Dissertations / Theses: '200104 Media Studies'

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Sanson, Kevin. "Goodbye Brigadoon: Place, Production, and Identity in Global Glasgow." Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-12-4393.

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Goodbye Brigadoon examines the shifting role media production plays in the economic and cultural strategies of global cities in small market nations, specifically Glasgow, Scotland. In particular, this project focuses on the formation of a digital media village along the banks of the River Clyde to argue the site constitutes a logical component to Glasgow’s ongoing transformation into a cosmopolitan center. Yet, as the regional government’s economic strategies and policy directives work to transform the abandoned waterfront into a center of cultural activity, this project also underscores the contradictory cultural dynamics to emerge from media production’s new role in the post-industrial city. At its core, the media hub reveals a regional government more interested in the technology used to deliver “national” stories than the manner of the stories themselves or the cultural practices responsible for creating them. Indeed, Goodbye Brigadoon is most interested in how media professionals based at the emergent cluster negotiate a sense of cultural identity and creative license against the institutional constraints, policy matters, and commercial logic they also must navigate in their workaday rituals. Ultimately, the conclusions offered in this project argue for a more complicated conception of the global-local location where these professionals work. Glasgow’s digital media village, in other words, is much more than an innocuous site of competitive advantage, urban regeneration, and job growth. It is best understood as a site of intense social struggle and unequal power relations where local mediamakers often find the site’s impetus for multiplatform media production an institutionally enforced false promise at odds with the realities of creative labor in the city.

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Saunders, Barry J. "Citizen Media and Investigative Journalism." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/10592/1/10592.pdf.

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Mahmutovic, Ernan. "Aftonbladets/Sportbladets bevakning av det svenska herrlandslaget i fotboll : En jämförelse av EM 1992, EM 2004 och EM 2008." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, SV, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-10780.

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The aim of this master´s thesis is to investigate how Aftonbladet/Sportbladet is describing the Swedish national men team in football during the European Championship years 1992, 2004 and 2008. Reading over 200 articles gave me an excellent overview of the differences and similarities between the three chosen periods. The theoretical framework has three key terms which circulates around the paper. The terms are discourse, stereotype and national identity. Several results are presented and discussed; some are included in this abstract. There are huge reporting differences between the chosen periods which involve attention on one or several chosen players from the Swedish national team. The attention around the Swedish national team got larger during the European Championship 2004 and even larger during the European Championship 2008. The conclusion of this master´s thesis shows how important media is for the world of sports and in this case the world of football.
Aftonbladet är Sveriges ledande tidning när det gäller rapportering av sport och framförallt fotboll. Sedan Sportbladets tillkomst år 2000 har detta fått en enorm ökning. Det svenska herrlandslaget i fotboll har fått olika framställningar under år 1992, år 2004 samt år 2008. Aftonbladets rapportering av det svenska fotbollslandslaget under Europamästerskapen 1992, 2004 och 2008 har varit stor och en ökning har gjort genom åren. Sedan Sportbladet kom till har ökningen dubblerats och det svenska herrlandslaget har fått större publicitet i Aftonbladet/Sportbladet. Den största skillnaden är att Aftonbladet/Sportbladet år 2004/2008 lägger större fokus på enskilda spelare än år 1992. En anledning till detta kan även vara Sportbladets uppkomst då rapporteringen ökade och antalet skribenter vid Aftonbladet/Sportbladet ökade till antalet. Uppsatsens syfte är att redogöra för vilka skillnader som existerar under EM 1992, 2004 och 2008. Vad har förändrats och av vilken anledning samt vilka likheter/skillnader som förekommer i rapporteringen. Jag har bland annat kommit fram till att rapporteringen har inriktats på vissa spelare mer än andra och att de spelare som har mest framgångsrika karriärer utanför landslaget även får störst fokus i Aftonbladet/Sportbladet.

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Hadland, Adrian. "The South African print media, 1994-2004 : an application and critique of comparative media systems theory." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7479.

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Daniel C Hallin and Paolo Mancini's Comparing Media Systems (2004) has been hailed as an important contribution to understanding the inter-relationship between the media and political systems. The work was, however, based on a study of 18 stable, mature and highly developed democracies either in Europe or in North America. As an emerging democracy that has recently undergone dramatic change in both its political system and its media, South Africa's inclusion poses particular challenges to Hallin and Mancini's Three Models paradigm. This thesis focuses on the South African print media and tests both the paradigm's theoretical underpinnings as well as its four principle dimensions of analysis: political parallelism, state intervention, development of a mass market and journalistic professionalisation. A range of insights and a number of modifications are proposed. This thesis is based on interviews with South Africa's most senior media executives and editors, a comprehensive study of the relevant literature and 15 years of personal experience as a political analyst, columnist and parliamentary correspondent covering South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy. The thesis sheds new light on the functioning and applicability of the Three Models comparative paradigm as well as on the development and future trajectory of South African print media journalism.

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Humphreys, Alison M. (Sal). "Massively Multiplayer Online Games. Productive players and their disruptions to conventional media practices." Thesis, QUT, 2005.

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Summary This thesis explores how massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), as an exemplary new media form, disrupt practices associated with more conventional media. These intensely social games exploit the interactivity and networks afforded by new media technologies in ways that generate new challenges for the organisation, control and regulation of media. The involvement of players in constituting these games – through their production of game-play, derivative works and strong social networks that drive the profitability of the games – disrupts some of the key foundations that underlie other publication media. MMOGs represent a new and hybrid form of media – part publication and part service. As such they sit within a number of sometimes contradictory organising and regulatory regimes. This thesis examines the negotiations and struggles for control between players, developers and publishers as issues of ownership, governance and access arise out of the new configurations. Using an ethnographic approach to gather information and insights into the practices of players, developers and publishers, this project identifies the characteristics of the distributed production network in this experiential medium. It explores structural components of successful interactive applications and analyses how the advent of player agency and the shift in authorship has meant a shift in control of the text and the relations that surround it. The integration of social networks into the textual environment, and into the business model of the media publishers has meant commerce has become entwined with affect in a new way in this medium. Publishers have moved into the role of both property managers, of the intellectual property associated with the game content, and community managers. Intellectual property management is usually associated with the reproduction and distribution of finished media products, and this sits uneasily with the performative and mutable form of this medium. Service provision consists of maintaining the game world environment, community management, providing access for players to other players and to the content generated both by the developers and the other players. Content in an MMOG is identified in this project as both the ‘tangible’ assets of code and artwork, rules and text, and the ‘intangible’ or immaterial assets of affective networks. Players are no longer just consumers of media, or even just active interpreters of media. They are co-producing the media as it is developed. This thesis frames that productiveness as unpaid labour, in an attempt to denaturalise the dominant discourse which casts players as consumers. The regulation of this medium is contentious. Conventional forms of media regulation – such as copyright, or content regulation regimes are inadequate for regulating the hybrid service/publication medium. This thesis explores how the use of contracts as the mechanism which constitutes the formal relations between players, publishers and developers creates challenges to some of the regimes of juridical and political rights held by citizens more generally. This thesis examines the productive practices of players and how the discourses of intellectual property and the discourses of the consumer are mobilised to erase the significance of those productive contributions. It also shows, using a Foucauldian analysis of the power negotiations, that players employ many counter-strategies to circumvent the more formal legal structures of the publishers. The dialogic relationship between players, developers and publishers is shown to mobilise various discursive constructions of the role of each. The outcome of these ongoing negotiations may well shape future interactive applications and the extent to which their innovative capacities will be available for all stakeholders to develop.

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Rimmer, Matthew. "The Pirate Bazaar: The Social Life of Copyright Law." Thesis, The Faculty of Law, The University of New South Wales, 2001. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/86581/1/fulltext.pdf.

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This thesis provides a cultural history of Australian copyright law and related artistic controversies. It examines a number of disputes over authorship, collaboration, and appropriation across a variety of cultural fields. It considers legal controversies over the plagiarism of texts, the defacing of paintings, the sampling of musical works, the ownership of plays, the co-operation between film-makers, the sharing of MP3 files on the Internet, and the appropriation of Indigenous culture. Such narratives and stories relate to a broad range of works and subject matter that are protected by copyright law. This study offers an archive of oral histories and narratives of artistic creators about copyright law. It is founded upon interviews with creative artists and activists who have been involved in copyright litigation and policy disputes. This dialogical research provides an insight into the material and social effects of copyright law. This thesis concludes that copyright law is not just a ‘creature of statute’, but it is also a social and imaginative construct. In the lived experience of the law, questions of aesthetics and ethics are extremely important. Industry agreements are quite influential. Contracts play an important part in the operation of copyright law. The media profile of personalities involved in litigation and policy debates is pertinent. This thesis claims that copyright law can be explained by a mix of social factors such as ethical standards, legal regulations, market forces, and computer code. It can also be understood in terms of the personal stories and narratives that people tell about litigation and copyright law reform. Table of Contents Prologue 1 Introduction A Creature of Statute: Copyright Law and Legal Formalism 6 Chapter One The Demidenko Affair: Copyright Law and Literary Works 33 Chapter Two Daubism: Copyright Law and Artistic Works 67 Chapter Three The ABCs of Anarchism: Copyright Law and Musical Works 105 Chapter Four Heretic: Copyright Law and Dramatic Works 146 Chapter Five Shine: Copyright Law and Film 186 Chapter Six Napster: Infinite Digital Jukebox or Pirate Bazaar? Copyright Law and Digital Works 232 Chapter Seven Bangarra Dance Theatre: Copyright Law and Indigenous Culture 275 Chapter Eight The Cathedral and the Bazaar: The Future of Copyright Law 319

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McCarty, Andrea Nina. "Toying with obsolescence : Pixelvision filmmakers and the Fisher Price PXL 2000 camera." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39180.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2005.
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This thesis is a study of the Fisher Price PXL 2000 camera and the artists and amateurs who make films and videos with this technology. The Pixelvision camera records video onto an audiocassette; its image is low-resolution, black and white. Fisher Price marketed the PXL 2000 to children in 1987, but withdrew the camera after one year. Despite its lack of commercial success, the camera became popular with avant-garde artists, amateur film- and videomakers and collectors, sparking a renewed interest in the obsolete camera. An online community has built up around the format, providing its members with information on how to modify the camera to make it compatible with contemporary digital equipment. Although Pixelvision garners little recognition from mainstream culture, the camera's hipster cachet and perceived rarity has driven up prices in the community and in auctions. This thesis examines the position of the PXL 2000 camera within the history of moving image technology, and in the context of today's digital video equipment. How has this obsolete video camera made the transition from analog to digital? The thesis also explores Pixelvision's position in the cultural hierarchy of media, as well as the motivations of artists and users who are creating with the camera today, as it moves further and further into its obsolescence.
by Andrea Nina McCarty.
S.M.

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Rosén, Caroline. "Sensationskampen : en jämförelse mellan Expressens och Aftonbladets löpsedlar 1994 och 2004." Thesis, Södertörn University College, Södertörn University College, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-360.

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Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur Expressen och Aftonbladets löpsedlar förändrats mellan 1994 och 2004 samt de skillnader som finns mellan tidningarna. 168 stycken löpsedlar har studerats under mars och november de båda åren.

Min främsta utgångspunkt har varit Marina Ghersettis forskning om den alltmer utbredda sensationsjournalistiken som kommit till följd av konkurrensen på mediemarknaden. Alla huvudrubriker på löpsedlarna har i denna studie setts som sensationella.

Studien visar att år 1994 prioriterade båda tidningarna nyheter om brott, olyckor, ekonomi och politik medan sådana nyheter var ovanliga tio år senare. Nyheter om kända personer har istället blivit många fler år 2004. Expressen har ökat de positiva budskapen på löpen medan dessa har minskat i Aftonbladet. Expressen har fler hotfulla rubriker än konkurrenten år 2004 och har även gjort en stor satsning på personifierade rubriker det senare året.

På grund av bilagereklamen har utseendet på löpsedlarna förändrats mycket mellan åren 1994 och 2004. Löpsedlarna är marknadsföringsverktyg för kvällstidningarna men är samtidigt journalistiska produkter och kan fällas för alltför vinklade och osanna rubriker av PON, Pressens Opinionsnämnd.

Utöver den kvantitativa analysen har även en kvalitativ analys gjorts på de dagar då tidningarna har samma nyhet på löpsedeln. År 1994 var det vanligt att en tidning valde att ha en viss nyhet som andranyhet medan den andra valde att lägga nyheten som huvudnyhet. År 2004 har tidningarna nästan uteslutande lagt nyheterna som huvudnyheter. Aftonbladet och Expressen tycks idag göra i stort sett samma bedömning om vad som säljer respektive tidning bäst.

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Granlund, Annica. "Irak i medierna 2004 : En studie om vad som påverkar hur en fråga framställs i svenska och danska pressen." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Social Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1570.

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I dagens samhälle går det inte att undvika alla de medier som omger oss och de budskap som de sänder till oss. Vem eller vad det är som har makten att bestämma vad som kommer i medierna har även delvis makt över oss. Det är viktigt att vi är medvetna om vem eller vad det är som besitter den här makten. Det är på det sättet vi kan bestämma hur vi ska närma oss medierna och vi kan ha ett mer kritiskt förhållningssätt till vår omvärld.

I den här studien tittar jag närmare på vad det är som påverkar hur en fråga framställs i medierna. Jag analyserar de två ledande dagstidningarna i Sverige och Danmark för att se vad det är som påverkar hur dessa två tidningar skrev om Irakkonflikten under första halvåret av 2004. Mina huvudsakliga frågeställningar är:

• Framställs Irakkonflikten från 1 januari 2004 till 30 juni 2004 positivt, negativt eller neutralt i Dagens Nyheter och Jyllandsposten?

• Vilka eventuella skillnader och likheter finns mellan de två tidningarnas framställningar?

• Vad kan, i så fall, dessa skillnader och likheter bero på?

Den här studien visar att både Dagens Nyheter och Jyllandsposten skrev om Irakkonflikten på ett negativt sätt när det handlar om huruvida kriget var rättfärdigt. Även om det finns vissa ordval som jag anser är värderande och partiska är det i första hand att vad man har valt att skriva om som avslöjar ståndpunkten. I både Jyllandsposten och Dagens Nyheter handlar fler artiklar om demonstrationer och individer som uttalar sig negativt om konflikten, än vad det förekommer artiklar som beskriver åsikter som är positiva till den.

Den här studien visar att tidningarnas täckning av Irak påverkas av fyra anledningar; landets utrikespolitiska ställning, den folkliga opinionen, journalistens stationering och användningen av nyhetsbyråer.

Den utrikespolitiska ställningen är viktig och sammanfaller ofta med tidningens synpunkter. Det här är fallet med Dagens Nyheter men Jyllandsposten har visat att den folkliga opinionen väger tyngre. Tidningar vill inte gå emot folkets åsikt eftersom de då skulle riskera att förlora läsare och därmed intäkter.

Journalistens stationering har också visat sig vara viktig då den innebär att tidningen får tillgång till fler källor om den finns på plats i landet. Den skriver fler personliga berättelser om Irakier om de finns i Irak. Stationeringen är också nära sammankopplad med hur många artiklar man köper in från nyhetsbyråer.

Studien har visat att tidningarna köper in väldigt många artiklar från nyhetsbyråer och förlitar sig även på andra medier för att skriva sina artiklar. Detta innebär att det egentligen inte alltid är den egna tidningen som sätter agendan utan en tredje och ofta gemensam källa för både Dagens Nyheter och Jyllandsposten. Denna gemensamma källa utgörs av en liten grupp sammanvävda aktörer genom sin storlek och makt i medievärlden är de som egentligen har den verkliga makten över dagordningen.

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Lopez, Rogelio Alejandro. "From huelga! to undocumented and unafraid! : a comparative study of media strategies in the Farm Worker Movement of the 1960s and the Immigrant Youth Movement of the 2000s." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81056.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2013.
"June 2013." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Attention to the use of new media by social movements rose rapidly following groundbreaking global protests: The Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the "Indignados" Movement in Spain. However, determinism and rhetoric of newness have led to phrases like "Twitter Revolution," while tools and gadgets often overshadow human agency and grassroots efforts. In fact, media and grassroots strategies have worked hand-in-hand and have been pivotal to social movements throughout history. Through a comparative analysis of the Farm Workers Movement of the 1960s and the contemporary Immigrant Youth Movement, this work examines media strategies by emphasizing concrete media practices of movement actors. With a grounded approach that incorporates participant observation, semi-structured interviews, archival research, and literature reviews, this study provides cross-historical insight into media strategies in social movements. Particularly, this work covers external and internal media strategies, media practice, framing, community media practice, and capacity building. It concludes with a comparative analysis of how movement media strategies are related to movement goals, aims, and outcomes.
by Rogelio Alejandro Lopez.
S.M.

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Ruuti, Kristiina. "Junilistan i europaparlamentsvalet 2004 : Ett mediedrama i tre akter." Thesis, Uppsala University, Media and Communication, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-8382.

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Title: The Junilistan in the elections of the European Parliament in 2004 A media drama in three acts

Number of pages: 42

Author: Kristiina Ruuti

Tutor: Amelie Hössjer

Course: Media and Communication Studies C

University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala University

Date of submission: 2007-01-13, autumn term of 2006

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The purpose of the essay is to examine the media coverage of the Swedish Junilistan in the elections of the European Parliament in Sweden 2004. My hypothesis is that the media coverage of the political party Junilistan was a media drama with elements of classical dramaturge.

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Qualitative content analyses of four Swedish newspapers from a narratological perspective.

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The media coverage of the political party Junilistan was a media drama with elements of classical dramaturge. The coverage became a drama with three acts. Diverse actors with different projects could be identified from the articles.

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Narrative, election journalism, classic drama, mediadrama, actant, European parliament

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Edin, Johan. "Vetenskapsjournalistik i radio - Vad får vi veta? : En innehållsanalys av vetenskapsradions nyhetssändningar hösten 2004." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Information Science, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-6765.

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Purpose/Aim: The aim of this essay is to paint a picture of science news reporting in the Swedish Public Service science programme, vetenskaps-radion. Key issues to be adressed are: What areas in science are prioritised? How much of the total broadcast time are devoted to each area? Are there any differences in reporting between weeks? How well does the swedish science radio match common interets? Are the news in the form of short “soundbites” or are they more lengthy in-depth?

Material/Method: Quantitative analysis of radio programmes. The variables used are based on the different major areas in natural sciences.

Main results: This study shows that most broadcast time is devoted to news regarding biology and medicine and that the news rather are in the form of short snippets of news than more lengty in-depth stories. This is put in light of how journalistes tend to present news and that the subjects involved has to relate to peoples everyday lives. Furthermore, radio as a medium dictates that the listeners attention needs to be maintained throughout the broadcast, which may be a reason for the tendency to present short news snippets.

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Science journalism, radio, science communication, news reporting

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Opolot, Benedict. "An investigation of the Ugandan publication Red Pepper: a case study from 2001-2004." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007713.

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Red Pepper has been the subject of much discussion in Uganda, with some accounts describing it as a liberal mouthpiece, and others as pornography. This case study, therefore, sought to investigate Red Pepper as a media phenomenon in Uganda in the 21st century, specifically between 2001 and 2004. Employing quantitative and qualitative methodologies, it focused on the production process and the text. Although sexualised content dominate its pages, and news about issues such as the environment and education are near-absent, its managers describe the publication as legitimate, normative and consistent with liberal media standards. Accordingly, to interrogate Red Pepper in terms of its journalistic functions, selected debates associated with liberal approaches to news media, media political economy, tabloidisation, pornography and gendered relations were reviewed. The analysis entailed five phases. The first was a denotative or descriptive analysis, which focused on the publication's structure and content focus. This was followed by an interview with management, a broad content analysis to establish the incidence of predefined content categories expected of the tabloid, pornographic and liberal press and, lastly, a theme-based content analysis that sought to establish the potential meanings and framing of the dominant content categories of gossip and sexualised copy. Overall, the study found Red Pepper to be a misogynistic tabloid, having elements said to belong to pornography and homophobia. According to the findings, not only does Red Pepper fall short of a liberal understanding of a newspaper in terms of diversity of topics, provision of information and professional practice, it also does not fit the understanding of an alternative public sphere, mainly because it fails to challenge the patriarchal framing of sex, sexuality and gendered relations. This framing is undertaken deliberately as a means to securing economic rather than journalistic ideals to which the editors pay lip service. Consequently, the gossip and sexualised content are not problematised and as such discourses and power relations therein are not interrogated. Neither are inadequacies in local systems addressed nor corrective action mobilised as expected of some tabloids. All in all, the publication fronts superficial entertainment content that echoes particular gender constructions and patriarchal commonsense and entrenches the (undesirable) status quo which, ironically, it claims to challenge.

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Magnusson, Melker. "Oförsvarbart : argumentationen i media rörande Försvarsmaktens avveckling av överskott 2000-2003." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-1903.

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The Swedish Military Defence is about to make a large reorganization. Surplus, everything from tanks to personal underwear, enough to equip 800,000 soldiers will be destroyed or sold to the highest bidder. This thesis is a discourse analysis about the argumentation in media between the Military and the enthusiast, who are interested in military vehicles and military surplus.

Uppsatsen är en kartläggning och diskursanalys av den argumentation som förekommit i den mediala debatten rörande den svenska Försvarsmaktens avveckling av överskott. Morgondagens försvar ska vara baserat på kvalité istället för kvantitet. Från att ha haft ett försvar som omfattat omkring 800 000 personer under vapen i händelse av ofred ska det nya försvaret skäras ned till att omfatta omkring 200 000 personer. En mängd materiel, allt från stridsvagnar och underkläder, blir således överflödig. Försvarsmakten skall fram till utgången av 2004 ha genomfört omorganisationen. Tillvägagångssättet att avveckla överskottet varierar, destruktion, försäljning och som bistånd är exempel på avvecklingsalternativ. De olika tillvägagångssätten har fått kritik från olika aktörer som deltagit i debatten. Det opinionen reagerat på är att, i många fall, helt fungerande och ny materiel destruerats eller så har kritik riktats mot de olika försäljningsförfarandena som Försvarsmakten tillämpat. Uppsatsen undersöker aktörernas argumentering i debatten och försöker att analysera varför argumenteringen ser ut som den gör.

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Bengtsson, Karin. "Bilden av kvinnan i media : en semiotisk bildanalys av Veckorevyns framsidor1950 - 2000." Thesis, Uppsala University, Media and Communication, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-106741.

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Purpose/Aim: The aim with my study is to reveal changes in the construction of gender in weekly press over time. To do so I study the picture of the woman on front pages of the Swedish magazine Veckorevyn.

Material/Method: Qualitative research method, semiotic picture analysis.

Main results: There have been a lot of changes in the picture of the woman in Veckorevyn over the years and the results points to a more objectifying picture. The woman has gone from doing something and actually having a role, to simply being there to be looked at, all passive.

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Wikstrom, Patrik. "Reluctantly virtual : modelling copyright industry dynamics." Thesis, Karlstad University, Sweden, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/67930/1/FULLTEXT01.pdf.

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During the evolution of the music industry, developments in the media environment have required music firms to adapt in order to survive. Changes in broadcast radio programming during the 1950s; the Compact Cassette during the 1970s; and the deregulation of media ownership during the 1990s are all examples of changes which have heavily affected the music industry. This study explores similar contemporary dynamics, examines how decision makers in the music industry perceive and make sense of the developments, and reveals how they revise their business strategies, based on their mental models of the media environment. A qualitative system dynamics model is developed in order to support the reasoning brought forward by the study. The model is empirically grounded, but is also based on previous music industry research and a theoretical platform constituted by concepts from evolutionary economics and sociology of culture. The empirical data primarily consist of 36 personal interviews with decision makers in the American, British and Swedish music industrial ecosystems. The study argues that the model which is proposed, more effectively explains contemporary music industry dynamics than music industry models presented by previous research initiatives. Supported by the model, the study is able to show how “new” media outlets make old music business models obsolete and challenge the industry’s traditional power structures. It is no longer possible to expose music at one outlet (usually broadcast radio) in the hope that it will lead to sales of the same music at another (e.g. a compact disc). The study shows that many music industry decision makers still have not embraced the new logic, and have not yet challenged their traditional mental models of the media environment. Rather, they remain focused on preserving the pivotal role held by the CD and other physical distribution technologies. Further, the study shows that while many music firms remain attached to the old models, other firms, primarily music publishers, have accepted the transformation, and have reluctantly recognised the realities of a virtualised environment.

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Barrow, Sarah Elizabeth. "Peruvian cinema, national identity and political violence, 1988-2004." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2007. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/2584/.

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The role of national cinema in shaping, reflecting and contesting a complex national identity that is the site of conflict and struggle is the central interest of this study of contemporary Peruvian cinema, 1988-2004. This project examines the relationship between cinema, state and identity in Peru, with a specific focus on the representation of the political violence between the state and Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) that began in 1980. It looks in particular at portrayals of important events, characters and consequences of the bloody conflict that for a time threatened to destabilize the nation entirely. It considers these representations in the context of a time of great change for Peruvian society and of transition for Peruvian national cinema, and addresses the relationship between developments in film policy and the formation of Peruvian national identity in cinema. As such, it draws on debates about the nature and function of national cinemas, as well as on discussions between artists, cultural theorists and sociologists about the evolution of peruanidad since the declaration of independence from Spain in the early nineteenth century. Once the main elements of the cinematic and social crises have been explored and established in Chapters Two and Three, the remainder of the project consists of three sets of chronologically ordered analyses of individual films that somehow defied the national cinema crisis, and that provoked debate on both the conflict itself, and on broader questions pertaining to the relationship between national identity and violence. The conclusion considers these films as an interlinked body of cinematic works that share similar themes and concerns. It summarises the issues they tackle, the ideological and formal approaches they take to those issues, the potential social and cultural impact, and their contribution to the crystallization of a Peruvian national identity at the start of the twenty-first century.

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Andersson, Nathalie. "Bilder och förebilder : En kvantitativ studie av Julias bildmaterial år 2000–2010." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kommunikation, medier och it, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-5672.

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Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka vad bilderna i en tidning med yngre målgrupp förmedlar för budskap till läsaren. Den tidning som valts till undersökningen är Julia, vars målgrupp är tjejer i åldern 9–14 år. Med utgångspunkt i den övergripande frågeställningen: "Hur ser människorna ut på bilderna i Julia – och vad förmedlar detta till läsaren?", genomförs en kvantitativ innehållsanalys utifrån 28 variabler. Totalt undersöks 1 245 bilder på människor i nio nummer av Julia från år 2000–2010. Uppsatsen utgår från teorier framförda av bland annat Jostein Gripsrud, Nina Huntemann och Michael Morgan, som avhandlar medias roll i barns skapande av identitet. Undersökningen visar att den typiska tjejen i Julia är ung, icke-blond, har europeiskt utseende, poserar, ler och tittar in i kameran. Det går också att se att målgruppsrepresentationen har minskat samt att idealbilden i Julia har förändrats genom åren.

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Krepstekies, Colleen. "News Media Representations of Women in the U.S. Military Post September 11, 2001." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3645.

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This paper examines newspaper portrayals produced by the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times of women in the military from Sept. 11, 2001, to Sept. 11, 2009. The purpose was to identify how the three nationally recognized U.S. newspapers depict women’s expanding combat roles on contemporary battlefields that lack definitive front lines. Because the news media are the primary vehicle to update the general public on military matters, how the news media portray military women can play a role in shaping audience perceptions of military women. In turn, this relationship can influence the public debate on issues pertaining to women in the military. For my research method, I employed a longitudinal, qualitative content analysis of news articles that revealed three distinctively themed portrayals of U.S. servicewomen. The thematic findings include: "Tip of the Spear," a largely laudatory category portraying the "new" or "first" generation of servicewomen filling historically uncommon (particularly direct ground combat) roles for women; the "Combat Debate," with coverage listing arguments for and against military women’s expansion into "direct ground combat;" and the "Sexual Assault" category that exposed women as continued victims of sexual assault across the U.S. Armed Forces. The portrayals of women in the "Tip of the Spear," and to a lesser extent in the "Combat Debate," reveal how these three particular newspapers are applying a new formula to represent military women. Rather than portraying military women in stereotypical support roles—or castigating them for transgressing gender norms—the stories from these papers cast the servicewomen performing traditional masculine military activities in a positive light. However, following objective reporting protocol, the reports in the "Combat Debate" category also covered conventional patriarchal concerns to include protecting women from harm, particularly military mothers. Overall, these two categories comprised the greater part of the coverage of military women among the reports in this study, with only a handful of reports covering women as victims. I propose that the many positive portrayals that describe women fulfilling nontraditional masculine roles and activities demonstrate a revised blueprint in how the news media report on military women. Furthermore, while these research results cannot be applied universally outside this study’s sample, I contend that these types of images representing today’s servicewomen on contemporary battlefields increase public acceptance of women in the military and their expanding military assignments.

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Larsson, Adam, and Anton Gustafsson. "En studie av frågorna som ställts i SVT:s slutdebatter under 2000-talet utifrån sak- och spelgestaltning. : Sak- och spelgestaltning - har gestaltningen förändrats i SVT." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-35583.

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Syfte och problemformulering: Syftet med vår studie är att undersöka om programledarnas frågor i SVT:s slutdebatter under 2000-talet har förändrats över tid i förhållande till sak- och spelgestaltning. Syfte och problemformulering: Syftet med vår studie är att undersöka om programledarnas frågor i SVT:s slutdebatter under 2000-talet har förändrats över tid i förhållande till sak- och spelgestaltning. ● Hur stor är skillnaden mellan gestaltningssätten från 2002 och framåt i slutdebatterna? ● Hur ser fördelningen ut av de olika gestaltningsfrågorna mellan partiledarna i  slutdebatterna? ● Hur väl håller sig SVT till sitt uppdrag när det gäller folkbildningsambitioner,  opartiskhet och saklighet när det kommer till frågorna som ställts av programledarna i slutdebatterna?  Genom en kvantitativ studie med kvalitativa inslag har vi studerat hur frågorna som programledarna ställer i SVT:s slutdebatter 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 och 2018 har gestaltats utifrån sak- och spelgestaltning. Vi har även studerat hur antalet frågor fördelas över partierna i varje debatt. Det har sedan ställts mot SVT:s uppdrag som bland annat handlar om att vara opartiska och sakliga. Vi har kommit fram till att det är antalet neutrala frågor, det vill säga de som inte tillhör varken sak- eller spelgestaltning, som är den klart mest förekommande. Därefter är Sakgestaltande frågor alltid vanligare än spelgestaltande. Vi har även kommit fram till att SVT håller sig till att vara opartiska, sakliga och de uppnår även sin folkbildningsambition i frågorna de ställer till partiledarna.

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Lindenius, Erik. "Guldgruvan som försvann? : En mediestudie av konflikten kring UmanGenomics och Medicinska biobanken 2001-2006." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-25581.

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Between 2002 and 2006, an ongoing conflict surrounding Umeå-based biotech company UmanGenomics and the Medical Biobank at Umeå University played out in the media. The conflict involved researchers, business leaders, politicians, the university board, journalists and the general public. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the public media-mediated conflict surrounding UmanGenomics and Medical Biobank from a media and communication sciences perspective and thereby contribute to research into Science Journalism and media-mediated science-related conflicts. The questions examined by the study are as follows: how was the conflict portrayed in local and national newspapers, respectively, and how did these portrayals change over time? Were there any similarities, or was there any relationship between the media-mediated conflict and the »internal« debate, which are able to be traced via the events registered in Umeå University’s journal of daily events? Which parties elected to involve themselves in the conflict and did their descriptions of what happened differ? Were there any particular aspects of the conflict that were portrayed by the media as »failures«, and if so, what was it that was considered a failure? In total, 654 texts from the local and national media were analysed, as well as the university’s journal. The study has largely been carried out using quantitative content analysis, supplemented by general argumentation analysis. The study’s theoretical bases are taken from research on the relationship between science and the media, from rhetoric research, but also from Science and Technology Studies (STS) in a broader sense. This dissertation shows that the conflict was reported on differently depending on the newspaper’s proximity to the conflict itself, and on which arena the conflict was played out in. This also demonstrates that the conflict, most especially as played out in local news coverage, can be divided into different phases. While the media reports include many instances of those involved laying blame at each other’s feet, it is the market and the conflict that are considered to have been the primary factors in UmanGenomics’ ultimate demise. This study presents five suggestions as to what lessons can be learnt from this media-mediated conflict. The first is that the conflict provides an example of mutual exploitation: the media exploited the events surrounding the conflict in order to produce newsworthy, sensational and descriptive stories. Whereas within the university, the main figures embroiled in the conflict used the media as a front to either introduce or support their own points of view. The second is that the conflict should have given the »university world« an inducement to discuss media strategies and its transparency policies in greater depth. The third suggestion is that the media’s ability to make citizens’ opinions on science-related questions heard is problematic. Fourthly, many of those involved used the conflict to try to position themselves in relation to a rival counterpart, rather than to try to provide the general public with a clear and accurate picture of the conflict. Finally, it is suggested that the use of the »goldmine« metaphor, used to refer to both UmanGenomics and Medical Biobank, may have played a part in limiting media debate on the issue within the confines of a certain type of rhetoric.

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Granlund, Ingeborg. "Mediebilden av PR och lobbying : En komparativ studie av Dagens Nyheters och Svenska Dagbladets framställning av PR och lobbying åren 2000 och 2010." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation (JMK), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-51428.

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Många PR-konsulter anser att mediebilden av PR och lobbying är negativ och att branschen skildras som manipulativ och dold. Det finns dock en annan uppfattning som går ut på att verksamheterna inte framställs lika negativt som för tio år sen, att de har naturaliserats. Uppfattningarna är motsägelsefulla. Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att undersöka om de stämmer överens med den verkliga mediebilden av PR och lobbying (aktiviteter och utövare), och därmed också få en insikt i om olika aspekter av verksamheterna har naturaliserats. En jämförelse har gjort av DN:s och SvD:s rapportering senhöstarna 2000 och 2010 genom en kvantitativ och kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultatet visar att mediebilden är mer negativ 2010 jämfört med 2000. Någon egentlig naturalisering kan inte skönjas. Utrymmet har ökat men artiklarna har inte blivit fler. PR-experter som kommentatorer har inte blivit ett vanligare fenomen, och politiker som går till PR-branschen framställs både kritiskt och okritiskt. PR och lobbying framställs i högre grad som dolda verksamheter. En förklaring till den mer negativa bilden kan vara branschens utveckling på senare år men även journalisternas behov att sätta gränser mot en expanderande PR-industri som de har blivit mer beroende av. Tidningarna har två större granskningar av branschen 2010, varav den ena särskilt tar upp lobbying. I den fokuseras på politikernas ansvar för bristande transparens. PR-branschens ansvar genomlyses inte, vilket skulle kunna tyda på att dess bristande öppenhet ses som något naturligt och därför inte ifrågasätts.

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Jackson-Brown, Grace. "Media coverage of South Central Los Angeles "The Los Angeles Times" and "The Los Angeles Sentinel", 1990-2000 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3167277.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Journalism, 2005.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Dec. 3, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-03, Section: A, page: 0801. Chairperson: Dan Drew.

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McWilliam, Kelly. "Girl Meets Girl: Lesbian Romantic Comedies." Thesis, University of Queensland, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/12503/1/12503.pdf.

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Six decades after the romantic comedy emerged as a Hollywood genre in 1934, the first romantic comedies with a central lesbian couple, including Marita Giovanni’s Bar Girls and Rose Troche’s Go Fish, were released in 1994. This study argues that Bar Girls and Go Fish represent the first in a group of films whose numbers and similarities enable their consideration as a romantic comedy sub-genre, namely the ‘lesbian romantic comedy’. This study identifies and analyses this sub-genre. It contends that these films have emerged as the predominant (and perhaps only) form of mainstream lesbian feature film in the United States of America in the mid to late 1990s and early 2000s. Yet, despite their relative prominence for more than a decade, they remain vastly under-examined areas in scholarship on both film genre and lesbian culture. This project aims to contribute to these areas by producing the first full-length survey of the sub-genre and the first study of any length to focus exclusively on it. This study concentrates on ten lesbian romantic comedies: Bar Girls (1994), Go Fish (1994), Maria Maggenti’s The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love (1995), Kelli Herd’s It’s in the Water (1996), Julia Dyer’s Late Bloomers (1996), Emma-Kate Croghan’s Love and Other Catastrophes (1996), Heidi Arnesen’s Some Prefer Cake (1997), Anne Wheeler’s Better than Chocolate (1999), Jamie Babbit’s But I’m a Cheerleader (1999), and Helen Lesnick’s A Family Affair (2001). While this project employs textual analysis as its primary methodology to examine these films, these analyses take place more broadly within a public sphere framework. Consistent with a wider shift in analyses of lesbian and gay cultural products, this framework allows a consideration of the larger public stakes of lesbian romantic comedies and, in particular, their introduction of lesbian content into a heterocentric genre. Specifically, this project argues that the introduction of lesbian content—or the replacement of ‘boy meets girl’ with ‘girl meets girl’—destabilises the genre in significant ways, but that the genre itself equally restricts the representation of lesbianism possible within it. Ultimately, this project proposes a reading of lesbian romantic comedies as conservative and progressive, conventional and subversive, but as nonetheless complex texts that offer a range of pleasures and readings to their audiences and a range of challenges to the genre itself. Such a reading reveals the complexity and negotiation inherent in these films’ position as independent films presenting culturally and politically marginal content in a mainstream genre.

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Lay, Ruth Ann. "The Memory and the Legacy: The Whittlin' Whistlin' Brigade -- The Young Company 1974-2001." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2002. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2838.

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The Memory and The Legacy: The Whittlin' Whistlin' Brigade - The Young Company 1974-2001, is a history of the children's theatre of Brigham Young University. The Whittlin' Whistlin' Brigade - The Young Company acts as a training ground for graduate students working in theatre for young audiences. Then directing a production for The Whittlin' Whistlin' Brigade - The Young Company, students are instructed to perform all functions required of a professional company. As the The Whittlin' Whistlin' Brigade - The Young Company (WWB-TYC) spends much of its performance time on tour, those responsibilities are relegated to the students. Developed and headed by Dr. Harold R. Oaks of Brigham Young University, WWB-TYC produced children's theatre for local, regional, national and international audiences. The history includes production photos, budgets and business plans. A survey of former company members was conducted assessing the long-term affect on participants in relationship to their personal and professional life. This thesis is also in electronic form using animation, musical and narrative audio, an interactive menu and a photo-gallery. Text is available in HTML and PDF format with 'print' capability. A tutorial is included to aid in possible navigational concerns. Working within an electronic medium has facilitated the accessibility of a considerable collection of material highly diverse in nature. Twenty-seven years of production notes, performance programs, production photos, music, scripts, budgets, permissions, required licensing, travel arrangements and itineraries, performance schedules, educational/clientele data and historical developmental notes of the children's theater program itself presented not only volumes of material but also brought specific inclusion needs. In addition, the results of a program survey of the program will be presented in graph and chart format. Determined needs include: 1. A history of children's theater both nationally and at Brigham Young University. 2. Supporting documentation of program development and implementation. 3. Survey results of WWB-TYC participants.

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Sahin, Ozden. "Political violence and networks in the 21st century media art from the Mediterranean : 4 case studies from 2000-2015." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2018. http://research.gold.ac.uk/23324/.

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Despite the high number of cases of overt political violence in the Mediterranean and the richness of media art in the region, there has been no comprehensive research about political violence and contemporary media art production in the region. Departing from the question of networks in media art from the Mediterranean, this research looks at the artists’ imagination of the region informed by practices of various forms of violence through critical outlook on the issues of visibility. In doing so, it inquires into treating the Mediterranean itself as a medium. It conducts four case studies whose common focus is on the networks of relations that reproduce, strengthen, and reinforce models of political violence at various levels, using anecdotal evidence and content analysis methods. The case studies give a a) microscopic view of a computer virus; b) life-size view of an individual human body; c) landscape view of urban transformation; and d) bird’s eye view of occupation, consumption and destruction. Taking Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics as its theoretical framework, the study analyses the contemporary blend of disciplinary, sovereign, biopolitical, and necropolitical practices within granular and grand levels across the region and claims that temporality is the key element in the transformation and survival of forms of violence.

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Ferrero-Regis, Tiziana. "Public history, private memories: Historical imagination in the new Italian cinema 1988-1999." Thesis, Griffith Univeristy, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/92669/1/My%20PhD.pdf.

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The concern with the following arguments started during a study of national and international cinemas, from the desire to account for a cinema that internationally was doing well, but was undervalued domestically. The aims were to account for the renewal of Italian filmmaking from 1988, the New Italian cinema, and understand the conditions behind this renewal. The thesis identifies in the historical theme and in the recurrence of features from Italian cinema history elements of coherence with previous cinema production. The first consideration that emerges is that a triangulation between a new generation of filmmakers, their audience and recent history shaped the recovery of Italian cinema from 1988. A second consideration is that no discussion of Italian cinema can be separated from a discussion of that which it represents: Italian society and politics. This representation has not only addressed questions of identity for a cohort of spectators, but on occasions has captured the attention of the international audience. Thus the thesis follows a methodologic approach that positions texts in relation to certain traditions in Italian filmmaking and to the context by taking into consideration also industrial factors and social and historical changes. By drawing upon a range of disciplines, from political history to socio-psychological studies, the thesis has focussed on representation of history and memory in two periods of Italian film history: the first and the last decade of twentieth century. The concern has been not so much to interpret the films, but to understand the processes that made the films and how spectarors have applied their knowledge structures to make meaning of the films. Thus the thesis abstains from ascribing implicit meanings to films, but acknowledges how films project cultural contingencies. This is beacause film is shaped by production conditions and cultural and historical circumstances that make the film intelligible. As Bordwell stated in Making Meaning, "One can do other things with films besides 'reading' them" (1989, p. xiii). Within this framework, the thesis proposes a project that understands history films with the norms that govern Italian filmic output, those norms that regulate conditions of production and consumption and the relation between films from various traditions.

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Anderson, Jennifer N. "Framing Same-Sex Marriage: An Analysis of 2004 Newspaper Coverage of Marriage Legislation." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1215012253.

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Bugge, Christian Stewart. "The end of youth subculture? : dance culture and youth marketing 1988-2000." Thesis, Kingston University, 2002. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20694/.

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This thesis focuses on the concept of youth Subculture, used in both academic and popular discourse to describe a distinct form of youth culture. The thesis focuses on Dance Culture, the dominant youth culture in Britain during the period 1988-1990, but also a unique form of youth culture that challenges previous theories of youth culture, and questions whether youth cultures are organically formed or commercially created. The thesis establishes how the marketing industry has become increasingly adept at understanding and responding to the cultural aspect of young peoples' lives since the youth market was first identified in the late 1950s. The commercial importance of rebellious youth cultures was first established in the 1960s. However, it took the market-driven economy of the 1980s, in which a more style-orientated advertising practice developed, to draw on the style-factor that youth cultures evoke. Due, in particular, to increases in the number of youth-oriented media in the 1980s and 1990s marketing has developed its ability to reach youthful consumers. As a result, it has come to focus on individual youth cultures, re-presenting them to consumers who seek the cultural capital they possess. The central focus is 'youth marketing', an industry which thrived in the knowledge-based New Economy of the 1990s. Interviews .with experts in 'youth marketing' show how marketing interacted with the Dance Culture and its consistent subcultures. It shows, where previous studies of youth Subculture have failed, the crucial role that consumerism, and more specifically marketing, plays in the formation and communication of youth cultures. Marketers have increasingly come to recognise the cultural capital of Subcultures, and have become more influential in the way that they are communicated and adopted by young people. As a consequence, the thesis argues that Youth Subculture is now a concept more readily employed for selling lifestyles to consumers, as opposed to a reliable model for understanding young peoples' culture. Rather than expressions of genuine resistance, youth cultures are, now more accurately viewed as reference points in consumer trends. Previous studies of advertising and marketing have been based on abstract research methodologies, such as textual analysis. This research is unique in interviewing the practitioners who attempt to understand and re-present young people's culture. In this way, it presents a more accurate and grounded analysis of marketing's interaction and comprehension of young people, and also its subsequent attempts to have meaning in their cultural lives.

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Sitten, Rebecca Mackin. "Framing Christianity: A frame analysis of Fundamentalist Christianity from 2000-2009." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3349.

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This qualitative frame analysis examines how print media handles the concept of Fundamentalist Christianity. The researcher examined news reports in four prominent national newspapers over the ten-year period between 2000 and 2009 for references made to Fundamentalist Christianity. The sample is examined on the basis of Mark Silk's "topoi," a term taken from classical rhetoric meaning commonplaces or themes (1995). Silk outlines seven common topoi on which stories about religion are written, and these are utilized as a framework for this present study. While much has been written and researched on how religious groups, Fundamentalist Christians, and Evangelicals use mass media to promote their message to a secular audience, few studies have examined how the secular press frames Fundamentalist Christianity. This study, therefore, fills an existing literature gap by dissecting the portrayal of a demographic that has had a historical and cultural media presence for more than a century.

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Lindgren, Angelina, and Maria Lindberg. "Socialtjänsten och socialsekreterare ur medias perspektiv. : En studie om hur svenska dagstidningar har framställt socialtjänsten och socialsekreterares arbete under 2004 och 2014." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-265236.

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Sammanfattning Medias uppgift är dels att delge viktig samhällsinformation till medborgare samt granska myndigheter och förtroendevalda. Då media utgör en viktig informationskälla har dess rapportering betydelse för bildandet av samhällsopinioner. Mot bakgrund av detta och med koppling till vår framtida yrkesroll som socionomer fann vi det därför intressant att undersöka hur socialtjänsten och socialsekreterare skildras i media. Syftet med denna studie var att belysa svenska dagstidningars rapportering om socialtjänsten och socialsekreterare samt vilka likheter och skillnader som gått att utläsa mellan rapporteringen från två olika årtal. Studien har utgått ifrån två olika frågeställningar vilka har undersökt hur både socialtjänsten och socialsekreterares arbete har framställts i svenska dagstidningar. Empirin utgjordes av 68 tidningsartiklar från 2004 och 2014. Dessa hämtades från dagstidningarna Dagens Nyheter, Göteborgs-Posten samt Västerbottens-Kuriren. Datamaterialet har analyserats både kvantiativt och kvalitativt. Resultatet av analysen åskådliggjorde att rapporteringen i stort sett har varit utav samma karaktär under både 2004 och 2014. Tidningsartiklarna från 2014 har däremot varit mer innehållsrika i jämförelse med 2004 års artiklar. Framställningen har blivit mer nyanserad så till vida att fler betydelser har fått utrymme i hur socialtjänsten och socialsekreterares arbete skildras. Ytterligare en tendens som har gått att se var att arbetsmiljön har fått en alltmer central roll i rapporteringen. Under 2004 skildrades en positiv bild gällande personalbedrifter, vilket inte gick att återfinna 2014. Studiens resultat analyserades sedan mot bakgrund av tidigare forskning samt Bergers och Luckmanns socialkonstruktivism. Resultatet av analysen visade att porträtteringen av socialtjänsten och socialsekreterare är under ständig förändring, tillika som den grundläggande definitionen i mångt och mycket är av samma karaktär. Med andra ord är det möjligt att påverka hur och vilka områden media väljer att skildra i sin rapportering. Detta är av intresse då det innebär att vi med hjälp av våra utsagor kan vara medskapande i framställningen av socialt arbete.

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Silwing, Kristoffer. ""Ta en osthyvel och dra av bit efter bit av hjärnan" : Ett dagordningsteoretiskt perspektiv på debatten om legalisering och avkriminalisering av cannabis i svensk press 2000-2015." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Journalistik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-33639.

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Denna uppsats undersöker genom en kvantitativ innehållsanalys av material från åren 2000-2015 eventuella förändringar bland nyhetstexter som förekommit i svensk press då cannabislegalisering tas upp på nyhetsplats. Uppsatsen undersöker vilka källor som kommer till tals i de texter som analyserats. Uppsatsen undersöker även förekomst av argument och företeelser som går att koppla till debatten och diskussionen kring avkriminalisering och legalisering av cannabis. Undersökningens resultat tolkas för att försöka utröna eventuell förändring över tid, och analyseras ur ett dagordningsteoretiskt synsätt. Över tid så har fler aspekter av legaliseringsfrågan än tidigare tagits upp i rapporteringen på nyhetsplats, och bland dessa har den största ökningen skett sett till att använda cannabis som läkemedel. En annan variabel som ökat under perioden för undersökningen är vetenskaplig argumentation. Förekomst av terment ”knark” i samband med rapporteringen har avtagit under undersökningsperioden, på samma sätt somuttryck för ett enhetligt perspektiv på narkotika har. Politiker är den källan som vanligast förekommer i rapporteringen, och politik är den vanligaste anledningen till rapporteringen kring cannabislegalisering i Sverige under de åren som undersökningen spänner över.

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Wiesner, Kevin. "From “anytime, anywhere” to “here and now”: place and time restrictions in mobile narratives to enhance situated engagement of mobile users." Thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/67653/1/Diplomarbeit_KevinWiesner_%28Web%29.pdf.

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The usage of the mobile Internet has increased tremendously within the last couple of years, and thereby the vision of accessing information anytime, anywhere has become more realistic and a dominant design principle for providing content. However, this study challenges this paradigm of unlimited and unrestricted access, and explores the question whether constraints and restrictions can positively influence the motivation and enticement of mobile users to engage with location-specific content. Restrictions, such as a particular time or location that gives a user access to content, may be used to foster participation and engagement, as well as to support content production and to enhance the user’s experience. In order to explore this, a Mobile Narrative and a Narrative Map have been created. For the former, the access to individual chapters of the story was restricted. Authors can specify constraints, such as a location or time, which need to be met by the reader if they want to read the story. This concept allows creative writers of the story to exploit the fact that the reader’s context is known, by intensifying the user experience and integrating this knowledge into the writing process. The latter, the Narrative Map, provides users with extracts from stories or information snippets about authors at relevant locations. In both concepts, a feedback channel was also integrated, on which location, time, and size constraints were imposed. In a user-centred design process involving authors and potential readers, those concepts have been implemented, followed by an evaluation comprising four user studies. The results show that restrictions and constraints can indeed lead to more enticing and engaging user experiences, and restricted contribution opportunities can lead to a higher motivation to participate as well as to an improved quality of submissions. These findings are relevant for future developments in the area of mobile narratives and creative writing, as well as for common mobile services that aim for enticing user experiences.

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Zhuang, Yuxi. "Representation of Working Women: A Comparative Study of Feature Films in China and the U.S. from 2000-2019." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1619196204339411.

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Vlajkovic, Sandra, and Mea Salmijärvi. "Idealkonstruerade offer och gärningsmän i en verklig värld : En analys av fyra omskrivna sexualbrottsfall i svensk rikstäckande dagspress under 2000-talet med fokus på genus, etnicitet och social bakgrund." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kommunikation, medier och it, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-9385.

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We have chosen to analyze how four well known sex crimes were presented in the Swedish national daily newspapers in the 2000s. We chose this topic because sex crimes are considered one of the most terrible crimes. Sex crimes involve the media and upset the society. Our purpose was to analyze if we could identify stereotypes and prejudices about sex crimes in the press reports. The four sex crimes were: Rissne case in 2000, Tumba case in 2003, Hagamannen case in 2006 and the Stureplan case in 2007. We have read all the news stories from the Swedish national daily newspapers Svenska dagbladet and Expressen about our four cases. We analyzed a total of 40 articles, five articles from Svenska dagbladet and five articles from Expressen to each case. It was a strategic choice that resulted in ten articles per case from two national daily newspapers. We had three discourses in focus: gender, ethnicity and social background, when we analyzed the sex crimes. The method we used was a qualitative text analysis. Our purpose was to analyze how sex offenders and their victims were presented in the national Swedish daily newspapers. The main question was how gender, ethnicity and social background affect the presentation of the perpetrators and their victims. We have concluded that sex crimes are permeated by myths and that Helen Benedict´s eleven rape myths regarding the reporting about sex crimes in the United States several years ago are constantly reproduced in Swedish newspapers in the 2000s. These prejudices are a problem on an individual, national and global level.

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Backman, Emma. "Användandet av smartphones bland studenter: en av 2000-talets källor till upplevd stress? : En jämförande studie bland män och kvinnor." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-36557.

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Eberle-Blaylock, Mariana. "Political and economic news during the Argentine crisis of 2000-2002 an agenda-setting analysis of major newspaper coverage /." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001049.

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Palleis, Robin. "Local Commons : communicating local issues through place-based interventions." Thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/66733/1/Robin_Palleis_Diploma_Thesis-opt.pdf.

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Due to the numerous possibilities of voicing concerns and the flood of data we are exposed to, local issues are at a risk of being overlooked. Following a research agenda proposed by Foth et al. (2013), this thesis explored the possible contributions of situated digital and tangible media for communicating local issues. Making use of the location of an issue could thereby not only allow to reach the targeted audience but also for a deeper involvement of citizens. Through the development of a design intervention in public space, called Local Commons, the benefits of this approach were investigated. Therefore, the intervention combined digital and tangible media in order to engage the public to contribute and debate different perspectives on a given local issue. The interaction with the intervention was thereby twofold. First, the intervention invited the audience to submit images of their perspectives on the issue, which were displayed on a public screen. Via tangible buttons in front of the screen, the audience then had the possibility to agree or disagree to the displayed perspectives, creating a space for deliberation. In a field study, the concept was subsequently tested and evaluated. The results of this study, although not generalisable, supported the chosen approach of this thesis.

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Gerbi, Giovanna Maria. "An analysis of racial stereotyping of the South African Police in the television programmes Carte Blanche and Special Assignment from August 2003 to September 2004." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50257.

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Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2005.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this assignment is to examine two investigative journalism programmes in South Africa, namely Carte Blanche and SpecialAssignment in order to ascertain whether two South African policing organisations have been subjected to racist stereotyping on these two programmes. Both these programmes are held in high esteem within South African and international media circles. Carte Blanche has won many awards, such as the prestigious eNN African Journalist of the Year Award in 2002. Special Assignment won the equivalent award in 2001. The approaches and styles in revealing the truth by using investigative forms of journalism are however slightly different. Both Carte Blanche and Special Assignment have produced stories from August 2003 to September 2004 that have exposed corruption within the South African policing organisations. Many of the perpetrators within the police force were identified as people of colour. This assignment therefore aims to discover whether racist stereotyping exists in this niche of investigative journalism television programmes. This opens up the possibility for these portrayals to be seen as stereotypical, since the dominant press codes in South Africa stipulates that reference to 'race' in news reporting should only be done where it will contribute significantly to understanding the subject matter or if the reference to the race of the person is particularly applicable. This assignment aims to discover whether racist stereotyping exists in this niche of investigative journalism television programmes. The research method comprised analysing programmes on Carte Blanche and Special Assignment that dealt with the South African policing organisations from August 2003 to September 2004. The original transcripts of the programmes were retrieved from the relevant websites of Carte Blanche and Special Assignment and have also been studied. Sources on media ethics as well as newspaper and magazine articles dealing with the South African policing organisations, crime and corruption were scrutinized in order to provide background information for the study. The analyses of the programmes was complemented by interviews conducted with the investigative journalists at the helm of the two programmes, namely, Ruda Landman from Carte Blanche and Jessica Pitchford from Special Assignment.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie studie is om twee ondersoekende joernalistiekprogramme in Suid-Afrika, naamlik Carte Blanche en Special Assignment, te ondersoek ten einde vas te stelof die Suid- Afrikaanse polisiëringsorganisasies in dié twee programme aan rassestereotipering onderhewig is. Albei dié programme word hoog geag in Suid-Afrikaanse en internasionale mediakringe. Carte Blanche het reeds verskeie toekennings gewen, soos die toonaangewende eNN Afrikajoernalis van die Jaar Toekenning in 2002. Special Assignment het hierdie toekenning in 2001 gewen. Die benaderings en styl wat tydens die bekendmaking van die waarheid gevolg word deur die toepassing van ondersoekende vorme van joernalistiek verskil egter effe. Sowel Carte Blanche as Special Assignment het van Augustus 2003 tot September 2004 stories opgelewer wat korrupsie in die Suid-Afrikaanse polisiëringsorganisasies aan die kaak gestel het. Baie van die skuldiges in die polisiemag is geïdentifiseer as gekleurde mense. Hierdie studie beoog dus om vas te stel of daar rassestereotipering in hierdie afdeling van televisieprogramme met betrekking tot ondersoekende joernalistiek bestaan. Ondersoekende joernalistiek is ongetwyfeld een van die stimulerendste afdelings van die joernalistiek. Dit is 'n uitgesproke vorm van joernalistiek wat die vermoë het om die samelewing te beïnvloed. Ondersoekende joernalistiek maak gewoonlik misdrywe aan die publiek bekend. Die konsekwente uitbeelding van gekleurde mense op 'n negatiewe wyse sou kon lei tot die inboet van etiese waardes en dus tot rassestereotipering. Die navorsingsmetode het behels dat daar van Augustus 2003 tot September 2004 na programme oor die Suid-Afrikaanse polisiëringsorganisasies op Carte Blanche en Special Assignment gekyk is en dat dit op band opgeneem is. Die oorspronklike transkripsies van die programme is van Carte Blanche en Special Assignment se onderskeie webtuistes verkry en word as bylaes by hierdie studie aangeheg. Bronne oor media-etiek asook koerant- en tydskrifartikels wat oor die Suid-Afrikaanse polisiëringsorganisasies, misdaad en korrupsie handel, is noukeurig nagegaan. 'n Persoonlike onderhoud is met Ruda Landman van Carte Blanche gevoer, en met Jessica Pitchford van Special Assignment is 'n onderhoud per e-pos gevoer. Landman en Pitchford was albei betrokke by die samestelling van die betrokke

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Bertilsson, John. "Säkerhet som hegemoni : En kritisk diskursanalys av den politiska debatten i samband med de uppmärksammade rymningarna från kriminalvården 2004." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-7985.

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Sedan början på 80-talet går det att konstatera en tydlig förändring i den svenska kriminalpolitiken som kännetecknas av mer strafftänkande och mindre fokus på behandling och återanpassning av kriminella. Denna förändrade kriminalpolitik kännetecknas bl.a. av höjda straffskalor, allt fler utdömda livstidsdomar och en ökande fängelsebeläggning. Men det blir också allt mer tydligt i den politiska retoriken att kriminalpolitiken har förändrats; det talas allt mer om säkerhet, kontroll och att använda hårdare tag mot brottslingarna. I uppsatsen studeras, med diskursanalys som metod, denna förändrade kriminalpolitik utifrån retoriken i den politiska debatten. Det material som studeras är fyra debattartiklar som publicerades på Dagens Nyheters debattsida i samband med flera i media uppmärksammade rymningar från kriminalvården 2004.

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Mecklai, Noorel-nissa S. "Abrogated identity : Muslim representation in Hindi popular cinema 1947-2000." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2006. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/352.

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This thesis asks the question: How do the representations of Muslims in Hindi Popular Cinema deny the community identification with the nation. It establishes Hindi cinema as the 'de facto' national cinema and explores the nature of identity and communal relations between the two major Indian religious communities, Hindus and Muslims through an analysis of popular films. It identifies an imbalance in representations of Muslim life where few films show Hindus and Muslims as sharing social and cultural life or where Muslims are represented as modern subjects: an absence of films on 'partition', the division of the country which occurred at the moment of independence, in August 1947; and reproduces stereotypical representations of Muslims as 'the outsider', the villain, or the terrorist at different times in history. The thesis considers the impact of the animosity between Hindus and Muslims concurrent with the rise of Hindu nationalism on Hindi cinema's representations of Muslims. These cumulative representations and absences result in the abrogation of identity for them as citizens through public culture. But it also sees that the complete disavowal of this cinema is problematic for the Muslim participation in the industry, the possibility of the Muslim spectator pleasurable reading of Hindi films; and the observation that representations change over the period in question. The representations broadly move from the secular to the bigoted over the course of the period under consideration.

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Jonas-Fowler, Joycelyn. "Is This Black Enough for You? A Comparative Analysis of African-American Families Portrayed in Black Family Television Comedies between 1980 and 2000." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2018. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/134.

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Research shows that black people watch more television than any other race of people, and, given that television is the most influential media tool, the content of what may affect an audience’s behavior and beliefs deserves analysis. This study examines the black family, alleged pathology, strengths that are specifically associated with them, its portrayal on television, and how television is used as a tool for socialization and influence. A content analysis of the top thirty black family shows that appeared on major network television between 1980 and 2000 was conducted to determine if the family framed was portrayed realistically. Each show analyzed was found to portray some characteristic of strong black families, attributes some media and social critics had not previously recognized or acknowledged. This study suggests that further research is warranted from black family, cultural, and media scholars, as well as social policy and program makers, and on how television influences entire cultures to shift socially and economically.

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Zhang, Alice Jin. "Excavation Sites: Art-ifacts of the Millennial Girl Web Development and Blogging Community of the 2000's to the Early 2010's." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1238.

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When people go online and leave their mark in bytes, how do their traces get preserved, shared, or lost? In the early 2000’s through about 2012, communities of millennial girl web developers and bloggers flourished on the English-speaking Internet. They would write about their intimate lives, code their website designs from scratch, create portfolios of graphics, and forge friendships with fellow bloggers that lasted through years. Most of these blogs are now gone; only patches remain as screenshots on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. For my senior project, I explored how techniques used in glitch art, normally used for destroying image files for purely aesthetic effects, could also be used to embed texts that could be read by humans inside digital photos. I excavated photos and self-portraits of individual bloggers whose old content has since been erased from their original domains as of 2018. Then, I overrode pieces of each image file with the respective bloggers’ journal entries extracted from https://web.archive.org. The result is a picture irreversibly corroded by the loss of its original data, akin to the state of their bloggers' archived websites. It still functions like any image file in that the picture can be copied, shared, and viewed on another computer. However, unlike a typical image file, it also hides a patchwork of legible English text; one can “dig” into the image’s encoding and uncover nuggets of letters from a past Internet presence--specifically, that of a millennial girl's thoughts on identity, life, and the joys and struggles of coding and managing her own website.

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Bourke, Nicole A. "From the Cradle to the Grave: A Novel and Exegesis." Thesis, Griffith University, 2002.

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From the Cradle to the Grave: A Novel and Exegesis is concerned with maternal infanticide. This is, however, a somewhat inflammatory and perhaps misleading statement. While it is concerned with the infanticidal mother, she is in this instance largely an icon, a way into an exploration of diverse aspects of motherhood, especially negative ideas about mothers and mothering. It would be more precise to say that this thesis is concerned with the paradoxical Childless Mother. Both the novel and exegesis circle around ideas about parenting that seek to confront traditional assumptions about the connections and differences between good and bad mothering. The exegesis - From the Cradle to the Grave - does this through a discussion of various aspects of culture, which produce and are produced by mothering practices. In particular it engages with childcare literature, medical and legal engagements with women and children, and myth and fairy tales. The novel - The Bone Flute - is another exploration of the paradoxical nature of motherhood. While the exegesis seeks to draw together some of the material and historical truths of mothering, the novel addresses another kind of truth; through various narrative devices it seeks a different type of engagement with the lived realities of women. Both texts ask questions about the nature of maternity and its relationship to femininity. Both attempt to come to terms with the paradoxical status of mothers without children. The exegesis is an explication of the research processes, the reflections and considerations that preceded and accompanied the writing of The Bone Flute. It seeks to make explicit the tangled web of reading and thinking that informed the writing of a novel - from initial impulse to final draft. The exegesis is not, however, an explicit explanation of how the novel was written. Rather the two texts existed (and exist) symbiotically - each inciting and reflecting upon the other. While the exegesis explores the material

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Persson, Sofia. "Läraryrkets uppkomst och förändring : en sociologisk studie av lärares villkor, organisering och yrkesprojekt inom den grundläggande utbildningen i Sverige ca. 1800-2000 /." Göteborg : Dept. of Sociology, Göteborg University, 2008. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=017001376&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Casadevall, Dario. "Skunkworks Finder: A Design Study into the Diverse Ecosystem of Creativity and Innovation Spaces." Thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat München, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122139/1/Masterthesis_DarioCasadevall%20Kopie.pdf.

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Creative people, entrepreneurs and start-up founders using innovation spaces and hubs often find themselves inside a filter bubble or echo chamber, where like-minded people tend to come up with similar ideas and recommend similar approaches to innovation. This trend towards homophily and a polarisation of like-mindedness is aggravated by algorithmic filtering and recommender systems embedded in current technology and social media platforms. Yet, genuine innovation thrives on social inclusion fostering a diversity of ideas. To provide the opportunity to escape these echo chambers, Skunkworks Finder was designed and tested – an exploratory tool that employs social network analysis to help users discover spaces of difference and otherness in their local urban innovation ecosystem. A design inclusive research approach was adapted focusing on user-centred design choices in order to verify and validate the prototype and its according premise. Results show, that an introduction of Skunkworks Finder or similar functionality is anticipated by study participants, as participants indicated individual experiences of forming filter bubbles in innovation spaces. However, changes in design would improve comprehensibility issues addressed during the user study. Additionally, an integration of such a system into an established online tool would ensure a distribution to a wider audience, than focusing only on potential users who are already affiliated with an innovation environment.

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Mayer, Miriam. "Democratising the City: Technology as Enabler of Citizen-Led Urban Innovation." Thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/115908/1/Masterarbeit%20Miriam%20Mayer_final_opt.pdf.

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This study deals with finding a way to enable citizen-led urban innovation through technology while concentrating on various aspects of controversial city developments. Therefore the literature concerning this topic is first investigated and current online systems designed for citizens to engage in city development decisions explored. In addition, literature, approaches and systems related to conflict resolution are also presented and discussed. By means of applying multiple design cycles, including several user studies, an online platform for citizens to elaborate controversial ideas for the city together was developed. These design cycles were focused on first finding a suitable process to elaborate on ideas and find consent. The process implementing this is tested during two workshops that portray the procedure that would be realised on the platform. Findings after each workshop are used to revise the process. In order to design a user interface that could implement such a process first an expert focus group was asked to brainstorm solutions for multiple design questions. Considering this input two platform mock-ups were created and shown to participants to receive feedback. A final prototype of the online platform was then implemented and tested in a final user study. During this study participants elaborated an idea together to test the whole resulting product, while being able to use the online platform in an in the wild setting. In spite of discovering how dependent the usage of the platform is on its users, the feedback received for the general idea of using an online platform to elaborate on ideas and find consent was overall positive.

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Gómez, Puertas Lorena 1978. "La proposta discursiva del serial català sobre temes d'interès social. Estudi de cas: el cor de la ciutat ( Televisió de Catalunya, 2000-2009)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7275.

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Des dels Estudis Culturals Consensuals on la televisió s'entén com a fòrum aquesta tesi doctoral estudia l'aportació del serial de Televisió de Catalunya a la construcció social de la realitat i el seu potencial com a institució intermèdia per a la negociació i objectivació social del sentit. L'objectiu de la investigació consisteix en entendre quines són les estratègies sobre les que el serial estudi de cas, El cor de la ciutat (2000-2009), proposa l'organització de l'experiència de la vida quotidiana en relació a qüestions que prèviament defineix com a temes i problemes socials rellevants per a l'individu al que adreça la seva acció comunicativa. La combinació de tècniques d'anàlisi textual i de contingut per l'estudi de l'agenda permet detectar les lògiques d'introducció i plantejament de determinats temes d'interès social i analitzar comparativament els marcs interpretatius i les estratègies discursives emprades segons es tracti de valors socials compartits, transgredits o contraposats.
Desde los Estudios Culturales Consensuales donde se define la televisión como foro esta tesis doctoral estudia la aportación del serial de Televisió de Catalunya a la construcción social de la realidad y su potencial como institución intermedia para la negociación y objetivación social del sentido. El objetivo de la investigación consiste en entender cuáles son las estrategias del serial estudio de caso, El cor de la ciutat (2000-2009), para proponer la organización de la experiencia de la vida cotidiana en relación a las cuestiones que previamente define como temas y problemas sociales relevantes para el individuo al que dirige su acción comunicativa. La combinación de técnicas de análisis textual y de contenido para estudiar la agenda permite detectar las lógicas de introducción y planteamiento de determinados temas de interés social, y analizar comparativamente los marcos interpretativos y las estrategias discursivas desarrolladas según se planteen valores sociales compartidos, transgredidos o contrapuestos.
From consensual perspective of Cultural Studies, considering television as a forum, this doctoral dissertation analyses the contribution of the longest serial of Televisió de Catalunya to the social construction of reality and its potential as intermediate institution for the social negotiation and objectivation of sense. The main objective of this research is to understand which are the strategies developed by El cor de la ciutat (2000-2009) to propose the organization of everyday experience in relation to questions that previously has defined as social issues and social problems, as part of the communicative action that Catalan television addressed to their viewers. A methodology combining textual analysis and content analysis techniques for studying agenda enables us to identify the logics for the introduction and approach of certain social issues and to examine, in a comparative framing and discourse analysis, which are the strategies implemented depending on values' dynamics (shared, transgressed or confronted).

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Gómez, Puertas Lorena. "La proposta discursiva del serial català sobre temes d'interès social. Estudi de cas: el cor de la ciutat ( Televisió de Catalunya, 2000-2009)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7275.

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Des dels Estudis Culturals Consensuals on la televisió s'entén com a fòrum aquesta tesi doctoral estudia l'aportació del serial de Televisió de Catalunya a la construcció social de la realitat i el seu potencial com a institució intermèdia per a la negociació i objectivació social del sentit. L'objectiu de la investigació consisteix en entendre quines són les estratègies sobre les que el serial estudi de cas, El cor de la ciutat (2000-2009), proposa l'organització de l'experiència de la vida quotidiana en relació a qüestions que prèviament defineix com a temes i problemes socials rellevants per a l'individu al que adreça la seva acció comunicativa. La combinació de tècniques d'anàlisi textual i de contingut per l'estudi de l'agenda permet detectar les lògiques d'introducció i plantejament de determinats temes d'interès social i analitzar comparativament els marcs interpretatius i les estratègies discursives emprades segons es tracti de valors socials compartits, transgredits o contraposats.
Desde los Estudios Culturales Consensuales donde se define la televisión como foro esta tesis doctoral estudia la aportación del serial de Televisió de Catalunya a la construcción social de la realidad y su potencial como institución intermedia para la negociación y objetivación social del sentido. El objetivo de la investigación consiste en entender cuáles son las estrategias del serial estudio de caso, El cor de la ciutat (2000-2009), para proponer la organización de la experiencia de la vida cotidiana en relación a las cuestiones que previamente define como temas y problemas sociales relevantes para el individuo al que dirige su acción comunicativa. La combinación de técnicas de análisis textual y de contenido para estudiar la agenda permite detectar las lógicas de introducción y planteamiento de determinados temas de interés social, y analizar comparativamente los marcos interpretativos y las estrategias discursivas desarrolladas según se planteen valores sociales compartidos, transgredidos o contrapuestos.
From consensual perspective of Cultural Studies, considering television as a forum, this doctoral dissertation analyses the contribution of the longest serial of Televisió de Catalunya to the social construction of reality and its potential as intermediate institution for the social negotiation and objectivation of sense. The main objective of this research is to understand which are the strategies developed by El cor de la ciutat (2000-2009) to propose the organization of everyday experience in relation to questions that previously has defined as social issues and social problems, as part of the communicative action that Catalan television addressed to their viewers. A methodology combining textual analysis and content analysis techniques for studying agenda enables us to identify the logics for the introduction and approach of certain social issues and to examine, in a comparative framing and discourse analysis, which are the strategies implemented depending on values' dynamics (shared, transgressed or confronted).

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"Setting Research Directions for Media Literacy and Health Education: A Research Conference held April 15-17, 2000." 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106444.

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This is a conference report of a two-day working conference held in April of 2000 with leading media education and public health researchers charged with the task of charting future directions for research in media education. The goal of the conference was to identify approaches that should be undertaken to measure the impact of media literacy interventions aimed at health threats to youth, to stimulate descriptive evidence about the growth and nature of media literacy education in the United States and around the world, and to begin to more fully appreciate the complex, interdisciplinary connections between the fields of media studies, education and public health that research about the practice of media literacy demands and inspires. Conference sponsors: Johnson & Johnson; Center for Substance Abuse Prevention; (HHS Secretary's Initiative on Youth Substance Abuse Prevention); National Cancer Institute; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; American Academy of Pediatrics; Alliance for a Media Literate America; Journalism Resources Institute. The full text of this document can be downloaded or sent to others, and photos of the conference can be viewed on the conference site ( http://www.mediastudies.rutgers.edu/mh_conference/index.html).

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