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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"Media representations"”.
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Media representations of uncertainty about climate change
… first explains why it is important to study media representations of uncertainty around climate change. It then surveys the extensive literature on climate change and the media, and within this, the two bodies of scholarship relevant to media representations of uncertainty: i) ‘uncertainty’ …
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Media representations of gender in contemporary China
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Media Representations and Public Attitudes towards Nanotechnology in Taiwan
… a comprehensive and clear investigation of media representation and public attitude toward Nanotechnology (Nano) in Taiwan, this thesis includes three studies. Study 1 investigates the media representation of Nano in Taiwan and the relationship among different Nano-based themes, frames, and …
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The Zimbabwean threat: media representations of immigrants in the South African media
… thesis is a multimodal discourse analysis of the media representations of Zimbabwean immigrants in the South African media. The aim of the investigation is to illustrate how Zimbabwean immigration and Zimbabwean immigrants are portrayed in the print media in South Africa. For the theoretical and …
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Chemical Valley: media representations of an inconvenient truth and a comforting lie
This thesis examines media representations of pollution in Sarnia’s Chemical Valley, focusing on how these portrayals impact marginalized communities, particularly the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Through an ultra-realist lens, this research explores how dominant narratives shape public understanding …
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The Hard Road to Renewal: Media Representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
… Cultural Revolution has been represented in the media, mainly in films and television dramas, from the 1980s to the early 2010s. Drawing upon textual analysis, conjunctural analysis and the concept of articulation, I examine how the historical past is intertwined with the present China, how the …
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Media representations of the New Zealand economy: an exercise in critical theory
This thesis examines how news media practices and discourses have depicted structural changes in the New Zealand political economy. For this purpose chapter one develops two critical perspectives. It is first explained how the capitalist political economy shapes the institutional and rhetorical …
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The Emperor's New Clothes: Media Representations Of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: 1990-2005
… which in turn led to most sectors of the print media becoming impervious to any real investigation of the subject.
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Media Representations of Gender-Based Violence Against Black Women: A Decolonial Feminist Analysis
… of GBV in the world. Additionally, South African media plays a role in how and what information about GBV is disseminated. This work looks at two case studies to investigate how the media represents GBV against black women in the South African context. It uses Decolonial Feminist theory to frame …
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Tracking the Cougar: Performing the Over-Thirty-Five Single Woman In Everyday Life and Media Representations
… began to be known as cougars and concomitantly, representations of cougars began to appear in various media. In this thesis I ask how women are discursively and socially constituted as cougars and how our choices are thereby limited. Given that I arrive at this topic from personal experience, I …
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Decoding dominant ideals of beauty : Young women’s engagements with media representations, social environments, and media literacy
… to success and popularity. The influence of media deserves particular attention as it is able to create and circulate dominant ideals of beauty. Research suggests that dominant ideals of beauty created by media have a strong impact on women’s perceptions of beauty. However, the influence of …
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'Taking things personally' : young Muslim women in South Australia discuss identity, religious racism and media representations
… other contexts, this thesis argues that the news media in Australia ( especially newspapers ) plays a significant role in the ( re ) production of religious racism, primarily through the repeated use of negative representations and stereotypes of Muslims. A number of textual strategies are …
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Media representations of gender in the Scottish public sphere in the context of the 2014 independence referendum
This thesis explores the mediated representation of gender in the Scottish public sphere in the context of the Scottish independence referendum in 2014. In particular it focuses on media samples which centre on key political figures from the campaign. The study combines two corpora: articles from …
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A theoretical exploration of media representations of gender-based violence against African women through a Decolonial lens
Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία αποτελεί μια θεωρητική εξέταση της διεθνούς ειδησεογραφικής κάλυψης, των μιντιακών αναπαραστάσεων και του δημόσιου λόγου γύρω από την Έμφυλη Βία (Gender-Based Violence - GBV) κατά των Αφρικανών γυναικών, μέσα από τη συνδυαστική αξιοποίηση ενός αποαποικιακού και Μαύρου …
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Reproducing the Orient: A Critical Examination of Western Media Representations of China’s Uyghur Policies between 2014 and 2021
… study examines the convergence of US state media and US-based mass media in news coverage of China’s policies in Xinjiang. Analysis of a sample of articles published by <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>, <em>The</em> <em>Washington Post</em>, and <em>CNN</em> …
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Health systems in the news: The influence of media representations on health system functioning in the Western Cape health system
… health systems. Like health systems, the media has also been described as an important social institution in modern society that is deeply embedded within the sociocultural and political context. The role of the media as societal watchdog; as a mechanism to improve accountability; as a …
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Media Representations and Implications For Collective Memory: A Grounded Theory Analysis of TV News Broadcasts of Hillary Clinton From 1993-2008
… This dissertation examines television news representations of Clinton and the implications of those representations on the formation of collective memory associated with female politicians, especially at the national level. Using a grounded theory analysis, the study identifies three themes …
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The contemporary racialization of the Irish in Britain: an investigation into media representations and the everyday experience of being Irish in Britain
… The first involved an interrogation of the representations of Irish people and Ireland in the mass media. This assumes that the mass media can be viewed as a de facto ideological state apparatus (Hall, 1982) in which racist messages and meanings are embedded (Hall, 198 1). For the second …
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Thinking through the politics of shame as a contemporary form of colonial discourse : analysing media representations of the Baby Tshepang rape case
In 2001, the rape of baby Tshepang triggered a media frenzy in the small community of Louisvale, located in the Northern Cape. An overarching theme of shame dominated how journalists represented the event. The label "A Town of Shame" stuck onto Louisvale through the mobilization of colonial and …
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Exploring the gap between media and practice: a feminist analysis of media representations and practitioner perspectives on sexual exploitation of girls and young women
This thesis explores media representations about ‘child sexual exploitation’ (CSE) and the ‘practice-based evidence’ of specialist practitioners from a feminist perspective. It considers how gender, power and other systems of social oppression relate to CSE. The study was conducted in two phases. …
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