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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Media institutions"”.
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The Decolonization of the Political Economy of New Media Institutions in Africa: A Case Study on the Pan-African Film Industry
… framework to observe the decolonization of new media institutions in Africa. This is because "critically analysing media organisations and media processes in society have come from political economy perspectives." (Jansen, 2003, p. 90). This thesis has a specific focus on the decolonization of …
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Queering in the Years: Gay Visibility in the Irish Media, 1974-2008
… Irish television, film and alternative activist media between 1974 and 2008. The thesis argues that LGBT activists originally deployed media visibility for the liberatory potential of advancing LGBT rights. However, mainstream media institutions exploited queer identities for economic purposes; …
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An Exploration into the Criminalization of Indigenous Men in Canada: CCDA through Hubbard's Documentaries
… analyzed questioning the authority of state and media institutions while also revealing the racism that supports and upholds Canada's justice system. Foucault's concepts of power/knowledge/truth/biopower are used as a theoretical framework to demonstrate how dominant settler narratives conceal, …
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Media rhetoric in South Africa: a case study of the floor crossing debate
This paper makes a critical analysis of media rhetoric in South Africa. It does so by looking at the Floor Crossing Legislation debate. It makes analysis of material, and texts that were reported by different media institutions to create a particular perception by repeatedly stating the same view …
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Teeth Gritting Harmony: The Ideology of Neo -Liberalism
… laissez-faire market alongside the mass media institutions and the subjects' everyday practices which reproduce its myriad forms. The first two chapters lay out the theoretical scaffolding around which the dissertation is constructed. Chapter II presents a theory of ideology that is …
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Copyrighting Chinese media: cultural commodification in a political economic context
… in the context of social transformation and media growth and works to understand copyright in social and political economic perspectives. The chapters study the history of copyright, debates and conflicts in the making of the Copyright Law, copyright’s role in production and labor in media …
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Anticorruption Television Dramas: Between Propaganda and Popular Culture in Globalizing China
… compromises between the Party, commercializing media institutions, and a number of influential writers, in a context of social unrest fueled by corruption. At the content level, anticorruption dramas are ideologically complex products, providing a certain degree of openness for negotiation. …
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Media Democracy Deferred: The Postwar Settlement for U.S. Communications, 1945--1949
… research, this study historicizes current media policies and reform efforts by analyzing the 1940s postwar critical juncture when policymakers, social movements, and communication industries grappled over the role of a commercial press in a democratic society. By focusing on policy …
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Power and pleasure : the politics of film analysis and feminist community media education
… analysis of representations of women in visual media, and the potential of media education for establishing a culture of critical viewing. Feminist film theory is thus critically considered, as are associated debates within feminism on the reproduction by media institutions of categories of …
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Mediating transition in Afghanistan, 2001-2004
… examines international aid in support of Afghan media from fall 2001 to fall 2004 as a case study to interrogate the notion of “media transition” and its underlying assumptions. It examines how development organizations such as the United Nations, bilateral aid agencies such as the U.S. Agency …
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Encoding the Body: Critically Assessing the Collection and Uses of Biometric Information
… and surveillance, as well as the role of media institutions and industries in formulating information and communications policy. I examine texts including images of biometric technologies in media, film, television, as well as scientific studies and policy debates investigating the …
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The non-effectiveness of the communicative language teaching approach (CLT) in the teaching and learning of English as a second language (ESL) in selected black high schools in Lower Umfolozi District in KwaZulu-Natal
… nation Address in isiXhosa, seSotho or isiZulu. Media institutions would rarely employ a person who cannot comprehend English. Many of them - printing, radio stations and television channels -have English as their main language. One may cite commercials and interviews with the president on a …
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Consuming Before they Can Walk: An Analysis of Media Literacy Education on the Top Preschool Programming Blocks on Television
… television is a growing segment of children's media, but there is limited research examining the structure of the top preschool content producers. The vast majority preschool programming is promoted as educational by the networks; however no show explicitly lists media literacy education as a …
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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MEDIA REPRESENTATION OF US COLLEGE ATHLETIC SCANDALS IN TRADITIONAL NEWS MEDIA AND MEDIATED COMMUNICATION WITHIN THE COLLEGE
… critically analyzes organizational and mass media communication about the Penn State Child Sexual Abuse Scandal of 2011. The author examines the different ways in which Pennsylvania State University administrators and officials communicated the scandal internally to their community (campus …
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The Consequences of Mistrust in the News Media: Media Skepticism as a Moderator in Media Effects and as a Factor Influencing News Media Exposure
Survey data show that audience trust in the institutions of the news media is fading. Most research to date has focused on the reasons for this decline in audience trust and ignored its outcomes. This dissertation seeks to explore the consequences of audience skepticism toward media institutions. …
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Sequels and SAMs: Re-contextualized Media and Affective Memory
<p>Electronic media allows for the repetition of the audiovisual in new contexts. Bernard Stiegler argues that, as people are exposed to these contexts (television, commercials), consumer-based art threatens the <em>singular</em>, a connection to a particular aesthetic in a particular space. When …
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The politics of media and information in countries emerging from totalitarian regimes: the case of Romania
… thesis problematizes the interplay of power and media institutions as a general difficulty in democratic societies and as a specific challenge in countries that are emerging from authoritarian regimes. Based on more comprehensive studies about power, dominance, compliance, resistance and …
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Color-blind: The Effects of a Reporter's Race on Framing
… mental abilities (i.e., the "brain" frame) in mediated sports content, especially in verbal commentary. An athlete's race has been extensively studied as a key variable that determines which frames are implemented by media institutions, as Black athletes are framed in the brawn frame and White …
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Latinas Talk Back: The Latina Body, Citizenship, and Popular Culture
… construction of the Latina body across media institutions, popular culture, and lived experience. In particular, it asks: what is the discursive construction of the Latina body in mainstream U.S. and Latina/o popular culture and how do Latinas engage with these representations of their …
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A light in every home : Huda TV's articulation of Orthodox Sunni Islam in the global mediascape
… diversification of content and restructuring of media power in the region raise many important questions for research. This dissertation is a case study of Huda TV, an English-language Islamic satellite channel broadcasting from Cairo, Egypt. The author collected participant observation data as …
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