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Nida, Elizabeth Amy. "Electronic Photo Manipulation in the Print Media." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292252.
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Robertson, Kylie. "Climate change discourse in Canadian print media : A quantitative and qualitative analysis of print media from two Canadian regions." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-42753.
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Over the last 30 years, awareness of anthropogenic climate change has increased and quickly become the one of the most pressing issues facing our planet. Canada is both a nation that has contributed to the acceleration of the climate problem and one that aims to help address the issues through commitments to global climate accords and other accountability actions. Global journalism is both a theory and practice born of the evolution of our world into a more global collective. Climate change, as a problem that is faced by every nation in the world, is one subject matter area that has been difficult to report on in the past but more necessary than ever to discuss. It is crucial work for journalists to normalize the connections between people, places, problems, and how they are interrelated throughout the world. This thesis aims to explore the presence or absence of global journalism in two different regions of Canada: Alberta and Ontario, represented by the cities of Calgary and Ottawa. Through quantitative and qualitative analysis, articles that mention“climate change” or “global warming” over a six-month period in 2015 are collected and catalogued. The quantitative data provides a macro view of the amount and kinds of discourse taking place in each city around the topics of climate change and global warming, giving a sense of the scale and framing of the issue. Four of these articles and two headlines are then reviewed through the lens of critical discourse analysis for their choice of words, quotations, the voices that are present and absent, and the local coherence of the article. Collectively, this information is collated and reviewed to argue for the presence or absence of global journalism in the reporting. The final results should a stark difference in the representation of climate change in Calgary and Ottawa. There are promising signs of global journalism in action throughout the Calgary Herald, while the Ottawa Citizen has missed opportunities to reflect the same global perspective.
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Galli, Joseph G. "AIDS print media resource directory : a prototype for the centralization of AIDS print media in Monroe County, New York /." Online version of thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/12198.
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Buchholz, James L. "Implementing and Evaluating A Bibliographic Retrieval System for Print and Non-Print Media Materials." NSUWorks, 1987. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/434.
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A fast growing south Florida school district struggled with providing needed central cataloging and processing services to its 103 school centers for library books and non-print media materials. Previous methods employed involved the manual typing of spine labels, book/material check out cards and pockets, and either the original production of catalog cards, the duplication of cards held in the master file or the ordering of available cards from the Library of Congress by U.S. Mail. Prior analysis by the researcher indicated that a computer-based bibliographic retrieval system, properly configured to meet district and school specifications, might be implemented to eliminate the mail ordering of card sets from the Library of Congress and serve to simplify and expedite the "in-house" production of cards and processing of materials not cataloged by the Library of Congress. It was assumed by the researcher that the providing of district-wide cataloging services and full "shelf-ready" processing of media materials to 103 school centers was a significant study worthy of review and relevant to existing problems in the information science field.
A comprehensive search of professional literature was conducted to obtain more information about currently used bibliographic retrieval systems - their merits and disadvantages. Media supervisors in selected colleges and other Florida school districts were queried for their input about research conducted and solutions they employed relative to the selection phase of the study. Based on the information gathering process, possible retrieval systems and/or ancillary products capable of solving the institutional problem were identified. Selected vendors were contacted for specific information about their individual products that was further analyzed for possible acquisition. Based on information received from all sources, the Biblio-File system was found to be the most cost-effective solution, and the one most capable of enhancing cataloging and processing operations. Its purchase was recommended to, and approved by, higher level district administrative personnel.
Once the system was received, it had to configure to insure that produced materials were consistent with both existing institutional guidelines and the MARC, AACR II and ISBD formats. During this phase, existing personnel were trained to use the system and queried for input relative to its implementation. Care was taken during this phase to insure that existing cataloging and processing standards, etc. we’re not sacrificed by an inadvertent enthusiasm to effect positive implementation of the system. By the same token, safeguards were taken to insure that dislike of change, particularly, automated change, on the part of existing personnel, and did not adversely affect the implementation of the system. During the configuration and limited implementation stages, which lasted two months, many procedural changes were identified that would enhance the full implementation of the system. Configuration adjustments were made throughout the configuration and limited implementation stages until system produced materials were of the desired quality and format.
Once the system was up and running and producing materials at a high level of staff satisfaction, system utilization moved into the full implementation stage. During this six month phase the system was used to produce processing materials for all books and audio visual materials cataloged by the Library of Congress. Additionally, the system was used for the in-house production of processing materials for books and audio visual materials for which there was no cataloging data either in the system database or in the district master file. During this phase, many procedural changes were identified and implemented, resulting in the writing of revised procedures for the Processing Section. Significant hardware changes were effected during this phase to enhance the production capabilities. Following the full implementation phase, it became necessary to evaluate the system for effect. In the researcher's opinion, system evaluation had to be based on both a survey of school media specialists relative to their needs and expectations and an in-house time-cost study effected at the institutional level to determine relative costs or savings of the new system as opposed to the preexisting procedures. In that regard, an evaluative instrument was constructed and distributed to district media personnel that facilitated the gathering of data about the effectiveness of the newly operational system from their point of view. Also, a time-cost study comparing the production of processing materials, under the old set of procedures and with the new system, was conducted by gathering direct time measurement data of the cataloging and processing functions. Results from both analyses strongly indicated that system production was viewed favorably from both the standpoint of district school media specialists and administratively from a cost-effectiveness point of view. Several recommendations from both staff and media specialists were analyzed and incorporated into the system production capability. Additionally, the researcher has considered several future measures that would facilitate the storage of cataloging data into a proposed district union catalog. The researcher was able to supervise the selection, installation, configuration, implementation and evaluation of the Biblio-File system.
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Roffey, Michelle. "Older people in print media : myth versus reality /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09HS/09hsr719.pdf.
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Naumkina, Anna. "Analysis of Print Media and its Future Outlook." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-205859.
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The thesis is focused on analyzing the development of print media based on the example of selected fashion magazines. It is also focused on the international strategies that can be used by these magazines. The author examines the theoretical background of print media and international marketing strategies, followed by application of this knowledge on the analysis of the chosen magazines. The thesis consists of two main parts: theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part includes a description of print media history, the background of magazines, and international marketing communications, particularly with regard to magazines. The empirical part is focused on analysis of the selected magazines and their international strategies. This part concentrates on the printed and online versions of magazines, so it is easier to see how magazines are influenced by new technologies.
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Khim, Vanessa. "Pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer advertising and print media /." Click here to view, 2009. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/grcsp/9.
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Thesis (B.S.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2009.<br>Project advisor: Harvey R. Levenson. Title from PDF title page; viewed on Jan. 20, 2010. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on microfiche.
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Nazarenko, Renata <1984>. "The concept "Russia" in the Japanese print media." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/6160.
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The object of this research is the concept “Russia” within the discourse of a Japanese newspaper “Asahi Shinbun” and a magazine “Aera”, the verbal realization of this concept in the Japanese language and Japanese linguistic view of the world.
The importance of study of the concept “Russia” in the discourse of the Japanese printed media can be explained by the role Japan plays in the modern world in general and Russian history in particular, as well as political, cultural, social, economic and scientific contacts of Japanese and Russian nations.
The aim of this research is the definition of structure of concept “Russia” within the discourse of the newspaper “Asahi Shinbun” and magazine “Aera”.
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Isén, Daniel. "Mixi Print AB." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för teknokultur, humaniora och samhällsbyggnad, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5075.
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Detta projekt är en hemsida för Mixi Print AB. Den ska fungera som en framsida för företaget ur ett digitalt synsätt, en plats där det går att få fram information om företaget och dess produkter snabbt och enkelt. Jag har arbetat med programmet flash eftersom det ger möjlighet till bra och enkel men ändå fräsch design. Till detta så har jag kombinerat php och MySQL för att kunna koppla det till en databas. Som en del i projektet så har jag också reflekterat över grafiska bitar på Internet jämfört med hur det var innan.<br>Detta är en reflektionsdel till en digital medieproduktion.
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Loto, Robert. "Pacific Islanders and Health in the Print News Media." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2347.
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Pacific Islanders have faced discrimination in New Zealand particularly since the 1960s when members of communities, particularly from the Cook Islands, Samoa, Niue and Tonga began to be transplanted from their home nations to Aotearoa as cheap immigrant labour. Subsequently, the New Zealand vernacular has contained references to Pacific Islanders as 'overstayers', 'coconuts', 'bungas' and 'fresh off the boat' [FOB]. However, the legacy of a domineering relationship between the Palagi1 majority group and Pacific2 minorities that is captured by such derogatory terms is still evident in public forums such as the media. Using a quantitative content and qualitative narrative analysis, this first chapter documents portrayals of Pacific Islanders in New Zealand print media reports (n= 65) published over a three-month period. Findings reveal that Pacific people are predominantly portrayed as unmotivated, unhealthy and criminal others who are overly dependent on Palagi support. Consideration of this offered Pacific identity formation is explored and compared with that implied for Palagi, which is active, independent, competent and caring. Issues in coverage are discussed in relation to how Pacific Islanders are encouraged to see themselves, and the health and social consequences of dominant practices in press coverage. The second part of this thesis will take the findings from the investigation of the characterizations of Pacific Islanders in newspaper coverage and consider audience responses to such coverage. Focus group discussions will be used to explore how different New Zealand audiences view and respond to the portrayals of Pacific Island people and health in news media. The focus on audience responses supports the development of a better understanding of how groups can internalise media portrayals and use these as anchor points for understanding their own situations. Qualitative content from the two groups of Pacific Islanders (P1, P2) and two groups of Palagi (NP1, NP2) enabled a comparative analysis of audience interpretations. Findings propose that health issues are predominantly framed from the perspective of the dominant social group - in the local context Palagi - often at the expense of minority groups such as Māori and Pacific peoples. In appropriating aspects of news coverage, audience members do not engage or regurgitate what they are told or shown through the media. It is a rather complex process with audience members interpreting and using fragments of what they are presented with in making sense of issues of concern in their own lives. All the participants (n= 24) were compensated for their time and travel. We offer some suggestions as to how more equitable representations of Pacific people could be fostered in news media and how changes to a more civilised media will impact Pacific health positively. 1 Palagi (pronounced Palangi) is a term used by Pacific Islanders to refer to people of European decent. 2 We use the terms 'Pacific people' and 'Pacific Islanders' to denote a general social category or minority in Aotearoa used by the media. However, we need to qualify the use of these terms because their use can lead to a glossing over of the diversity in languages and cultures that exists between over 20 different Polynesian, Melanesian and Micronesian communities.
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Kolbe, Hilton Robert. "The South African print media from apartheid to transformation /." Access electronically, 2005. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060515.094805/index.html.
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Peterson, Luke Mathew. "Contending discourses : Palestine-Israel in the print news media." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610738.
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Martin, Rachel (Rachel M. ). "Mechanical testing of rapid-prototyping refractory ceramic print media." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86278.
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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, February 2013.<br>Page 30 blank. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>Additively manufactured (3D-printed) refractory alumina-silica ceramics were mechanically tested to ascertain their ultimate tensile strengths and observed to determine their dimensional consistency over the printing and post-printing process. The equipment used to perform tensile testing was designed and built for use with custom-designed tensile test samples. Two ceramic powders, V18 (electronic-grade alumina, colloidal silica, and organic content) and 403C (200-mesh mullite, organic content, and magnesium oxide), were printed into test samples on ZCorporation ZPrinter® 310 and 510 machines, before being infiltrated with tetraethylorthosilicate (TEaS), and in some cases infiltrated again with a 40% by weight suspension of silica in water (Ludox). Ludox-infiltrated V18 proved to be the strongest medium, with a UTS of 4.539 ± 1.008 MPa; non-Ludox-infiltrated V18 had a UTS of 2.071 ± 0.443 MPA; Ludox-infiltrated 403C was weakest with a UTS of 1.378 ± 0.526 MPa. Within V18, greater silica content lead to greater tensile strength, but this did not hold true for 403C. 403C displayed volumetric shrinkage of about 1.5%, while V18's volumetric shrinkage ranged from 7% to 14%.<br>by Rachel Martin.<br>S.B.
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DeSilva, Malini. "Efficacy of Print Media Risk Communication About Antibiotic Resistance." Thesis, Boston College, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/427.
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Thesis advisor: Roche P. John<br>The growing threat of antibiotic resistance makes it extremely important that citizens be informed about the risks posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and measures with which they can reduce these risks. The print media are major sources of such information for members of the public. In the present study, articles from major newspapers in the United States and Canada appearing between 1998 and 2002 were surveyed to determine the extent to which mention was made of antibiotic resistance and the risks associated with antibiotic resistance, the contextual precision with which this information was communicated, and the extent to which information was presented about causes, and risk-reduction measures, associated with antibiotic resistance. The majority of articles surveyed mentioned antibiotic resistance, but most failed to mention associated risks (i.e., the risk of illness and/or the risk of mortality). Articles that did report risks, did so only at a low level of contextual precision. A relatively low percentage of articles mentioned causes of antibiotic resistance, and even fewer mentioned risk reduction measures. These findings suggest that the print media could improve the efficacy with which they inform the public about issues associated with antibiotic resistance<br>Thesis (BS) — Boston College, 2003<br>Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: Biology<br>Discipline: College Honors Program
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Stumpf, Bianca. "Representations of Environmentally Displaced People In Canadian Print Media." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39641.
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Context: This thesis analyzes media coverage in Canada of environmentally displaced people (EDP) due to their recent prominence in political discussions on a national and international level as well as in the literature.
Objectives: This thesis has three goals, notably (1) to raise awareness of EDP as a social phenomenon; (2) to understand how EDP are currently constructed in the public sphere; and (3) to analyze whether Canadian media characterizes EDP within discourses of victimization and/or devictimization. Ultimately, this thesis investigates: How does Canadian print media represent environmentally displaced people?
Methodology: A total of 149 (132 English and 17 French) Canadian news articles, appearing from 2000 to 2017, were selected for analysis through a search strategy that included specific key words. The articles selected appeared in the Toronto Star, Globe & Mail, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, Le Journal de Québec, La Presse, and Canada Newswire.
Results: The results were analyzed by using a frame analysis. Based on this analysis, a few key points were commonly used to represent EDP, including the uncertainty over which terms to use, their quantification, as well as a scare tactic to entice action towards climate change. Overall, the media tended to portray EDP using themes of devictimization.
Conclusion: Future research should be conducted to continue to analyze media representations of those displaced. It is also imperative to collect more data on EDP in order to resolve the debate around their definition and officially recognize one term to help facilitate research and increase the legitimacy of those displaced - whether they are recognized as migrants or refugees.
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Mukhopadhyay, Gautam. "The print media's perception of Sino-Vietnamese relations (1979-91)." Thesis, [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13644427.
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Strenge, Gesine. "Mediated metadiscourse : print media on anglicisms in post-Soviet Russian." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7547.
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This study examines attitudes towards anglicisms in Russian expressed in print media articles. Accelerated linguistic borrowing from English, a particularly visible aspect of the momentous language changes after the breakdown of the Soviet Union, has engendered a range of reactions. Print media articles spanning two decades and several central outlets are analysed to show how arguments for or against use of anglicisms are constructed, what language ideologies these arguments serve, and whether mediated language attitudes changed during the post-Soviet era. A summary of the history of Russian linguistic borrowing and language attitudes from the Middle Ages to the present day shows that periods of national consolidation provoked demands for the restriction of borrowing. Then, a survey of theories on language ideologies demonstrates that they function through the construction of commonsense argumentation in metadiscourse (talk about talk). This argumentation draws on accepted common knowledge in the Russian linguistic culture. Using critical discourse analytic tools, namely analysis of metaphor scenarios and of argumentation, I examine argumentative strategies in the mediated language debates. Particularly, the critical analysis reveals what strategies render dominant standpoints on anglicisms self-evident and logical to the audience. The results show that the media reaction to anglicisms dramatises language change in discourses of threat, justified by assumed commonsense rational knowledge. Whilst there are few reactions in the 1990s, debates on language intensified in the 2000s after Putin’s policies of state reinforcement came into effect, peaking around times of official language policy measures. Anglicisms and their users are subordinated, cast out as the Other, not belonging to the in-group of sensible speakers. This threat is defused via ridicule and claiming of the moral high ground. This commonsense argumentation ultimately supports notions of Russian as a static, sacred component of Russian nation building, and of speakers as passive. Close textual analysis shows that even articles claiming to support language change and the use of anglicisms use argumentation strategies of negativisation. Overall, a consensus on the character and role of the Russian language exists between all perspectives, emphasising the importance of rules and assigning speakers a passive role throughout.
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QUINTO, MARIA CLAUDIA. "IMAGES OF DEATH IN PRINT MEDIA: THE PHOTOGRAPHER´S EYE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2007. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9565@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>O propósito desta dissertação é a análise da percepção dos
fotógrafos acerca das imagens de morte publicadas na mídia
impressa, a partir do suporte teórico de Michel Maffesoli e
de Dominique Wolton. Para tanto, foram entrevistados dez
fotógrafos que expressaram a sua opinião a respeito da
publicação, produção e recepção das imagens de morte,
abordando temas como a edição e manipulação de imagens, a
publicação de fotos em diferentes tipos de jornais e a
questão da ética na Comunicação Social. Tais depoimentos
levam à conclusão que o público é visto como desejoso por
imagens violentas, principalmente, no que diz respeito à
população de baixa renda. Criam-se várias justificativas
para tais publicações, que variam desde o desejo do público
por sangue, a brutalidade existencial e o argumento de ser
fotojornalismo. Existe a preocupação em extrair a beleza da
morte, fotografá-la de maneira indireta e sutil. O bom
senso, o respeito às pessoas e a reação do público são
considerados os reguladores das publicações, e os Códigos
de Ética não são mencionados. Não há consenso entre os
entrevistados quanto à incidência das imagens de morte com
relação ao passado e à manipulação. Os reguladores da
produção das imagens e da publicação das mesmas são
freqüentemente subjetivos e relativos.<br>The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the
photographer´s perception of images of death published in
print media, supported by the works of Michel Maffesoli and
Dominique Wolton. To achieve that objective, ten
photographers were interviewed and asked to provide their
opinions about the publication, production and reception of
images of death, covering topics such as the edition and
manipulation of such images, the publication of pictures in
different kinds of periodicals and the theme of Ethics in
the field of Social Communications. The narratives lead to
the conclusion that the public is generally perceived as
acquiescent to violent images, the lower social classes
above all. There are different rationales associated to
such publications, such as the public´s inclination towards
sheer violence, the brutality of life and the pretext of
photojournalism. There is a concern for extracting the
beauty in death, and to photograph it in a subtle and
indirect manner. Common sense, respect to the masses and
the public´s reaction are considered the main regulating
factors by these publications - codes of ethics are not
mentioned. There is no consensus among the interviewees as
to the occurrence of images of death in relation to the past
and its manipulation. The regulating factors of their
production and publication are mostly ambiguous and
inexplicit.
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White, Philippa Anne Reynolds. "Representations of children in a monopoly print medium." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0104.
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This research explores the representation of children and young people in a newspaper. The objective was to develop a 'case study' profile of representations in a monopoly daily newspaper in a geographically-isolated Australian capital city. News content with a primary focus on people aged zero to eighteen years was collected for a 12-month period, and analysed from a constructionist perspective, using agenda-setting, news source, media framing and critical linguistics media analysis techniques. Distinctive features of the research design include the combination of these four analytic techniques and the breadth of the age cohort in the research sample. A large body of research literature is used to 'benchmark' the primary analysis of data, and to inform the analyses of age, 'race' and gender. These data are consolidated in three thematic frames: the Promotional Child, Victim Child and Deviant Child, which underpin the aggregated profile of representations developed in this research. Numerous images are reproduced from the research sample and appear throughout the thesis, embedded in relevant discussions. The concluding chapter of the thesis foregrounds a perception of children as voiceless, vulnerable and violent characters, featured in a discourse on social control. Key observations highlighted in this research include disparities in the degree of overt vernacular criticism applied to children and other minority population groups; and the over-representation of marginalised cohorts in compromising newspaper images. The extensive use of children in promotional contexts appears to be partially obscured by the altruistic function of non-commercial promotions and advocacy campaigns. 'Collisions' between altruistic values and news values were found to be predictive of outcomes coinciding with the interests of a target audience; negative outcomes for socially disadvantaged children; and consistent 'collateral benefits' for the news medium seemingly regardless of outcomes experienced by other stakeholders.
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Nkaule, Nomnqweno Princess. "Utilisation of print and electronic media by students at zamukulungisa campus of the Walter Sisulu University." Thesis, Walter Sisulu University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11260/d1007152.
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The study looks at how the library users at Zamukulungisa Campus of the Walter Sisulu University (WSU) in the Eastern Cape in South Africa perceive the print media versus electronic media as sources of information for their requirements. The study is aimed at investigating the extent of use of these media by the users of the institution under study and their reaction to print versus electronic media. It is understood that the Zamukulungisa Campus of the WSU users come from different backgrounds. Some come from underdeveloped rural areas where there are no basic amenities available such as running water, toilets, telephones or even electricity and libraries. These types of users depended on information from text books and from their teachers only. The rationale for the study is to examine the students‟ use of print and electronic materials available in the library of the institution under study with the view to identifying the gaps that need to be addressed in order to make recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of the service provision of information to the users by the librarians. With this purpose in mind, the study looks at: the frequency of library use; the nature of the media available in the library; the tools utilized by the users to access the media in the library; the preference of the library users for media usage; the users‟ perceptions and reactions to print and electronic media; the effects on users and; the background to the use of print and electronic media. A questionnaire was used to collect data for this research study from sampled students at Zamukulungisa Campus of the WSU. The findings may lead to potential solutions based on the users‟ reactions to the recommendations of their use of the print and electronic media. The references used are shown in the bibliography. Keywords: print media, electronic media, library users, different backgrounds, underdeveloped rural areas, basic needs, recommendation of the use of print and electronic media, service provision, provision of information, media usage, users‟ perceptions, users‟ reactions, study operations, presentation of findings, analysis of data, discussion of results, levels of study.
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Swartz, James D. "A study of the selection of print and non-print media for classroom use by a third grade teacher /." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487676261009112.
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Cutler, Kristin A. "Multiple masculinities? : A content analysis of men in the print media." Online access for everyone, 2007. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Summer2007/K_Cutler_061807.pdf.
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Barnard, Stephen R. Johnson Victoria L. "Crooked coverage a study of (de)racialized texts in print media /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4948.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on January 3, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.
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Cowen, Brandi Nicole. "Analyzing Canadian print media coverage of the 2004 southeast Asian tsunami." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/24890.
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Using the 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami as a case study, this paper considers how natural
disasters are covered in the media in order to develop a better understanding of disaster
reporting. The analysis builds upon Alexa Robertson’s 2008 study of television coverage of the tsunami. Data was collected through a content analysis of three daily Canadian newspapers in the
three months immediately following the tsunami. The findings show that although there are some
notable differences between newspapers, simply catering to the same type of audience (i.e.
national) is no guarantee that coverage from different newspapers will produce similar trends.
However, the research did identify four trends across the three newspapers studied: pieces that
are framed as political stories and critical of the government are not necessarily fuelled by
inherent political bias, at least with regard to a foreign natural disaster; in the immediate
aftermath of a disaster, the abundance of dramatic stories that can be told raises the threshold
with regard to the level of drama a disaster story must have in order to be printed; recovery
stories are generally re-framed as aid stories, thereby making it easier to relate the story to the
audience, and; there does not seem to be any pattern to when a disaster disappears from
newspapers’ front pages, as even an anniversary commemorating a disaster is no assurance of
front page coverage. This study found that although narrative arcs in disaster reporting follow similar patterns across newspapers, other aspects of disaster coverage – such as the quantity or location of coverage – vary from newspaper to newspaper.
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Kotzé, Frederik Christiaan. "The role of print media in travel decision-making / Frikkie Kotzé." Thesis, North-West University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/584.
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The primary goal of this study was to determine if print media (newspapers and
magazines) play a role in tourist decision to visit a destination. Four objectives were
derived from the primary research goal.
The first objective was to analyse newspapers and magazines by means of a literature
study. This was achieved by looking at the strategic component of media planning in a
media strategy in the delivering of the advertising message. The problems facing media
strategies as well as the marketing mix for print media were briefly discussed. It was also
found that there are certain advantages as well as disadvantages in using newspapers and
magazines as advertising medium.
The second objective was to look at the process of travel decision-making. This was done
by looking at two models of travel decision-making. The process was discussed and it is
indicated where print media plays a role in each of the phases of the process. It was found
that pint media does play a role in each of the phases of the travel decision-making
process. This information is of great value for marketers of travel destinations to be
incorporated in their marketing plans.
The third objective was to reflect the result of the empirical research and to determine the
key success factors in print media that influenced tourist decision to travel. It was achieved
by collecting data in which structured questionnaires were completed by international
tourists in order to determine the role print media played in their decision to visit South
Africa. The questionnaires were distributed amongst 145 international tourists from all over
the world at Sun City in the Northwest Province of South Africa. Editorials in newspapers
and magazines seem to be more popular with the respondents than advertising but that
could be mainly because editorials are seen more credible than advertising.
The fourth objective was to make recommendations for effective use of print media to
attract tourist to visit a destination. Newspapers and magazines should play an important
role in the motivation phase of the decision-making process because it has a direct bearing
on the tourist decision to act. Newspapers and magazines are considered one of the
principal means to influence tourist's decision-making. Because newspapers and
magazines are usually not expensive, their high information content can motivate a tourist
to visit a destination. Magazines and newspapers can play an important role when
searched for additional information. The latter is high in information content and are mostly
credible.<br>Thesis (M.A. (Tourism))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2005.
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Kennedy, Ethan. "Between the Lines: Depictions of Transgender Victims in News Print Media." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/968.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Sciences<br>Sociology
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Smyth, Robert. "The quality of opinion poll reporting in the Irish print media." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.696322.
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This dissertation examines the quality of opinion poll reporting by Irish newspapers. It analyses the reporting quality in two specific phases: accuracy and framing. It is a content analysis based on the principles of Berelson (1944, 1952), Bryman (2004) and Deacon et al (2002), that measures the accuracy of news media reporting of opinion polls and also measures bias in terms of the framing methods used to construct the opinion poll reports. The accuracy analysis is based on applying the work of Meyer (1991,2000), Broh (1980), Anderson (2000), Maier (2003, 2005), Sonck and Loosveldt (2008) and the AAPOR to the Irish print media during the years 2005 to 2011. The framing analysis uses the work of Druckman (2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 & 2007) and Entman. (1989, 1993 & 2007) to establish a definition of framing while applying the work of Tankard (2001), Nelson, Oxley and Clawson (1997) and de Vreese (2005, 2012) to create a basis for measuring framing effects. The work of Herman and Chomsky (1988), Patterson (2013), Bennett (2012). Deuz (2011) and Richardson (2007) is used to provide an ideological approach to analysing the media practices uncovered in the research. I conclude illat opinion poll reporting in Irish newspapers is endemically inaccurate and systematically biased and that a new set of reporting principles is needed.
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Griffiths, Andrew Michael. "The wildest oriental romance : empire and popular print media 1880-1914." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.548831.
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Ray, Durga. "Frames in the U.S. print media coverage of the Kashmir conflict." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000436.
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Baird, Julia Woodlands. "Housewife superstars : female politicians and the Australian print media, 1970-1990." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18048.
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This thesis focuses on the relationship between female politicians and the press in Australia - how they were interviewed and reported on, and how their public image was shaped, between 1970 and 1990. Making use of frame analysis, it examines the way the media framed women elected to parliament, and reveals a pattern of coverage which consistently portrayed women as outsiders in a male political realm. However, it also reveals that the coverage changed over time. There were four major frames through which female politicians were viewed. The ‘iron lady’ frame involved a search for Australia’s first woman Prime Minister, and compared femininity to the exercise of power or authority. The ‘housewife’ frame focused on women politician’s domestic responsibilities, and sprang from an anxiety about the impact of women’s participation in the public sphere on the private sphere. The ‘body’ frame drew attention to women’s weight, appearance and sex lives, often to either explain or query their political success. Finally, the ‘feminist’ frame centered on questions which asked women MPs to define themselves as feminists, and sought their opinions only on narrowly defined women’s issues. Frames were determined by the hook, the headline, and the choice of photograph as well as the narrative of newspaper articles, and repetition of descriptive words. Each frame evolved over time, and each has been shaped by female politician’s criticisms of their treatment at the hands of the press. This thesis shows the previously unexamined relationship between female politicians and the Australian print media is not static or unilateral, but symbiotic, dialogic and constantly changing. As a forum for a broader societal debate about the role of women, the major metropolitan newspapers sustained and shaped, but also undermined a separate spheres ideology. The print media was not monolithic, and competing viewpoints were aired in editorials, articles, comment and opinion pieces. Female journalists in particular played a critical role in introducing and sustaining a debate about a gender bias in political reporting, in the press. I argue analyses must incorporate the agency of women politicians in order to understand the complexities of the women’s responses and resistance to their portrayal as ‘housewife superstars’ in the press, as well as the possibilities for change.
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Nothias, Toussaint. "Beyond Afro-pessimism? : British and French print media discourse on Africa." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11657/.
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Western media have come under intense scrutiny over the past 20 years for their propensity to marginalise Africa and to rely on colonial stereotypes, images and narratives. Both within and outside academia, commentators appeal to the concept of ‘Afro-pessimism’ to qualify and condemn this phenomenon. And yet, the notion is under-theorised and existing empirical studies insufficiently analyse and explain the phenomenon. Drawing on journalism, critical/cultural and postcolonial studies, this thesis seeks to answer the following questions: What is Afro-pessimism? Is it an adequate characterisation of media coverage, and if so, to what extent? Is media coverage moving beyond Afro-pessimism? In order to answer these theoretical and empirical questions, this thesis develops a conceptualisation of Afro-pessimism and provides a Critical Discourse Analysis of British and French print media. The analysis focuses on British and French broadsheet newspapers and news magazines. I critically analyse the visual and linguistic features of media texts against the background of their context of production and through interviews with foreign correspondents based in South Africa and Kenya. There are two sites of investigation: (1) the press coverage of the 50th anniversaries of independence (2007-2012); (2) the news magazines’ front covers dedicated to continental Africa (2011-2015). In site 1, I assess three recurring claims about Western media coverage of Africa, and investigate the discursive nature of the coverage in relation to Afro-pessimism and postcolonial memory. In site 2, I explore the emergence of an Afro-optimist discourse in media coverage of Africa. Finally, I offer a critical appraisal of the accounts of journalists at the heart of the production of Africa’s media image.
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Balck, Linnea. "The EU communication deficit: : A case study of Swedish print media." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-402764.
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The purpose of this study is to explore to what extent and in what way Swedish quality newspapers cover the European Union. In this paper two questions are explored: 1. “Is there a communication deficit between the EU and the Swedish public? 2. “Are Swedish quality newspapers, through the visibility and quality of their coverage of the European Union, enhancing or bridging the communication deficit in the Swedish media?” To answer these questions a quantitative content analysis was conducted on news articles covering the European Union (EU) and Swedish national politics (S) in the quality newspapers Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet. The content of the EU articles were analysed with regard to visibility and quality and were tested on five news aspects (frequency, prominence, volume, Europeaness and policy fields). The reporting of these variables, with the exception of policy fields, where also compared to the reporting of Swedish national politics. Central concepts in this study are the communication deficit and political knowledge in relation to the European Union. To understand the role of the media in relation to EU reporting and how it affects political knowledge, media logics are also discussed. The findings of this study support the existence of a communication deficit and show that Swedish print media struggle to deliver EU news of the quality and quantity necessary to bridge this communication deficit.
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Hadland, Adrian. "The South African print media, 1994-2004 : an application and critique of comparative media systems theory." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7479.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-237)<br>Daniel C Hallin and Paolo Mancini's Comparing Media Systems (2004) has been hailed as an important contribution to understanding the inter-relationship between the media and political systems. The work was, however, based on a study of 18 stable, mature and highly developed democracies either in Europe or in North America. As an emerging democracy that has recently undergone dramatic change in both its political system and its media, South Africa's inclusion poses particular challenges to Hallin and Mancini's Three Models paradigm. This thesis focuses on the South African print media and tests both the paradigm's theoretical underpinnings as well as its four principle dimensions of analysis: political parallelism, state intervention, development of a mass market and journalistic professionalisation. A range of insights and a number of modifications are proposed. This thesis is based on interviews with South Africa's most senior media executives and editors, a comprehensive study of the relevant literature and 15 years of personal experience as a political analyst, columnist and parliamentary correspondent covering South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy. The thesis sheds new light on the functioning and applicability of the Three Models comparative paradigm as well as on the development and future trajectory of South African print media journalism.
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Carr, David (David Alexander). "Print preview for the fabrication of physical objects." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69242.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2011.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-75).<br>This work proposes a new class of design and fabrication interfaces for digitally created objects, which the author terms augmented fabrication machines. By enhancing traditional fabrication machines with rich new input and output capabilities, augmented fabrication machines have the potential to ease design iteration, facilitate the incorporation of outside physical objects, and increase the overall transparency of the design and fabrication process-all of which, the author contends, will encourage and improve individuals' use of fabrication technologies for the creation of personal objects. In addition to introducing the concept of augmented fabrication machines, the second major contribution of this work is its development of Part Preview. Part Preview, in essence, is an augmented fabrication machine application that improves accuracy and usability by incorporating all relevant digital and physical factors such as the toolpath, raw material stock, and machine environment to generate an accurate "preview" of the final object before fabrication takes place. After reviewing modern digital fabrication technology and outlining the traditional digital object design and fabrication workflow, this work identifies several areas for improvement. The author then discuss two earlier augmented fabrication machine projects, Eat Your Face and CopyCAD, aimed at addressing these shortcomings. This work then turns to a comprehensive discussion of Part Preview, examining its underlying principles and technology in detail. Part Preview's improvements to the functionality and usability of fabrication machines are quantified by way of a user study, which both qualitatively and quantitatively compares processes incorporating Part Preview to the existing design and fabrication workflow.<br>by David Carr.<br>S.M.
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Ashenafi, Abate. "The Framing of the 2005 Ethiopian National Election by Privately Owned Print Media Outlets in Ethiopia." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-20223.
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Bostock, Sophie. "The pictorial wit of Domenico Tiepolo." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3144/.
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This thesis takes a new approach to Domenico Tiepolo’s (1727-1804), Divertimento Per li Regazzi (c.1795-1804), it is arguably the artists most enigmatic graphic work, which features the commedia dell’arte character Pulcinella. The drawings have hitherto been subject to rigorous connoisseurial analysis. Indeed, in his introduction to ten of the drawings in a catalogue of Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings in The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, James Byam Shaw states that this particular series of drawings has now become so famous ‘that it is hardly necessary to add to the literature of the series.’1 In my opinion it would be a great pity if future generations of scholars were discouraged by this remark, for I believe the drawings still have much to ‘tell’ the contemporary art historian and would further benefit from increasingly interpretative readings. Previously, scholars have regarded Domenico Tiepolo as an imitator of his father, Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770), and interpreted the re-appropriation of motifs in the Divertimento as signs of old age and fatigue. I suggest, on the contrary, that in this series of drawings in particular, Domenico was an innovator. This project carves out new territories within the study of the series in that it focuses on the playful nature of the drawings, and how the suite can be understood in relation to contemporary theory concerning games and play, and ludic musical/improvisatory forms. Additionally, the drawings are discussed as a case history in a now popular emerging dialectic on the late works of aged artists: here I consider how these drawings, often funny, poignant, sensitive and delicate reveal how the elderly painter reconciles himself not only to the passing of his own life and the extinction of his family line but to an entire political, cultural and visual tradition.
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Lazaro-Reboll, Antonio. "Facing monstrosity in Goya's Los Caprichos (1799)." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2004. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12958/.
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The aim of this thesis is to offer a re-evaluation of our cultural assumptions concerning the monstrous in the work of Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746- 1828), specifically his collection of etchings Los Caprichos (1799). In my study there are three closely related areas of investigation: the image of the monstrous body in Goya's work; the cultural aspects of monsters and monstrous forms in Western discourses and in the Spanish Enlightenment; and the theoretical encounter between the history of the sciences and deconstructive criticism. The interaction between these three areas provides a background against which to understand the Goyaesque body within the context of Spanish cultural practices. Through an examination of eighteenth-century Spanish reformist absolutism, this thesis explores the contradictions, limits, or insufficiencies of the Spanish Ilustraciön in order to establish the ideological, cultural and artistic context out of which Los Caprichos emerged. One of the central issues that runs through my study is to establish how far, and in what ways, Los Caprichos can be seen as an Enlightenment work. Traditional readings of Los Caprichos have paid very little critical attention to the monstrous human bodies depicted in the collection in the context of eighteenth century discourses on monstrosity and corporeality. Los Caprichos invite a more complex, multifaceted consideration both of the body and the monster, of corporeality and monstrosity. By focusing on the Goyaesque body, the aim of this thesis is to open up a series of questions on the ways in which the monstrous body can be thought of in the critique of culture. This study therefore seeks to provide a cultural history of the monstrous body in the art of Goya, showing how his pictorial representations in the collection of etchings Los Caprichos offer a critique of reason and problematize the perception and treatment of (European and Spanish) Enlightenment configurations of the body. It is my contention that Los Caprichos can be read in Enlightenment ways yet there are elements of an ideological, cultural and artistic nature that problematize such credentials, pointing to the limits and contradictions of the Spanish Enlightenment itself.
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Loh, Waiyee. "Empire of culture : contemporary British and Japanese imaginings of Victorian Britain." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/82122/.
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Since the 1980s and 1990s, cultural commodities produced in both Britain and Japan have enjoyed an upsurge in global popularity, giving rise to notions of “Creative Britain” and “Cool Japan.” As a result of this boom, British and Japanese governments have attempted to develop and/or collaborate with both domestic and foreign cultural industries as a solution to national economic decline. This turn to culture as a means of generating economic revenue is part of a global trend where neoliberal economic ideas converge with the rise of a “creative economy.” This thesis argues that the image of Victorian Britain in Japanese shōjo manga, as well as in British neo-Victorian fiction, suggests that the history of free trade and British imperialism in East Asia in the nineteenth century underpins this increasing emphasis on cultural commodity production and export in Britain and Japan. In other words, British and Japanese neo-Victorian texts published in the period 1980-present demonstrate that what we call “globalisation” today is deeply informed by economic relations and cultural hierarchies established between distant places in the nineteenth century. Recognising these connections between past and present helps us understand why the Japanese today “choose” to consume British “high” cultural goods, and why the Japanese state and cultural industries “choose” to focus their energies on exporting popular culture products. These “choices,” I argue, are historically conditioned by Japan’s encounter with the West, and especially Britain, in the nineteenth century, and the perception of British cultural superiority that this encounter has fostered. In examining the transnational networks that connect Britain and Japan in the nineteenth century and in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, this thesis uses a “global history” framework to expand existing approaches to neo-Victorianism, girl culture in Japan, and World Literature.
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Williams, Georgina. "Lines of beauty : propaganda, the poster, and the pictorial trope." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/368329/.
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Propaganda conceived for distribution via the medium of the pictorial poster creates artwork that can be productively examined from an aesthetic as well as political perspective. When this artwork is primarily restricted to conflict propaganda from the second decade of the twentieth century, the temporal and contextual considerations assist in focussing the poster’s role as a functional object, not only within a propaganda campaign but also within the wider visual ecology of an era. For the poster to operate as an effective means of propaganda distribution, the propagandist requires composition that incorporates constructs capable of attracting the viewer. In isolating a particular construct, its manifestation has the potential to be utilised as a tool in the unpacking of the imagery; consequently the concept of a propagandist promotion of an alternate reality as a challenge to a current real, and the prospective movement from one to the other, can be literally and figuratively conveyed via its employment as a pictorial trope. In this regard, the construct deemed to represent not only movement, but movement at its most beautiful thereby forming a focus for attraction, is the serpentine curve that in 1745 William Hogarth scribed and titled the line of beauty (Hogarth, 1997 p6). In concentrating on the poster within the wider genre of early twentieth century visual conflict propaganda, and creating new associations with aesthetic and metaphoric concepts pertaining to the line of beauty, this research becomes the articulation of how each contributory element within the artwork’s construction ‘respectively influences the identity and the economies of the other’, thereby providing ‘a model by which to focus and rethink’ these relationships (Ostrow, 2005 p226). The line of beauty serves as both cause and effect of the process by which the relationships are reconsidered, thus provoking an innovative discourse as to the potential impact of the whole upon the visual culture field.
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Yamani, Morteza. "Printmaking and illustration with heat : identifying techniques and determining the suitability of print materials." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2006. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3153/.
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The practice-led research was concerned with the development of the combination of high relief prints and the creation of different shades of printmaking inks through heat. The research was in the proportion of 60% practice and 40% theory. To locate this research within contemporary practice, the study began with the literature review and consideration was given to the work of artists, who use heat in their work. The literature review also investigated embossed patterns and relief techniques including the work of artists who produce imagery through pronounced relief. Existing colour systems were reviewed and these assisted a framework for correlating the colour samples that were modified through the application of heat to printing ink. This review demonstrated that there was no compelling evidence to suggest that artists had seriously taken into account the connection between heat, colour and relief pattern. Studio research consisted of a series of studies that explored the potential of heat and its facility to change the effect of printmaking inks. In this research, temperature, variation and duration were all recorded. Research also examined the ability of heat to relax and release paper fibres under pressure thereby achieving extremes of positive and negative relief, as well as embossed and textured surfaces. This was done by exploring different methods of pressing paper under heat to form and print a variety of high relief, involving concave and convex forms. The research also examined punctured paper, tears, and embossed holes and examined how the fragmentation of paper fibres could be enhanced through heat. The research culminated in the making of a series of full scale prints that demonstrate the use of heat and its ability to enable high relief prints and subtle changes of colour. The research concluded with an examination exhibition and a written dissertation.
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Gulyas, Agnes. "Mediamorphoses : the political economy of the print media in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland during the first decade of the post-communist era." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2000. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3876.
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Atton, Chris. "The British alternative press in the 1990s : aims, organisation, production and 'writing' on the social margins." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 1999. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3657.
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Boswell, Daniel. "Publishing and the industrial dynamics of biblio-cultural identity in Catalan and Scottish literary fields." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2014. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/7247.
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This thesis provides a comparative analysis of the way contemporary processes of global change have affected the development of the publishing industry in nations which can be labelled small. It is centred on the cases of Scotland and Catalonia, nations with comparable political and demographic similarities in size and composition but also disparities in terms of their linguistic distribution and governmental organisation. The analysis interprets the sectors as a whole, looking specifically at the publication of texts in trade, academic and specialist markets. The research includes an overall qualitative analysis which synthesises a quantitative approach by adapting the interpretive perspective of social network analysis to undertake a survey of each sector in its entirety. This is supplemented with in-depth, semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders that represent the poles of the sector in microcosm, as identified through the survey data. A model is developed as an analytical framework, which provides a theoretical contribution to the subject area and underpins the structure of the research. The study identifies the relationship between processes of change at the level of global enterprise and markets and the development and sustainability of materials published at the level of the local, and analyses how this inter-relation contributes to national identity development whilst considering the extent to which these processes affect the dynamics of this industrial activity in the cases of Catalonia and Scotland. Wider conclusions about other comparable small nations are drawn by interpreting the similarities and differences in these two nations. Particular factors for consideration include the linguistic status and socio-political situation of each location. The study also incorporates a diachronic perspective by underpinning the research with a contextual analysis of the historical development of the publishing industry in each nation from the seventeenth century to the present day. This research aids understanding of the position small-national cultures occupy in an increasingly globalised market and is designed to provide the basis for examination into the subject area from other comparable nations by focusing in on particular cultural variables as suggested in the conclusion.
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BUCKLER, KEVIN G. "AN EXAMINATION OF PRINT MEDIA ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES IN THE REPORTING OF HOMICIDE IN THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1097185707.
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Kalaylioglu, Mahir Ilhan. "Representations Of Gecekondu In Mainstream Print Media: From Housing Question To Varos." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12607030/index.pdf.
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This study examines the dominant representations of gecekondu in the mainstream print media and the changes in these representations in a historical context from the end of 1940s, when gecekondu made its first remarkable appearance, to the late &<br>#8216<br>90s&<br>#8217<br>. How gecekondu phenomenon, which, in its historical development, has become institutionalized as one of the basic housing supply forms in the cities &<br>#8211<br>or &<br>#8216<br>gecekondu question&<br>#8217<br>as defined in the academic discourse and media &<br>#8211<br>is represented and in which contexts it is handled and presented in the print media texts are examined by a textual analysis of the news and articles broadcasted in the mainstream newspapers. The changes in the dominant media representations of gecekondu are illustrated with a documentary approach. The urbanization experience of Turkey is evaluated in terms of the gecekonduzation in order to locate different representations of gecekondu and the turning points in the way of approach of the media to this phenomenon in their historical and social context.
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Bielby, Clare. "Print media representations of violent women in 1960s and 1970s West Germany." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3226.
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A proliferation of media discourse on the ‘phenomenon’ of violent women in 1960s and 1970s West Germany suggests that the violent woman is a troubling figure who provokes both fascination and fear. Julia Kristeva’s notion of the abject provides a language for understanding and accounting for the complex mixture of emotions the figure elicits. For Kristeva, abjection is a violent revolt against something which threatens the subject, which may be both “other” or foreign, and familiar; we abject that which cannot be tolerated, cannot be thought or known, which provokes both desire and repulsion. Troubling about the violent woman, and what renders her culturally unintelligible or unimaginable, is that she takes life rather than giving it. In this study, I trace the various attempts made by the print media to assimilate the violent woman, to make her thinkable and knowable and, as a result, to defuse her threat. More frequently, she is made other, abjected either in the Kristevan sense or in the (related) more literal sense: ‘cast off,’ ‘excluded,’ ‘rejected’ or ‘degraded.’ West Germany of the 1960s and 1970s provides a good time-frame for the study: West German terrorism, which involved a large number of women, was at its peak in the 1970s, and a number of high-profile trials against non-politically violent women also took place during the period. In chapter one of the thesis, I look at how the violent woman is rendered the negative and ‘unnatural’ (m)other of the proper German woman and nation, the better to bolster hegemonic understandings of both woman and nation; in chapter two, how she is made hysterical and feminised so as to defuse the threat that she poses; in chapter three, how her crime is redefined as a crime against her gender and sexuality (one idea here is that it is the ‘man inside’ who is to blame). Finally, in chapter four, I explore how the violent woman is abjected through association with filth and defilement. Arguably it is because the strategies which attempt to assimilate, to know and to name her fail or are only partially successful, that the violent woman must be abjected from the body politic through association with dirt.
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Koteyko, Nelya. "Bias in presenting the business world : English loanwords in Russian print media." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434079.
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Naylor, Bronwyn Glynis. "Representing violent women : gender and crime reporting in the British print media." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299000.
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Gebremedhin, Yoseph. "Discursive Representations of ‘Development Aid’ in the British and Ethiopian Print Media." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22740.
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This study was aimed at investigating how ‘development aid’ is represented in British and Ethiopian newspapers. To this end, the Daily Mail, the Times, the Guardian, the Reporter, Addis Fortune and Addis Standard newspapers were selected as a case from the British and Ethiopian print media. The most relevant theoretical framework to the topic, the discourse theory has been employed as a theoretical framework. Qualitative data gathering techniques of case study and review of documents were employed to undertake the study. Using a purposive sampling technique, 18 newspaper articles were selected for analysis. The data set of news articles (n = 6) was analyzed using Carvalho’s approach for analyzing media texts. The study found that ‘development aid’ has been represented in numerous ways in the print media. The British print media represents ‘development aid’ as an unnecessary waste of money with no tangible benefits for Britain. In contrast, the Ethiopian print media represents ‘development aid’ as a means to solve the problems of ‘poor’ countries. The study also found that newspapers not only provide a platform for these representations but also contribute to shaping public understanding on the issue. The study has revealed that there is a partnership between newspapers and powerful actors such as politicians and media proprietors that resulted in influence on how the print media represents development issues. The study revealed that the views of politicians, media figures, and other powerful social actors have largely been (re) presented in the print media. The study has concluded that reporting of the investigated newspapers was influenced by official sources, media proprietors’ interest, and self-censorship. This paper discusses the representational dynamics of these findings and argues that the print media representations appear to detach donor country citizens from ‘development’, representing it as a problem of ‘poor countries’.
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Howard, Tyler P. "Creation of a Political Superstar: Print News Media Coverage of Barack Obama." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1192125490.
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