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Stewart, Austin M. "The Militant Gardener." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1339586615.
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Malaolu, Oluwaniran. "The effects of militant press on Nigeria's democratic evolution." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000585.
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Andersson, Yvonne. "Mellan lag och moral : Civil olydnad och militanta veganer i fyra svenska dagstidningar åren omkring millennieskiftet." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation (JMK), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-27276.
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The main purpose of the dissertation is to describe how four Swedish newspapers construct ethical standpoints and what norms they prescribe. This is done through a characterization of the civil disobedience discourse, in particular the discourse about animal rights activism and militant vegans, around the turn of the millennium (1990-2004). Questions asked are how Swedish newspapers construct civil disobedience, what disobedience is supported and what is condemned, and if the newspapers recognize the complexity of ethical dilemmas and facilitate well-reasoned ethical standpoints. The material studied is gathered from Stockholm-based newspapers: Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Aftonbladet and Expressen. In total 1115 texts. The methods used are a combination of quantitative and qualitative content analysis, where the qualitative analysis is based on rhetorical analysis and narratology. The results show that there are mainly two overarching discourses. One supporting discourse, which is predominant in the representation of campaigns justified by economical issues, human rights, peace/anti-war movement and individual rights. One criminalising or demonising discourse, which is predominant in the constructions of militant vegans, the environmental movement and a campaign justified by democratic reasons in Sweden. In sum, the constructions are characterized by strong polarization, formalisation, ambivalence and a double standard of morality, which risk to circumscribe the understanding of moral dilemmas. The consequence is journalistic constructions where the ends justify the means when the end is a political correct, not defiant norm, or when the end is non political. The dissertation also argues that the concepts, specific words, journalists apply in their representation of social reality risk to set the limits for media representations, as well as for the public's understanding, of the social reality and moral dilemmas.
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Long, Aaron T. "Syria's Other Jihad: Jabhat al-Nusra and the News Value of Terror." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1556580450493416.
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Bohrer, Shawn A. "Military-media relationships : identifying and mitigating military-media biases to improve future military operations." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Mar%5FBohrer.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Systems and Operations)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2003.Thesis advisor(s): Steven J. Iatrou, Karen Guttieri. Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-68). Also available online.
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Jensen, Rikke Bjerg. "Military media machine : how the British military communicated Afghanistan at home." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2014. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/8yqvz/military-media-machine-how-the-british-military-communicated-afghanistan-at-home.
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Military Media Machine is an investigation into the media management structure, and the increasingly dynamic communication processes, developed and implemented by the UK military. It explores – rather than explains – the proliferation in military media facilitation within defence, at a time when the British armed forces are concluding their nearly 13-year campaign in Afghanistan. During this extraordinary period of strategic pressure, telling a story of success has become a key factor in the military’s understanding of their own communication function. So this thesis suggests. It does so by demonstrating how strategic narratives are constructed to distance the soldier and the military institution from the war itself. It shows how the military shift from a combat to a ‘train and advice’ role has challenged the ways in which this distinction is upheld and communicated. This has a wider applicability too, as it testifies to the increasing conflation of military goals and political objectives. Using access to UK and NATO field settings and doctrinal discussions, the study documents a growing presence of media theory at the heart of military doctrine. It demonstrates how the British military have engaged large (and not necessarily efficient) resources to managing the story as part of their Afghanistan exit strategy. This includes new communication initiatives, online engagement procedures, information doctrine and media training facilitation. Thesis findings indicate that the purpose of these initiatives is to influence target audiences through the ‘means’ of the media. They paint a picture of an organisation that is increasingly engaged in catering to, and producing material for, the media. Media studies have generally not engaged in military communication research. Similarly, the military have shown little interest in involving external partners in their communication function. The thesis positions itself at the heart of this discussion. It recognises that new frameworks of understanding are needed; frameworks that do not attempt to improve the effectiveness of military messaging but which examine it and consider the practice. Unlike most work carried out in military academies the purpose of the study has not been to develop doctrine. Rather, by taking on an inside-out approach (as opposed to an outside-in approach) the thesis examines a fast-growing aspect of communication research that has so far been poorly documented within media and communications studies.
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Flores, Jesse J. "Military-media relationships : analyzing U.S. Navy Officers' attitudes towards the news media." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Dec%5FFlores.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Systems and Operations)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2003.Thesis advisor(s): Steve J. Iatrou, Karen Guttieri. Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189). Also available online.
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Weiland, John, and n/a. "The Future of International Media Coverage of Military Operations." Griffith University. School of International Business and Asian Studies, 2003. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20051104.143303.
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Given the nature of modem warfare and the impact that technology has in contemporary war reporting, the primary objective of this thesis is to identify the most likely means by which the international media will cover future military operations. Initial research concentrates on the cultural and systemic ethos of the military and media professions and examines whether any differences have an adverse impact on how they operate during periods of armed conflict. A brief review of the history of war reporting is undertaken for several purposes; firstly, to discover if any differences between the professions have had a historical basis and, secondly, to ascertain whether there is any historical evidence of the media compromising military operations when covering operations during armed conflict. It was found that one of the principle reasons why the military and the meha have been traditional adversaries is that the military sees secrecy as vital for the successful conduct of its operations. The media, on the other hand, seeks complete disclosure. In what is considered to be the first of its type undertaken in Australia, a comprehensive survey was conducted to identify how each profession viewed the other. Research concentrated on the US and Australian models, examining how modern technology has made it more difficult for the dtary to control the media than in past conflicts. Research further identified that in the context of modern armed conflict, the military and the media have predominantly different and frequently competing interests. It was also found that the protection and advancement of their interests are affected by technological changes which are redefining the nature of modern warfare, and the means and capacity of the media to report it. The way the media gathers news during conflict was shown to have changed dramatically over the past ten years, particularly with its use of technology in transmitting news live from a battlefield back to a parent media organisation. The military was further seen as dramatically changing the manner in which it conducts warfare, including the introduction of initiatives aimed at neutralising the media's impact on operational security. Somewhat alarmingly, these initiatives not only minimise possible compromises of security but overall media criticism as well. Research also found that the tensions currently existing between the military and media can be resolved by both parties agreeing to a more effective way of reconciling their differences. However, it was found that any well meaning initiatives by the military and the media to work closer together during periods of conflict will be difficult to achieve if the ever-present political manipulation of news is not addressed. The thesis concludes by recommending changes to current military and media doctrine in order that future conflicts may be covered in a manner that fulfils the 'public's right to know,' while at the same time, allows the military to conduct operations without fear that security may be compromised by the subsequent media coverage.
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Kohler, Alison. "Military spouses' relationship with media during Operation Iraqi Freedom." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/740.
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Brogan, Kevin J. "Policy and Approach for Addressing the Military – Media Tension." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26008.
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Media coverage of Post-World War II military conflicts resulted in a reorganization of war coverage procedures. The predominant reason for the reorganization is the tension created within the organizational program that constantly sets one subgroup against another. This study is interested in the tension that caused the transformation of the war coverage effort as it evolved from one war to another.
This dissertation addresses how the different war coverage policies and programs were formed to manage media involvement during war. It is a descriptive account, identifying characteristics from past wars that caused the military and the media to revamp the war coverage procedures in the hope of addressing the tension inherent in their relationship. The study focuses on the organizational dimension of the war coverage program within the particular environment that influences the tension.
By exploring the war coverage practices this study determines how the military and media address their relationship during times of war drawing inferences from organizational elements to account for the contentious relationship. Specifically, this study examines the military-media relational characteristics within Richard Hall's organizational elements. It juxtaposes the war coverage programs against the elements of organizational structure (power, authority, and conflict), and environment (munificence, complexity and dynamism). The research focuses on specific techniques and processes that the war coverage programs use to initiate these practices. In doing so, it examines how certain characteristics influence the military-media relationship.
The research uses a multiple-case study approach to explore war coverage during WW II, the Vietnam War, The Gulf War, and the Iraq War. The multiple-case study approach compares and contrasts these different war coverage procedures from both military and media perspective. Media reports, scholarly writings, and other analytical studies for each period provide the data for the research. The findings of the research are substantiated through interviews, personal journals of war correspondents, and other reports. The findings identify significant trends and patterns within and across the wars.Ph. D.
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Valdés, Matías Pau. "La logística del ejército romano durante la República Media (264-188 a.C.)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/434479.
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La tesis doctoral “La logística del ejército romano en la república media (264-188 a.C.)” plantea como objetivo principal ofrecer una visión de conjunto de la logística romana desde la Primera Guerra Púnica (264 a.C.) hasta la Paz de Apamea (188 a.C.), así como del coste e impacto en las estructuras socioeconómicas de los territorios donde tuvo lugar y de la propia Roma.
A nivel cronológico el trabajo cuenta con unos límites claramente definidos. El punto de partida es el inicio de la expansión de Roma fuera de la península ibérica a raíz de la Primera Guerra Púnica. El punto final del trabajo está marcado por la Paz de Apamea. Este tratado de paz entre la monarquía seleucida y Roma marca la confirmación de Roma como potencia hegemónica a escala mediterránea. A nivel geográfico el ámbito de estudio del trabajo se extiende a toda la zona mediterránea.
Para llevar a cabo este estudio hemos decidido dividir nuestro trabajo en cinco capítulos.
El primer capítulo plantea un recorrido historiográfico de la historia militar y la logística del ejército romano. Partiendo de diversos de los problemas que se han apuntado en el repaso historiográfico, en el segundo capítulo planteamos una revisión de los datos con los que contamos para el estudio de la logística. El tercer capítulo se centra en definir qué elementos formaban parte de la logística del ejército romano en base a las evidencias con las que contamos a nivel escrito y arqueológico. En el cuarto capítulo plantea un estudio de los mecanismos que empleaba Roma como estado y los ejércitos para la obtención y gestión de los recursos. En el último capítulo planteamos cinco estudios de caso. En el primero de ellos nos centramos en el asedio de Agrigento y la problemática que planteó para la logística romana. En el segundo caso de estudio analizamos el despliegue de las fuerzas romanas del 225 a.C. Éste se ha planteado como una respuesta a las acciones de Cartago. Por esta razón, llevamos a cabo una contraposición entre la disposición de ese año y los del año 218 a.C. En el tercer caso nos centramos en la logística de los ejércitos romanos durante la Segunda Guerra Púnica en la península ibérica tomando como base la información obtenida del yacimiento de La Palma. En cuarto lugar, analizamos la importancia del estrés bélico sobre Roma a raíz del final de la Segunda Guerra Púnica y el inicio de la Segunda Guerra Macedónica. Finalmente, el último caso de estudio, se corresponde con la importancia que tuvo el saqueo dentro de la logística de Vulso en Asia Menor en el 189 a.C.
El trabajo realizado aporta una revisión profunda de los datos con los que contamos sobre la logística de época republicana. De este modo, una de las principales conclusiones que se extrae es la enorme complejidad de la logística y el gran impacto que tuvo tanto para el estado como para la zona donde actuaba el ejército. Partiendo de esta premisa, convienen destacar varios puntos clave en las aportaciones de este trabajo.
En primer lugar, la complejidad que queda patente a raíz del apartado 3 implica que la logística debe ser considerada como un elemento básico en la definición de las estrategias y organización tanto de las campañas como territorios por parte de Roma. Si bien por factores historiográficos ha contado con un papel secundario, creemos que a raíz de nuestro trabajo debe empezar a gozar de mayor protagonismo.
En segundo lugar, la variedad de recursos implican diferentes métodos de captación. De este modo, no existe un patrón fijo sobre la gestión de los recursos ni un método predominante para obtener abastecimientos. Por consiguiente, asignarle un rol preponderante a elementos como el saqueo plantea problemas. Desde nuestro trabajo planteamos una revisión de las diferentes prácticas y su interrelación con aspectos políticos, tácticos y logísticos.
En tercer lugar, y como apunte final, hay que resaltar el carácter temporal de la logística. Las estructuras, métodos de obtención de recursos e incluso las rutas están sujetas a fuertes variaciones y cambios en función de las demandas estratégicas.“La logística del ejército romano en la república media (264-188 a.C.)” (The logistics of the roman army during the Middle Republic (264-188 BC) offers an overview of the logistics of the roman army from the First Punic War (264 BC) to the Apamea Treaty (188 BC), as well as a study concerning the impact in the economical and social structures of the areas and Rome during this period. Our research is framed within defined chronological boundaries. The starting point is marked by the expansion of Rome outside the Italian Peninsula as consequence of the First Punic War. The ending point of our research is defined by the Treaty of Apamea. This treaty between the Seleucid monarchy and Rome signals the moment Rome became a hegemonic power in the Mediterranean. The geographical area of this work encompasses all the Mediterranean. To develop our research aims we divided our study in five chapters. The first chapter offer a survey of the development of the military history and the study of roman logistics, highlighting the most relevant historiographical problems. The second one examines the evidences available and the issues concerning the acquisition, management and consumption. The third chapter focuses on defining what elements were supplied and required by the army and the problems they posed. In the final chapter we develop five study cases which deal with a specific problem highlighted in the previous chapters.
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Rezwan-ul-Alam. "Military rule and the media : a case study of Bangladesh." Thesis, City University London, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361852.
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Culver, Kallie Jae. "New horizons for media framing analysis and military spouse employment." Thesis, University of Colorado at Denver, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10112589.
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Media framing analysis has developed in theory and application as a subset of political communication theory for the past several decades. Recent efforts among its scholars have sought to identify and create generalizable frames that can be applied across numerous social and political issues for the purposes of further examining the impact media coverage has on public opinion and policy development. This study utilizes previously established frames to examine media coverage of military spouse employment over the past twenty years, in order to better identify what role media coverage has played in the development of employment policy and support programs for military spouses.
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Craig, Adriane B. "The role of public affairs in the military-media relationship /." Search "ADA379993" in "Accession number" field, 2000. http://stinet.dtic.mil/str/tr4%5Ffields.html.
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Amashukeli, Tamar. "The Russian Media and Russia's Military Intervention in Georgia in 2008." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, SV, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-13029.
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Kephart, Diane M. "Confrontation on the 50-Yard Line: The Military and the Media." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292223.
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Robinson, B. A. "British media military relations and the geopolitics of intervention in Bosnia Hercegovina." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395385.
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Cicek, Edvin. "Framing the public opinion on military conflict." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-10140.
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In many cases, an effective method used by political elites to influence public opinion is throughframing strategies. The use of frames by political elites has the power to change the opinion of agreat mass of people. On October 9, 2019, Turkey launched the military operation Peace Spring.Despite being criticized internationally, the Turkish president managed through framing of theoperation, gaining public approval in its domestic sphere. The purpose of this article is to analysehow president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan frames Operation Peace Spring through Twitter as primarysource. The results show that Erdoğan uses a complex framing that contains several recurringsegments that build on each other and enhances the overall effect.
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Smith, Thomas David Jr. "The "Casualties Hypothesis:" the influence of news media coverage of U.S. military deaths on public support for military operations." The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392913917.
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Echániz, Sans María. "Las mujeres de la Orden militar de Santiago en la Edad Media /." [Valladolid] : Junta de Castilla y León, Consejería de cultura y turismo, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb362116599.
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Fino, Patrícia Mariana. "Os estereótipos turísticos como forma de manipulação durante a ditadura militar brasileira." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/91/91131/tde-25042017-175834/.
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Durante os anos de 1964 e 1985, o Brasil viveu sob uma ditadura militar, marcada por forte repressão político/ideológica aos oposicionistas do regime. Violência, tortura, impunidade e desigualdade foram algumas das consequências do período ditatorial que se instalou no país. Nesta fase, principalmente entre os anos de 1969 e 1974, houve intensa censura aos meios de comunicação (que resultou em controle de tudo que era publicado) e o governo investiu massivamente na divulgação do \"milagre econômico\" e temas nacionalistas como forma de manipular a população. Santos Filho (2008) afirma que a Empresa Brasileira de Turismo - EMBRATUR foi utilizada pelos militares para divulgar uma imagem positiva do país no exterior, uma vez que as denúncias de repressão e violência poderiam prejudicá-los. Esta divulgação foi feita por meio de estereótipos, prejudicando a atividade turística, como é o exemplo do turismo sexual. Esta pesquisa se propôs a investigar se os estereótipos turísticos utilizados no exterior também foram utilizados internamente como forma de promover a ideologia proposta pelos militares resultando em maior controle da população. Porém, neste caso, o corpus não será composto apenas por propaganda e publicidade, mas também (e principalmente) por notícias correntes, em que tais temas foram introduzidos de maneira sutil no cotidiano das pessoas. Foram utilizados os seguintes procedimentos metodológicos: revisão bibliográfica e levantamento documental. De posse destas informações foi realizada a Análise Crítica do Discurso, tal análise nos permitiu compreender o sentido do texto e como ele se articulou com a história e com a sociedade. A revista Veja foi o objeto de análise desta investigação devido ao seu alcance nacional e sua expressiva tiragem no período. Foi realizado o levantamento de uma amostra das edições da Revista Veja, compreendendo o período em que a revista esteve sob censura (de 1969 até o primeiro semestre de 1974), sendo catalogados anúncios, capas, e matérias referentes às passagens que permitiram traçar um panorama do período. Brasil: terra do sol e do mar, das belas mulheres, do povo alegre e hospitaleiro! País rico em belezas e recursos naturais e hegemônico em futebol, carnaval e felicidade. Esse foi o Brasil reiteradamente apresentado nos discursos correntes no período analisado, sobretudo por meio dos estereótipos turísticos. Poucas são as literaturas que transitam pelos três temas: regime militar, imagem e estereótipos turísticos. Nesta pesquisa a história foi revista e reexaminada perante um aspecto até então não explorado.During the years 1964 and 1984 Brazil lived a military rule, period marked by strong political repression / ideological. Violence, torture, impunity and inequality were some of the consequences of the dictatorial period that settled in the country. During this period, particularly between the years 1969 and 1974, there was intense censorship of the media and the government invested massively in the disclosure of the \"economic miracle\" and nationalist themes as a way to manipulate the population. Santos Filho (2008) states that Embratur was used by the military to spread a positive image of the country abroad, since the allegations of repression and violence could harm them. This disclosure was made by stereotypes, hurting tourism, as is the case of sex tourism. This research examined whether stereotypes tourist, proven already used abroad to promote a positive image of Brazil, were also used internally as a way to promote the military ideology, aiming at a better mastery of the population. To reach the proposed aim we used the following methodology: literature review and survey documents. Veja magazine has been the object of analysis of this research because of its national reach and significant circulation in the period. It conducted a survey of a sample of the editions of Veja magazine, including the period in which the search was under censorship (from 1969 until the first half of 1974), being cataloged ads, covers, and matters relating to the passages that allowed to give an overview period. With this information was held on Critical Discourse Analysis, this analysis allowed us to understand the meaning of the text and how it has been linked to the history and society. Brazil: land of sun and sea, the beautiful women, cheerful and hospitable people! Country rich in natural beauty and hegemonic in football, carnival and happiness. This was Brazil repeatedly presented in current discourse in the analyzed period, mainly through the tourist stereotypes. Few literatures transiting through three themes: the military regime, image and tourist stereotypes. In this research the story was revised before an aspect hitherto unexploited.
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Hurley, Daniel Terrance. "Turning around a supertanker, media-military relations in Canada in the CNN age." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ52396.pdf.
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Dowling, J. P. "British media, parliamentary and military accounts of the war in Bosnia 1992-95." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.598619.
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This dissertation concerns two very different representations of the war in Bosnia 1992-95, labelled here as Complexity and Simplicity. The former represented the Balkans in general and Bosnia in particular as places with a troubled and violent history, populated by people predisposed to ethnic violence, for whom the international community could do little and from whom it would do well to stay away from. The latter represented the war as the result of political choices made by politicians in Serbia. Although these two paradigms have been identified and examined before, existing explanations for such disparate interpretations of the war in Bosnia remain unsatisfactory. This dissertation focuses on British accounts of the war. It assesses the processes by which those representations were produced, and why Simplicity failed to overturn the complex consensus in Britain during the period. That assessment involves the description and documentation of the functional constraints and political agenda of those who witnessed or analysed the war. In addition, this research draws on the work of Vesna Goldsworthy to examine the cultural and literary factors that influenced British writers and speakers when representing Bosnia. Chapter one is a treatment of the representation of the battle for Sarajevo as disseminated by the UN. Chapter two analyses the simple work of those journalists who challenged the UN representation of the battle for Sarajevo. Chapter three assesses the ways in which intelligence was gathered and mismanaged away from the very public contest seen in Sarajevo, and in the first two chapters. Chapter four examines the role of the British army in representing the war, and chapter five with the ways in which the war correspondents and defence writers portrayed the British military deployment to Bosnia and the larger war in that country. Lastly, chapter six concerns the enunciation and defence of government policy in the House of Commons, as well as the ways in which simple opposition to that policy was organised and effectively sabotaged.
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Krepstekies, Colleen. "News Media Representations of Women in the U.S. Military Post September 11, 2001." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3645.
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This paper examines newspaper portrayals produced by the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times of women in the military from Sept. 11, 2001, to Sept. 11, 2009. The purpose was to identify how the three nationally recognized U.S. newspapers depict women’s expanding combat roles on contemporary battlefields that lack definitive front lines. Because the news media are the primary vehicle to update the general public on military matters, how the news media portray military women can play a role in shaping audience perceptions of military women. In turn, this relationship can influence the public debate on issues pertaining to women in the military. For my research method, I employed a longitudinal, qualitative content analysis of news articles that revealed three distinctively themed portrayals of U.S. servicewomen. The thematic findings include: "Tip of the Spear," a largely laudatory category portraying the "new" or "first" generation of servicewomen filling historically uncommon (particularly direct ground combat) roles for women; the "Combat Debate," with coverage listing arguments for and against military women’s expansion into "direct ground combat;" and the "Sexual Assault" category that exposed women as continued victims of sexual assault across the U.S. Armed Forces. The portrayals of women in the "Tip of the Spear," and to a lesser extent in the "Combat Debate," reveal how these three particular newspapers are applying a new formula to represent military women. Rather than portraying military women in stereotypical support roles—or castigating them for transgressing gender norms—the stories from these papers cast the servicewomen performing traditional
masculine military activities in a positive light. However, following objective reporting protocol, the reports in the "Combat Debate" category also covered conventional patriarchal concerns to include protecting women from harm, particularly military mothers. Overall, these two categories comprised the greater part of the coverage of military women among the reports in this study, with only a handful of reports covering women as victims. I propose that the many positive portrayals that describe women fulfilling nontraditional masculine roles and activities demonstrate a revised blueprint in how the news media report on military women. Furthermore, while these research results cannot be applied universally outside this study’s sample, I contend that these types of images representing today’s servicewomen on contemporary battlefields increase public acceptance of women in the military and their expanding military assignments.
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Hurley, Daniel Terrance 1971 Carleton University Dissertation Journalism and Communication. "Turning around a supertanker: media-military relations in Canada in the CNN age." Ottawa.:, 2000.
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Li, Zhan 1979. "The potential of America's Army, the video game as civilian-military public sphere." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39162.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, February 2004.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-143).
The US Army developed multiplayer online First Person Shooter video game, America's Army, was examined as the first instance of an entirely state-produced and directed enterprise leveraging video game popular culture. Specifically, this study is concerned with the potential of the America's Army gamespace as a US civilian-military public sphere of the Information Age, as assessed through Habermasian theories of democratic communication. Interview fieldwork was carried out in several America's Army game communities including those of real-life military personnel, Christian Evangelicals, and hackers. The political activities of these exceptional game communities are considered for the ways they escape and transcend current critical theories of Internet-based public spheres.
by Zhan Li.
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Vaughn, Stacy Lynn. "A Military Analysis of the Role of the Media in the Persian Gulf War." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292150.
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Santos, Rui. "Os Media nas Operações de Apoio à Paz." Master's thesis, Academia Militar. Direção de Ensino, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/8064.
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O Exército Português tem empenhado forças militares no cumprimento de missões
de apoio à paz em vários Teatros de Operações, cumprindo assim os compromissos internacionais do Estado Português no âmbito militar.
Os Orgãos de Comunicação Social têm um papel fundamental em dar a conhecer à
população o papel das Forças Armadas em Portugal e no mundo. É através destes que a
população portuguesa pode conhecer com a clareza e a isenção adequada, o trabalho que o Exército Português desenvolve nas Operações de Apoio à Paz.
É importante que um comandante tenha em linha de conta a forma como os Orgãos
de Comunicação Social se enquadram nos actuais Teatros de Operações.
Este estudo incide na actual relação que existe entre o Exército e os Órgãos de Comunicação Social. Tem como principais objectivos demonstrar em que medida a
presença de jornalistas é benéfica para as Operações de Apoio à Paz.
Para tal a metodologia empregue baseou -se numa caracterização do papel do
Exército no âmbito das Operações de Apoio à Paz, seguindo-se uma explicação das relações entre jornalistas, e a instituição militar ao longo do tempo.
Neste estudo verificam-se as restrições à liberdade de expressão dos militares e de
que forma estes se podem expressar. De seguida definem -se as principais razões de conflitualidade entre a Comunicação Social e a Instituição militar.
Como se trata de uma investigação, realizaram-se inquéritos e entrevistas a oficias com conhecimentos na área, com o intuito de se analisar a actual cooperação entre jornalistas e militares.
Chegou-se à conclusão que o Exército beneficia com a presença dos Órgãos de
Comunicação Social, numa Operação de Apoio à Paz, melhorando a sua imagem perante a
opinião pública. Este binómio de relacionamento entre Exército e Órgãos de Comunicação Social necessita de uma contínua aposta na formação de jornalistas e militares, de forma a aprimorar este relacionamento.Abstract The Portuguese Army has committed military forces to carry out missions for peace in several theaters of operations, thereby complying with international commitments in the framework of the Portuguese military. The Media have a vital role allowing people to know the role of the Armed Forces in Portugal and abroad. It is through them that the populations come to know with clarity and appropriate relief, the work that is developed in the Portuguese Army Peace Operations. It is therefore important that a commander takes into account, particulary to how the media are present in the Theater of Operations. This study focuses on the current relationship that exists between the Army and the media. Its main is to show how the presence of journalists is beneficial for Peace Support Operations. In order to do so, the methodology used was based on The army's characterization's role under the peace-support operations, followed by an explanation of the relationship between journalists and the military over time. There Is an analyze to the militaries’ restrictions on freedom of expression , and how they can express. Then it defines the main reasons of conflict between the media and the military institution, and And how they are overcome. As a research, there were surveys and interviews with officers with expertise in the area, in order to analyze the current cooperation between journalists and military It was concluded that the Army benefits from the presence of the media in a Peace Support Operation, improving its image before the public. However, it must improve and continue to invest in training to improve such relations.
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Goodney, Rebecca. "A Mixed Methods Study of Technological Influences on Communication and Media Exposure in Military Children Experiencing Parental Deployment." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/edp_etds/21.
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Military children have been a population of interest and research speculation for several decades. Despite the research base built studying this population, many questions remain regarding their specific experiences and mental health outcomes. To accommodate the nation's needs when fueling the armed forces by the all volunteer force currently comprising the service branches, many military personnel have found themselves in circumstances including multiple deployments and deployments of lengths approximately equal to one year. With family relationships now a more prominent issue for military members, the necessity of considering the effects of deployment on these family members has become especially pertinent. The purpose of this study was to investigate the way increased exposure to technology affects children’s deployment outcomes in today's military culture, especially in their deployment experiences.
Participants included 71 parents and 20 children in military families currently or within the past year experiencing a deployment. Participants were divided into two phases for completion of study tasks. Phase one participants, 20 children and one of their parents, completed interviews, emotional/behavioral measures, and a deployment experiences survey. The 51 parent participants in Phase two completed only the deployment experiences survey. Evaluation of data presented from participants provided insight into the deployment experiences of these families as impacted by the technological advances in communication and media today. Results indicated a range of positive effects related to technologically supported communication between parents and children throughout deployment. Families participating in increased parental communication during deployment showed relationships to decreases in ambiguous loss symptoms, increases in positive attitudes including growth and maturity, and smooth reintegration following deployment. Despite increases in availability, news exposure reported from children occurred at a low incidence rate. Regardless, negative reactions to news viewing was reported.
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McNeely, James Keith. "Via media towards an Anglican model of managing and leading ministry /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p064-0136.
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Wentz, James Eugene. "A comparative study of mass media operations during 1986 at the U.K. Ministry of Defence and the U.S. Department of Defense." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322962.
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Cuccio, Claire Ellen. "The Politics of Social Media in the Department of Defense; How DoD's Status Changed From Friend to Defriend to Friend Again." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50602.
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The introduction of social media presented a significant challenge to the often secretive culture of the U.S. military. DoD struggled with publishing a social media policy forcing the armed services to develop their own policies, which were all inconsistent. When DoD finally established a social media policy in 2007, certain social media sites were banned from the Services' networks for a variety of reasons -- the one most often quoted was risk. In February 2010, DoD completely reversed its policy and embraced social media. The new policy required the military to allow open access on the networks to social media for all employees, despite much resistance from internal stakeholders. In this dissertation, I research three significant events during the development of the DoD Social Media Policy: (1) the pre-policy environment, including actions to restrict social media on the DoD networks (2) coming to closure on the current policy and how DoD made its decision to open the networks to social media, and (3) the post-closure period and its ongoing and new tensions. This research project is a qualitative study of the evolution of social media (pre- and post a formal policy) within the DoD through the lens of social construction of technology (SCOT) and a discourse analysis of the policy formulation. My findings indicated that references to security and privacy risk, sociotechnological inevitability, responsible online behavior and youth were particularly important to the military discourse on social media. The study concludes the risk is worth to benefit to service members who want to use social media. Service members accept the sociotechnological inevitability of social media and feel they are responsible enough to use it wisely. The issue of youth was found to be not really a concern and leadership emerged as a discourse and is often referenced to solve any issue that may arise from the use of social media within the military environment.Ph. D.
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Rosén, Anton, and Charlotte Hamrin. "Battle of Recruitment : A Comparative Study of German and Swedish Militaries’ Recruitment Films." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-414479.
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Studien syftade till att undersöka skillnader i framställning i två militära rekryteringsfilmer från Tyskland och Sverige. Syftet uppfylls genom multimodala analyser av filmerna och genom en fokusgruppsintervju beståendes av tyska och svenska studenter. I den multimodala analysen kartlades relevanta meningsbärande modaliteter för att ta reda på hur organisationerna framställer sig själva i filmerna. Fokusgruppsintervjun gav underlag till en kvalitativ innehållsanalys där publikens tolkning av filmerna kartlades med ett särskilt fokus på hur kultur har för betydelse för tolkningen. Studiens teoretiska bakgrund utgörs dels av Althussers teori kring ideologier och statliga anordningar och interpellationskonceptet som det vidareutvecklas av Judith Williamson. För tolkning av fokusgruppsintervjun applicerades Stuart Halls teori om Encoding/Decoding och Kim Schröders multidimensionella mottagarmodell. Studien kommer fram till att filmerna syftar till att interpellera, tilltala, publiken på skilda vis vilket leder till att två olika ideologier reproduceras. Innehållsanalysen av fokusintervjun pekade på att den kulturella bakgrunden kan vara en central faktor som förklarar varför filmerna tolkades olika av deltagarna. Ur ett samhälleligt perspektiv är studien relevant då den påtalar militära organisationers reproduktiva makt över ideologier i samhället. Förslagsvis kan framtida forskning undersöka kulturens roll för avkodning av militära rekryteringsfilmer på en mer detaljerad nivå. Till exempel skillnader i mottagande mellan landsorts- och stadsbefolkning. Studiens begränsningar utgörs främst av den korta tidsram inom vilken den genomförts och bristen på triangulering av data
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Thomas, Patrick William. "A Discourse-Based Analysis of Literacy Sponsorship in New Media: The Case of Military Blogs." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1302521629.
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Favara, Jeremiah. "Recruiting for Difference and Diversity in the U.S. Military." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23102.
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After shifting to an all-volunteer force (AVF) in 1973, the U.S. military was forced to expand recruiting efforts beyond the ideal figure of the white male soldier in order to meet personnel needs. Shaped by the economic realities of the AVF, such recruiting efforts sought to show individuals historically excluded from military service, namely women and people of color, that there was a place for them in the military. The presence of women and people of color in recruitment materials contributes to ideals of citizenship and articulates understanding of gender, race, sexuality, and class in relation to military inclusion. Focusing on recruitment advertisements published in three consumer magazines—Sports Illustrated, Ebony, and Cosmopolitan—from January 1973 to December 2014, this dissertation argues that the project of military inclusion is driven by a need to recruit bodies in maintenance of the military institution and obfuscates class inequalities critical to recruiting, reconfigures ideas about military masculinity, promotes ideologies of colorblindness, and regulates ideas about gender and sexuality.
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Benítez, Trinidad Carlos. "Un espejo en medio a un teatro de símbolos: el indio imaginado por el poder y la sociedad brasileña durante la dictadura civil-militar (1964-1985)." Faculdade de Educação, 2017. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/22235.
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Esta pesquisa é um estudo documental do construto sócio-cultural “índio” no imaginário e na ideologia da sociedade e do poder brasileiro, durante a ditadura civil-militar que começou em 1964 e teve seu final em 1985. O objetivo é individualizar os componentes epistemológicos e dos grupos de significantes que compõem a rica polissemia do objeto de estudo: o índio imaginário. Se tem tido em conta a diversidade dos atores que compõem o sujeito de estudo, desde os militares, o indigenismo oficial, a legislação, os habitantes da fronteira, a opinião pública, acadêmicos, sertanistas e religiosos. O índio mostra-se nesta pesquisa como um potente gerador de símbolos das mais diversas naturezas, mas sempre com a intencionalidade de supor um espelho invertido e oposto à própria sociedade/poder nacional. A categoria colonial que lhe deu vida, segue presente na sua proposta como um exotismo enfrentado ao projeto civilizador da Modernidade que anseia Brasil como Estado-nação e também como sociedade ocidental. Ao mesmo tempo, se apresenta também como um poderoso teatro de símbolos onde se (des)encontram a ideologia militar e sua oposição. Todo isso dentro do esforço que Brasil experimenta por achar sua própria narrativa e lhe dar uma posição frente aos desafios que gera o mundo contemporâneo, que no caso brasileiro, acha sua conjuntura chave durante a ditadura civil-militar. Esta pesquisa é puramente documental tendo como referencia teórica o pensamento “decolonial”, a historia sócio-cultural, a interdisciplinaridade, a multirreferencialidade e a complexidade. A documentação analisada esta dividida em três categorias: a oficial gerada pelo Estado e seu aparelho burocrático e legislativo; o material criado pelas instituições não necessariamente ligadas ao Estado como a Igreja Católica, movimentos sociais e ONGs; e a produção cultural/intelectual que percorre desde a imprensa da época, material audiovisual, literatura culta e popular assim como o produzido pelos acadêmicos, missionários, políticos, ativistas, lideranças/movimentos indígenas, etc. Os resultados obtidos demonstram a fortíssima relação que mantêm Brasil com sua mais característica e passional alteridade, e como sua situação de ambivalência da fé de como o país tropical tem procurado incessantemente se interpretar a se mesmo a partir de se olhar nesse espelho que era o índio. Tendo como resultado final, o revesti-lo necessariamente do papel de oposição ontológica a partir de sua “bestialização”, naturalização e “folclorização”.
RESUMEN Esta investigación es un estudio documental del constructo socio-cultural “indio” en el imaginario y la ideología de la sociedad y el poder brasileño, durante la dictadura civil-militar que comenzó en 1964 y tuvo su fin en 1985. El objetivo es individualizar los componentes epistemológicos y los grupos de significantes que componen la rica polisemia del objeto de estudio: el indio imaginado. Se han tenido en cuenta la diversidad de actores que componen el sujeto de estudio, desde los militares, el indigenismo oficial, la legislación, los habitantes de la frontera, la opinión pública, académicos, sertanistas y religiosos. El indio se muestra en esta investigación como un potente generador de símbolos de las más diversas naturalezas, pero siempre con la intencionalidad de suponer un espejo invertido y oposicional a la propia sociedad/poder nacional. La categoría colonial que le dio vida, sigue presente en su propuesta como un exotismo enfrentando al proyecto civilizador de la Modernidad que anhela Brasil como Estado-nación y también como sociedad occidental. Al mismo tiempo, se presenta también como un poderoso teatro de símbolos donde se (des)encuentran la ideología militar y su oposición. Todo ello inmerso en el esfuerzo que Brasil experimenta por encontrar su propia narrativa y darle un encaje frente a los desafíos que genera el mundo contemporáneo, que en el caso brasileño, encuentra su coyuntura clave durante la dictadura-civil militar. Esta investigación es puramente documental teniendo como referencia teórica el pensamiento “decolonial”, la historia socio-cultural, la interdisciplinariedad, la multirreferencialidad y la complejidad. La documentación analizada está dividida en tres categorías: la oficial generada por el Estado y su aparato burocrático y legislativo; el material generado por instituciones no necesariamente ligadas al Estado como es la Iglesia Católica, movimientos sociales y ONGs; y la producción cultural/intelectual que recorre desde la prensa de la época, material audiovisual, literatura culta y popular así como lo producido por académicos, misioneros, políticos, activistas, líderes/movimientos indígenas, etc. Los resultados obtenidos demuestran la fuertísima relación que mantiene Brasil con su más característica y pasional otredad, y como su situación de ambivalencia da fe de cómo el país tropical ha buscado incesantemente interpretarse a sí mismo a partir de mirarse en ese espejo que era el indio. Dando como resultado final, el revestirlo necesariamente del rol de oposición ontológica a partir de su bestialización, naturalización y “folclorización”
ABSTRACT This research is a documentary study of the socio-cultural construct “indio” in the imaginary and the ideology of Brazilian society and power, during the civil-military dictatorship that began in 1964 and ended in 1985. The objective is to individualize the epistemological components and the groups of signifiers that make up the rich polysemy of the object of study: the imagined “indio”. It has taken into account the diversity of actors that make up the subject of study, from the army, official indigenism, legislation, border people, public opinion, academics, sertanists and religious. The “indio” is shown in this research as a powerful generator of symbols of the most diverse natures, but always with the intention of assuming an inverted mirror and opposed to the national society/power itself. The colonial category that gave life to it, is still present in its proposal as an exoticism that face the civilizing project of Modernity that longs for Brazil as a nation-state and also as a Western society. At the same time, it also presents itself as a powerful theater of symbols where the military ideology and its opposition meet. All this is immersed in the effort that Brazil is experimenting to find its own narrative and give it a fit in front of the challenges that the contemporary world generates, which in the Brazilian case, finds its key juncture during the civil-military dictatorship. This research is purely documentary having as theoretical reference the "decolonial" thought, the socio-cultural history, the interdisciplinarity, the multi-referentiality and the complexity. The documentation analyzed is divided into three categories: the official sources generated by the State and its bureaucratic and legislative apparatus; the material generated by institutions not necessarily linked to the State such as the Catholic Church, social movements and NGOs; and cultural/intellectual production that travels from the press of the time, audio-visual material, cultured and popular literature as well as produced by academics, missionaries, politicians, activists, indigenous leaders/movements, etc. The results obtained demonstrate the very strong relationship that Brazil maintains with its most characteristic and passionate otherness, and as its ambivalence situation testifies to how the tropical country has sought incessantly to interpret itself from looking at itself in that mirror that was the “indio”. With the final result, it is necessarily covered by the ontological opposition from its “bestialization”, naturalization and “folklorization”.
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Magnusson, Melker. "Oförsvarbart : argumentationen i media rörande Försvarsmaktens avveckling av överskott 2000-2003." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-1903.
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The Swedish Military Defence is about to make a large reorganization. Surplus, everything from tanks to personal underwear, enough to equip 800,000 soldiers will be destroyed or sold to the highest bidder. This thesis is a discourse analysis about the argumentation in media between the Military and the enthusiast, who are interested in military vehicles and military surplus.
Uppsatsen är en kartläggning och diskursanalys av den argumentation som förekommit i den mediala debatten rörande den svenska Försvarsmaktens avveckling av överskott. Morgondagens försvar ska vara baserat på kvalité istället för kvantitet. Från att ha haft ett försvar som omfattat omkring 800 000 personer under vapen i händelse av ofred ska det nya försvaret skäras ned till att omfatta omkring 200 000 personer. En mängd materiel, allt från stridsvagnar och underkläder, blir således överflödig. Försvarsmakten skall fram till utgången av 2004 ha genomfört omorganisationen. Tillvägagångssättet att avveckla överskottet varierar, destruktion, försäljning och som bistånd är exempel på avvecklingsalternativ. De olika tillvägagångssätten har fått kritik från olika aktörer som deltagit i debatten. Det opinionen reagerat på är att, i många fall, helt fungerande och ny materiel destruerats eller så har kritik riktats mot de olika försäljningsförfarandena som Försvarsmakten tillämpat. Uppsatsen undersöker aktörernas argumentering i debatten och försöker att analysera varför argumenteringen ser ut som den gör.
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Oliveira, Ana Filipa Lopes da Silva. "Decisão política e os media: a presença Norte-Americana no Afeganistão." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/9171.
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Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários
à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciência Política e Relações InternacionaisNuma altura em que se assinalam 10 anos de intervenção militar norte-americana no Afeganistão, procuramos analisar qual a relação entre os media e a política norteamericanos no conflito desde o começo da ofensiva militar em 2001, estudando ainda o seu relacionamento com a opinião pública dos EUA. Desta forma, neste trabalho examinamos a relação triangular media/opinião pública/Administração, com especial enfoque nas decisões estratégicas levadas a cabo pelos EUA no Afeganistão, olhando também retrospectivamente alguns momentos de confronto entre jornalismo e decisão político-militar dos EUA em conflitos ao longo do século XX.
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Patrick, Caitlin. "Shoot & capture : media representions of US military operations in Somalia 1992-93 and Fallujah 2004." Thesis, Durham University, 2007. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2458/.
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Mass media images and narratives have an important role to play in the workings of international and domestic politics. Technological developments, particularly in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, have enabled a rapidly- growing 'economy' of images, information and means of communicating. These new commodities are circulated in an international sphere defined by shifting and unequal power relations. With this context in mind, this work undertakes an analysis of media representations of place and people in selected coverage of the Somalia intervention of 1992-1993 and the American sieges of Fallujah, Iraq in 2004, looking at both media narrative and imagery. Despite technological changes and differences in political context, coverage content for each case study illustrates many similarities in representations of places and people. Both case studies highlight the continuing resonance and use of long-standing racial and colonial stereotypes to describe, or to 'disappear', 'other' people and places. The aim of this project has been to recognise and problematize these powerful dichotomizations between a primarily Western 'us' and Others', illustrating the political nature of such attempts, their failings, and the consequences of these efforts at division. Exploration and exposure of the political nature of categorizations can assist in provoking a re-thinking not only of how 'others' are seen but of how 'we' construct our own identities.
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Schupp, Janina. "Audiovisual battlefields : the remediation of cinema and media imagery and technologies in military urban conflict simulations." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275654.
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Since the end of the Cold War, the combined influence of audiovisual media, modern urban conflicts and asymmetric enemies has generated a new kind of military live training simulation to prepare soldiers for future combats. These novel hybrid exercise battlefields are situated in artificially constructed urban spaces and integrate real physical training with techniques and imagery inspired by the fields of cinema and media. This thesis critically examines this convergence of entertainment practices and images in military training and the resulting, potentially negative, impacts on the execution of warfare and perception of urban spaces and populations. The thesis begins by tracing the evolution of terrain representations in wargames – from black and white squares, painted landscape elements and actual maps, to virtual environments, miniature houses and real-scale architectures. The historical relationship between the film industry and military training is analysed in order to explore the emergence of cinematic components in simulated combat training landscapes that brought the flat world of wargames to its real third dimension. The mock urban training space is then investigated as a “meta-cinematic city” – a city created through cinematic tools, including set and sound design, which portrays a cinematic city (a city as represented through a filmic medium). This analysis focuses on how cinematic elements, such as creative geographies and architectural sequences, are created in order to train for the subversion of traditional conceptions of urban spaces and architectural elements in urban combats. Furthermore, the examination reveals how the sensory qualities of moving image technologies are employed to generate a multi-sensory “hyperrealism” and “hyperimmersion” to train physical and emotional reactions and engrain military responses to combat stimuli. The analysis furthermore excavates both the conscious and unconscious remediation of media imagery and practices in the creation of the artificial “human terrain”. The mise-en-scène of the enemy population is investigated in order to uncover how the simulation of “foreign” and “alien” identities is increasingly based on the media coverage of these population groups. The analysis critically considers how the resulting role-play reproduces self-perpetuating stereotypes that pre-shape the soldiers’ perception of populations. Lastly, the thesis explores how artificial media cycles are generated as part of the combat training to prepare soldiers’ self-representation and communication skills under unpredictable, straining circumstances and to effectively communicate the army’s message to the world. This section especially focuses on the growing military “weaponisation” of the media, which has now begun to market the military training itself as an entertainment attraction to worldwide audiences – thus closing the circle between entertainment and military practices and subsuming the population in the war preparation. With entertainment and marketing imagery, technologies and concepts now at the core of military preparation, stereotypes of population groups and urban spaces and a “de-realization”, “gamification” and “sanitisation” of warfare are increasingly carried over into real conflicts, thus affecting critical decisions as a result of entertainment-based conditioning. Furthermore, to ensure public support, the general population is turned into an indispensable part of military training through participatory video games, social media and training centre visits and consequently becomes increasingly complicit in the merging of entertainment and military practices and subject to the same remediated preconceptions.
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De, Carvalho Helionardo Oliveira. "O discurso da revista o cruzeiro e o golpe de 1964." Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, 2018. http://tede2.uefs.br:8080/handle/tede/687.
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Based on the theoretical perspective of the Discourse Analysis of pecheutian strand and supported in the historical studies on the military dictatorship, the present work has the objective to analyze the discourses that make reference to the necessity of a military intervention in Brazil, produced by the magazine O Cruzeiro. It is necessary to reflect on the ways in which the magazine discursivized in its publications this theme and the ideological positions that led to the production of such discourses. The collected discursive sequences were analyzed based on the theoretical assumptions of Discourse Analysis, such as the conditions of production, ideological formation and discursive formation, interdiscourse and imaginary formations, linking the principles of these categories of AD with reflections on the functioning of the discourse of the media. The corpus of analysis of this work consists of statements that were extracted from eight weekly editions of O Cruzeiro, dating from the period of March to April in 1964. The results indicate that the discourses present in the stories and reports that deal with the subjects related to the country?s political scene in that year advocated a military takeover, both to prevent the establishment of a dictatorial regime based on the communist ideas, and to remove the country from the political and economic chaos that, according to the sequences analyzed, were caused by the political actions of President Jo?o Goulart
Com base na perspectiva te?rica da An?lise de Discurso de vertente pecheutiana e apoiado nos estudos hist?ricos sobre a ditadura militar, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar os discursos que fazem refer?ncia ? necessidade de uma interven??o militar no Brasil, produzidos pela revista O Cruzeiro. Cumpre refletir sobre os modos como a revista discursivizava em suas publica??es essa tem?tica e os posicionamentos ideol?gicos que ocasionaram a produ??o de tais discursos. As sequ?ncias discursivas coletadas foram analisadas com base nos pressupostos te?ricos da An?lise de Discurso, como os de condi??es de produ??o, forma??o ideol?gica e forma??o discursiva, interdiscurso e forma??es imagin?rias, atrelando os princ?pios dessas categorias da AD ?s reflex?es sobre o funcionamento do discurso da m?dia. O corpus de an?lise deste trabalho constitui-se de enunciados que foram extra?dos de oito edi??es semanais de O Cruzeiro, datados do per?odo de mar?o a abril de 1964. Os resultados apontam que os discursos presentes nas mat?rias e reportagens que abordavam os assuntos relacionados ? cena pol?tica do pa?s naquele ano defendem uma tomada de poder pelos militares, tanto para impedir a implanta??o de um regime ditatorial baseado nos ideais comunistas, quanto para retirar o pa?s do caos pol?tico e econ?mico que, de acordo com as sequ?ncias analisadas, foram ocasionados pelas a??es pol?ticas do presidente Jo?o Goulart
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Bly, Theresa. "Impact of public perception on US national policy : a study of media influence in military and government decision making /." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02sep%5FBly.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Systems and Operations)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2002.Thesis advisor(s): Steven J. Iatrou, Anthony Pratkanis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-144). Also available online.
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Bickerton, Ashley Jennifer. "‘Good Soldiers’, ‘Bad Apples’ and the ‘Boys’ Club’: Media Representations of Military Sex Scandals and Militarized Masculinities." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32435.
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This thesis examines news representations of Canadian, American and Australian military personnel involved in military 'sex scandals'. I explore what the representations of military personnel involved in well-publicized sex scandals reveal about scripts of soldiering and militarized masculinities. Despite a history of systemic violence in the military, I ask how and why the systemic nature of militarized masculinities are able to remain invisible, driving representations to focus on the ‘bad’ behaviour of individuals? By engaging with feminist scholarship in International Relations, I present the longstanding culture of misogyny, racism, homophobia and ableism in the Canadian, American and Australian militaries, focusing on the ways in which militarized masculinities are guided by these violent structures, and fundamental to the military's creation of soldiers. My dissertation uses the tools of critical discourse analysis to unpack the ways blame is individualised in cases of sexual and racist violence involving military personnel, while the military’s ableism, rape culture and imperial militarized masculinities are commonly naturalized or celebrated without regard for how they are fundamentally violent. My thesis presents an intersectional feminist project that intervenes in emerging questions in the field of transnational disability studies, tracing how militarism, hegemonic militarized masculinities and imperial soldiering (re)produce categories of ability and disability.
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Usbeck, Frank. "The Power of the Story: "Popular Narratology" in Pentagon Reports on Social Media Use in the Military." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-207339.
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This contribution explores notions of "popular narratology" in reports, memos and strategic research papers of the US military and affiliated institutions. It investigates the military´s analysis of emerging social media practices and corresponding efforts to adapt military organization, strategy, and culture to these new technological and cultural phenomena. Employing notions and techniques of constructing and disseminating a narrative that they borrow from literary theory, media studies, and advertising, these texts negotiate best practices to set political agendas and instigate institutional reforms within the military. Providing a cultural history perspective on these recent developments in military policy, this article emphasizes the military papers´reflections on the textuality of military information in order to reveal their agenda of furthering the military´s interests. It is thus invested in exploring how textual (i.e., "poetic") qualities serve as tools to pursue political goals.
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Usbeck, Frank. "The Power of the Story: "Popular Narratology" in Pentagon Reports on Social Media Use in the Military." Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A29673.
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This contribution explores notions of "popular narratology" in reports, memos and strategic research papers of the US military and affiliated institutions. It investigates the military´s analysis of emerging social media practices and corresponding efforts to adapt military organization, strategy, and culture to these new technological and cultural phenomena. Employing notions and techniques of constructing and disseminating a narrative that they borrow from literary theory, media studies, and advertising, these texts negotiate best practices to set political agendas and instigate institutional reforms within the military. Providing a cultural history perspective on these recent developments in military policy, this article emphasizes the military papers´reflections on the textuality of military information in order to reveal their agenda of furthering the military´s interests. It is thus invested in exploring how textual (i.e., "poetic") qualities serve as tools to pursue political goals.
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Watters, Georgia George. "The Experiences of Military Parents Homeschooling Using Online Teaching Resources." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/529.
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U.S. military members and their families relocate from one duty station to another on average once every 3 years. Children in military families change schools often, introducing potential problems such as struggling to make new friends, having trouble adjusting to new teaching styles, and losing academic credits due to the transition from one school to the next. Homeschooling that incorporates online resources can provide instructional continuity, social interaction opportunities, and submission of required periodic assessments. The primary purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine the experiences of military parents involved in homeschooling their children using online resources. The research questions were designed to explore these experiences and to create recommendations for other military families. A conceptual framework based on a constructivist learning approach and change theory informed this study. Data were collected from 9 parents with many years of experience homeschooling. The parents were interviewed via phone, e-mail, and Skype. Data were analyzed using open coding, axial coding, and hierarchical coding. Parent participants chose homeschooling due to dissatisfaction with available schools, family location, and flexibility. Online resources were described as making it easier and more engaging for students to learn and as simplifying the parents' instructional and management tasks. These alternative methods replaced or augmented traditional educational methods. Parent participants encouraged other parents to reach out and seek help early in the process. This study promotes positive social change by providing resources for alternative ways children can be educated while one or more military parent is serving and defending the United States of America.
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Fisher, Kimberley D. "The press and the framing of military gender and sexuality policies in Britain and the United States." Thesis, University of Essex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339228.
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Formadi, Tunde. "Images of the US during the Cold War: media discourse in the UK 1956-1986." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2012. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/294450/3/Images%20of%20the%20US.pdf.
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This thesis explores how the local media in East Anglia portrayed the US military presence
during the Cold War at times of international crisis. It aims to assess this portrayal in
comparison with national media images and critically interrogates the socio-political,
economic and cultural reasons for it. This media related study contributes to Cold War
historiography and the historiography of the USAF.
Research was mainly archival, based on discourse analysis and comparative focusing on
the official discourse of the Cold War and the news media. Central to the research were the
written records of the British government and articles in appropriate newspapers issued
near American airbases. The region of East Anglia was selected for its strategic location
and large number of military bases, and data collection focused on selected periods of
international crisis due to their impact on media coverage.
The examination of newspaper articles identified a wide range of images with some
recurring from time to time while others remain specific to certain periods. Findings
suggest that local economic as well as political interests played a role in shaping the
images of the US presence in the local media, and it could be argued that there is a
correlation between the conservative landscape of the region and the newspaper articles’
overwhelming tolerance or at least acceptance of the US presence, which is in line with
conservative governmental discourse in all periods of crisis explored. However, the articles
– and in particular the readers’ letters to the editors – also highlight that there were strong
debates between supporters and opponents of the American presence, and this debate blurs
the boundaries of political parties, i.e. in certain periods there are also strong opponents in
the conservative camp.
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Formadi, Tunde. "Images of the US during the Cold War : media discourse in the UK 1956-1986." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10540/294450.
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This thesis explores how the local media in East Anglia portrayed the US military presence during the Cold War at times of international crisis. It aims to assess this portrayal in comparison with national media images and critically interrogates the socio-political, economic and cultural reasons for it. This media related study contributes to Cold War historiography and the historiography of the USAF. Research was mainly archival, based on discourse analysis and comparative focusing on the official discourse of the Cold War and the news media. Central to the research were the written records of the British government and articles in appropriate newspapers issued near American airbases. The region of East Anglia was selected for its strategic location and large number of military bases, and data collection focused on selected periods of international crisis due to their impact on media coverage. The examination of newspaper articles identified a wide range of images with some recurring from time to time while others remain specific to certain periods. Findings suggest that local economic as well as political interests played a role in shaping the images of the US presence in the local media, and it could be argued that there is a correlation between the conservative landscape of the region and the newspaper articles’ overwhelming tolerance or at least acceptance of the US presence, which is in line with conservative governmental discourse in all periods of crisis explored. However, the articles – and in particular the readers’ letters to the editors – also highlight that there were strong debates between supporters and opponents of the American presence, and this debate blurs the boundaries of political parties, i.e. in certain periods there are also strong opponents in the conservative camp.
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Alberti, Lucimar. "Discursos sobre saúde nas páginas da Revista Veja (1968-1974)." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/157588.
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Em “Discursos sobre saúde nas páginas da Revista Veja (1968 – 1974)” trato dos discursos sobre saúde, publicados num veículo de comunicação, que estava surgindo no Brasil, no final da década de 1960, neste caso, a Revista Veja. Levando em consideração as poucas produções acerca da saúde no Brasil, durante o período selecionado, a presente dissertação tem como objetivo verificar e caracterizar os discursos sobre saúde, existentes nessa década e veiculados na Revista, principalmente na seção intitulada “Medicina”. Para tanto, utilizo-me, neste trabalho, de alguns pressupostos próprios dos Estudos Culturais, como a compreensão de que as revistas educam as pessoas, através de suas reportagens, oferecendo não apenas informações, mas também maneiras de compreender o mundo. Além disso, faço uso do conceito de discurso para mapear o que se pensava e o que se falava, mesmo que em linhas gerais, a respeito da saúde, no Brasil e no mundo. Procuro também demonstrar como as reportagens da Revista Veja, e os discursos que articulavam, mantinham forte relação com o momento histórico do período analisado.In "Discourses on Health in the pages of Veja Magazine (1968 - 1974)" I deal with health discourses, published in a vehicle of communication that was emerging in Brazil in the late of 1960s, in this case, Veja Magazine. Taking into account the few health productions in Brazil during the selected period, this dissertation aims to verify and characterize the discourses on health existing in the period and linked in the Magazine, mainly in the section entitled "Medicine". For this, I use in this academic work some assumptions specific to Cultural Studies, such as the understanding that magazines educate people through their reports, offering not only information but also ways to understand the world. In addition, I use the concept of discourse to map what was thought and what was said, even broadly, about health in Brazil and in the world. I also try to demonstrate how Veja Magazine's reports and the discourses that articulated maintained a strong relationship with the historical moment of the analyzed period.