Dissertations / Theses: 'Mass media and art'

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Papadaki, Eirini. "The mediation of art through the mass media." Thesis, University of Kent, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246640.

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D'Olimpio, Lauralin. "The moral possibilities of mass art." University of Western Australia. Philosophy Discipline Group, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0172.

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This Thesis critically examines the moral possibilities of mass art. Mass art is often dismissed by critics as pseudo or ersatz art, described as 'kitsch' and lacking in aesthetic and moral value. I will critically examine several definitions of mass art which argue whether or not mass art can and should be classified as art qua art, and what its moral possibilities are given that definition. I focus my analysis on the theories proposed by Noel Carroll, Clement Greenberg, R. G. Collingwood, Dwight MacDonald, Walter Benjamin, T. W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer with a view to defending a positive account of mass art as art with moral capabilities while also arguing that the ethical concerns raised by Adorno and Horkheimer must be taken seriously. After examining the aesthetic and ethical issues that are raised by mass art and how these inter-relate, I explore the link between aesthetic and ethical education. Drawing upon Martha Nussbaum's theory of literary education, I outline a supplementary moral theory that I term

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Holowczenko, Amy L. "Framing the culture wars : a content analysis of news media coverage of the Mapplethorpe and Brooklyn Museum art controversies /." Online version of thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/4890.

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Camargo, Maíra Sanchez Cezaretto [UNESP]. "Fred Forest: o poder da mídia espontânea como elemento de criação artística." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/86955.

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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Este estudo tem o objetivo de discutir o poder da mídia utilizado para criação artística, mais especificamente a mídia espontânea. A relação entre arte e comunicação é analisada com o apoio na obra denominada Wanted Julia Margareth Cameron, de Fred Forest. São avaliados os aspectos que levam o artista a idealizar e colocar em prática suas estratégias. As ferramentas utilizadas por Forest em suas obras e a articulação delas também são contempladas neste estudo. Além disso, o potencial publicitário nas criações de Fred Forest foi igualmente objeto de consideração
This study aims to discuss the power of the media used for artistic creation, specifically the spontaneous media. The relationship between art and communication is analyzed with the support of the work called Julia Margaret Cameron Wanted by Fred Forest, evaluating the issues that lead the artist to create their actions. The tools used by Forest in their work and the articulation of them are also addressed in this study. In addition to evaluating the advertising potential in the creations of Fred Forest

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Camargo, Maíra Sanchez Cezaretto. "Fred Forest : o poder da mídia espontânea como elemento de criação artística /." São Paulo : [s.n.], 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/86955.

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Orientador: Milton Sogabe
Banca: Hermes Renato Hildebrand
Banca: Fábio Oliveira Nunes
Resumo: Este estudo tem o objetivo de discutir o poder da mídia utilizado para criação artística, mais especificamente a mídia espontânea. A relação entre arte e comunicação é analisada com o apoio na obra denominada Wanted Julia Margareth Cameron, de Fred Forest. São avaliados os aspectos que levam o artista a idealizar e colocar em prática suas estratégias. As ferramentas utilizadas por Forest em suas obras e a articulação delas também são contempladas neste estudo. Além disso, o potencial publicitário nas criações de Fred Forest foi igualmente objeto de consideração
Abstract: This study aims to discuss the power of the media used for artistic creation, specifically the spontaneous media. The relationship between art and communication is analyzed with the support of the work called Julia Margaret Cameron Wanted by Fred Forest, evaluating the issues that lead the artist to create their actions. The tools used by Forest in their work and the articulation of them are also addressed in this study. In addition to evaluating the advertising potential in the creations of Fred Forest
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Hachmeister, John. "Pluralism and the hard sell historically unique influences on young artists today." Thesis, Kansas State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/9845.

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Keen, Seth. "Video chaos : multilinear narrative structuration in new media video practice /." Electronic version, 2005. http://adt.lib.uts.edu.au/public/adt-NTSM20050921.151215/index.html.

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Miller, Elizabeth. "Manipulating the Hype: contemporary art's response to media cliches." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10099.

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Manipulating the Hype addresses art’s reaction to the barrage of signs produced by the media. The paper researches contemporary art’s response to clichéd media stereotypes and elucidates artists’ multifaceted perspective on overtly obvious yet widely embraced paradigms marketed by the media. Contemporary art’s strategic reconfiguration of media stereotypes is a valuable introspection upon the superficiality and impracticability of advertising and entertainment industry constructs. By reconsidering the mediated image, art has the ability to inspire reevaluation of cultural values. The thesis additionally attempts to ascertain the reinterpretation of media stereotypes as a common thread linking principal art movements and historically significant artworks from around the world since 1960. How does contemporary art respond to the extensive cultural influence of the media? Is a reaction to mass media a thematic commonality linking contemporary artists in the age of globalization? Manipulating the Hype is a dual outcome investigation comprised of written thesis and studio practice. The written thesis combines experience from a lengthy professional practice with historical and theoretical research. The visual thesis consists of twelve photographic works taken at on the Big Island of Hawaii. The images juxtapose artificial icons of power from popular culture with the natural force of the active lava flow. The process of research discloses how the advertising and entertainment industries capitalize upon innate human desires through the manipulative proliferation of archetypal imagery. Furthermore, the thesis establishes the widespread retort to media clichés as a palpable commonality in studio practices worldwide. The findings in the research make evident that although contemporary art does not have sufficient influence to reform the media, it can heighten public awareness of media tactics.

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Santana, Isabella Oliveira. "Campos do terror contemporaneo (res)significados no topos da performance art." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284048.

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Orientador: Arthur Hunold Lara
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade de Camopinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Este trabalho de caráter teórico-prático na área da performance art, tem como escopo (res)significar estudos realizados acerca de notícias e imagens de terror veiculadas nos meios de comunicação de massa - principalmente na rede internet - no topos da performance art. Constatamos que as notícias e imagens de terror propagadas nos meios massivos, assim como também as vivências traumáticas, podem ocasionar disfunções psicológicas e fisiológicas nas pessoas. Além disso, a mensagens midiáticas imediatistas, editadas e banalizadas da televisão e, mais recentemente da internet, podem ocasionar um embotamento das nossas sensibilidades diminuindo conseqüentemente nosso poder de reflexão e percepção. O psicólogo norte-americano Timothy Leary (1920-1996), que fez estudos como substâncias psicoativas para observar as capacidades expansivas da consciência, nos fala sobre como as mensagens e imagens transmitidas na tela podem formar e controlar nossa mente através da visão e audição. É a partir daí e da vivência do nosso corpo com a prática da performance, que questionamos como esta pode funcionar como a lente de aumento que irá mostrar onde está a imagem e onde está o simulacro, alargando deste modo as capacidades perceptivas do homem. Notamos ainda, o poder de transmutação próprio do ato criativo, a mudança emocional que ele gera além do estado fisiológico do corpo diferente daquele do cotidiano. Deste modo, aliar o tema do terror ao da prática performática nos faz averiguar a funcionalidade da performance enquanto agente de transmutação, tanto no performer, como no espectador. Neste caso, foi fundamental pesquisarmos o tema do trauma e da cura, assim como retomarmos o conceito de catarse, que estão de certa maneira vinculados ao tema que nos propomos a (res)significar no topos da ação. A metodologia a ser aplicada e a precisão dos resultados são um tanto difíceis no campo das artes, principalmente no que tange ao processo de criação artística, pelo fato de lidarmos com questões muito subjetivas que estão no âmbito da emoção, da sensação. Por isso, ao invés de utilizarmo-nos de metodologias mais precisas como os questionários, optamos por fazer a nossa pesquisa baseando-se em estudos bibliográficos para que assim complementassem o conhecimento obtido através da própria vivência artística em processo. Dentre os teóricos que nos detemos a pesquisar destacamos o diretor teatral Richard Schechner, que se dedicou ao estudo da teoria da performance, abordando os aspectos antropológicos que esta linguagem abarca e trazendo significativas contribuições às pesquisas do campo da performance art. Além disso, tivemos como referência estudos na área dos meios de comunicação de massa, psicologia, antropologia e sociologia. Concomitante à pesquisa teórica, realizamos sete apresentações artísticas que fortaleceram as nossas hipóteses acerca das potencialidades da performance art enquanto agente de transmutação. Por fim, conjeturamos que o paradigma holográfico pode funcionar como a espoleta do stress do terror e que a visão periférica está para o pedaço holográfico da memória e pode tanto despertar o terror quanto curá-lo.
Abstract: This theoretical and practical research in the speciality of performance art, has the purpose to (re)signify studies about terror news and images transmitted by the mass media - mainly on the internet - on the topos of performance art. We verify that the news and images of terror diffused at the mass media, as well as traumatic experiences, may cause psychological and physiological disturb on people. Besides, the immediate, edited and banal news transmitted on television, and nowadays on the internet, may decrease our sensibility and our power of reflection and perception. The north-American psychologist Timothy Leary (1920-1996), who studied psychoactive substances with the purpose to observe the consciousness expansion capacities, talk about how messages and images on the screen may form and control our mind through vision and hearing. It is through it and the experience of our body in performance art practice that we question how performance may function as the lens that will show us the image and the simulacrum helping to amplify the human perception. We also realize, the transformation power of creative acting, the emotional changing that its beget besides the different physiological body state from that we use in our daily life. Thereby, combine terror subject with performance practice make us verify performance function as a transformation agent in the performer and in the spectator. On this case, it was fundamental that we research the trauma and the cure subject, as we needed to retake catharsis concept, which are linked with the subject that we propose to (re)mean at the topos of the action. The method applied and the precision of the results are so difficult in arts field, mainly when we treat about artistic creative process, by the fact that we lead with subjective questions in the ambit of emotion and sensation. That is why we chose to make our research founded in bibliographical studies that could complement the knowledge we obtained through our own artistic experience, instead of make use of more precise methods as questionnaires. One of the researchers that we choose to analyze is the theater director Richard Schechner, who dedicates studies to performance theory broaching anthropological aspects of this artistic language and bringing to us significant contributions to performance art researches. Moreover, we use as reference studies from mass media, psychology, anthropology and sociology fields. Concomitant theory research, we presented seven performances that strengthen our hypothesis about transformation power of performance art. Besides, we suppose that holographic paradigm may function as the agent of terror stress and that periphery vision is related to the holographic memory piece and must as excite terror as cure it.
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Hicks, Cinque. "City of atoms: en-racinating media art and public space in Atlanta." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/39621.

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Designers of information communication technologies (ICTs) in public space often fall into the trap of designing only for the "flaneur," an unembedded mobile subject in the generic global city. They deracinate the experience of space and support the global flâneur as the paradigmatic deracinated subject. In this thesis I propose a specific vision of "en-racinating" media, that is media that takes the specificity of place seriously. A careful consideration of public art can help us in this endeavor by leveraging the artistic notion of "site specificity" in the most culturally grounded meaning of the term. I examining three public digital media/information-based public art works through the lens of urban informatics in order to see how the works do or do not en-racinate experience in a specific city: Atlanta

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Dunfee, Melissa Catherine. "Financial Challenges of New Media Art in Contemporary Arts Institutions." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1487646333901318.

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Milter, Katalin S. "The impact of politics on post-communist media in Eastern Europe : an historical case study of the 1996 Hungarian Broadcasting Act /." View abstract, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3316361.

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Sercombe, Howard. "Naming youth : the construction of the youth category." Murdoch University, 1996. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070831.115336.

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The youth category, in its modern form, has emerged under particular social and economic conditions, under the influence of particular social institutions, shaped by particular discourses. This thesis is an inquiry into the constitution of youth as a social category through an examination of these factors. Through a review of the historical and sociological literature, the thesis establishes the conditions for the emergence of the modem concept of youth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The evidence suggests that the youth category came into being as a result of changes in the industrial family, the industrial reforms which progressively excluded children and young people fkom the workforce, and the establishment of compulsory schooling - especially secondary schooling. Parallel with these developments, a variety of discourses about youth (or "adolescence") were generated, establishing the emergent category in scientific terms. G. Stanley Hall's theories of adolescence, developed around the turn of the century, were perhaps the most influential of these, casting adolescence as a universal stage in life characterised by social and psychological turmoil. In sociology, this theoretical frame has been the subject of longstanding debate. The thesis explores this debate, and attempts to establish a sociological view of the youth , category in the light of the historical and sociological evidence. In these explorations, "youth" is established as a product of historical processes, a product of political economy and of scientific discourse. The analysis is brought into the present through a study of how youth are represented in a highcirculation daily newspaper, The West Australian. Using standard media analysis techniques, the study examines the construction of language around youth, and the kinds of stories in which they appear in the newspaper, and finds a detailed discursive apparatus through which young people are classified as good or bad, passive (victim, child) or active (perpetrator, adult). These constructions vary with the institutional location of the news source, and with such factors as the gender and ethnicity of the subject, while continuing to be underwritten by orthodox discourses of adolescence. For its part, the newspaper overwhelmingly casts youth in a law and order frame, driven by the appetites of audiences and the economies of news production. The study explores the differences as well as the continuities in the concept of youth employed in the patchwork of discourse that constitutes newspaper text. In these explorations, "youth" is established in the present as a contested category, the subject of competing discourses. Competing institutions and professions, in their interventions in the newspaper, try to secure a reading of the youth phenomenon which is consistent with their professional and political objectives. The thesis is about the constitution of youth. Through the analysis of historical and contemporary discourse about youth, the thesis reveals how the subjection of this section of the adult population is achieved and maintained, how they are established as a pliable, coercible and economically dispensable population, and how the instruments of their governance are legitimated.

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Tipping, Roy. "The history and practice of the presentation of art music performance on BBC television, 1936-1982." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4314.

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This thesis traces the history of the presentation of art music performance on BBC television including concerts, operas and ballets and analyses the ways found to present them. The background to the initial programming policies on BBC Television is analysed with reference to the art music activities on BBC Radio before 1936. The novel methods of televising art music are described: there were no precedents for live multi-camera shooting. Until the creation of commercial television in 1955, BBC Television broadcast about two hours of art music performance each week. From 1955 to 1963 the output of art music performance halved and the influence of Lionel Salter, Head of Music Productions, BBC Television, is traced. The creation of BBC-2 led to a revival in art music programmes and the contribution of Humphrey Burton, Head of Music and Arts, BBC Television, to restoring the amount of art music performance is considered. Early scripts and archived programmes have enabled critical evaluation to be undertaken. This analysis has shown that the first producers of art music programmes regarded their main function as giving viewers the feeling that they were watching performances from the 'best seat in the house': the concept of the objective 'relay'. As musically trained producers emerged, there was a gradual change from the relay to that of involving the viewers as unseen participants in the performances. It is shown that art music performance programmes became the subjective interpretations of the producers involved. Salter said that only musically trained producers who could fluently read music would be capable of fully communicating its structure in television programmes. The truth behind this maxim is fully investigated and the conclusion drawn is that successful presentation of art music performance on television is easier for musically trained producers but a few others without musical qualifications have shown themselves capable of producing equally satisfactory and authoritative programmes.

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Kudsi-Zadeh, Chantalle B. "(Re)visualizing AIDS : art activism and the popular medicalscientific image of HIV." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=27947.

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This thesis is concerned with AIDS cultural activism. Specifically, it examines artistic responses to the medical/scientific image of HIV that circulates widely in the mainstream press. Examples of AIDS science reporting that focus on the medical/scientific image of HIV are selected from popular American news journals. It is argued that science and journalism are different and mutually dependent domains of knowledge, neither of which can be examined without the other. AIDS activist art engages with the relationship between science and the media and offers alternatives to the authority offered in science reporting. In the author's closing remarks, it is stated that AIDS activist art addresses not only the AIDS crisis but challenges the entire ideological apparatus upon which popular representations of illness are based.

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Turner, Rhys Stephen. "Etherscapes: Massless, Elastic, Technology and Control." University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1100.

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Master of Visual Arts
This thesis is an exploration into the ether of the digital aesthetic. It attempts to capture a segment of the continually morphing space then deconstruct and analyse it through electronic and new media art. Herein you will find a questioning of technology and control within electronic and new media art as an investigation into better understanding the current media image and visual culture that so powerfully influences the modern social construct. By nature this argument has existed for some years but only now with advancements in technology and more affordable realisation of ideas by media artists, the topic of the digital aesethetic, technology and control has become relevant for popular debate. As war lingers in our minds, terrorism hits headlines, and experiements in cloning human DNA take place, the technology that society demands can only necessarily be seen as a major contributing factor to today's strange times. However, strange or not, the questions I wish to discuss; Does technology determine contemporary society or do we determine technology? Where does the control exist?

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Stoltenow, Petersen Kelsi K. "YouTube beauty vlogs: How social media blurs social boundaries." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523368597591707.

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Van, Zyl Christa Engela. "‘Swartsmeer’ : ’n studie oor die stereotipering van Afrika en Afrikane in die populere media." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1886.

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Thesis (MA (VA)(Visual Arts))--University of Stellenbosch, 2008.
This thesis consists of a study that identifies and analyses the origins, nature, and spectrum of different stereotypes of Africans in popular texts. The past can only be explored through texts, which are unavoidably mediated, re-interpreted, fictional and temporary. No text can be read in isolation – it is imperative to gain knowledge about the social and ideological context in the analysis of any historical text. History shows that racism is a constructed concept, and the roots of stereotypical perceptions of the ‘Other’ can be found in antiquity – in Ancient Egypt, Classical Greece and the Jewish Torah, as well as during the Middle Ages. A historical synopsis is given of the conception and development of racial stereotyping through the ages until the present. The study demonstrates how stereotypes gradually adapt with history, politics, and ideology. Stereotypes are in my opinion not necessarily constructed on purpose. Stereotypes are developed and based on historical events, but are transformed in time to fulfil new purposes. My conclusion is that racist stereotypes of Africans are created in the West, by the West, for the West. In many ways, the adaptation of the stereotypes of Africans act as a timeline for Western involvement on the continent. The stereotypical portrayal of Africa as the Dark Continent, “White Man’s Burden” and Godforsaken Continent will firstly be studied. Secondly, the depiction of African-Americans, especially in American popular culture, is discussed through stereotypes like Mammy, Uncle Tom, Jezebel, and Buck. The theme of my practical component, a two part series about the Cape Carnival, discusses the stereotype of the “Jolly Hotnot” or “Coon” and examines the portrayal of Africans as comical. The study shows the important role popular media plays in spreading and reaffirming stereotypes. Stereotypes are often used as a survival method to make the multiplicity of reality manageable, recognisable, and understandable. Stereotyping becomes problematic if the stereotypes are used as generalisations to marginalise a group in terms of features such as skin colour. A type of “cultural decolonisation” would be necessary to counteract this marginalisation, through popular culture created by in Africa, by Africans, for Africans and international popular culture.

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Margetts, Emma. "From cannibal to consumer: The shifting poetic metaphor of the vampire." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2007. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/253.

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The Vampire is a parasitic demon who has ·haunted humanity for thousands of years. Feeding off the living, this bloodsucking, animated corpse could generally be said to embody human fears surrounding death and sexuality. Appearing in a variety of mythologies around the world, the vampire has been connected with excessive and/or repressed desire, the subconscious and dark side of human nature. The vampire and associated metaphors' reflect social boundaries and express forbidden desires, in particular, when the figure appeared in late-Gothic literature of the 18th-century novel. The transitions occurring within the vampire's iconography over the last 200 years of Western history offer us a fascinating mirror through which to examine social change. This thesis presents a brief historic outline of the path sketched out by this imaginary avatar from its departure in folklore and superstition into 18th and 19th-century poetry and literature appearing as a preternatural/over and then finally arriving on the screen as the iconic villain/hero of the 20th century. Focusing on issues of gender, sexuality, capitalism and desire, this thesis draws the, conclusion that the 21st -century vampire is a consumer, lost in an insatiable and disorientating bloodlust of materialist desire. Through exploring the lineage of patriarchal terror and vampiricism endemic within our global consumer consciousness and behaviour, this thesis draws an analogy between the attitudes towards, and surrounding, the woman's body and the body of our Earth, the Mother. It asserts that the ideologies of desire explicit within late-capitalist society expose an erotic libidinal economy, which perceives both women and the Earth as commodity, there to be possessed and consumed. Accompanying this thesis paper is a creative project called .The Gothic Opera: A Symphony in Terror, This hybrid performance incorporated dance, aerial theatre and opera in a collaborative theatre event involving over thirty artists. The Gothic Opera traces a historical route through the shifting poetic metaphors of the vampire over the last two hundred years of western cultural change. The Gothic Opera explores, through the medium of performance, many of the characters and theoretical ideas discussed within this thesis paper.

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Cheung, Eric Sui Ting. "Media consumption patterns of Taiwanese women living in New Zealand and their implications for adjustment to New Zealand society this thesis is submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Communication Studies, 2003 /." Full thesis. Abstract, 2003. http://puka2.aut.ac.nz/ait/theses/CheungE.pdf.

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Flores, Maria Aparecida. "A comunicação em processo: um olhar através da arte, da cultura e da tecnologia." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2009. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/176.

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A proposta deste estudo é analisar os processos recentes de convergência, interação e colaboração no campo da Comunicação, permeado pela cultura e pela tecnologia -especialmente a tecnologia digital. Para isso optou-se por relacionar os processos no campo da comunicação a processos semelhantes no campo da arte, uma vez que na arte os movimentos de deslocamento de foco do produto para o processo são mais evidentes que na mídia. Ao analisar esses movimentos é possível investigar como as possibilidades recentes de circulação da informação, proporcionadas pelas tecnologias digitais, alteraram ou deslocaram as premissas do conceito de autoria, e também as premissas das Teorias da Comunicação. Embora o conceito de tecnologia adotado considere que trata-se de uma construção cultural, busco-se um distanciamento das posições de pessimismo ou de determinismo tecnológico, na tentativa de traçar um mapa das mediações sociais estampadas nas novas formas de comunicação e de expressão das sociedades. Com isso verificou-se que a globalização carrega o paradoxo de promover profundos abismos sociais, especialmente nos países da América Latina, mas também a possibilidade de proporcionar diferentes formas de organização social, além de recombinações e apropriações da própria cultura. Tal evidência contrasta com o fato de que no campo da Comunicação as teorias vigentes seguem o modelo mecânico, que já não dá conta de analisar os movimentos recentes na comunicação de modelo eletrônico, marcados pela convergência e pela co-autoria. Concluiu-se que os conceitos de destemporalização, desterritorialização e destotalização, que fundamentam a Teoria das Materialidades, podem ser usados para a reflexão sobre os processos de comunicação permeados pela chamadas novas tecnologias da Comunicação.
This study analyze the recent processes of convergence, interaction and contribution in field of the Communication, involving culture and technology - especially digital technology. For this opted to relate the processes in field of communication and similar processes in field of art, a time that in art the movements of displacement of focus the product for process was evidences than in media. When analyzing these movements are possible to investigate as the recent possibilities of propagation to information, proportionate for digital technologies, had modified or dislocated the premises of authorship concept, and also the premises of Theories of Communication. Although the adopted concept of technology considers that it is about a cultural construction, with distance of the positions of pessimism or technological determinism, in attempt to trace a map of the printed mediated social in new forms of communication and expression of societies. With this it was verified especially that the globalization loads the paradox to promote deep abysses social, in Latin America countries, but also the possibility to provide different forms of social organization, beyond recombination's and appropriations of the proper culture. Such evidence contrasts with the fact of that in the field of the Communication the effective theories follow the mechanical model that already of the account not analyze the recent movements in communication of electronic model, marked for the convergence and the co-authorship. One concluded that the concepts of tempo unlimited, territory without delimitation and without totalities, base of the Materiality Theory, can be used for the reflection on processes of communication permeability by new Communication technologies.

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Thomas, Patricia Adele. "Print to pixel: how can the cultural implications of mediated images and text be examined using creative practice?" Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2013. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/569.

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Information in the twenty-first century is at our fingertips in an instant. Through the technology of the mobile phone, computer, and television, we are alerted to information of international, national, local, and personal significance. The aim of this research is to establish that creative practice can provide a cogent forum with which to interrogate the cultural implications of mediated images and text in the twenty first Century. This exegesis Print to pixel explores the interrelationship between the political and cultural values as identified in the various codes within western mainstream news media. The cultural implications of the shift from print to digital technology leading to the immediacy of access to information, is crucial to this research. I focus on the media coverage of September 11 2001 as an example of the use of codes, framing and repetition in western mainstream news media. The coverage of the reaction to September 11 2001 exemplified the potency of images to communicate a particular political and social agenda. The creative component of my research consists of associated extracted images and text from western mainstream news media. The act of extracting and freezing images from the seemingly continuous flow of digital information is key to this research, allowing art gallery visitors to focus and re-engage with too readily dismissed information on screen. I examine the future of print by including digital and traditional print techniques, on paper, on screens and in books, in an investigation of the links between the different technologies used to report the events and consequences of September 11 2001. The combination of theory and practice in the form of reflexive praxis is the methodology I use to develop my findings. Reflexive praxis offers a method for arts practice, as a communicative act, to create a new balance by which the artist/researcher adopts processes acknowledging individual and social influences by applying theoretical rigour to draw new conclusions and propose new questions. Jurgen Habermas refers to the validity claims that are made in the communicative act and states that “The validity claims that we raise in conversation – that is, when we say something with conviction – transcend this specific conversational context, pointing to something beyond the spatiotemporal ambit of the occasion” (1990, p. 19). He refers to the conversation as an opportunity to make a statement that goes beyond the immediate interaction and leads to wider implications. I regard the exhibition of my artworks as providing that ‘conversational context’ in which I raise questions that may have unpredictable implications as the viewer brings to the work their own life influences and prejudices. Therefore, applying reflexive praxis by “reflecting upon, and reconstructing the constructed world,” I constantly analyse the propositions being made through my work and assume “a process of meaning making, and that meaning and its processes are contingent upon a cultural and social environment” (Crouch, 2007, p. 112). It is only through the manifestation of my research ideas in the form of exhibited artworks that an evaluation through reflexive praxis occurs: considering how works are interpreted according to the context in which they are shown, what relationships with other works reveal and whether the artworks successfully address the research aims.

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Barosso, Elisa M. "Rockwellian art digitally changed after September 11 th: An exploratory public communication case study of “The Make Sense of Our Times” print campaign." Scholarly Commons, 2004. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2648.

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Public Relations advertisements in crisis situations are vital to the image of a company. The actions the company takes are complemented by the type of advertisements that are run as a result of the crisis. These ads help the organization in crisis state their position and communicate with their publics. This study is unique in that The New York Times itself was not in crisis, however, they produced ads for a country that was. This study examines the “Make Sense of Our Times” campaign run in The New York Times after September 11 th . This campaign used Norman Rockwell images that had one element altered to reflect the aftermath Americans were living during the post September 11 th tragedy. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors that motivated the creation of this campaign, and determine if this series of ads can be considered soft-sell public relations, as well as public relations stewardship. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

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Schmitz-Justen, Felix. "A network for communication, art and technology and the three key elements environment, group and stage : a complete documentation of complex development processes /." Sankt Augustin, Germany : GMD-Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik, 2000. http://www.gmd.de/publications/research/2000/007/.

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Machona, Gerald Ralph Tawanda. "Imagine/nation : mediating 'xenophobia' through visual and performance art." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011106.

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This half-thesis has developed as a supporting document to an exhibition titled Vabvakure, people from far away, which responds to the growing trends of violence perpetrated against African foreign nationals living in South Africa. This violence which has generally been termed as 'xenophobia' has been framed within this discourse as 'afrophobia', as it is fraught with complexities of race, ethnicity and class. Evidently, not all foreign nationals are at risk but selective targeting of working class black African foreign nationals seems to be the modus operandi. Fanning these flames of prejudice are stereotypes and negative perceptions of Africa and African immigrants that have permeated into the national consciousness of South Africa, which the mainstream media has been complicit in cultivating. My practice is concerned with challenging this politic of representation in relation to the image of the African foreign national within South African society, who have been presented negatively and labelled as the 'Makwerekwere', the 'bogeymen' that have been blamed for the country’s current woes. In response to this, my research adopts the premise that forms of cultural mediation such as visual and performance art can offer further insights and possibly yield solutions that can be used to address these sentiments. As globalisation and neoliberal ideologies reshape the world, there is a growing need in the post-colonial state to revisit and re-construct notions of individual and collective identity, especially that of the nation. Nations, nationalisms and citizenry can no longer be defined solely through indigeneity, for as a result of radical shifts in the flow of migration and immigration policies that allow for naturalisation of aliens and foreign nationals, we are now faced with burgeoning levels of social diversity to the extent that constructions of nationhood that are based on the concept of autochthony have resulted in the persecution of the ‘other’.

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Milter, Katalin Szoverfy. "The Impact of Politics on Post-Communist Media in Eastern Europe: An Historical Case Study of the 1996 Hungarian Broadcasting Act." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1213213285.

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Smith, Glen R. "Are perceptions of media bias an effective shortcut? Why people perceive bias and why it matters /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Summer2009/g_smith_062909.pdf.

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Jones, Carrie S. Lilly. "Oprah and Her Book Club: More than Mass Media Money-Maker." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277830/.

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With her Book Club, talk show host Oprah Winfrey has used the relatively new technology of television to revive literature. Despite the odds against her--selecting hard-to-read, quirky books by generally unknown authors--Winfrey has successfully created women's spaces for the 1990s, not so different from the American women's social clubs from the late 1800s and early 1900s, and the French salons of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This study will show how Oprah's Book Club allows readers, especially women, to use the psychological processes of transference and transactional reading by using fictional literature from the Book Club to discuss sensitive areas of their lives.

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Triplett, Jayson Ming. "The continuing ballad of Franco the Kid." Master's thesis, Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2008. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-04072008-082226.

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Bostic, Jordan Land Floyd Mitchell. "No Title IX in journalism an analysis of subject gender in newspaper sports column /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12086.

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De, Vaal Amelia. "Vrouetydskrifte as sosiokulturele joernale : prominente diskoerse oor vroue en die beroepswêreld in agt vrouetydskrifte uit 2006." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11202007-135658.

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Hunter, Catherine Wood. "Flesh for fantasy : exposing the sexualised and manipulated female persona in contemporary women's media." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/21213.

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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2005.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis focuses on the representation of women in media aimed at women. A critical examination of visual communication (magazines, advertising and visual story-telling1) will demonstrate that the media may be regarded as highly influential in the way women perceive their bodies, reproduction and sexuality. I begin by examining the presentation of the ‘ideal’ woman as an instance of the Pygmalion complex. This reading of the media’s formulation of the female ideal aims to demonstrate the psychological effects of the Pygmalion complex on women, and illustrates how the resultant striving for perfection drives production and consumption. I shall demonstrate how the image of the ‘ideal’ woman is increasingly more sophisticated and convincingly portrayed through the use of digital manipulation, plastic surgery, excessive dieting and exercise regimes. I propose that the average woman is left feeling inadequate and is undermined by the voice of her own cultural representation. This thesis also investigates the persistence of the virgin / whore binary in the media’s depiction of female sexuality. I propose that this is an essentialist and dualistic presentation of female sexuality as either ‘good’ (surrendered, submissive and conforming – i.e. the virgin); or ‘bad’ (transgressive, explicit, dangerous and destructive – i.e. the whore). I further suggest that this polarised appropriation of women’s sexuality deprives women of ownership of their own sexuality. I also propose that the media’s treatment of female sexuality presents women as being in competition within one another for male attention and approval and that this representation damages female solidarity. Finally I demonstrate that pornography has infiltrated all aspects of popular culture, from magazines to music videos. My hypothesis is that this use of pornographic conventions depicts the rape and abuse of women as normative, commonplace and even entertaining, and that this has a detrimental effect on both women’s and men’s sexual and social wellbeing.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis is gerig op hoe vroue in die media wat op vroue gerig is, verbeeld word. 'n Kritiese ondersoek van visuele kommunikasie (in tydskrifte, reklame en visuele verhaling2) sal toon hoe die media as uiters invloedryk beskou kan word ten opsigte van hoe vroue hul eie liggame, voortplanting en seksualiteit beskou. Ek begin deur die voorstelling van die 'ideale' vrou as 'n voorbeeld van die Pygmalionkompleks te ondersoek. Hierdie beskouing van die media se formulering van die ideaal van vrouwees is daarop gerig om die sielkundige effek van die Pygmalion-kompleks op vroue te demonstreer en illustreer hoe produksie en verbruik deur die strewe na perfeksie wat as gevolg van hierdie formulering ontstaan, aangedryf word. Ek sal toon hoe die beeld van die 'ideale' vrou, as meer en meer gesofistikeerd, oortuigend weergegee word deur middel van digitale manipulasie, plastiese snykunde, oormatige volg van diëte en oefenprogramme. Ek voer aan dat die gemiddelde vrou hierdeur met die gevoel gelaat word dat sy tekortskiet en ondermyn word deur die boodskap van die publikasies wat haar eie kulturele beeld verwoord. Hierdie tesis ondersoek ook die volhardendheid van die tweeledige voorstelling van vroulike seksualiteit in die beelding van maagd en hoer wat in die media aangebied word. Ek voer aan dat dit 'n wesenlike en dualistiese voorstelling van vroulike seksualiteit as óf 'goed' (uitgelewer, gedwee en konformerend – d.w.s. die maagd), óf 'sleg' (oortredend/sondig, eksplisiet, gevaarlik en vernietigend – d.w.s. die hoer) is. Ek stel verder voor dat hierdie gepolariseerde toe-eiening van die vrou se seksualiteit vrouens van eienaarskap van hul eie seksualiteit ontneem. Ek stel ook voor dat die voorstelling van die vrou se seksualiteit soos dit in die media aangebied word, suggereer dat vrouens ter wille van die aandag van 'n man en om goedkeuring te wen met mekaar kompeteer en dat hierdie voorstelling skade doen aan die gevoel van solidariteit tussen vroue. Ten slotte demonstreer ek hoe pornografie reeds alle aspekte van die populêre kultuur vanaf tydskrifte tot musiekvideos binnegedring het. My hipotese is dat hierdie gebruik van pornografiese konvensies die verkragting en mishandeling van vroue as normatief, alledaags en selfs vermaaklik uitbeeld en dat dit 'n nadelige effek het op die seksuele en die sosiale welsyn van mans sowel as vroue.

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Terry, Ryan Luke. "On the Convergence of Cinema and Theme Parks: Developing a Predictable Model for Creative Design." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5784.

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The goal of this research study is to develop a model of information that will enable media conglomerates and other companies, with theme park investments, to make informed and effective decisions based on scholarly and empirical evidences. In order to do this, the following research study uses historic, scholarly, journalistic, and focus group evidences to consolidate the information necessary to create a model to support concepts and designs. The paper begins with establishing why it is important for media conglomerates, with theme park investments, to integrate cinema into the park’s design. Then it looks back through the history of cinema and theme parks, identifying the similarities and differences. Furthermore, it analyzes the development of Universal Studios Hollywood and Disneyland. The study uses the history of Hollywood from its beginning to the decentralization to parallel the development of the movie-based theme park, and how the decentralization of Hollywood and the rise of the movie-based theme park support one another. As the idea of the convergence of one media with another is not a new concept, information on media convergence is used as part of the scholarly research in this area. Because movies and movie-based attractions are each forms of storytelling, the study includes prolific information on media, film, literary, and psychological theories as supporting evidence. The empirical research method utilized in the research, specific to this study, includes four focus groups in Florida, New York City, Cincinnati, and Los Angeles and one interview with a theme park president. Throughout the study, concepts of narrative, spectacle, pleasure, character, and setting are addressed in terms of how these elements work in movies and movie-based theme park attractions.

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Grunbaum, Barbara. "Glamour /." Online version of thesis, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/10149.

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Mutua, Alfred Nganga. "Media for development and democracy : a new paradigm for development incorporating culture and communication /." View thesis View thesis, 2002. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030402.125958/index.html.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, [2002].
"A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy " Supported by videocassette Africa 2000: Voices of the future (30 mins.) and Aids: An African perspective (30 mins.). Bibliography: leaves 245-277.

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Jamerson, Jeffrey L. "Expressive remix therapy| Facilitating narrative mash-ups through the use of digital media art." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10183267.

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This dissertation explains and highlights a scholar-artist-practitioner research model that blends existing theories rooted in social constructionist, narrative, and creative arts therapies with cutting edge digital art practices that better serve the needs of transition age youth (TAY) within the foster care system. This dissertation is an accumulation of work that traverses the fields of child welfare, mental health, and digital media learning. Two research questions are answered in this dissertation (a) What does a digital artistic intervention look like? and (b) How can digital media art be used in therapeutic group sessions with TAY?

This dissertation draws on my background in behavioral health with youth, work as a videographer and my experience in the realm of hip-hop culture as a disc jockey (DJ). Throughout this dissertation an emphasis is placed on the idea and application of remixing. DJs use remixing as a technique of expression, taking existing songs and mixing them up (blending, cutting, fading, and scratching) to create something new and powerful in return. This dissertation uses the word remix as a metaphor for therapeutic techniques that play with the idea of narrative transformation.

In particular, I demonstrate how to use iPad applications and a process called digital storytelling (mixing audio and video formats) for the purpose of evoking a client’s personal story construction and story transformation through a remix process. Two underlying themes comprise the framework of this dissertation: (a) the construction of narratives and (b) the remix (or creative transformation) of narratives using various forms of digital media.

The literature review discusses the disciplines of art therapy, expressive arts therapy, narrative therapy, and digital media art and digital art therapy. I also discuss a portion of the foster care system called TAY, and finally I discuss how personal stories and belief systems are subjectively created but more importantly remixed or recreated using the strategies highlighted in this study. The methodology of this dissertation is broken down into three sections: a pilot study, a case study, and a vignette, which display how digital media art is used as a therapeutic intervention.

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Bitala-Bitemo, Joseph. "La Communication politique par les mass-media au Congo essai d'analyse fonctionnelle /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37611944x.

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Viljoen, Estella. "From Manet to GQ a critical investigation of "gentleman's pornography" /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03122004-082238.

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Weimer, Jason M. "Where Are You Now: Privacy, Presence & Place in the Pervasive Computing Era." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1619859682738541.

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Weimer, Jason M. "Where Are You Now: Privacy, Presence & Place in the Pervasive Computing Era." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1619859682738541.

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Bese, Lucie. "Délinquance et mass media enquête sur l'appréciation des conduites délictueuses par des adolescents scolarisés en Grèce et sur leur délinquance auto-révélée en rapport avec leur consommation de mass media." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37596016w.

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Smith, Christabel. "The use of narrative and emotion in public health advertising an analysis of drinking and road safety campaigns in New Zealand : a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment [sic] of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Communications (Honours), Auckland University of Technology, 2008 /." Abstract Full dissertation, 2008. http://puka2.aut.ac.nz/ait/Dissertations/SmithC.pdf.

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Dissertation (BCS(Hons)) -- AUT University, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (iii, 111 leaves ; 30 cm. + CD ROM) in City Campus Theses Collection (T 659.2936312510993 SMI)

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Sibielski, Rosalind. "What Are Little (Empowered) Girls Made Of?: The Discourse of Girl Power in Contemporary U.S. Popular Culture." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1277091634.

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Tosco, Amedeo, and n/a. "The Italo-Australian Press: Media and Mass Communication in the Emigration World 1900-1940." Griffith University. School of Humanities, 2003. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20070215.111854.

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L'idea di questa tesi nasce da una serie di circostanze, prima tra tutte la professione dell'autore che per quindici anni ha svolto in Italia l'attività di giornalista, lavorando prima al Messaggero di Roma, come cronista, e successivamente alla Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana in qualità di redattore di 'giudiziaria' . Inoltre, l'autore di questa tesi, ha fatto una interessantissima esperienza professionale sia come critico cinematografico e sia come 'pastonista politico' presso la redazione romana del Giornale Nuovo - coordinata in quegli anni da Cesare Zappulli - quando era direttore il grande e indimenticabile Indro Montanelli, prima cioè che quell'arruffapopoli di Berlusconi affondasse completamente il giornale, trasformandolo nel bollettino parrocchiale di quel guazzabuglio politico che è 'Forza Italia' Questo non è il nostro primo cimento nel campo della storia del giornalismo in quanto segue una tesi di Master, conseguita al dipartimento di Storia dell'University of Queensland e che ha avuto come relatore il Dr. Don Dignan, dal titolo 'Press and Consensus in Fascist Italy'. In questa prima tesi è stata affrontata la fascistizzazione della stampa italiana tra il 1922 ed il 1940 e il modo in cui Mussolini, che capì esattamente l'importanza dei media e del controllo dell'informazione, creò quella corrente di consenso che permise al fascismo di governare indisturbato per tutto il 'ventennio'. In quella tesi di Master è stato anche affrontato e studiato il modo in cui i giornalisti (gli sceneggiatori del regime) ed i giornali, sia essi 'indipendenti' e di partito, manipolarono le notizie per darle in pasto ai propri lettori, con tutte quelle interpolazioni, ridondanze ed ombre che identificano il modo tuttora esistenze di concepire e fare un giornale. Nella nostra tesi di Ph.D. seguiremo una traccia similare, cercando di vedere e di analizzare se anche la stampa etnica ha usato, direttamente o indirettamente, forme di manipolazioni, di interferenze o di ridondanze nel creare e porgere le notizie al lettore italo-australiano. Inoltre è nostro intento accertare fino a che punto questa stampa ha creato un consenso verso particolari scelte politiche, sociali e di costume e se questo consenso è stato accettato dai lettori etnici, e in che misura. In altre parole il quesito che in linea di massima ci poniamo è identificare che influenza ha avuto la stampa etnica sulla comunità italiana. I problemi che questo tipo di ricerca implica sono stati numerosi, soprattutto dovuti al fatto che non esiste una letteratura specifica e non vi sono studi, nel campo del giornalismo italo-australiano, dei primi quaranta anni del novecento. Inoltre la maggior parte dei giornali pubblicati in quegli anni sono andati distrutti. Si è cercato inoltre di delineare una immagine dei problemi e delle aspirazioni della comunità italo-australiana attraverso l'analisi della stampa etnica, visto che la maggior parte degli autori hanno affrontato, fino ad oggi, questo tema usando documenti ufficiali o racconti e testimonianze di persone vissute nel periodo analizzato dalla nostra tesi. Abbiamo cercato, quindi, di dare una nuova luce e, quando è stato possibile, di dare la giusta dimensione agli avvenimenti accaduti dato che quanto veniva pubblicato sulle colonne dei giornali era scritto a 'caldo', senza influenze burocratiche e senza il filtro del tempo e delle memorie che spesso distorcono la realtà creando affabulazioni lontane dalla realtà.

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Leopold, Amanda A. "Dealing with the Digital: Literary Media, Mediated Narratives, and Sketchy Politics." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1495718816858325.

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Deiner, Catherine Anne. ""Soap operas as a platform for disseminating health information regarding ART and the use of 'reel' versus 'real' role models"." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017783.

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The media, through development communication and edutainment, plays a critical role in the transformation of societies. In line with this, this thesis discusses the extent to which commercially driven prosocial soap operas can provide a platform for public health messaging, in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa, for antiretroviral treatment (ART) and for encouraging ART adherence to foster national development. Furthermore, this thesis examined the potential of celebrities as HIV/AIDS ambassadors and the potential of both fictional characters and ‘real-life’ celebrities to disseminate these health messages. Although the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa is stabilising, this is not the time to relax the communication around the disease, particularly regarding adherence to ARVs, considering that South Africa has the largest ARV rollout in the world. The qualitative methodological approach taken for this thesis is a three-step approach examining the intended message, the text and the appropriated message by viewers. Firstly, a thematic content analysis of an episode of Isidingo, that illustrated Nandipha as HIV-positive and the side-effects that came with her ART adherence, and the 3Talk interview with Lesego Motsepe, where she announced that she was weaning herself off ART, was done in order to understand the intended health messaging in the soap opera and the health message disseminated by an HIV-positive actress with regards to ART. Thereafter interview responses by the production team as well as by HIV-positive viewers, using ARVs, were thematised. In addition media texts which provided commentary on the use of a celebrity as a HIV-positive role model were examined. In doing this, this thesis has offered up the meanings of how HIV-positive women taking ARVs and living in Makana experience and understand the media, particularly health messaging relating to ARVs. The findings of this study suggest that commercial soap operas are the perfect platform to address HIV/AIDS and that prosocial health messaging regarding ARV adherence is still necessary in this country. Soap operas have the potential to have an educational angle. Although, HIV-positive individuals serve as better role models as they are authentic; given human nature, fictional characters, such as Nandipha Matabane in Isidingo, may be more sustainable role models as their message can be scientifically-based and well-researched. Realistic characters serve as role models whose behaviour is to be emulated. Soap operas appeal to a wide audience and so storylines can be tailor-made according to the times and the needs in terms of health issues and messaging. Thus, soap operas are not a single platform but rather one which can be exploited to maximum advantage for public health messaging.

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Okoro, Iheanyi Emmanuel. "The Role of the U.S. Mass Media in the Political Socialization of Nigerian Immigrants in the United States." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279111/.

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A mail survey of Nigerian immigrants in Dallas, Texas, and Chicago, Illinois, was conducted during October and November 1995. Four hundred and sixty-eight Nigerian immigrant families in the two cities were selected by systematic sampling through the telephone books. Return rate was approximately 40% (187). The variables included in the study were media exposure variables, general demographics, immigration traits, U.S. demographics, Nigerian demographics, and political and cultural traits. New variables which had not been included in previous studies were also tested in this study: television talk shows, talk radio, diffuse support for the U.S. political system, authoritarianism, self-esteem, and political participation. This study employed multiple regression analysis and path analysis of the data. This study found that Nigerian immigrants have high preference for television news as their main source of political information. This finding is in consonance with previous studies. Nigerian immigrants chose ABC news stations as their number one news station for political information. Strong positive associations existed between media exposure and length of stay in the United States and interest in U.S. politics. Talk radio positively associated with interest in U.S. politics and negatively associated with length of stay in the United States. Thus, this finding likely means that talk radio is a good source of political socialization for more recently arrived immigrants and those interested in U.S. politics. Significant associations existed between diffuse support for the U.S. government and interest in politics and security of immigration status. This study also found that adjustment to U.S. political culture was a function of media exposure, pre-immigration social class, diffuse support for the U.S. political system, and political knowledge.

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Moot, Dennis. "Visual Culture, Crises Discourse and the Politics of Representation: Alternative Visionsof Africa in Film and News Media." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1596021641358625.

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Salzman, Catherine C. "Central American Media: A Comparative Study of Media Industries in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9039/.

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The five countries that lie on the isthmus connecting North and South America have endured a past of colonialism, civil war, and natural disaster. As these countries evolve in the 21st century, growing economies and political peace provide a promising outlook for the citizens of these nations. The media industries in these nations have varying levels of development which are explored in this thesis. Using Michael Porter's 1990 framework and a case study methodology, this thesis explores the differences and similarities of media industries in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and what may be done to ensure future success in an increasingly global world.

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Sisk, Christopher Andrew. "In Media Res." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5444.

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We are inundated by a constant feed of media that responds and adapts in real time to the impulses of our psyches and the dimensions of our devices. Beneath the surface, this stream of information is directed by hidden, automated controls and steered by political agendas. The transmission of information has evolved into a spiral of entropy, and the boundaries between author, content, platform, and receiver have blurred. This reductive space of responsive media is a catalyst for immense political and cultural change, causing us to question our notions of authority, truth, and reality.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Mass media and art'

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