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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Media and communication studies"”.
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A comparative, diachronic study of television dubbing in Galicia and Catalonia (1983-2007)
… analysis of dubbing for television in Galicia and Catalonia from the mid-1980s to 2007. Drawing on approaches in comparative translation studies, this thesis aims to analyse, compare and triangulate different forms of historical macro-, meso- and micro-level data from two case studies to …
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Convenient fictions: the disciplining mechanisms of screenplay structure
… thesis takes the recent increase in on-screen and behind-the-scenes representation in Hollywood film and televison as a launching point for a critique of the manner in which contemporary screenwriting paradigms discipline and control progressive representation. It is my contention that …
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CONNECTING THROUGH FACEBOOK: THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING ON COMMUNICATION
Abstract and Thesis Statement The current popularity of social networking has been cited in numerous recently published studies and articles and while the majority of users of these types of sites are young adults, other age groups are also showing increasing spikes in usage. I will argue that …
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Decolonising Public Relations in Africa: Centring Local Epistemes in Ghanaian Political Communication
… Africanisation agenda. A quest for decoloniality and Africanity was manifest in many ways. However, efforts to decolonise media and communication studies have so far been “media centric”. Outliers such as Public Relations have been left out of urgent debates on decoloniality. This thesis addresses …
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An exploratory study of social media usage and developmental outcomes by government and emerging political leaders : the Nigerian experience
… systems around the world, including long-standing democratic systems, have been afflicted by corruption: non-transparent decision making processes, power distribution, cynical public relations and poor consultation exercises. The consequence has been a sense of prevailing injustice; …
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Contesting Discourses: Framing, Power, and Counter-Hegemony in Hong Kong’s 2019 Anti-ELAB Movement
This thesis examines how selected mainstream and alternative media outlets in Hong Kong represented the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) Movement, which was initially triggered by widespread opposition to a controversial bill allowing extraditions to mainland China. The movement …
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Creativity and its discontents: a case study of precarious playbour in the video game industry
… has now become a popular research topic within media and communication studies. This dissertation is an attempt to contribute to the emergent scholarship on media labor, critically using the concepts of precarity and immaterial labor. The concept of precarity is useful not only to understand …
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Alternative media and African democracy: The Daily News and opposition politics in Zimbabwe, 1997-2010
The end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century were marked by enormous social, economic and political challenges in Africa and in other developing contexts. This was partly due to the effects of a global economic recession and arguably failed national economic structural adjustment …
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“An equal opportunity to watch, read about, meet and hear from”: An Analysis of CBC’s Gender Balance in Sport Programming Commitment
… commitment to gender-balanced coverage of sport and athlete stories in its original content. The purpose of this case study of CBC’s gender balance in sport programming commitment was to 1) understand CBC’s process of developing their gender balance in sport coverage commitment; and 2) analyze …
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Financial media, globalisation, and China’s economic integration: comparing narrative construction of the Economist and Caijing
… were signed by its 57 founding members. Proposed and initiated by China, this multilateral development bank is considered to be an Asian counterpart to break the monopoly of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. In October 2015, China’s Central Bank announced a benchmark interest …
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After-Effects: A Feminist Poststructural Exploration of the Young Adult Series “After” and Discourses of Romanticized Abuse
… characters that relies on stereotypical and binarized performances of masculinity and femininity to maintain the storyline. In my analysis, I first relied on Judith Butler’s (1990) theory of gender performativity to explore how gendered power is constructed and maintained through the …