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Dubé, Richard. "Focus of attention : a behavioral perspective on media credibility /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6210.
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Barger, Wendy Noel. "Toward a theory of press criticism /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3113000.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 302-311). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Orr, G. Michael. "An articulation theory perspective of Neil Postman's media criticism /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3060130.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002.<br>Typescript. Paging starts with leaf 2. There is no leaf 1. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 165-185). Also available on the Internet.
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Bright, Sue-Ann. "Brain drain, exodus and chicken run : media discourses on emigration." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007672.
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This paper explores the discourses of emigration in a South African daily newspaper from 1988 to 2001, and discusses the implications of these discourses on the way in which emigration is constructed within South African society In this paper, Potter and Wetherell 's (1987) approach to discourse analysis is utilized. It makes use of interpretative repertoires, to explore the functions and consequences of the discourses. The discursive framework thereby reveals the different subject positions related to nationalism, race and class. It is argued that economics and notions of culture and social class, do more than provide a useful medium through which the phenomenon of emigration can be understood. They also support the affirmations of certain groups of people above others, by claiming that emigration is unpatriotic and disloyal. This paper concludes by identifying the negative connotations of media discourses in the construction of emigration and acknowledges that many alternate constructions are silenced in this matter.
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Rodgers, Ronald R. "An untamed force : magazine and trade journal criticism of the new journalism and the rise of professional standards, 1890s to 1920s /." View abstract, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3191716.
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Kleiner, Marcus S. "Medien-Heterotopien Diskursräume einer gesellschaftskritischen Medientheorie." Bielefeld Transcript, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=014863907&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Oriez, Richard J. Rees David. "Do readers believe what they see? reader acceptance of image manipulation /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6551.
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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on November 19, 2009). Thesis advisor: David Rees. Includes bibliographical references.
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Vine, Josie, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "'...we are not competing with bigger papers - we are doing a different job': A study of country Australian news values." Deakin University. School of Literary and Communication Studies, 2001. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050815.100534.
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Legge, Janet Helen. "Post-feminism in Cosmopolitan and For Him magazine (FHM) : a critical analysis." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005956.
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Cosmopolitan and For Him Magazine (FHM) are, at present, both the most widely read and, therefore, the most popular "white" consumer magazines in South Africa. They both appeal to young audiences of between 18 and 34 years of age, approximately, and target middle-class, educated groups of readers. My interest in Cosmopolitan and FHM lies in their ability to influence and shape their readers' actions, values, identities and relationships, in particular with the other gender. My analysis is focused on the cover pages and the Editor's letters of six copies of each magazine, ranging from April to September 2003, providing me with a corpus of 12 cover pages and 12 Editor's letters. I adopt a critical perspective through the use of Fairclough's (1989) Critical Discourse Analysis, supported by Mills (1995) Feminist Stylistics, McLoughlin's (2000) textual analysis of cover pages and Kress & van Leeuwen's (1996) visual analysis tools. By combining these different methodologies my research falls into what is newly termed Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis (Lazar 2005). The cover page analyses used primarily McLoughlin and Kress & van Leeuwen and provides an element of pure genre analysis, while the analysis of the Editor's letters were subject to Fairclough's three inter-related stages of analysis, namely: a Description of the formal textual elements of the letters, an Interpretation which analyses the processes of text production and interpretation, and lastly an Explanation of the socio-historical context. Through an analysis of these magazines, whose interests are being served and how the readers are shaped and positioned by the magazines can be identified. My analyses revealed conflicting discourses within each magazine, however it was Cosmopolitan that revealed more tension and conflict in terms of identifying and representing women, while FHM subscribed, for the most part, uniformly to the "new lad" ideology. However, while Cosmopolitan attempted to show a forward-thinking and emancipatory view of the roles of men and women in society, both magazines covertly sustain patriarchal dominance and hegemonic masculinity. In conclusion, I reveal the need for consumers of the mass media to become more critically aware of the ideologies that are promoted through the differing tools of the media and that only through this critical awareness can any further movement towards equal relations between men and women be made.<br>KMBT_363<br>Adobe Acrobat 9.54 Paper Capture Plug-in
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Manda, Levi Zeleza. "Gender discourse and Malawian rural communities: a study of the meaning the people of traditional authority Likoswe of Chiradzulo make from human rights and gender messages." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002910.
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Contrary to earlier beliefs and media theories such as the hypodermic needle or magic bullet, the audience of public communication is not a passive homogenous mass that easily succumbs to media influence. The audience is active, that is, it makes an effort to interpret media content. Depending on predisposing cultural, political, religious, or economic factors the audience makes different meanings from media texts. Media messages are not wholly controlled by producers, although the producers have their preferred and expected readings. Using qualitative research techniques associated with ethnographic and cultural studies (notably focus group discussions), this study sought to explore the meanings rural people in Malawi make out of human rights and gender messages broadcast on radio and through music. Interpreted against Stuart Hall's (1974b) Encoding and Decoding model, the study concludes that while rural communities understand and appreciate the new sociopolitical discourse, they take a negotiated stance because they have their own doubts and fears. They fear losing their cultural identity. Additionally, men, in particular, negotiate the messages because they fear losing their social power over land, property and family.
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Fortin, Patrice. "L'implication régionale des média écrits dans les grands débats politiques canadiens /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1988. http://theses.uqac.ca.
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Lyons, Sara J. "The sacrifice of honey (fiction) ; The depiction of the media in The shark net, Evil angels and The sacrifice of honey (thesis)." University of Western Australia. English, Communication and Cultural Studies Discipline Group, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0055.
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Di, Guglielmo Antoinette Christine. "Sex and the city: A postmodern reading." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3239.
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Sex and the City was a television show that aired on Home Box Office from 1998-2004. The tv show succeeded because of feminist's wanting a modern woman's drama rich in episodes about consumption, women's sexuality, financial independence, fashion and contemporary relationship dynamics. The characters captured and perpetuated just that. The modern take on the ideologies that drive women's perception of personal fulfillment, body image, consumerism, social behavior and values and romantic relationship dynamics made this tv show the phenomena that it became.
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Leopold, Amanda A. "Dealing with the Digital: Literary Media, Mediated Narratives, and Sketchy Politics." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1495718816858325.
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Martindale, Linda Shirley. "Racism, criticism or, inept reporting? : racism in the media, the relationship between the state and the press, and the standard of journalism in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53025.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The furor around racism in the media was brought to the surface in 1999 when the Black
Lawyers Association and the Association of Black Accountants of South Africa appealed to
the South African Human Rights Commission to investigate the South African media. This
request was based on the presumption that the South African media was rife with racism and
urgently required attention. The subsequent enquiry was the source of much controversy and
accusation.
Almost three years since the enquiries inception, the issue of racism in the South African
media has not disappeared despite decreasing media coverage in recent months.
When the South African Human Rights Commission launched the enquiry into racism,
prominent media leaders including key editors and newspaper representatives were
summoned to appear before the controversial Commission. Some media leaders felt the
Commission was a direct attack on the freedom of the Press. Others felt the enquiry was long
overdue or slammed it as an all-time flop. Furthermore, pure and simple criticism of the
government is still perceived as racism when it is the Press fulfilling its role as the 'watchdog
of democracy' .
Various Press theories, for example Developmental or Libertarian, impact on the perceived
role of the Press in a democratic nation. The standard of journalism in a country can also
impact on the way in which the press is perceived. For example, there are times when inept
reporting is misunderstood as racist reporting.
This assignment is a broad overview of the enquiry into racism in the media and the concerns
around this issue as well as the response to it. It takes a closer look at the role of the media
and the relationship between the media and the state. In particular, it focuses on how
criticism of the government can be misread as racism, as well as investigating how the
standard of journalism impacts on the way in which the media serve the public.
The South African National Editors Forum launched a skills audit in 2002 and the results
were surprisingly negative. The general standard of journalism in South Africa was assessed
as "low". This assignment looks at the findings of the audit in the light of the above questions
surrounding the standard of journalism as it pertains to reporting on race and accuracy,
understanding and objectivity. The last section of the assignment takes a brief look at several
examples of how to report on race in South Africa and what to be aware of when considering
sensitivity to race issues.
The questions as to whether it is racism, healthy criticism misconstrued as racism, or simply
inept reporting, are explored. Although an expansive topic by nature, this paper provides an
overview of the key issues pertaining to media ethics as it pertains to racism in the South
African media.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die skandaaloor rasisme in die media was te vore gebring in 1999 toe die Black Lawyers'
Association en die Association of Black Accountants die Suid Afrikaanse Menslike Regtes
Kommissie gevra het om die Suid Afrikaanse media te ondersoek. Die versoek was gebaseer
op die gedagte dat die Suid Afrikaanse media rasisties is en dringend aandag nodig het. Die
ondersoek was baie kontroverseel en het na baie beskuldiging gelei.
Omtrent drie jaar nadat die ondersoek begin het, is die kwessie van rasisme in die Suid
Afrikaanse media nog lewendig alhoewel daar minder daaroor geskryf is in die land se
publikasies.
Toe die Suid Afrikaanse Menslike Regtes Kommissie die ondersoek op rasisme begin het, is
belangrike media leiers - redakteurs en koerant verteenwoordiges - voor die Kommissie
geroep. Sommige van die media leiers het gevoel dat die kommissie 'n direkte aanval op
Vryheid van die Pers was; ander het gevoel dat die Ondersoek belangrik was en nog ander dit
as 'n mislukking bestempel het. Eenvoudige kritiek van die regering deur die Pers is ook as
rasisme gesien alhoewel hulle die rol van 'bewaarder van demokrasie' vervul.
Daar is verskeie Pers teories, byvoorbeeld "Developmental" of "Libertarian" wat die
persepsie van die rol van die pers beindruk het. Die standaard van joernalistiek in 'n land
bepaal deur hoe die Pers gesien is. Byvoorbeeld, somtyds is slegte verslaggewering as
rasisties bestempel.
Hierdie opdrag is 'n wye oorsig van die ondersoek op rasisme in die media, die bekommernis
oor die kwessie en die reaksie daaroor. Dit kyk nader na die rol van die media en die
verhouding tussen die media en die staat. Dit fokus op hoe kritiek van die regering as rasisme
misgelees kan word en gee ondersoek aan hoe die standard van journalistiek na beskuldiging
van rasisme kan lei.
Die "South African National Editors' Forum" het 'n Vaardighede oudit in 2002 opgedoen en
die uitslae was negatief. Die standaard van joernalisme in Suid Afrika was as "laag"
assesseer. Hierdie opdrag kyk na die oudit se vindings in die lig van die bogenoemde vrae
oor die standard van joernalistiek: verslaggewing oor rase en akuraatheid, en objectiviteit.
Die laaste deel van die opdrag kyk na verskeie voorbeelde van hoe om oor rase verslag te gee
en waaroor te dink as jy sensitief teenoor rase kwessies wil wees.
Die volgende vrae is na gekyk: Is dit rasisme; gesonde kritiek wat as rasisme bestempel
word, of eenvoudig, slegte verslaggewing? Hierdie opdrag gee 'n wye oorsig oor die
belangrike kwessies van media etiek in verhouding met rasisme in die Suid Afrikaanse
media.
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Kincade, Therese Supple. "You've come a long way, baby? : a feminist rhetorical analysis of More magazine /." View online, 2009. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131566311.pdf.
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Hull, Thomas William Allan. "Selling Moral Panic: Social Scientific Criticism of Movies and Comic Books for Children, 1925-1955." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1263949945.
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Keltner, Kathy A. "FROM MYTH TO METAPHOR TO MEMORY: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF TELEVISED REPRESENTATIONS OF PROJECT APOLLO, 1968-2004." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1177848776.
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Wang, Sijie. "Criticism, Censorship, Influence on Newswork: A Content Analysis of How Film Reviews Published in Photoplay Magazine Changed after Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America's 1934 Censorship." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1399459519.
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Scott, Robert James. "The best a man can get? : an analysis of the representation of men within group situations in the advertising copy of Men’s Health and FHM from December 2006 through May 2007." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013576.
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This study examines the production of masculinity in the advertisements of South Africa’s two most popular men’s lifestyle magazines, FHM and Men’s Health. I specifically focus on advertisements, as I argue that they play a crucial role in the re‐production of prominent discursive formations. Informed by a poststructuralist framework this study adopts Foucault’s notions of discourse, power and the constitution of the subject. Gender is conceived of within power relations, with a hierarchical relationship between masculinities and femininities. The gendered subject is also viewed as being constantly in process and being constructed performatively through material forms of practice. Focusing on group representations to establish gender hierarchies, I argue that these representations of people are performative acts, hailing the subjects who view them and producing reality through discourse. Hegemonic masculinity, which is argued to be prominent in advertising, is located at the highest point in the gender hierarchy. However, there is not one universal hegemonic masculinity, for it can vary across three discrete political contexts: the local, which is constructed in the immediate face‐to‐face interactions of families, organisations and social structures; the regional, which is constructed at the level of culture or the nation state; and the global, which is constructed in supra‐national locations. In the advertisements of FHM and Men’s Health there is interplay between the latter two as global and regional brands both advertise in these magazines. To investigate the portrayal of masculinities in these publications, this study first undertakes a content analysis to survey the “general landscape” of representation in the advertisements and then performs a critical discourse analysis to uncover “thick description” of the production of masculinity. The content analysis, finds that the advertisements in the sample validate both white and heterosexual forms of masculinity. The sample is comprised mostly of white males, white females and black males, generally proposing forms of hegemonic masculinity, emphasised femininity and complicit masculinity respectively. The representation of white males and black males is different both in terms of the frequency of representations and in the types of representations. I argued that a certain tension inhabits the resulting representations, which try to be inclusive of a multi‐racial South Africa, yet do so within a clearly hierarchical structure. An in‐depth analysis of eight texts, informed by Fairclough’s model of critical discourse analysis and Kress & van Leeuwen’s framework for visual analysis, finds similar results to the content analysis while providing insight into how various discourses produced the representations, particularly within non‐narrative advertisements.
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Mulonya, Rodrick K. A. R. "The political economy of development aid: an investigation of three donor-funded HIV/AIDS programmes broadcast by Malawi television from 2004 to 2007." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002926.
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Development aid in most of the developing countries can sometimes compromise the principles of public service broadcasting (PSB). This may be true when reflected against the tension between donor financed programmes in Malawi and the mandate of Television Malawi (TVM). Although the donor intentions are noble, the strings attached to the funding are sometimes retrogressive to the role of PSBs. A case in point is how donors dictate terms on the HIV/Aids communication strategies at TVM. Producers receive money from donors with strings attached on how the money should be used and accounted for. If producers deviate they are sanctioned through withholding funding, shifting schedules and reducing the funding frequency. The donors also dictate who to interview on what subject, how to conduct capacity building. Some scholars have researched much on the impact of commercialisation of the media. This study is a departure from these traditional interferences; it interrogates the interest of philanthropy tendencies by international donors in the three chosen HIV/Aids programmes broadcast by TVM. The study investigates the extent of pressure exerted by donors on the producers of HIV/Aids programmes in Malawi. Thus, the study seeks to illicit specifics in the power relationship between the donor and the producer hence the study employs the political economy of development aid as applied to the public service broadcasting and communication for development. The study employed qualitative research methods and techniques (in-depth interviews, case study and document analysis). The study reveals how donor ideologies dominate the Aids messages-content output of the texts constructed. The study argues that cultural alienation of the Malawian audiences retards efforts of donors in combating HIV infection rate.
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Souza, Evelise Guioto de. "Dogville, filme e crítica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-17102007-151818/.
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Dogville é um filme que suscitou reações opostas e viscerais. Essa dissertação aborda dois aspectos desse fenômeno. Em primeiro lugar, uma leitura do filme especialmente no que diz respeito a seu princípio contraditório. Não se trata apenas de abrigar aspectos realistas da chamada linguagem clássica do cinema conjuntamente com aspectos antiilusionistas de inspiração assumidamente brechtiana. Trata-se de compreender como essa contradição é o coração do filme e produz seu sentido. Em seguida, uma leitura da crítica publicada nos veículos de comunicação de grande circulação procura identificar como esses textos encaram ou ignoram essa contradição, bem como as pré-concepções que permitem que eles assim o façam e que determinam as análises que produzem.<br>Dogville is a movie to which most people reacted passionately, whether in favor or against it. This dissertation approaches two aspects of this phenomenon. First, it provides a reading of the film that focuses on its contradictory principle. It is not only about the fact that some of it resorts to classic realism whereas some other aspects question this illusionism by deriving from a Brechtian inspiration. It is about understanding how this very contradiction is the heart and soul of the movie and how it is this that produces its content. Then, a reading of reviews published in wide circulation papers attempts to identify how these texts either address or ignore this contradiction, as well as the pre-conceptions that allow them to do so and that determine the analyses they produce.
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Dumm, Elena. "Show No Weakness: An Ideological Analysis of China Daily News Coverage of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1617884910805174.
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Gifford, Ben. "Reviewing the critics: Examining popular video game reviews through a comparative content analysis." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1377089044.
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Tapia, Ruby C. "Conceiving images : racialized visions of the maternal /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3057347.
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Daiello, Vittoria S. "The “I” of the Text: A Psychoanalytic Theory Perspective on Students’ Television Criticism Writing, Subjectivity, and Critical Consciousness in Visual Culture Art Education." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1293716652.
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Moot, Dennis. "Visual Culture, Crises Discourse and the Politics of Representation: Alternative Visionsof Africa in Film and News Media." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1596021641358625.
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Bonham, Lorie N. "Gender Images and Power in Magazine Advertisements: The Consciousness Scale Revisited." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2005. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/1.
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This study re-evaluates the Consciousness Scale originally formulated by Pingree et al. in 1976. The element of assumed power was added to the Consciousness Scale, which was then used to evaluate 516 magazine advertisements from 1999 to determine if the Consciousness Scale still accurately evaluates sexism in media. A set of advertisements was culled which had contradictory Consciousness Scale and power ratings. The set was evaluated, revealing common themes, which created difficulty in coding these modern images. The study revealed that while the Consciousness Scale can still provide a valuable tool in evaluating media images, the change in the social dynamic of women as well as minorities and how advertisers portray them must be taken into account. The element of power as well as a more nuanced reading of each level of the Consciousness Scale creates a more modern and complex evaluation of gender images in the media.
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Dann, Sierra. "“Big Little Lies:” Using Hegemonic Ideology to Challenge Hegemonic Ideology." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1623773842217318.
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Chmielewska, Katarzyna. "In Martha We Trust? The Cultural Significance of the Martha Stewart Phenomenon." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4267/.
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The thesis examines the relationship between Martha Stewart's rendition of domesticity and a broader cultural trend of the late 1990s U.S. domestic retreatism. It argues that the mode of construction and representation of the "domestic dream" in Stewart's programs cannot be examined outside of such concepts as class and ethnicity, whose understanding depends on the cultural, social, and political context of a given era, a context, in which they become transparent as aspects of the Western (white, patriarchal) status quo. Performing a deconstructive reading of these categories as employed by Stewart in the process of creation of her media persona, the thesis examines what the negative as well as positive reactions to "Martha Stewart" convey about the condition of American society of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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Dewa, Nonhlanhla. "Interrogating gender constructions in the Daily Sun: an analysis of the coverage of the 'Charter for a Man' campaign against gender violence between November and December 2007." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002879.
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The study seeks to interrogate the gender constructions in the Daily Sun’s “Charter for a Man” campaign which ran from 7 November to 7 December 2007. It coincided with the 16 Days of Activism against gender violence and was designed to lobby support for this campaign and discourage men from physically abusing women. The “Charter for a Man” listed nine principles that signatories were to abide by. It included a section to be signed by men to be submitted to and collected by the Daily Sun. The campaign was constructed as an intervention into the issue of gender violence. Consequently, the 30 news stories, four editorial pieces and 11 letters to the editor that were published during the campaign period make up the textual data analysed in the study. The news stories consisted of testimonies from abused women and some women abusers. In addition, celebrity signatories were selected to endorse the campaign and encourage other men to follow suit. In the editorials, the campaign was consistently flagged as a nation building initiative which all men were supposed to support. The letters to the editor consisted of readers who either supported or rejected the campaign. The study takes place against the context of a patriarchal society characterised by high levels of violence. Given this scenario, the study is informed by a concern with gender justice and therefore considers whether such a campaign, ostensibly aimed at eradicating gender violence, has the potential of being transformative of gender inequalities. The study set out to establish the kinds of masculinities and femininities that were variously constituted in the campaign as well as the gender discourses that were privileged. It is informed by the theories of feminist poststructuralism and Foucault’s conceptualisation of discourse. As the campaign is the initiative of a tabloid newspaper, it is also considered within the framework of newspaper campaigns and arguments about tabloids and the public sphere. As text based research, the study employs critical discourse analysis as a qualitative procedure of textual analysis. It makes use of an eclectic approach to textual analysis that draws on linguistics, narrative and argumentation. The texts are analysed according to the categories of news texts contained which includes the Charter itself, signatory articles, testimonies, vox pops and letters to the editor. The overarching theme of nationhood projected in the editorials and other categories is also discussed as part of the analysis. The study concludes that the Daily Sun campaign might be a seemingly progressive action at first glance. However, it does not challenge the existing gender order but rather maintains and sustains patriarchal attitudes through the repeated representation of women as weak and in need of patronage and men as their protectors and providers. In some instances, women are constructed primarily as sexual beings as their physical attributes are emphasised, while men are constructed as working class citizens and rational beings. The study therefore proposes that the Daily Sun fails as an alternative public sphere that might make visible the concerns of women as a marginalised group in society. The campaign, it is argued, is self-serving in its promotion of the Daily Sun’s image as the “People’s Paper” rather than serious concerns about gender violence.
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Barker, Cory Andrew. "Genre Welcome?: Formula, Genre and Branding in USA Network's Programming and Promotional Content." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1332972861.
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Becerra, Martin. "Not Dead At All." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2370.
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Not Dead At All is a nontraditional thesis, a creative product, the result of a combination of media production and social research. This paper is an attempt to explain the creative and production process behind the creation of an original media content, using the social research as a tool to increase the likeability of our characters and therefore increase the show’s chances of success.
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Dorworth, Vicky E. "Learning about the criminal justice protagonists: a content analysis of gender messages in the crime film genre." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27987.
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Various forms of popular culture serve to educate and socialize as well as influence human behavior. In a discipline such as criminal justice, little is known by the general public about the individuals involved with the system: the law enforcer, the victim, and the offender. Therefore, the construction of reality for most is likely to come from media representation.
A content analysis was used as a method to systematically evaluate crime films over a period of 20 years to investigate what gender messages were apparent in the genre. A sample of 42 crime films was drawn beginning in 1972 through 1992. The main and supporting characters were analyzed to determine if gender differences existed in regard to occupational representation, victimization, and offending. Focus was on occupational representation. The data was compared to the official data to ascertain whether the gender representations in the films reflected the official data. Trends over the 20 year period were analyzed to determine if the portrayal of women and men over the years reflected the changes experienced in the criminal justice system.
The research provided an understanding of the content of this form of popular culture. Males were more likely included in the films than females. This is consistent with the reality of male domination in the field of criminal justice and with past research which indicated that women were often excluded from films. Computed Chi-square tests indicated that significant relationships existed between sex and evidence of the police personality; sex and character appearance in casual, uniform, and seductive attire; sex and use of all types of force; sex and use of expert and coercive power; and sex and aggression as a style of conflict resolution. T Tests revealed that there were sex differences in character appearance in uniform and seductive attire, use of aggression as a style of conflict resolution, commission of crime, and commission of nonviolent crime.
The films closely represented the official data in regard to male and female violent offenders with a small overrepresentation of female violence and an equally small underrepresentation of male violence. Women were underrepresented as property offenders and men were overrepresented. In terms of victimization, women were overrepresented as victims of violent crime and property crime.
Over the two decades, women were consistently absent when compared to the number of men casted in the films; were consistently underrepresented as law enforcers, with the exception of two, three year intervals; and were most often casted as wives or girlfriends of law enforcers except in one, three year interval. Men were most likely to be seen as law enforcers in every interval, again consistent with the male domination seen in the law enforcement field. Sexism Level I films, indicating extreme sexism, was found to be at least in 67% of all films for each three interval except from 1984 to 1986.<br>Ed. D.
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Dunn, Jennifer C. "Legal Prostitution as Sex Work: Discourses of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch." View abstract, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3371481.
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Castillo, Gilbert Gerard. "Gender, Identity, and Influence: Hong Kong Martial Arts Films." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3354/.
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This project is an examination of the Hong Kong film industry, focusing on the years leading up to the handover of Hong Kong to communist China. The influence of classical Chinese culture on gender representation in martial arts films is examined in order to formulate an understanding of how these films use gender issues to negotiate a sense of cultural identity in the face of unprecedented political change. In particular, the films of Hong Kong action stars Michelle Yeoh and Brigitte Lin are studied within a feminist and cultural studies framework for indications of identity formation through the highlighting of gender issues.
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Van, Niekerk Tanya. "'N Feministiese analise van animasiekarakters vanuit 'n feministiese benadering." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10122004-135247.
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Harlig, Alexandra M. "Social Texts, Social Audiences, Social Worlds: The Circulation of Popular Dance on YouTube." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1557161706452516.
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Yu, Hongmei. "The politics of images : Chinese cinema in the context of globalization /." Thesis, Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8304.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 306-318). Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.
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Al-Homood, Mohammad. "Drugs and the mass media : a study of Saudi Arabian mass media prevention of drugs." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1995. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/6952.
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The mass media nowadays hold a high position in the educational world, / and have a strong influence over societies. They influence and shape people's thoughts and behaviour. They have been used for a long time in many western countries in drug prevention campaigns, both successfully and unsuccessfully, Drug abuse has recently become a serious problem in Saudi Arabia . At first the Government tried to tackle the problem only by using the police force and without any publications . However, recently the Government has tried to utilize the advantage of the widespread mass media in teaching the population about the dangers of drug abuse. It started to publish a large amount of information about drugs in the mass media. This study is an evaluative research to assess the Saudi Arabian mass media coverage of the drugs issue in two respects. First is a study of the content of the coverage with regard to its presentation, style, and appeal. The second part concentrates on the effect of that coverage on the target audience: Saudi Arabian pupils, their knowledge and attitudes toward drugs, and whether those publications have benefitted them or not. This study has adopted the information-processing model as a theoretical framework. According to that model the first step in the change process is exposure to the message with a certain level of attention, that will lead to increase in knowledge and that automatically will lead to attitude change. The respondents' exposure to the newspaper messages about drugs has been measured and the result indicates that the majority of the respondents received the messages and are interested, like and believe them. Statistical tests indicate that their knowledge about drugs has been increased. Their attitudes have been assessed and the results indicate that most Saudi Arabian pupils aged from 12 to 25 years old have negative attitudes towards drugs. The results indicate that the newspaper coverage of the drugs issue has had some influence upon the Saudi Arabian pupils' knowledge and their attitudes towards drugs.
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Morden, Lizl. "Winged words : a descriptive and quantitative study of figurative speech in the subtitles of 7de Laan." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86394.
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Thesis (MPhil)-- Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates subtitling in 7de Laan, comparing episodes from 2007 to episodes from
2010 with a focus on figurative language. It is a quantitative, descriptive study and aims to
determine the overall adequacy or acceptability of the subtitles, the translation strategies used,
how figurative language and language varieties are translated and compares findings from 2007
to those of 2010 to establish whether there has been a change in approach over this period.
The source text, 7de Laan, is discussed in Chapter 1, which also outlines how the study will
proceed, the research problem and the research questions. Chapters 2 and 3 are the literature
review of the relevant theories. Chapter 2 covers Descriptive Translation Studies and the
translation of figurative language. The challenges particular to subtitling, specifically the
constraints of the medium, are discussed in Chapter 3.
The following two chapters are the analysis and each begins with the methodology used for that
analysis. Chapter 4 is a macrolevel analysis of the corpus and determines the
acceptability/adequacy of the subtitles, their governing translation norms and analyses the
translation strategies used. More specific questions are answered in Chapter 5, which analyses
the translation of figurative language, the representation of language varieties in the subtitles
and the influence catering for a hearing-impaired audience has on translation decisions.
The findings indicate that the subtitles of 7de Laan are mostly acceptable and that acceptability
increases in 2010. The translation strategies used and their frequency of usage are similar over
the years. However, there are slight changes: in 2010 there is less literal translation, more
omission and fewer figurative-specific translation strategies are used. The findings further show
that there is less figurative language in the subtitles in 2010. Additionally, there is a tendency of
levelling out figurative language in both years which increases in 2010. The analysis of
language varieties indicates that for sociolects, age markers influence the subtitles more than
race markers do. Idiolects are rendered but how much of an idiolect is rendered depends on its
markers. The analysis also finds that subtitling for hearing-impaired audiences is a significant
factor in the translation process over and above the spatiotemporal constraint of subtitling.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die onderskrifte van 7de Laan. Dit vergelyk episodes van 2007 met
episodes van 2010 en fokus op figuurlike taalgebruik. Die ondersoek is kwantitatief en
beskrywend en wil die algehele geskiktheid (adequacy) of aanvaarbaarheid (acceptability) van
die onderskrifte vasstel, asook die vertaalstrategieë wat gebruik is en die wyse waarop figuurlike
taal en taalvariëteite vertaal word. Die bevindinge van 2007 word vergelyk met dié van 2010 om
vas te stel of die vertaalbenadering in die tydperk verander het.
Die bronteks, 7de Laan, word in hoofstuk 1 bespreek, wat ‘n oorsig gee oor hoe die studie
verloop, die navorsingsprobleem en die navorsingsvrae. Hoofstuk 2 en 3 is die literatuurstudie
van die relevante teorieë. Hoofstuk 2 dek beskrywende vertaalstudies (Descriptive Translation
Studies) en die vertaling van figuurlike taal. Die probleem eie aan onderskrifte, veral die
beperkings in die vertaalproses, word in hoofstuk 3 bespreek.
Die volgende twee hoofstukke bestaan uit die ontleding en elke hoofstuk begin met die
metodologie wat gebruik is vir daardie ontleding. Hoofstuk 4 is ‘n makrovlakontleding van die
korpus en bepaal die geskiktheid/ aanvaarbaarheid van die onderskrifte, oorheersende norme
en ontleed die vertaalstrategieë wat gebruik is. Meer spesifieke vrae word in hoofstuk 5
beantwoord, wat betref die vertaling van figuurlike taal, die oordra van taalvariëteite in die
onderskrifte en die invloed van die inagneming van gehoorgestremde kykers op vertaalbesluite.
Die bevindinge dui aan dat die onderskrifte van 7de Laan meestal aanvaarbaar is en dat
aanvaarbaarheid in 2010 toegeneem het. Die vertaalstrategieë en die frekwensie van die
gebruik daarvan het oor die jare nie veel verander nie. Daar is egter klein veranderings: in 2010
is daar minder letterlike vertalings, meer weglatings en minder vertaalstrategieë wat spesifiek op
figuurlike taalgebruik gemik is. Die bevindings dui ook aan dat daar minder figuurlike taal in die
2010-onderskrifte is. Die ontleding van taalvariëteite toon dat, ten opsigte van sosiolekte,
ouderdommerkers ‘n groter invloed op onderskrifte het as rasmerkers. Idiolekte word wel
verteenwoordig, maar die mate daarvan word deur die idiolek se merkers bepaal. Die ontleding
dui ook aan dat onderskrifte wat gerig is op gehoorgestremde kykers, ‘n groot faktor in die
vertaalproses is, benewens die tydruimtelike beperking van onderskrifte as sodanig.
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Dixon, Lindsey. "Public Trust in the Mass Media." TopSCHOLAR®, 2007. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/394.
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The purpose of this research is to determine whether the public has an elevated amount of trust in the industry of the mass media. The data for the research come from the 2005 Eurobarometer 64.2. The participants consist of the population of the respective countries of the European Union Member States. The participants are all more than 15 years of age. The results of this study show that certain groups of people have an elevated amount of trust in the media, but overall the dependent variables used explain little with regard to trust in the mass media.
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Lawlor, Andrea. "Understanding public policy through mass media." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121392.
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Media have both direct and indirect influences on policy, and can, at various times, serve as a contributor to policy, a conduit of policy information, and a mirror to the policy process. Although the scholarly literature acknowledges media's role in the policy process, particularly their ability to affect policymakers directly, systematically push policy alternatives, or influence public opinion, the literature often omits a critical role for media: reflecting the policy process. Mass media are the public's largest source of information on policy, yet the volume and tone of media reporting on policy over time, not to mention what we can learn about public policy through media data, are often overlooked. This dissertation examines how we can use media as a tool to better understand the complexity of public policy narratives, framing and change. It also suggests an approach to using media data as a tool to examine the relationships between policy actors and domains. Using automated content analysis of over 25-years of comparative media data, this dissertation consists of three articles: each makes a contribution to the policy literature, namely in the areas of pension policy, immigration policy, and the literature on issue ownership. When taken together, these articles make a broader contribution to the field's understanding of how framing, language and narrative impact the public's understanding of many facets of the policy process. Results demonstrate the value of understanding media's role as a mirror. Additionally, the approach used can be considered a contribution to the methodological toolkit available to policy and political communications scholars to assist them in better understanding the complex relationships between policy and media.<br>Les médias ont des effets directs et indirects sur les politiques. À différents moments, les médias peuvent participer à la création et à la diffusion de politiques, tout comme ils peuvent éclaircir le processus d'élaboration de ces politiques. Le rôle des médias dans ce processus, surtout par rapport à leur capacité d'influer sur les décideurs de façon directe, d'avancer systématiquement des politiques de rechange ou d'influencer l'opinion publique, est reconnu dans la littérature spécialisée. Toutefois, on y aborde rarement un autre rôle fondamental des médias, qui est celui de nous faire comprendre le processus de création de politiques. Pour le public, les médias de masse constituent la principale source d'information sur les politiques, mais le volume et le ton des rapports médiatiques à ce sujet au fil du temps – sans oublier les apprentissages sur les politiques publiques que nous pouvons tirer des données des médias – sont souvent négligés. La présente dissertation traite de l'utilisation des médias comme outils pour approfondir notre compréhension du récit, de la formulation et de la modification des politiques publiques. Elle propose également une approche pour appliquer des données médiatiques à l'examen des rapports entre acteurs politiques et domaines. La présente étude s'appuie sur une analyse de contenu automatisée de données comparatives des médias, couvrant une période de plus de 25 ans. Chacune des trois grandes sections de l'analyse apporte une contribution à la littérature spécialisée, en explorant les politiques en matière de pension et d'immigration, ainsi que la question de l'adhésion aux politiques. Dans son ensemble, l'étude renseigne sur la portée de l'expression, du langage et du récit sur la compréhension populaire des nombreux aspects du processus d'élaboration de politiques. Les résultats de l'analyse soulignent l'importance de comprendre le rôle des médias dans la traduction de ce processus. De plus, les chercheurs qui s'intéressent aux politiques et à la communication politique peuvent utiliser l'approche méthodologique proposée pour étudier les rapports complexes entre les politiques et les médias.
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Palfreman, Jon. "Communicating controversy in the mass media." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2005. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/communicating-controversy-in-the-mass-media(65320260-4d82-4ec9-82ac-a7cf363f0e13).html.
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This doctoral submission grew out of a series of long form documentaries that I wrote, produced, and directed between 1993 and the present. The films, which were broadcast on US television's PBS network, all deal with scientific, medical, or environmental issues that developed into prominent national and international controversies. DVDs and scripts of the seven programs are provided along with a detailed overview. The submission is organized as three projects and an overview. 1. Project One (discussed in chapters 3-7) consists of three documentaries: the first about a novel therapy for autism ; the second dealing with the alleged health effects of power line electromagnetic fields ; and the third focused on the silicone breast implant controversy. 2. Project Two (discussed in chapters 8-11) consists of programs on nuclear energy, Gulf War Syndrome, and genetically modified foods. 3. Project Three (discussed in chapters 12-14) features a two-hour special investigation of global warming. 4. The Overview, Communicating Controversy in the Mass Media not only provides an overarching analysis of the portfolio of films and the attendant theoretical issues, but also serves to summarize the works themselves. In the Project sections of the written overview (chapters 3-14), the analysis is interwoven with extracts from the various documentaries. This portfolio and overview tells the evolving story of a body of work at the intersection of documentary, investigative journalism and science. It reveals the journey of one producer who started out with an interest in unpacking complex controversies, but became increasingly fascinated with the psychological and political dimensions of these narratives. Whether a particular controversial belief holds up under scrutiny is undoubtedly important. But there are other fascinating questions: why do people adopt such beliefs in the first place; why do individuals cling to their beliefs in the face of contrary scientific evidence; and what roles do special interests and the media play in amplifying or attenuating the public's hopes and fears? This portfolio and overview, therefore, not only examine a series of high profile controversies, but go further by: explaining the process by which these topics were turned into documentaries; exploring the way humans analyze, perceive and communicate benefits and risks; and critically examining the validity and ethical standing of modern television journalism. This submission represents a significant contribution to knowledge in several ways. First this series of in-depth, original investigations of environmental and health controversies from one producer is unparalleled in broadcast journalism. Second, the overview's analysis synthesizes and extends a wide range of social science research on risk assessment, risk perception and risk communication and applies this research to the featured controversies and the media's role in them. Third, the portfolio and overview reveal how a blend of documentary, journalism and science is an especially effective way of advancing public understanding of and engagement with modern scientific controversies and goes on to suggest some exciting new directions for communicators. Finally, the case studies in this portfolio provide a basis of knowledge about how communicators can effectively use audiovisual media to navigate the world of risks and benefits that permeates many of society's most crucial policy dilemmas.
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ROUBIDIS, CHRISTOS. "Mass media et conscience collective europeenne." Strasbourg 2, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001STR20006.
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L'europe est en pleine transformation, et elle est en meme temps en train de se construire. Depuis longtemps, il y a une volonte des hommes politiques europeens de voir se realiser une europe unie. Ils ont fait beaucoup d'essais en ce qui concerne la construction europeenne. Aujourd'hui, l'union europeenne se trouve en plein developpement, et plusieurs etats souhaitent devenir membres de l'union. Dans ce processus, les medias jouent un role preponderant, parce qu'ils ont la possibilite de transmettre des messages dans toutes les directions et de creer les conditions necessaires pour faire naitre une conscience europeenne. Cette derniere est importante et doit permettre aux individus de comprendre le sens du processus de la construction europeenne. La conscience permet aux individus d'accepter l'entree de leur pays dans l'union europeenne. Les medias et la conscience europeenne vont ensemble dans la tentative de faire avancer l'union europeenne.
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Ivančević, Bosiljka. "Mass Media Influence on Foreign Policy." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-165346.
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A main purpose of the thesis is to demonstrate and explain to what extend do media influence foreign policy of a state. Foreign policy is always under internal and external influences and media are considered to be one of those external influences that shape it. Agenda setting theory forms the theoretical frame for this thesis because it takes into consideration not just direct media-government relations but the public as well that inside of this relation serves as some sort of mediator. Besides this theory and the CNN effect as its main 'extension' identifiable victim effect and third person effect as important elements in the process of influence will be introduced as well as influence of visualization. When word 'media' is mentioned in this case it implies to television and newspapers' (both printed and online versions) messages and their influences (not just verbal but the visual ones as well). Examples and case studies in this case focus mostly on the US foreign policy due to its influential role, fact that the US is still the country with the most superlatives inside of international arena and the size, influence and role-model identity of its big media companies (for ex. CNN).
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Merz, Nicolas. "The Manifesto-Media Link: How Mass Media Mediate Manifesto Messages." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/18863.
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Diese Arbeit geht der Frage nach, inwiefern die Medien während des Wahl-kampfs über die Wahlprogramme der Parteien berichten. Die Wahlprogramme der Parteien enthalten Informationen darüber, was Parteien nach der Wahl vorhaben. Allerdings lesen wenige Wählerinnen und Wähler Wahlprogramme. Die vergangene Forschung über und mit Wahlprogrammdaten hat bisher angenommen, dass der Inhalt von Wahlprogrammen von den Medien verbreitet wird. Diese Doktorarbeit untersucht diese Annahme empirisch und analysiert, ob und wie Massenmedien während des Wahlkampfs über die Inhalte der Wahlprogramme berichten. Wenn Massenmedien nicht die Inhalte der Wahlprogramme verbreiten würden, hätten Bürgerinnen und Bürger kaum Chancen sich über das programmatische Angebot der Parteien zu informieren. In dieser Arbeit wird das Konzept des Manifesto-Medien-Links entwickelt. Das Konzept bringt Theorien des Parteienwettbewerbs und Theorien der Medienselektion zusammen. Der Manifesto-Medien-Link formuliert drei Bedingungen, welche empirisch getestet werden können. Diese sind: Erstens, Medienberichterstattung und Wahlprogramme müssen zumindest zu einem gewissen Grad dieselben Themen diskutieren. Zweitens, Journalisten müssen Sachfragen mit jenen Parteien verknüpfen, welche diese Themen in ihren Wahlprogrammen stärker betonen als ihre Konkurrenten, um Wählerinnen und Wähler über die Prioritäten der Parteien zu informieren. Drittens, Medien müssen die ideologische Orientierung einer Partei sowie Veränderungen dieser korrekt wiedergeben. Methodisch werden in der Arbeit Wahlprogramm- und Mediendaten kombiniert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass der Manifesto-Medien-Link relativ stabil ist. Außerdem wird gezeigt, dass es nur geringe systematische Verzerrungen zugunsten bestimmter Parteien gibt. Jedoch zeigen sich Unterschiede zwischen Qualitäts- und Boulevardmedien. Die Ergebnisse haben Implikationen für unser Verständnis von politischer Repräsentation und den politischen Wettbewerb.<br>This study analyzes whether media coverage covers messages from parties’ electoral programs (manifestos). Electoral programs contain detailed information on a party’s future policy-making. However, few voters read electoral programs. Still, prior research often assumed that the content of manifestos is known to voters because media disseminate the content of manifestos to voters. This dissertation evaluates this “mediation assumption” empirically, and analyzes whether and how the mass media cover parties’ electoral programs during the electoral campaign. If media coverage did not reflect parties’ electoral programs, citizens would have no chance to base their vote choice on evaluations of those programs. This study introduces the concept of the manifesto-media link in order to describe how media coverage can reflect programmatic offers. The manifesto-media link is formulated as three conditions that can be empirically evaluated and tested in a similar way to the conditions of the responsible party model. These are: First, media must cover similar issues to those that parties cover in their electoral programs. Second, media coverage must link issues with parties that emphasize these issues more than their competitors, in order to inform about the parties’ issue priorities. Third, media must frame parties as left or right in a way that represents how parties emphasize left or right positions in their own manifestos. Methodologically, the study combines secondary content analytical data on media coverage during the electoral campaign with data based on electoral programs. The findings suggest that the manifesto-media link is stable and robust. There is little to no systematic bias in favor of a certain type of party, however there are differences between quality and tabloid media. These findings contribute to our understanding of political representation and the functioning of political competition.
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Mathurine, Jude. "Towards a critical understanding of media assistance for "new media" development." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002914.
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The field of media assistance has grown ever more complex with the inclusion of ‘new media’ networks, channels, tools and practices (such as the Internet, satellite television, mobile devices, social media and citizen journalism) to the media development mix. Adding to the ferment is the increasing convergence between the formerly discrete terrains of ICT for development, media for development and (mass) media development. Much of the discussion regarding the utility and objectives of media development in general and ‘new media’ in particular has been viewed through a modernist and techno-determinist prism which offers a limited ideological view of media development and its objects and consequently, a limited set of communication approaches and strategies. This study contextualises the assumptions of media development historically and critically, with particular focus on new media’s roles and relationships with the media environment, and its objectives democratisation and development. Through the application of literature, theory and various research studies, this thesis establishes a broader view of new media’s role and diverse consequences for media development, democracy and development. The study recommends greater collaboration, contextual research and theorisation of media development and new media as part of mixed media systems and cognisant of the multi-dimensional natures of its objects of democracy and development. One implication is the need for professionalisation of the media development and media assistance sector. In relation to the influences of new media on media use and the media as an institution, it motivates the need to address digital divides and emphasise the sustainability of the practice of journalism.
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Miller, Alanna Rachel. "Negotiating Religious Identity and Mass Media: Examining the Relationship Among Lived Religion, Mass Media, and Narrative Identity." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/340862.
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Media & Communication<br>Ph.D.<br>The purpose of this dissertation is to further clarify the role of mass media for evangelicals in negotiating religious identity. This project uses lived religion, cultural studies, and narrative identity as a framework. Over the course of seven months, I conducted participant observation in an American Baptist congregation, where I observed both their religious and media practices. Additionally, I conducted qualitative interviews with selected key congregants to get a fuller picture of both their media use and their narrative religious identity. I found that narratives about media and media use led participants to certain strategies of distancing and/or integrating media with their religious identity. Various narrative tools, such as maps, symbolic inventories, tropes, and spiritual anchors, were used by participants to juxtapose media with their religious practice. By using these tools, participants sought to gain more moral and religious certainty by using media as both a proxy for self and as a proxy for Others. As moral and religious uncertainty is a characteristic of modernity, I conclude that there may be ramifications for larger media use and moral thought.<br>Temple University--Theses
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Radovich, Tom. "Critical Mass." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2018. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/494.
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