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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Western media"”.
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Western Media use of the Third World Construct: A Framing Analysis of its Validity.
… existed during the period leading up to and immediately after the cold war means that its conceptual metamorphosis should have ceased once these periods were relegated to the annals of history.<p>Whether and how contemporary definitions of <em>Third World</em> have changed since then should be …
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Associations Among Internalization of Western Media Appearance Ideals, Acculturative Stress, and Body Image Problems in Asian American Men
… emerging from acculturation and the influence of Western media body ideals have a great influence on body dissatisfaction as well as on disordered eating. However, that existing literature was based largely on women and on some Hispanic men. Thus, the present study aimed to explore the …
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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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Western media representation of the Arab Spring revolutions and its impact on staff and students in a Libyan university setting
This thesis investigated how the Arab and western media affected the staff and students of one Libyan university, Sebha University, through their presentation of the major Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisian, Egyptian, and Libyan. In particular, the research focused on the reporting by Al-Jazeera and …
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The Rwandan Genocide and Western Media: French, British, and American Press Coverage of the Genocide between April and July of 1994
… of unrest between the two groups created from Western influence under colonialism and post-colonial relationships. The international response to the genocide was scarce. While international intervention waned, the international media kept the genocide relevant in its publications. This thesis …
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Images of the Indigenous in Modern Media: To What Extent is the Cross-Cultural Expansion of the Media Altering the Way Arctic Indigenous Societies are Portrayed in Western Media?
This thesis is about journalism and the way it explores issues relating to indigenous peoples, and specifically issues relating to Arctic indigenous peoples.
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Chinese Governmental Post-Crisis Management of 2003 SARS Epidemic: Evaluation of Governmental Communication Strategies and Frame Correlation between Government and Mass Media
… the 2003 SARS epidemic. The content of several media outlets — Chinese Version of Xinhua News Agency, English Version of Xinhua News Agency, The Toronto Star, The New York Times, The Times (London) — were examined on the same issue in the post-crisis period from June 25, 2003 to September 9, …
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Comparative analysis of Eastern and Western cultures crisis communication methods within the Israel-Gaza conflict
… communication strategies between Eastern and Western media in their coverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict. Using framing theory and Hofstede’s cultural dimensions as analytical frameworks, this research explores how victimhood, conflict escalation, and resolution are presented in news …
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Of sunsets, savages, and soccer framing Africa during the final days of the 2010 FIFA World Cup
… Africa has many representations within the media. Sadly, many Africans argue, Western media practitioners tend to present "fatalistic and selectively crude" (Kromah, 2002) representations of Africa, portraying a large and diverse continent as homogeneous (Hammett, 2010), if they represent …
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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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The use of data in international humanitarian responses to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti
… response to the earthquake was characterised by western media as a logistical disaster. Years after the earthquake, hundreds of thousands of Haitians still inhabited “temporary” camps where they sought refuge after the earthquake, rather than returning to their neighbourhoods. Why did the …
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Islam in the British broadsheets: how historically-conditioned orientalist discourses inform representations of Islam as a militant monolithic entity
… July 2005, the image of Islam as a militant anti-Western faith featured dominantly in the global mass media. This thesis examines the claim that the Western media representation of Islam, the second largest religion in the world with over one billion followers, is predominantly negative and …
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Media discourse of Egyptian and British newspapers' websites and its influence on the formation of images of Muslims and Islam post 25th January 2011 revolution.
… continuous threat to social cohesion in various Western societies. There is a significant body of research that explores media representations of Islam and Muslims in western media contexts. Only a handful of studies, however, have considered how Islam and Muslims are represented in …
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Muslim women in Australia and the Netherlands: A multimodal enquiry into television documentary representations
… after the terrorist attacks of 11 September, the Western media continues to portray Islam and its people negatively and within the dominant knowledge and ideology of the superior West. These media representations remain largely unquestioned. Hereby the appearances of veiled Muslim women continue …
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Rethinking media systems: insights from a case study of paid news in India
… be effected in the depth and accuracy with which media systems theory meets its proclaimed objective of understanding and describing the behaviour of media systems. It draws upon critiques of the applicability of media systems theory to non-Western media systems to ask whether the grounded study …
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Through the Yoruba Lens: A Postcolonial Discourse of Female Circumcision
<p>Despite the Western media attention and the critique of female circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa, few studies consider the local populations' traditions, values, and ideologies.<em> Through the Yoruba Lens: A Postcolonial Discourse of Female Circumcision</em> investigates female circumcision …
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Archival Frictions: The Arab and Arab American as Image in Literature, Film, and Other Archives
… after a prolonged encounter with the west and western media in the twentieth century.
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Hegemony of BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera’s Framing of Protests in China: The Cases of Wukan and Hong Kong
This study focuses on how the global news media report on protests in China. It contributes an original analysis of the global news media coverage of protests in China from both the theoretical and empirical perspectives. The research is based on the purposive sampling of the BBC, CNN and Al …
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Framing analysis of British newspaper representation of Saudi women from 2005- 2013
… efforts by women to win their rights, and the Western media started following the social movement in Saudi Arabia. The aim of this study is to trace the representation of Saudi women in the British newspaper and investigate how the British press represents coverage of stories relating to Saudi …
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