som kan kontrolleras och förändras med rätt motivation, träning och mat. Sociala medier påverkade negativt i stor utsträckning men kunde även fungera som ett skydd där gymnasieeleverna tog aktiva val om att avfölja konton som påverkade negativt och följa konton med normbrytande kroppar. Konklusion: Resultatet visar att kroppsuppfattning inte är något statiskt utan varierar kraftigt mellan individer och tillfällen. Vidare forskning rörande påverkansfaktorer hos målgruppen skulle kunna förbättra utsikten för framgångsrika interventioner för att förbättra kroppsuppfattningen.

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Bakhshali, Zadeh Shadkam Sohrabi Parisa. "Iran arayee TV - En argumentationsanalys och en retorisk analys av det globala politiska medierummet." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21978.

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Studiens syfte går ut på att undersöka en programledares politiska tal från Tv-programmet Iran aryaee TV. Undersökningen genomfördes med argumentationsanalys och retorisk analys. Resultatet av studien blev att programledarens tal inte är trovärdiga, således att Tv-programmet är opålitligt och manipulerande. Slutsatsen är att Iran aryaee TV är ett uttryck för propaganda samt att mediernas roll som ideologisk bärare i det politiska medierummet enbart finns till för att skapa konflikt.

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Follmer, Maja. "Sociala medier och självskattad hälsa : En kvantitativ studie om sambandet mellan sociala medier och självskattad hälsa hos gymnasieungdomar." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-39324.

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Sociala medier är idag en integrerad del av människors vardagsliv och kan ses som en ny typ av hälsorelaterad levnadsvana som kan innebära både positiva och negativa hälsoeffekter för individen. Självskattad hälsa används för att mäta hälsostatus i en befolkning och lite forskning finns på hur användning av sociala medier påverkar människors hälsa generellt. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur användningen av sociala medier påverkar ungdomars självskattade hälsa samt vilka könsskillnader som finns. Målgruppen för studien är gymnasieelever och studien är baserad på kvantitativ data. En tvärsnittsstudie med en enkätundersökning som datainsamlingsmetod har använts. Frekvenstabeller har gjorts för att beskriva ungdomars användning av sociala medier och deras självskattade hälsa och chitvå test har använts för att påvisa eventuella samband. Resultaten visade på signifikanta värden mellan kön och självskattad hälsa samt mellan användning av sociala medier och självskattad hälsa. Resultatet har diskuterats utifrån teorin om övervägda handlingar.

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Nilsson, Louise, and Evelina Eriksson. "”Instagramvänligt vet väl alla vad det är?” : en kvalitativ studie om unga kvinnors förändrade uppväxtvillkor genom sociala medier ur ett folkhälsoperspektiv." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för hälsovetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-18323.

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Studien byggde på associationen mellan att de som främst använde sociala medier, målgruppen unga kvinnor i åldrarna 16 till 25 år, även var den samhällsgrupp som dominerade i psykisk ohälsa. Forskning kring varför målgruppen lider av psykisk ohälsa mer än andra samhällsgrupper är bristande. Det är samtidigt känt att ungas uppväxtmiljö spelar en betydande roll för deras psykiska hälsa. Sociala medier inkluderas inte som en sådan miljö, trots att unga kvinnor idag spenderar minst 3 timmar där dagligen. Detta motiverade studiens syfte, att undersöka unga kvinnors upplevelser kring sociala medier som uppväxtmiljö i relation till sin identitet och hälsa. Kvalitativ metod möjliggjorde insamling av material genom semistrukturerade intervjuer i fokusgrupper. Studiens resultat fann att unga kvinnor upplever sociala medier som en miljö lika verklighetstrogen som andra fysiskt anknutna uppväxtmiljöer. Studiens resultat redogör även för upplevelser av psykisk ohälsa i samband med sociala medier, men att en hög självkänsla fungerar som en skyddande faktor. Konklusionen redogör för om det finns bestämningsfaktorer för hälsa på sociala medier, bör dessa kunna betraktas som påverkbara förutsatt att de upptäcks och dokumenteras. Därför föreslås framtida hälsoarbete med fokus på säker navigering för unga på sociala medier. Konklusionen påvisar vikten av att folkhälsovetenskapens forskning fortgår i linje med den rådande samhällsutvecklingen som i studien förstås som digitaliserad, detta för att inte missa värdefull kunskap kring vad som leder eller avbryter kurs mot psykisk ohälsa. The study’s background was based on the association between those who mainly used social media, young women between the ages of 16 and 25, were also the group that dominated in mental illness. Current research on why young women suffers from mental illness more than others is inadequate. Although, it is well-known that environments that young people integrates with growing up plays a significant role in youths mental health. Despite that young women spend at least 3 hours there daily, social media is not included as such environment. This motivated the study's purpose, to investigate young women's experiences about social media as an emerging environment in relation to their identity and health. Qualitative methodology enabled the collection of material through semistructured interviews in focus groups. The study found that young women perceive social media as an environment as realistic as any other environments they interact with growing up. The results of the study also describe the experiences of mental illness associated with social media, but that a high self-esteem serves as a protective factor. The conclusion explains whether there are determinants of health on social media, these should be considered as impactable provided they are discovered and documented. Therefore, future health work is proposed focusing on safe navigation for young people on social media. The conclusion demonstrates the importance of public health science research continuing in line with current social development, which in the study is understood to be digitized, in order not to lose valuable knowledge about what leads or interrupts courses against mental illness.

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Tello, Trillo Cristina Jazmín. "Winters, Alan y Shahid Yusuf (2007). Dancing with Giants: China, India, and the Global Economy. Washington: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/ The World Bank and the Institute of Policy Studies. 272 pp." Economía, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/117903.

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Garambois, Stéphane. "Etudes expérimentales et théoriques des conversions d'ondes sismo-électriques dans les milieux poreux superficiels." Phd thesis, Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), 1999. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00719591.

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Les phénomènes électrocinétiques créés à l'échelle microscopique par le passage d'ondes sismiques à travers des milieux poreux saturés en fluides génèrent des conversions entre énergies sismique et électromagnétique observables à l'échelle macroscopique. Nous avons étudié ces couplages à la fois sur un plan expérimental et théorique dans le but de déterminer leur utilisation potentielle pour la détection et la caractérisation du contenu en fluides des milieux poreux superficiels. Nous présentons dans un premier temps une série d'expériences de terrain effectuées pour enregistrer, à l'aide d'antennes électriques reliées à un système d'acquisition sismique multitrace, les champs électriques transitoires générés par une perturbation sismique du milieu. Après atténuation du bruit généré par les lignes à haute tension grâce à des filtres adaptés, deux effets sismo-électriques ont été identifiés: i) un champ électrique dominant qui accompagne les ondes slsmiques, et ii), des perturbations électromagnétiques précursives, de faIble amplitude, présentant une inversion de polarité de part et d'autre de la source sismique avec peu ou pas de décalage temporel le long du dispositif récepteur. Par la suite, nous détaillons les aspects théoriques de la propagation couplée des ondes sismiques et électromagnétiques dans des milieux poreux saturés en utilisant les équations obtenues par Pride (1994), qui combinent la théorie de Biot aux équations de Maxwell via des équations de transport. Nous avons résolu ces équations à l'aide d'un programme de simulation numérique dans le but de générer des sismogrammes, des électrogrammes et des magnétogrammes synthétiques. Ceci nous a permis d'étudier de manière détaillée les effets sismo-électriques, d'interpréter nos données et de mettre en évidence des applications potentielles d'enregistrements simultanés des champs d'ondes sismiques, électriques et magnétiques pour la caractérisation des couches poreuses superficielles.

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Gustafsson, Camilla, and Charlie Nettelman. "Påverkas vår psykiska hälsa av smartphone-användandet? : En kvantitativ studie om hur utbrett smartphoneberoende är och hur det påverkar den psykiska hälsan." Thesis, Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIH, Institutionen för idrotts- och hälsovetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:gih:diva-5343.

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Sammanfattning Syfte och frågeställningar Syftet med studien var att få en inblick i hur omfattande smartphoneanvändning var bland människor och hur denna användning samvarierade med den mentala hälsan. En annan del av syftet var att se om ett beteendemönster kunde ändras hos smartphoneanvändarna och på så vis ändra den mentala hälsan. För att uppnå syftet ställdes två frågeställningar: (1) Finns det något samband mellan grad av smartphoneberoende och upplevd psykisk hälsa? (2) Kan en kortare tids intervention där man begränsar användandet av smartphone hos deltagarna påverka deras subjektiva psykiska välmående? Metod För att få en inblick i hur utbrett smartphoneberoendet är i dagsläget och om det påverkar den subjektiva psykiska hälsan valdes enkät som metod eftersom det var tidseffektivt och gav ett brett urval. För att kunna skapa en beteendeförändring så behövdes en aktiv interaktion med respondenterna, därför kom beslutet att utföra en intervention. Interventionen gick ut på att deltagarna under sex dagar skulle reducera sitt mobilanvändande i största mån möjligt för att se om deras mentala hälsa kunde påverkas. Urvalet bestod av 76 kvinnor och 56 män med en medelålder på 25 år. Resultat Enligt korrelationsanalysen fanns ett svagt samband r = - 0,218 mellan mental hälsa och smartphoneberoende som var statistiskt signifikant (p = 0.013). Analys av enkätdata visade en stor grupp som klassades som smartphoneberoende = 48.2% och 51.8% som ej smartphoneberoende. Detta visade att fler personer är mobilberoende i detta urval än vad andra studier hittat. Interventionen bortgick på grund av ett stort bortfall. Slutsats Resultatet visade på ett svagt negativt samband mellan mental hälsa och smartphoneberoende. Kausalitetssamband klargjordes inte och vidare forskning krävs på ämnet för att i framtiden kunna urskilja om en mental ohälsa leder till mer smartphoneanvändande eller om mycket smartphoneanvändning leder till mental ohälsa i sig. Abstract Purpose and objective The purpose of this study was to survey the use of mobile phones amongst people and how it coincides with mental health. We also wanted to investigate whether or not we could create a behavioral change amongst the mobile phone users and thereby see if it affected their mental health. To achieve this objective we emanated from two questions: (1) Is there a relationship between Smartphone addiction and subjective mental health? (2) Can a short intervention, where you decrease the time spent on smartphones amongst users improve their subjective well-being? Method To get an insight in how widespread the use of mobile phones is and if it affects subjective well-being we chose to collect data through surveys because it was time effective and gave a wide group of people. To be able to create a behavioral change we concluded we had to actively interact with the respondents, so we chose to perform an intervention. During the intervention the participants would reduce their mobile phone usage to the greatest extent possible to see if their mental health could be improved. Result According to the correlation analysis, there is a weak relationship r = - 0,218 between mental health and smartphone addiction which is statistically significant (p=0.013). Analysis of survey data showed a large group classified as smartphone addicted = 48.2% and 51.8% as non-smartphone addicted. This shows that more people are smartphone addicted in this study than other studies have found. The intervention failed due to many dropouts. Conclusions The result showed a weak negative correlation between mental health and smartphone addiction. Causal correlation was not clarified and further research is required on the subject in order to determine whether mental health issues leads to more smartphone usage or if a lot of smartphone usage leads to mental health issues by itself.

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Schloss, Jacob Leon. "A comparison of selected instructional media and methods for teaching global studies /." 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/11858.

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Dixon, Dwayne Emil. "Endless Question: Youth Becomings and the Anti-Crisis of Kids in Global Japan." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/8797.

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Young people in Japan contend with shifting understandings of family and friends, insecure jobs, and changing frames around global and national identities. The category of youth itself is unsettled amid a long period of social and economic change and perceived widely as crisis. Within contested social categories of youth, how do young Japanese people use the city, media, and body practices to create flexible, meaningful sociality across spaces of work, education, and play? What do youthful sociality and practices reveal about globally oriented connections and how do they inform conceptions of the future, kinship, gender, and pluralized identities? In short, what is the embodied and affective experience of being young as the category itself is increasingly unstable and full of risks? These questions shape the contours of this project.This dissertation considers youth through its becoming, that is, the lived enactment of youth as energy, emotion, and sensibility always in motion and within range of cultural, spatial, bodily, and technological forces. Three groups of young people in this layered latitudinal study demonstrate various relations to the city street, visual media, globalized identities, contingent work within affect and cultural production, and education. The three groups are distinctly different but share surprising points of connection. I lived alongside these three groups to understand the ways young people are innovating within the shifting form of youth. I skated with male skateboarders in their teens to early 30s who created Japan's most influential skate company; I taught kids attending a specialized cram school for kikokushijo (children who have lived abroad due to a parent's job assignment); I observed and hung out with young creative workers, the photographers, web designers, and graphic artists who produce the visual and textual content and relationships composing commercial "youth culture." My project examines how these young people redefine youth through bodily practices, identities, and economic de/attachments. The skaters' embodied actions distribute/dissipate their energies in risky ways outside formal structures of labor. The kikokushijo children, with their bi-cultural fluency produced in circuits of capitalist labor, offer a desirable image of a flexible Japanese future while their heterogeneous identities appear threatening in the present. The creative workers are precariously positioned as "affective labor" within transglobal (youth) cultural production, working to generate visual and textual content constant stressful uncertainties. All three groups share uneasy ground with capitalist practices, risky social identities, and crucially, intimate relations with city space. In attending to their practices through ethnographic participation and video, this dissertation explores questions concerning youthful relations to space produced in material contacts, remembered geographies of other places and imaginary urban sites. The dissertation itself is electronic and non-linear; a formal enactment of the drifting contact between forms of youth. It opens up to lines of connection between questions, sites, events, and bodies and attempts an unfolding of affect, imagination, and experience to tell stories about histories of gender and labor, city life, and global dreams. It asks if the globalized forms of Japanese youth avoid the risks of the impossible secure for the open possibilities of becoming and thus refuse containment by crisis? Dissertation

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Pradhan, Jinni. "It's My Passion, That's My Mission to Decide, I'm Going Worldwide: the Cosmopolitanism of Global Fans of Japanese Popular Culture." 2010. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/533.

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This study examines the academic concept of pop cosmopolitanism—an interest in global popular culture that leads to start of a global perspective and provides an escape route out of the parochialism of local community/culture—as posited by Henry Jenkins in its lived, experienced context. The online English-speaking overseas fandom of the Japanese male pop idol talent agency, Johnny & Associates, framed as a community of pop cosmopolitans, serves a case study to evaluate this concept. These global fans demonstrate through their engagement with and investment in a form of Japanese popular culture that they are able to obtain a competency in Japanese culture that would have not otherwise been available to them. The obtainment of this cultural competency is driven by the personal notion of fandom, with emotional affect and identification between the fan and the fan object at its core, and access to new media technologies such as the Internet. However, it is noted that Jenkins's original definition of pop cosmopolitanism does not account completely for the complexity of the lived experience and a distinction of local pop cosmopolitanism and comprehensive pop cosmopolitanism is necessary. Furthermore, the pop cosmopolitans studied discount the idea of escape embedded into Jenkins's definition and instead emphasize the positive influence of their pop cosmopolitanism on their own (fandom) identity construction.

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Ryan, Shaun Ross. "South African sport in the global media arena : tackling issues of globalisation and media control and their impact on the national interest." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/466.

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