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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"alternative media"”.
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Alternative media for public pedagogy: "Chief" concerns and human agency
To demonstrate how the growing influence of alternative media in civil society correlates with the rise of social movements and their influence on contemporary manifestations of resistance, this research uses critical ethnographic methodologies to document the narratives of alternative media …
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The best alternative? The use of alternative media in the occupy movement
This research study explores the use of alternative media among the Occupy social movement. A combination of factors, including emerging media technology and an antagonistic relationship with mainstream media has led many social movement actors to use alternative media to mobilize participation. …
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Alternative media and African democracy: The Daily News and opposition politics in Zimbabwe, 1997-2010
… study specifically investigates how the news media in Zimbabwe played a critical role in actively mobilizing for political change and as a site for opposition politics and agitation during moments of turmoil and repression from 1997-2010. Zimbabwe’s news media, particularly privately owned …
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Negotiating inclusion: new 'alternative' media and the institutional journalistic practices of print journalists in Nigeria
… Nigerian Tribune and Guardian, appropriate ‘alternative media’ content and new media technologies in their newsmaking practices. The choice of these four newsrooms enables a detailed reading of how the process of appropriating new media technologies and alternative media content takes place …
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Taking Back the News? A Study of Muslim Media in North America as Alternative Media
This thesis examines the role of Muslim media in providing unique discourses in the media landscape that differ from the mainstream media. Two print Muslim newspapers, The Muslim Link and Muslim Link, are used as a case study to explore how the journalism, goals and practices of the Muslim media …
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Framing the 2017 cape Town "service delivery protests": A comparative study of mainstream and alternative media coverage
… conduct a comparative analysis of mainstream and alternative media to understand how The Cape Times mainstream newspaper and GroundUp alternative online media outlet framed the 2017 “service delivery protests” in Cape Town, South Africa. Scholarly literature has demonstrated that the mainstream …
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Alternative vs. Traditional News: A Content Analysis of News Coverage of the 10th Anniversary of Sept. 11
… to understand the differences in framing used by alternative media outlets and traditional or mainstream media outlets. A sampling of articles about the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was used from alternative and traditional media publications to conduct this study. …
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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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Mass media and alternative coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill
… of an environmental disaster in the mass and the alternative media. With the use of content analysis, 132 articles on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill were selected and analyzed in four alternative magazines and one American newspaper. It was hypothesized that content varied according to the differences …
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The relationship between cognitive orientation, media usage, political activism, and political deviance from the perspective of context theory.
… theory regarding the relationships between media usage, cognitive orientation, political activism, and political deviance. The present study extended upon the model by including a behavioural aspect, namely, political activism. Subjects for the study consisted of 120 undergraduate Psychology …
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Peripheral Alternatives: Media and Tibetan Nationalism in the Chinese Tibetosphere
This thesis examines the media use in the spreading of Tibetan nationalism in the Chinese Tibetosphere, the struggling land of national politics situated between the two power centres of China and the exiled Tibet. For individual Tibetans on the ground, the small pieces and specific details in …
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Engaging voices or talking to air? A study of alternative and community radio audience in the digital era
… advance audience research in community radio and alternative media in general. Methodologically, this dissertation is based on case studies from two community radio stations KOOP and KPFT in Texas through multiple methods including 5-year ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews with 70 …
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Domestic Violence in the Popular Discourse: A Victim -Centered Problem
… portrayal of domestic violence in the popular media, labeling the recipients of abuse ""victims"" has failed to a absolve them from responsibility. This overemphasis on the victim helps abusers escape responsibility and public scrutiny and leads to victim-based solutions. Instead of focusing on …
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Extremism, fake news and hate: effects of social media in the post-truth era
<p>This thesis examines the utilization of social media platforms (particularly Facebook & Twitter) by political actors, contemporary media, and ordinary people to disseminate false or misleading information. Furthermore, it examines how social media have aided in the mobilization of previously …
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Contemporary Urban Youth Culture in China: A Multiperspectival Cultural Studies of Internet Subcultures
… urban youth culture through examining how media technologies such as the Internet empower contemporary Chinese urban youth. Using Douglas Kellner’s (1995) multiperspectival cultural studies, specifically cultural studies, critical theory, and critical media literacy, as both the theoretical …
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The Perfect Typhoon: Viewing Taiwan's Typhoon Morakot Through Journalistic Lenses
… newspapers, and the social justice potential of alternative media. News coverage of Typhoon Morakot thus provides both an outlet to witness the production and presentation of disaster news developed in a highly mature and competitive media environment and a glimpse into the international …
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Green Photochemistry: The synthesis of fine chemicals with sunlight
… investigation of photooxygenation reactions in alternative media. The dye-sensitised photooxygenation of 1,5-dihydroxynaphthalene to form juglone ([4+2]- cycloaddition reaction) was used as a model reaction to develop an entirely ‘green’ photochemical synthesis, taking into account all steps of …
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New social movements and social networking sites' uses: Mexicans' mobilization for peace in Mexico
… the world through both the global mainstream and alternative media using many images and reports produced by people on the ground using internet, mobile phones, and social media. These events have triggered a discussion not only about the political changes taking place in the region but have also …
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Community media : field, theory, policy
… advancement of the academic field of community media within the discipline of media studies. A number of overlapping contexts are summarised: the socio-historical setting in which the practice of electronic community media first emerged; the ‘personal/professional’ context in which reflection on …
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