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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Global media"”.
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Creating Mediated Cosmopolitanism? Global Media Flows and the Beijing Youth
… of growing flows of de-territorialized media products – mainly, but not solely, US-led Western media products, including films and television programmes. It also examines how this generation is negotiating hybrid identities from the perspective of cultural cosmopolitanism, given their …
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PUBLICIZING THE AFRICAN CAUSE: EVALUATING GLOBAL MEDIA DISCOURSES REGARDING THE CELEBRITY-LED "MAKE POVERTY HISTORY" CAMPAIGN
ABSTRACT This study examined global media discourses regarding the coverage of an anti-poverty campaign for Africa by celebrities in Europe by comparing media coverage of this event in the UK, US, and African press. The Make Poverty History campaign was organized in 2005 to pressure G8 leaders …
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Locating Moana through children’s eyes: “Seeing with others” in cultural identity and global media in Aotearoa New Zealand
… Zealand interpret cultural representations in global animated media, with particular attention to Disney’s Moana (2016). Through a child-centred, transnational lens, the research examines how young audiences make sense of ethnicity, culture, and identity in mediated stories, and how these …
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Mass media, lifestyle and young adults’ (un)reflexive negotiation of social and individual identities in Windhoek
The rapidly growing presence of old and new media in postcolonial Namibia, particularly from the decade after the turn of the Millennium, has significance for cultural and identity transformations in the country. Formerly entrenched social identities, shaped by restrictive colonialism and …
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Emerging South-South media flows: Chinese media in Africa
As emerging economies like China reshape the global order, transnational media flows are undergoing significant transformation, featuring flows within the traditional periphery in the Global South that do not necessarily pass through the traditional center of the West. Recent digital migration in …
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Runaway Film Production: A Critical History of Hollywood's Outsourcing Discourse
… demonstrates how Hollywood's multinational media corporations have leveraged production work to cultivate goodwill and industry-friendly trade policies across global media markets. More critically, I argue that the history of runaway production tells the story of the development of a …
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Framing the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11: A Comparison of CNN and Phoenix TV commemorative websites
… CNN, which are among the most influential news media in China and the U.S., respectively. A systematic content analysis was performed using latest news, opinion articles, photographs, and videos as classified by CNN and Phoenix TV on their commemorative 9/11 tenth anniversary websites. Framing …
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Media globalization in Greater China : strategies of transnational media players and the regional television space
… industry in the context of the debate on globalization. It presents an overview of the transnational corporate practices and the resulting transformation of the Greater China's television industry. The objective of this dissertation is threefold. It analyzes the development of the …
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Dis/locating audience : transnational media flows and the online circulation of East Asian television drama
It is commonly accepted that media and communication technologies play pivotal roles in the complex processes of what is broadly termed "globalization." The increasing speed, volume, and scale of transnational circulation has been one of the most dramatic development in the media landscape, …
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Las Hijas de Violencia: Performance, the Street, and Online Discourse
… the rhetorical spaces of the street and social media posting through a case study of the performance group Las Hijas de Violencia. Through anarchistic direct action resistance tactics, the group confronted harassers in the streets of Mexico City and their recordings launched global media …
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The interactive television: Developing a favorable regulatory environment in Singapore
This paper will examine how the various media regulatory policies affect the development and implementation of the Interactive Television (ITV) in Singapore by gathering both primary and secondary information from its national media regulatory agency, the Media Development Authority (MDA). This …
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Adapting To Change in the Swiss German Media Industry: Identifying and Developing Competencies Needed by Journalists and Editors To Cope with Future Market Needs - A Collective Case Study
<p>The global media industry has undergone a tremendous change and massive upheaval during the last two decades. On the one side, media consumption has changed immensely and on the other side, media convergence appeared, a phenomenon which describes the merge of different media production genres …
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Effects of iloprost on embryo development in vitro
… group, and a control group which was cultured in Global media. Two-cell stage mouse embryos were randomly assigned to different treatment groups and were observed to monitor the growth and the effectiveness of Iloprost in blunting the adverse effect of YM-155 on embryo development, using embryo …
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What would Confucius say? Applying Confucian virtue system, moral self-cultivation, and communalism to media ethics
… that aims to build a new normative framework for media ethics by applying concepts from Confucian ethics. It contributes an alternative theoretical perspective outside of the Western paradigm with Confucianism, the most important philosophical underpinning in China and many other countries in the …
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Evolving a Theatre of Truth
… a Theatre of Truth in the context of the immediate zeitgeist. The questions I address are the role of feminist theatre in a world dominated by global media and corporate omnipotence; the conflation of theatre and Realpolitick; the limitations of postmodern thought and critical theory, and …
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Bong Joon-Ho’s Transnational Challenge To Eurocentrism
… (2017), this thesis explores the impact of global media flow of transnational cinema, foregrounding its potential to convey broader (but more effective) social and ecological political messages through its wider reach to audiences. Each film selected highlights a specific aspect of …
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Democracy, Citizens' Media, and Resistance: A Study of the New River Free Press
A central concern of media scholars such as Ben Bagdikian and Robert McChesney is the undemocratic potential of the U.S. mainstream media system, dominated by a small number of highly consolidated, multinational, corporate media firms. In this context, other scholars, including Chris Atton, John …
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Act local, think global – The aesthetics of success: race and Beauty in the global south: a reflection on South African women content creators' online performances on YouTube and Instagram
This media creative project explores the experiences of South African women on social media platforms. The idea for this project stems from my personal experiences as an avid consumer and viewer of online content generated by these women. My engagement with YouTube began about ten years ago, when I …
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Youth-Generated Media in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia
Broadly defined as self-expressive media and communication artifacts, youth-generated media have become more ubiquitous as media-making tools became cheaper, smaller and more accessible. Moving beyond questions of media effects and consumption, this dissertation explores why and how street racing …
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Pandemic panic : a network-based approach to predicting social response during a disease outbreak
… of the disease, its perceived risk and a global media signal. We verify the model by analyzing the spread of disease and social response during the 2009 H1N1 outbreak in Mexico City, the 2003 SARS and 2009 H1N1 outbreaks in Hong Kong and the 2012-2013 Boston influenza season, accurately …
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