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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Media constructions"”.
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Homeless and Hopeless: Resignation in News Media Constructions of Homelessness as a Social Problem
This dissertation examined news constructions of homelessness as a social problem to identify how news stories communicate notions of what constitutes homelessness; how many and what types of people are homeless; and who can, should or must do something about this social problem. The study entailed …
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Invisible sexual predators & their silent crimes: exploring media constructions of female teacher sex offenders
… and being increasingly publicised in the media. Given media influences on public perceptions, policy action, and crime and penal policies, their construction of FSOs is a good starting point to understanding the ways in which a largely invisible phenomenon is made visible. This study, …
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The "toughness conundrum" : contemporary mainstream media images of women in the public sphere during the "war on terror"
… the relationship between gender, war, and media constructions of both. Using the theoretical frameworks of the social constructions of gender and the gendered constructions of the public sphere, I have analyzed how Time magazine portrayed Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton in discussions …
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Reconstructing the War in Iraq: Post-9/11 American War Fiction in Dialogue with Official-Media Discourse
… is as much created by and through official-media discourse as represented by it, fictional accounts of Iraq exist not outside or separate from this discourse but rather in a dynamic, continually evolving relationship with it. The three texts explored in this study—Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s …
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(Mis)Diagnosing Silence: A Cultural Criticism of the Virginia Tech News Coverage of Silence as Public Pedagogy
… students and faculty members. As the mainstream media talked about the possible causes, they ultimately pointed out that Cho's silence should have been detected as a warning sign to his violent rampage. As a result, the media named Cho a "silent killer." Due to the U.S. media's construction of …
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Beyond the polarising constructions of terrorism : Challenging the discourses that silence public debate in Western Australia
… to the War on Terror, Islamic terrorism, and the media constructions of Muslims, few researchers have explored how people work with these typical constructions of terrorism to effect their own social positioning and identity development. Within a Critical Discursive Psychological framework (see …