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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"international media"”.
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The Conceptualization of Genocide in the International Media: A Case Study of Darfur
… type of conflict. Because the printed mainstream media reflects and shapes the public perception of international conflicts, this research employs content analysis and quantitative methodology in examining published accounts of the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan over the last five years. …
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The marketing of rebellion in global civil society : political insurgencies, international media, and growth of transnational support
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1997.
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Popular Media, Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Ghana
How do popular media genres reinforce or provide alternative perspectives to circulating official political discourses, as well as articulate issues of social concern? In what ways do such media offer insights into aspects of cultural practices that inform and represent matters of key significance …
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News Framing: A Comparison Of The New York Times And The People's Daily Coverage Of Sino-U.S. Spy Plane Collision Of April 1, 2001
… as the tenor of the incident as reported in the international press, provide some interesting and insightful glimpses into how these major powers handled the incident in the days and weeks that followed. Although the mainstream media in both China and the United States reported the key facts and …
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The Road to Rio: Infrastructure, Image, and New Media
… is role that citizen journalists and traditional media journalists play in the construction of the "media geography" of mega-events. This research examines the dominant narratives in the international media coverage of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil before the 2014 FIFA World Cup, specifically the 12 …
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A study on slope instability above Chapman's Peak Drive, Cape Peninsula, South Africa
… Chapman's Peak Drive featured in both local and international media because of the wildfires that swept through this area and large portions of the rest of the Cape Peninsula. This led to a heightened public awareness of the obvious physical danger to traffic on Chapman's Peak Drive. This problem …
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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
… 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 examines print media sources from the United States, Britain, and France. …
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Book People: Evangelical Books and the Making of Contemporary Evangelicalism
… States. Although existing studies of religion, media, and business have explored evangelical print culture in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, historians rarely have lent their attention to the century that intervenes. Addressing this historiographic silence, this dissertation's …
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Olympic effort: rhetorics of disability, sport, and resistance in the 2012 London Olympic narratives
… Games, held in London, England, stand as an international media spectacle from which cultural, political, and social narratives emerge within the athletic struggles of the event's competitors. Central to these narratives are the social constructions of the normative body, a concept that props …
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Relações bilaterais Brasil- Israel em perspectiva histórica: convergências e divergências
… had an intense repercussion in the Brazilian and international media, when then-Brazilian chancellor Luís Alberto Figueiredo decided to call the Brazilian ambassador in Tel Aviv for consultations. In response, the Israeli chancellor criticized Brazil's act as a "diplomatic dwarf." The media …
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Necessary illusions?: representations of Darfur
This thesis examined media and NGO representation of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur over an eighteen-month period between January 2004 and June 2005. It concentrated on three key questions. The first question relates to the 'noise' graph of emergencies. What factors - and what actors - were …
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How Newspapers In China, India And Bangladesh Framed The Rohingya Crisis Of 2017
… Rakhine state in 2017 attracted intense international media attention. In light of normative theory, media of different countries are assumed to cover an issue differently because of differences in the socio-political systems involved. This study examines how media from three different …
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Violação à liberdade religiosa no Irã durante o governo Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: uma análise da perseguição
… the interrelationship between religion and International Relations (IR), having as a case study the religious persecution of the religions Bahá'í Faith Christianity under the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The former president belonged to the conservative wing of the country and …
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Playing "Carrot and Stick" : Canadian press coverage of Nigeria on the hanging of nine Ogoni rights activists, November-December 1995
… to mean by their definers. So with one voice the international media "shocked' the world in 1995 with the story that the military regime in Nigeria hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni ethnic rights activists. International reactions were dramatic especially at the Commonwealth Heads of …
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Media consumption amid contestation: Northern Nigerians’ engagement with the BBC World Service
… of Northern Nigerians’ interactions with international media, focusing particularly on their engagement with the BBC World Service. Employing a multidimensional qualitative research approach, the study examines the historical background of the relationship, the transformations it has …
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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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The unsettled settler: personal and discursive tragedy in Alexandra Fuller's memoirs
… Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, coincided with international media coverage of President Robert Mugabe's contested land redistribution programme and told a similar story of the loss of their family farm. Written from her home in Wyoming in the United States, Fuller's work forms part of a white …
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Los servicios de Prensa extranjera en el primer franquismo (1936-1945)
… and magazines, publication of papers in international media, etc.., Should contribute to show the world the qualities and values that governed New Spain. Moreover, during the time of the Second World War, the Iberian Peninsula became a first-order scenario in which the belligerent (Allies …
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British designer fashion in the late 1990s
… late 1990s .The industry had attained a positive international profile and London Fashion Week was a major international media event. However, the sector could be better supported as a national asset, in particular by establishing a permanent national exhibition in London to promote British …
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MEDIA AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA: ANALYSIS OF WAR AND PEACE FRAMES IN THE BOKO HARAM CRISIS COVERAGE
While the media are known as information and entertainment source, some scholars (e.g. Galtung, 2002; Lynch, 2014) have also proposed peace advocacy as one of the concerns of journalism. This study provides an insightful account of a complex conflict- the Boko Haram conflict, in northern Nigeria. …
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