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Kerr, Jessica Preston. "Discourse and the logic of education reform: crisis narratives in Kansas." Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32700.
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Master of ScienceCurriculum and Instruction
Thomas Vontz
Discourse analysis (DA) explores the relationships between discursive practices and wider social and cultural structures, relations, and processes. In this paper I explore, through a qualitative DA of education reporting in the Topeka Capital Journal (January 2014- January 2016), state press releases, and gubernatorial state speeches, how notions of fiscal crisis, both material and narratively cultivated, function to underscore the logic of neoliberalism. While considering potential context specific properties of local reporting and the cultural, geographical, and historical context of the region, I connect my findings with the larger, scholarly body of work pertaining to these issues. Connecting media language and policy discourse across local and global dimensions adds to a growing theoretical and qualitative understanding of the facets of education restructuring and reform within the framework of the global movement and adds material resources in the form of analysis as tools for educational practitioners and grassroots organizations working to craft alternatives to the neoliberal doctrine.
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Ouma, Radoli Lydia [Verfasser], Anna [Gutachter] Amelina, and Christer [Gutachter] Petersen. "Narratives of migration and development as discourses in transnational digital migrant media : the case of Kenyan migration to Europe / Lydia Ouma Radoli ; Gutachter: Anna Amelina, Christer Petersen." Cottbus : BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1181792541/34.
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Weatherston, Kristine T. "Nonfiction, Documentary and Family Narrative: An Intersection of Representational Discourses and Creative Practices." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3602.
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Nonfiction, Documentary, and Family Narrative:
An Intersection of Representational Discourses and Creative Practices explores the role of personal memory, family history, and inter-generational storytelling as the basis for making a nonfiction film. The film, American Boy, tells the story of my mother’s immigration to the United States after the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, opening a discussion of four generations of my family life in the context of historical events, exile, self re-invention, and identity formation. As a media producer and nonfiction author, I narrate my understanding of these events to my infant son, as a way of communicating my grandfather’s role in the revolution, my mother’s childhood, and my own mediation of my family’s trauma. Through the use of archival footage including newsreels and commercials, as well as my own archive of family photos and documents, I re-construct the existing materials to build my own associations concerning time, memory, and place. The film, as my creative practice, leads to a theoretical analysis of representational discourses which inform the work. This deconstruction of nonfiction and meta-analysis includes my study of several practitioners in the craft of non-fiction: Kati Marton, Robert Root, Primo Levi, Eva Hoffman, Patricia Hampl, Dinty W. Moore, Peter Balakian and others.
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Tew-Street, Fraser Lewis Edward. "Narratives of history and the discursive construction of national identity in the Russian Republic of Karelia." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11703.
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Although an element of our quotidian existence the manner in which national identity is produced is one of the most contested problems in the contemporary social sciences. One method of examining the production of national identity is to study the mechanism through which such identities are constructed in discourse. This study considers the use of historical narratives in the construction of differing formulations of national identity in the Russian Republic of Karelia. Using the tools of critical discourse analysis this study surveys the production of varying historical narratives in the Republic of Karelia and the fashion in which such narratives contribute to producing or deconstructing competing conceptions of national identity. This thesis uses an analysis of both mass media discourse and interview data to provide a thorough illustration of the production of narratives of Karelian history on public and private levels and their use in engendering or refuting opposing notions of Karelian identity. It shall examine how various historical events and tendencies are incorporated into contrasting narratives of the historical development of the Karelian people and their Russian, Finnish and Vepsian counterparts and how such narratives are used to justify or invalidate current political and social realities. The relationship between such narratives of history and other aspects of identity production is investigated alongside the difficulties of ethnic Karelians in producing and promoting such narratives to sustain an image of Karelian national identity. It shall also demonstrate the manner in which Karelian identity can be positioned through the use of such historical narratives as closer to or more distant from Russian or Finnish national identity. The narration of a history of Karelia as an area and the manner in which this can be deployed to incorporate or distance the region from conceptions of Russian or Finno-Ugric identity is also made evident.
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Godin, Noah. "Protesters, Activists or Land Defenders? Narratives Around Indigenous Resistance in the Canadian Media : Discourse Analysis of Selected CBC Articles on Contemporary Indigenous Resistance." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43129.
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Indigenous autonomy, self-government and self-determination have historically been an area of conflict within the settler colonial state of Canada. This thesis aims to analyze critically the Canadian state’s alleged progressive nature in regard to nation-to-nation relations as well as the discourses that portray Canadian society as fostering Indigenous rights. Grounded in previous research and contextual background, this study uses the Discourse Historical Approach (DHA) to investigate how Canadian media produces and reproduces discourse around the issues connected with Indigenous resistance since the ‘Oka Crisis’ of 1990, based on the selected material published by The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The findings illustrate that while liberal-influenced narratives have improved, significant identification of decolonization within Canada’s media was not found and the structures of settler colonialism remain largely unchanged.
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Fusté, Forné Francesc. "Food Journalism: Building the discourse on the popularization of gastronomy in the twenty-first century." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/404567.
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El periodisme gastronòmic és una tipologia de periodisme especialitzat que consisteix en la narració de la gastronomia. Aquesta tesi té com a objectiu estudiar la importància de la gastronomia en la premsa diària durant el període 2005-2015 a Catalunya i Espanya, amb una perspectiva comparativa per al cas dels Estats Units. El treball empíric realitzat inclou l’anàlisis de cinc diaris (El Mundo, El País, El Periódico, La Vanguardia i The New York Times) i està basat en l’estudi de 6,189 articles periodístics. S’ha portat a terme una metodologia tant quantitativa com qualitativa amb l’objectiu de determinar quines són les principals característiques dels continguts gastronòmics i veure com el discurs al voltant de la gastronomia ha evolucionat en la premsa escrita del segle XXI.El periodismo gastronómico es una tipología de periodismo especializado que consiste en la narración de la gastronomía. Esta tesis tiene como objetivo estudiar la importancia de la gastronomía en la prensa diaria durante el período 2005-2015 en Cataluña y España, con una perspectiva comparativa para el caso de los Estados Unidos. El trabajo empírico realizado incluye el análisis de cinco periódicos (El Mundo, El País, El Periódico, La Vanguardia y The New York Times) y está basado en el estudio de 6,189 artículos periodísticos. Se ha llevado a cabo una metodología tanto cuantitativa como cualitativa con el objetivo de determinar cuales son las principales características de los contenidos gastronómicos y ver como el discurso entorno la gastronomía ha evolucionado en la prensa escrita del siglo XXI.
Food journalism is a special interest journalism that consists on the drawing of narratives with regards to gastronomy. This thesis aims at studying the importance of gastronomy in daily print media during the period 2005-2015 in Catalonia and Spain, with a comparative perspective for the case of the United States. Empirical work includes the analysis of five newspapers (El Mundo, El País, El Periódico, La Vanguardia and The New York Times) and is based on the study of 6,189 newspapers’ articles. Both a quantitative and qualitative analysis is carried out in order to determine the features regarding the gastronomy contents and how gastronomy news have discoursively evolved in the twenty-first century printed media.
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Morris, Gabrielle N. "Cultivating Liberation: The Effects of Collective Shaping on Context and Power Dynamics within Social Justice Narratives." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1707279/.
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Social issues are becoming increasingly apparent. More people are experiencing the impact of social issues directly and through their media consumption. It is important to understand and reflect on our collective impact on the media and how the media affects the collective. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effects of a collaborative workshop (collective shaping) and a verbal community that examined media depictions of social justice and injustice related to context and power dynamics. The effects of the workshop were evaluated using an A-B design with multiple probe measures across three participants. During the pre-, probe, and post-training assessments, participants watched videos and responded to a written prompt. Results of the study suggest that written responses were not adequately trained during the workshop. However, anecdotally, participant's verbal responding shifted drastically during the training workshop. The results are discussed within the context of the training apparatus, effects the workshop had on the participants and researchers, and progression forward.
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Wilson, Erika. "Navigating competing discourses, narratives of womanhood in Bamako, Mali." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0011/MQ61516.pdf.
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Yidana, Richard J. J. "Controlling narratives, controlling histories political discourses of anticolonial nationalism /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2006.
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Morpaw, May. "Antonio Skármeta's Narratives of Ethnicity: Rewriting Chile's Discourses of Identity." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35559.
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This dissertation examines the representation of ethnic origins in Antonio Skármeta’s fiction. My hypothesis is that exile in Europe and return to Chile led the author to rethink his Dalmatian-Croatian roots and his sense of self in response to prevailing discourses of national identity. I assess Chile’s immigration history as well as the development of the idea of a homogeneous national identity. Blending concepts of ethnic narrative with theories of memory, identity, and literature, I trace Skármeta’s literary shift towards reclaiming his roots and initiating a critical dialogue with established notions of Chilean identity. I further argue that he grounds himself in literary tradition to inscribe immigrant stories into two major foundational genres, the historical novel and the family romance. I also show that, instead of accepting the truth-telling claims of historical fiction, Skármeta employs historiographic metafiction and intertextuality to emphasize the literary nature of fictional discourse and the role of literary figures in inventing the nation. Finally, I contend that these narratives constitute literary lieux de mémoire (Pierre Nora), which incorporate a subjective memory into the evolving discourses on Chilean identity, thereby recognizing pluralism and fostering mutual understanding.
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Veld, Yolanda. "Locative Narratives with Digital Media." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-15327.
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The technologies used to guide along and inform about historic places and buildings have proliferated quickly, but it seems the application of these technologies in order to facilitate a powerful experience falls behind. With this thesis, the aim was to gain insights into how digital media can be utilized to create a media-conscious locative narrative and an engaging experience for cultural heritage. In this thesis examples of locative narratives with digital media for cultural heritage and the testing of two applications with a qualitative approach are discussed. The gained insights could help sophisticate and strategize thinking about storytelling with mobile digital technologies in order to find medium specific ways of guiding an audience and facilitate meaningful visitor experiences for cultural heritage. Keywords: locative narrative, mobile storytelling, digital media, multimodal, cultural heritage
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Donovan, Robin K. "Silence and Agony: A Comparison of Chronic Pain Depictions in Newspapers, Magazines, and Blogs by People with Chronic Pain." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1292457458.
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Cao, Qing. "Discourse across cultures : a study of the representation of China in British television documentaries, 1980-2000." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343545.
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The principal objective of this thesis is to explore the representation of China in British television documentaries broadcast between 1980 and 2000, focusing on historical documentaries. The thesis addresses, as its primary research questions and on the basis of substantial database, what is represented, how that representation is realised, and the social, historical influences which contextualise and underpin the representation of China. These questions relating to textual representation are framed within the wider context of Sino-Western relations, Western self-perceptions and conceptions of China. The study aims to reveal mechanisms of textual representation by concentrating on two main dimensions: the internal narrative structures and key discursive formations of the documentary text (including visuals), and structures of power relations operating to shape the representation in both the textual domain of meaning mediation and institutional domain of documentary production. Two aspects of the representation are foregrounded: China as a civilisation and China as a Communist `other'. The thesis focuses primarily on the narrative as a methodology in approaching representation, as documentary achieves meaning mainly through the stories it tells. Two dimensions of narrative are explored: a structuralist dimension drawing on theories developed by Propp and Silverstone, and a discursive dimension which is framed within Foucault's concept of power and knowledge. Extensive primary research established the database for the study, which is made up of 170 documentaries broadcast during the sample period between 1980 and 2000, and 18 field interviews with key personnel in broadcasting and production companies. The thesis argues that the British television documentary representation presents a largely Western understanding of China filtered through, among other things, selfperceptions and conceptions of the `other', and mediated by various sources of power. The process of representing `what is China' is enmeshed with the process of constructing how China should be viewed. The result of this social construction of truth and knowledge is that certain values, convictions, and ideologies are reinforced and reproduced in the vital domain of documentary representation
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Webb, Liz. "Dangers, risks and blaming : the discourses and narratives of child protection coordinators." Thesis, University of East London, 2003. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/1263/.
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This thesis addressesth e impact of the child abusei nquiries of the mid-late 1980so n policy and practice in the field of childcare. Challenging social workers' claims for expertise in this area of work, these inquiries created a significant legitimation crisis for the profession, fracturing prior commitments and modes of knowledge and informing an increasingly bureaucratised approach to the protection of children. Located at the centre of such developments, the role of child protection coordinator carried a complex agenda, with rationally framed role responsibilities being throughout infused by the intense anxieties surrounding this area of work. Thus, drawing on interviews with 14 coordinators, together with contemporary documentary and academic materials, this thesis provides a detailed analysis of post-inquiry child protection policies and practices. Firstly, referring to sociological theories of risk, the contradictory recommendations of the Beckford and Cleveland reports are located in the discursive split between `determinate' and `reflexive' approaches to knowledge. Secondly, psychoanalytical concepts are used to analyse the complex emotional climate provoked by these inquiries and the, ultimately regressive, professional retreat into a somewhat victimised stance. Thirdly, analysis of the coordinators' accounts reveals the inter-penetration of these discursive and emotional trajectories across both social services and interagency contexts. Whilst confirming the dominance of defensively driven practices, this analysis also identifies the persistence of other, more reflectively framed, developments. Fourthly, the extreme, and contrasting, patterns of career identity evidenced in the coordinators' texts are perceived as reflecting the internalisation of variant discursive and emotional themes, whilst also exposing an unthinkable core at the heart of this work. Finally, extending the analysis to other contemporary sources, the conclusion addressesth e associativel ink betweent heseu nthinkable anxieties and the failure of expertise, with the recommendations stemming from this research addressing the necessary interpretative underpinning to any possibility of change.
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Erchen, Shi. "Exploring Media Panic Discourses: News Media Attitudes toward Digital Games in China." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-445893.
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Previous research demonstrated the phenomenon of moral panics on “dangerous” games mostly from Western perspectives, regarding media violence and deviant behaviour. With the development of media technology, the term “media panic” has evolved from moral panic, representing the debates and fearful emotion from the public when a new media technology has been created. Digital games as a form of media technology have been developed to be widely played on various platforms in recent decades, which have not only brought concerns to the Western but also to Chinese society. The present study will introduce media panic on digital games in China by analyzing news reports from three Chinese mainstream news media: People’s Daily, Xinhua Daily Telegraph and Wen Wei Po (Shanghai). Content analysis will be adopted as the main method to process the news data (N = 445) which are collected from five periods between 2002 and 2020 (2002-2004, 2007-2009, 2012-2014, 2017-2019, 2020). Different phases and features of the panic will be analyzed through the classical moral panic theories of Cohen, Goode and Ben-Yehuda, and the media panic theory of Drotner. Topics of game addiction, Internet cafes, policies on the game industry, cultural innovation, development of esports will be explored when investigating the changing media attitudes toward digital games in the Chinese context.
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Watt, Diane P. "Juxtaposing Sonare and Videre Midst Curricular Spaces: Negotiating Muslim, Female Identities in the Discursive Spaces of Schooling and Visual Media Cultures." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19973.
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Muslims have the starring role in the mass media’s curriculum on otherness, which circulates in-between local and global contexts to powerfully constitute subjectivities. This study inquires into what it is like to be a female, Muslim student in Ontario, in this post 9/11 discursive context. Seven young Muslim women share stories of their high schooling experiences and their sense of identity in interviews and focus group sessions. They also respond to images of Muslim females in the print media, offering perspectives on the intersections of visual media discourses with their lived experience. This interdisciplinary project draws from cultural studies, postcolonial feminist theory, and post-reconceptualist curriculum theorizing. Working with auto/ethno/graphy, my own subjectivity is also brought into the study to trouble researcher-as-knower and acknowledge that personal histories are implicated in larger social, cultural, and historical processes. Using bricolage, I compose a hybrid text with multiple layers of meaning by juxtapositing theory, image, and narrative, leaving spaces for the reader’s own biography to become entangled with what is emerging in the text. Issues raised include veiling obsession, Islamophobia, absences in the school curriculum, and mass media as curriculum. Muslim females navigate a complex discursive terrain and their identity negotiations are varied. These include creating Muslim spaces in their schools, wearing hijab to assert their Muslim identity, and downplaying their religious identity at school. I argue for the need to engage students and teacher candidates in complicated conversations on difference via auto/ethno/graphy, pedagogies of tension, and epistemologies of doubt. Educators and researchers might also consider the possibilities of linking visual media literacy with social justice issues.
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Beech, Amanda. "Heroic realism : rhetoric and violence in narratives of justice and discourses of decision." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2003. http://research.gold.ac.uk/174/.
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After the evacuation of a transcendental ethic as a universal yardstick or law for action, notions of justice, morality and the law nevertheless remain policed, and are still invested in by strong systems of belief and prejudice. This thesis sets out to analyse the tradition and prevalence of “idealising” moments of consequence, judgement and decision and their specific relation to a transcendental-style aesthetics of violence. In this written thesis and in my studio-based work I examine the themes of “naturalised justice” and “decision” as means to achieve autonomy, hinged as they are upon critical, theoretical and cultural representations of, and responses to, the problem of the ubiquity of violence. As such, my thesis also asks how the rhetoric of this apparently mutual or shared conviction of autonomy as aggression, violence or force, produces judgement within culture in general, upon and within the condition of absolute finitude. It is through the empirical examination of my studio practice that I consider the universalising forces of individual authorities using the “worn out metaphors” of the post-tragic hero genre. Here, I create movie poster type images and pop-music style videos in which my appropriation of the powerful propaganda of Hollywood movies lives out the impossibility of exteriority, that is, the difficulty of separating this use of the medium from my being caught up within it. These apparently abstract and generic narratives of agency are the focus of my practice throughout. Through them, I investigate (i) the rhetoric of “violence as decision” as something which undermines its own determinism; (ii) the political force of such rhetoric in relation to the naturalisation of belief, (such as traditional, conventional and assumed agreements in the social); and (iii) the procedures and consequences of performances of the rhetoric of violence practiced in the judgements and convictions of individual subjects. (Abstract, A. Beech)
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RobbGrieco, Michael. "Media for Media Literacy: Discourses of the Media Literacy Education Movement in Media&Values Magazine, 1977-1993." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/307368.
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Media & CommunicationPh.D.
This dissertation contributes to the history of media literacy by tracing the emergence and development of media literacy concepts and practices in Media&Values magazine (1977-1993), which spoke across discourse communities of scholars, teachers, activists and media professionals to build a media literacy movement in the United States. Media literacy evolved in changing contexts of media studies and education discourses as well as changes in media technologies, industries, politics, and popular culture. Taking a genealogical approach to historical inquiry, this study uses discourse analysis to describe how Media&Values constructed media literacy as a means for reform, as a practice of understanding representation and reality, and as pedagogy of social analysis and inquiry. These constructions position media literacy as interventions in power, articulating agency through addressing institutions, demystifying ideology, and negotiating identities. This history provides perspective on debates across diverse strands of practice in the current field of media literacy education.
Temple University--Theses
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Peterson, Luke Mathew. "Contending discourses : Palestine-Israel in the print news media." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610738.
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Feldes, Klara Katharina. "Media Discourses on the Interlinking of Rivers in India." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/20334.
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Im Jahre 1954 verkündete Indiens erster Premierminister Jawaharlal Nehru, dass Staudämme die “Tempel des modernen Indiens” seien. Ausgehend von der These, dass dieser Aussage eine „developmental imagination“ zugrunde liegt, die bis heute ein auffälliges Merkmal vieler Diskurse zu Großprojekten in Indien ist, und dass die Medien eine wichtige Rolle darin spielen, diese Diskurse zu zeichnen, betrachtet die Dissertation die Frage, wie große Wasserinfrastrukturprojekte in der indischen Medienlandschaft dargestellt werden. Um diese Frage zu beantworten, wird in der Dissertation eine Medienanalyse durchgeführt, bei welcher die Berichterstattung zum Indischen River Linking Projekt (NRLP) und zu zwei Vorhaben, die im Rahmen des NRLP stattfinden (Ken-Betwa und Polavaram), im Fokus stehen.
Das 168-Milliarden Dollar teure NRLP Projekt ist das weltweit größte sich im Bau befindliche Wasserprojekt und sieht den Bau vieler Staudämme und Verbindungskanäle vor. Kontrovers debattiert wird das NRLP insbesondere in Bezug auf die hohen ökologischen und sozialen Kosten:
Nach einer historischen Einbettung des Themas wird die Medienanalyse anhand einer Auswahl an Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenartikeln aus dem Zeitraum 2000 bis 2016 durchgeführt. Darüber hinaus beinhaltet die Arbeit ein Kapitel, welches sich auf Feldforschung im Polavaram Staudammgebiet bezieht, um Perspektiven, die ansonsten in Mediendiskursen häufig marginalisiert werden, aufzuzeigen; die der von Umsiedelung betroffenen Communities. Die Dissertation zeigt das Kontinuum der „developmental imaginations“ in Indiens Diskursen zu großen Infrastrukturprojekten auf, weist auf die Machthierarchien hin, die ausschlaggebend dafür sind, wem die Möglichkeit zukommt sich überhaupt an Diskursen zu beteiligen, und hebt politische Narrative hervor, die in dem Kontext eine starke Verbindung zu „Nationbuilding“ oder „Statebuilding“ Diskursen aufweisen.In 1954 India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru proclaimed dams to be the “temples of modern India”. Based on the theses that this “developmental imagination” so visible in Nehru’s statement continues to be a prominent feature in discourses on large scale infrastructure projects in India until today, and that the media plays an important role in shaping these public discourses, the dissertation considers the question of how large scale water infrastructure schemes are covered within the Indian media landscape. To answer that question, a media analysis is conducted which focuses on the reporting on the Indian National River Linking Project (NRLP) and on two schemes being implemented under the NRLP: The Ken-Betwa and the Polavaram Dam Projects. The 168-billion-dollar NRLP project is the world’s largest water project in the making and includes the construction of several dams. It is designed to connect the majority of Indian rivers to a gigantic water grid. It is controversially debated, especially with regard of ecological and social costs. After a historical embedding of the topic, the media analysis is conducted through a choice of magazines and newspapers in a time period from 2000 until 2016. Furthermore, the dissertation incorporates a chapter based on field work in the Polavaram Dam area in order to shed light on perspectives often marginalised in the media discourses: those of the affected communities. The dissertation reveals the continuum of developmental imaginations in the discourses on India’s large scale infrastructure projects until today, points out how power hierarchies are at work with regard to who is able to participate in the discourses and who is not, and highlights narratives closely linked to ideas of nation- or statebuilding that are used by politicians within the media discourses.
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Grigsby, Neal A. (Neal Alan). "A ceaseless becoming : narratives of adolescence across media." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39154.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-105).
Thesis explores the broad appeal of narratives with adolescent protagonists across a variety of media, including literature, film, and video games. An analysis of key texts within their historical contexts reveals affinities between disparate genres and strong connections between fiction and the discourse of adolescence in psychology, anthropology, and sociology. Adolescence narratives illuminate both the transgressive boundaries of a given culture and the normative center, and make explicit what is usually considered natural or implicit. To discover the roots of contemporary adolescence narratives, prototypes for the picaresque novel, the school story, and the Bildungsroman are examined, and each are shown to contain narrative conventions that survive in recent works. A contemporary case study looks at the trilogy of female coming of age films by Sofia Coppola to show how they embody the ambiguities and contradictions of third wave feminism. Finally, the author explores the affinity between video games and adolescence, the implications of translating literary genres into an interactive medium, and uses examples from both science fiction literature and recent games to theorize how games might better address the themes of adolescence in both story and play mechanics.
by Neal A. Grigsby.
S.M.
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Plummer, Stephanie C. "Food Contamination Narratives in United States News Media." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1237761803.
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Goodlad, Catherine Mary. "Access as regeneration : Discourses of education in the narratives of access to HE students." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522432.
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Turner, Anna Katherine. "The looked after young person as a learner : discourses through narratives : a case study." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2010. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14953/.
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This thesis aims to provide an insight into the discursive construction of a Looked After Young Person (LAYP) as a learner. Adopting a social constructionist standpoint, I acknowledge as researcher, that the results are my interpretation and the aim is not to produce 'truths' that generalise to other LAYP but to offer an insight into a case which may inform practitioners when working with these young people. The study extends on previous research investigating the educational outcomes of LAYP by providing a more in-depth analysis of a case, recognising that every young person is unique and should be treated as such. Within the research, language is viewed as constitutive and functional and the study investigates how discourse is used by the LAYP and the professionals who work with her to construct her learner identity. Wider societal discourse is also considered and following a review of the literature, I suggest the dominant discourse in society constructs the LAYP as failing educationally and in need of support. The data was gathered through narrative oriented conversations around 'learning' with the LAYP and the professionals who support her. The resultant text was then explored using Discourse Analysis (DA). Overall, the findings suggest an empowering alternative to the dominant societal discourse, in that the LAYP constructs herself, and is constructed by others, as a successful learner. The study provides an insight into the 'discourses of learning' in a wider sense than simply academic achievement, and in doing so, highlights skills that the LAYP has developed due to her unique experiences. Implications for policy and practice are discussed along with possible future research.
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Braaten, Bailey M. "Mathematical Identities: Narratives and Discourses of Female Students in 8th and 9th Grade Mathematics." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595000898006834.
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Sorensen, Kristin. "Chilean media and discourses of human rights (Augusto Pinochet Ugarte)." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3178475.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Communication and Culture, 2005.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2008. Adviser: Barbara Klinger. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Nov. 27, 2006)."
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Cabot, Jonathan. "The Media Discourses of Concussions in the National Hockey League." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35837.
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The North American ice hockey world has come to realise that concussions are a major problem and a threat to the sport and to the National Hockey League (NHL). The media coverage of the concussions suffered by several NHL stars and of the scientific advancements in the detection and long-term effects of concussions has intensified over the last 20 years. A discourse analysis of Canadian newspaper coverage of concussions in the NHL in 1997-1999 and 2010-2012 focusing on the production of discursive objects and subjects reveals two important discourses. On the one hand, emerging objects of the discourses of blame and responsibility for the concussions in the NHL gained prominence in the later timeframe, especially blame on the NHL, the rulebook and hockey’s violent and risk-taking culture. On the other hand, a shift in reporting saw the emergence of a new subject position for the concussed hockey player, that of a frail and vulnerable subject. More NHL players are covered as ‘suffering’ subjects concerned with both physical pain and the mental health problems associated to concussions, rather than merely as athletes. Indeed, the impact of concussions on the personal lives of players is now an object of discourses that also produce the NHL player as a family member. Finally, former hockey players’ stories who have suffered serious concussions are recounted as a cautionary tale, opposing early retirement as a result of health issues to persistence in playing despite such health concerns.
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Bright, Sue-Ann. "Brain drain, exodus and chicken run : media discourses on emigration." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007672.
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This paper explores the discourses of emigration in a South African daily newspaper from 1988 to 2001, and discusses the implications of these discourses on the way in which emigration is constructed within South African society In this paper, Potter and Wetherell 's (1987) approach to discourse analysis is utilized. It makes use of interpretative repertoires, to explore the functions and consequences of the discourses. The discursive framework thereby reveals the different subject positions related to nationalism, race and class. It is argued that economics and notions of culture and social class, do more than provide a useful medium through which the phenomenon of emigration can be understood. They also support the affirmations of certain groups of people above others, by claiming that emigration is unpatriotic and disloyal. This paper concludes by identifying the negative connotations of media discourses in the construction of emigration and acknowledges that many alternate constructions are silenced in this matter.
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Connelly, Mark, and Catriona Macleod. "Waging war : discourses of HIV/AIDS in South African media." Taylor & Francis Group, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007873.
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This paper explores a discourse of war against HIV/AIDS evident in the Daily Dispatch, a South African daily newspaper, from 1985 to 2000, and discusses the implications of this in terms of the way in which HIV/AIDS is constructed. The discursive framework of the war depends, fundamentally, on the personification of HIV/AIDS, in which agency is accorded to the virus, and which allows for its construction as the enemy. The war discourse positions different groups of subjects (the diseased body, the commanders, the experts, the ordinary citizens) in relations of power. The diseased body, which is the point of transmission, the polluter or infector, is cast as the 'Other', as a dark and threatening force. This takes on racialised overtones. The government takes on the role of commander, directing the war through policy and intervention strategies. Opposition to government is couched in a struggle discourse that dove-tails with the overall framework of war. Medical and scientific understandings pre-dominate in the investigative practices and expert commentary on the war, with alternative voices (such as those of people living with HIV/AIDS) being silenced. The ordinary citizen is incited to take on prevention and caring roles with a strong gendered overlay.
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Davidson, Andrew. "Stories in between narratives and mediums @ play /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID UMI Company copy, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3031038.
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Charry, Marroquin Angela Janneth. "Critical discourse analysis of news media representations of people from refugee backgrounds participating in music in Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/230264/1/Angela%20Janneth_Charry%20Marroquin_Thesis.pdf.
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This research used critical discourse analysis to explore the ways people from refugee backgrounds’ participation in music is constructed in the Australian news media. Using Fairclough’s three-dimensional framework, findings revealed that, while the media ostensibly tells stories of hopefulness derived from the joy of music, the workings of racialised power within the discourse remain deeply intertwined. Social tropes which often accompany music intersect with deficit and othering discourses surrounding people from refugee backgrounds. This research emphasises the need for a critically reflective social work practice to resist and challenge dominant discourses that disempower people seeking refuge.
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Roth, Clémentine [Verfasser]. "Why Narratives of History Matter : Serbian and Croatian Political Discourses on European Integration / Clémentine Roth." Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1169989292/34.
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Andersson, Isabella. "Mining for the low-carbon transition : Conflicting discourses of sacrifice zones and win-win narratives." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194328.
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To support the transition towards a low-carbon economy, mining companies, international financial institutions and governments are preparing to drastically scale up mineral extraction of energy transition minerals such as cobalt and lithium. Mineral extraction, however, has far-reaching impacts on the biophysical environment and mining-affected communities that may become more severe under a changing climate. In May 2019, the World Bank sought to respond to these challenges with the launch of its climate-smart mining Facility, evoking critique from non-governmental organisations working in solidarity with frontline communities. Drawing on poststructuralist political ecology and discourse analysis, this study examines the conflicting narratives on mining for the energy transition and interrogates the political solutions made conceivable through these narratives. Utilizing documents by proponents and opponents of the climate-smart mining Facility, and semi-structured interviews, the analysis reveals two contrasting discourses on mining for the energy transition, problematising climate change as a problem of rising CO2 emissions, and as a social justice problem rooted in global inequality respectively. These distinct conceptualisations generate three key and overlapping tensions, relating to (i) global versus local priorities, (ii) mitigation and adaptation, and (iii) socio-technical versus socio-political transformations. By highlighting these discursive processes, the results aid our understanding in how mining is made salient in the carbon constrained future, and which actors are likely to benefit and be harmed by the promotion of climate-smart mining.
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Junqueira, Dausacker Bidone Francisco. "From gold to carbon: How narratives and discourses define environmental governance in the Brazilian Amazon." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671963.
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El context global actual del canvi climàtic imposa grans reptes per a la gestió dels sistemes socials i ecològics. En aquest context, la regió amazònica al Brasil no només és un ‘punt calent’ per a la conservació de l’ecosistema, sinó també una regió la història de la qual pot contribuir en gran mesura a aprofundir en els nostres coneixements sobre el compromís humà amb la natura i, per tant, contribuir a la construcció d’alternatives a la elaboració de polítiques mediambientals. Aquesta dissertació investiga l’evolució d’imaginaris sobre l’Amazònia brasilera i de l’acumulació i implementació de polítiques públiques cap a la construcció d’un règim de governança ambiental per a la regió. Els imaginaris i les polítiques s’analitzen mitjançant un enfocament de mètodes mixtos que combina la revisió bibliogràfica, l’anàlisi de narratives i discursos de polítiques i entrevistes obertes. En adoptar un marc d’ecologia política postestructuralista, primer adopto un enfocament històric per descriure els imaginaris sobre l’Amazònia proposats per diferents actors del començament del període colonial, del segle XX i de principis del XXIst. Vaig discutir sobre la rellevància d’aquests imaginaris històrics i socials sobre l’Amazònia en la configuració de les percepcions actuals i de les intervencions polítiques a la regió. En segon lloc, investigo com ha evolucionat la governança ambiental per a l’Amazònia durant els darrers 60 anys, en el que Becker (2011) ha anomenat “l’era de la modernització amazònica”. Identifico el caràcter solapat de les narratives polítiques i, en particular, demostro que les polítiques a l’Amazònia han evolucionat per incorporar progressivament les preocupacions ambientals. No obstant això, demostra que aquesta incorporació no ha substituït les polítiques anteriors (orientades a l’economia), sinó que ha donat lloc a una superposició de narratives tant de desenvolupament econòmic com de medi ambient. Finalment, avalo REDD +, una iniciativa internacional específica de governança forestal que té com a objectiu reduir les emissions derivades de la deforestació i la degradació i es basa en el règim mundial de canvi climàtic. Mitjançant l’anàlisi de la seva implementació primerenca a l’estat d’Acre - Brasil, mostro que predomina un discurs de modernització ecològica entre els actors participants, que al seu torn limita el potencial transformador que les accions REDD + poden tenir a la regió, per exemple en termes d’abordar la distribució desigual. dels drets sobre la terra i altres incentius. Aquests descobriments combinats evidencien la importància dels imaginaris i les narratives de polítiques com a marcs clau que restringeixen la transversalització de les vies alternatives de desenvolupament i conservació per a l’Amazònia, que es basen habitualment en necessitats, coneixements i comprensions del benestar localitzats. En una regió molt afectada per l’avenç de la ‘frontera del desenvolupament’, la capacitat d’aquestes alternatives per substituir els paradigmes de desenvolupament i conservació dominants actuals per la regió determinarà els límits de govern de l’Amazònia en el futur.El actual contexto global de cambio climático impone grandes desafíos para la gestión de los sistemas sociales y ecológicos. En este contexto, la región amazónica de Brasil no es solo un ‘hotspot’ para la conservación de los ecosistemas, sino también una región cuya historia puede contribuir en gran medida a profundizar nuestro entendimiento sobre el compromiso humano con la naturaleza. Además a contribuir a la elaboración de políticas ambientales alternativas. Esta disertación investiga la evolución de los imaginarios sobre la Amazonía brasileña y de la construcción e implementación de políticas públicas hacia la construcción de un régimen de gobernanza ambiental para la región. Los imaginarios y las políticas se analizan utilizando un enfoque de métodos mixtos que combina revisión bibliográfica, análisis de narrativas y discursos de políticas y entrevistas abiertas. Adoptando un marco de la ecología política post-estructuralista, primero tomo un enfoque histórico para describir los imaginarios sobre la Amazonía propuestos por diferentes actores desde el período colonial, el siglo XX y los principios del XXI. De hecho, discuto la relevancia de estos imaginarios históricos y sociales sobre la Amazonía en la configuración de las percepciones actuales - y las intervenciones políticas en la región. En segundo lugar, investigo cómo ha evolucionado la gobernanza ambiental para la Amazonía durante los últimos 60 años, en lo que Becker (2011) se ha referido como la ‘era de la modernización amazónica’. Identifico el carácter superpuesto de las narrativas políticas y, en particular, muestro que las políticas en la Amazonía han evolucionado para incorporar progresivamente preocupaciones ambientales. Muestra, no obstante, que dicha incorporación no ha sustituido a las políticas anteriores (orientadas a la economía), sino que ha dado lugar a una superposición de las narrativas del desarrollo económico y ambiental. Por último, evalúo REDD +, una iniciativa internacional específica de gobernanza forestal que tiene como objetivo reducir las emisiones de la deforestación y la degradación y que se basa en el régimen global de cambio climático. A través del análisis de su implementación temprana en el estado de Acre, muestro que un discurso de modernización ecológica predomina entre los actores participantes, lo que a su vez limita el potencial transformador que las acciones de REDD + pueden tener en la región, por ejemplo en términos de abordar la distribución desigual de derechos sobre la tierra y otros incentivos. Estos hallazgos combinados hacen evidente la importancia de los imaginarios y las narrativas de políticas como marcos clave que limitan la transversalización del desarrollo alternativo y las vías de conservación para la Amazonía, que comúnmente se basan en las necesidades, el conocimiento y la comprensión del bienestar localizados. En una región muy afectada por el avance de la “frontera del desarrollo”, la capacidad de tales alternativas para sustituir los paradigmas de desarrollo y conservación actualmente dominantes para la región determinará los límites gobernantes de la Amazonía en el futuro.
The current global context of climate change imposes great challenges for the management of social and ecological systems. In this context, the Amazon region in Brazil is not only a ‘hotspot’ for ecosystem conservation but also a region whose history may largely contribute to the deepening of our understandings on human engagement with nature and, thus contribute towards the construction of alternatives in the making of environmental policies. This dissertation investigates the evolution of imaginaries about the Brazilian Amazon and of the build-up and implementation of public policies towards the construction of an environmental governance regime for the region. Imaginaries and policies are analyzed using a mixed methods approach which combines bibliographical review, analysis of policy narratives and discourses, and open-ended interviews. Adopting a post-structuralist political ecology framework, I first take a historical approach to describe the imaginaries about the Amazon put forward by different actors from the early colonial period, the XXth and early XXIst centuries. I discussed the relevance of these historical and social imaginaries about the Amazon in the shaping of present perceptions – and policy interventions – in the region. Second, I investigate how environmental governance for the Amazon has evolved during the last 60 years, in what Becker (2011) has referred to as the ‘era of Amazonian modernization’. I identify the overlapping character of policy narratives and, particularly, I show that policies in the Amazon have evolved to progressively incorporate environmental concerns. It shows, notwithstanding, that such incorporation has not substituted previous (economic-oriented) policies, but instead resulted in an overlapping of both economic development and environmental narratives. Last, I assess REDD+, a specific forest governance international initiative aiming to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation and grounded on the global climate change regime. Through the analysis of its early implementation in the state of Acre, I show that an ecological modernization discourse predominates among participant actors, which in turn limits the transformative potential that REDD+ actions may have in the region, for example in terms of addressing the uneven distribution of land rights and other incentives. These findings combined make evident the importance of imaginaries and policy narratives as key frames that constrain the mainstreaming of alternative development and conservation pathways for the Amazon, which are commonly grounded on locally-situated needs, knowledge and understandings of wellbeing. In a region greatly affected by the advancement of the ‘development frontier’, the ability of such alternatives to substitute the currently dominant development and conservation paradigms for the region will determine the governing boundaries of the Amazon in the future.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Programa de Doctorat en Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals
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Bright, Stephen Jason. "Dominant discourses and narratives of substance use: the development of a psychometric measure of internalisation." Thesis, Curtin University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/752.
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This research is comprised of four papers. The first describes the identification of six dominant discourses that frame Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) within Australia. The second examines the interaction between these dominant discourses with policy and AOD-related harm. The final papers describe the development of a psychometric tool that is proposed to measure the degree to which individuals internalise the six dominant discourses, which is explored using the Locus of Control of Behaviour Scale.
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Waites, Peter. "On the Boundaries of Watchmen : Paratextual Narratives across Media." Licentiate thesis, Uppsala universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-266867.
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This dissertation is an intervention into the ongoing revisions of Gerard Genette’s concept of paratexts. Increasingly used in discussions of artifacts other than the literary novels that were Genette’s object of attention, the concept of paratexts has given rise to intense debates regarding the nature and functions of paratextual elements across media. One area of contestation is the relation of paratext to narrative. While Genette’s original paradigm complicates the possibility of a narrative paratext, I show that the liminal zones usually occupied by paratexts—what I call paratextual space—are commonly used for narrative purposes, particularly as popular narratives extend across media. In this dissertation, I analyze the different embodiments of Watchmen with a focus on such a use of paratextual spaces. I argue that studies of narratives presented in these spaces—what I refer to as paratextual narratives—will not only shed light on these narrative strategies, but also give new insights into how popular narratives extend across new media platforms. My first analytical chapter concerns the material that frames the Watchmen graphic narrative, and its roots in the media specific history and paratextual phenomenon known as lettercols. I show how this paratextual space was repurposed in the creation of Watchmen to present narrative material that worked to establish and augment the history of the storyworld and the characters presented in the graphic narrative of the Watchmen comics. I argue that the functions of these materials are influenced by the tradition established by the lettercols and the paratextual spaces in which they are situated. In my second analytical chapter I turn to the Watchmen adaptation, focusing in particular on the digital narratives framing the cinematic premiere of the film. I show how the paratextual nature of these materials occluded their narrative functions, causing them to be excluded from what is regarded the adaptation of Watchmen. I argue that the materials framing the Watchmen film are paratextual narratives that should be seen as integral parts of the Watchmen adaptation. In my conclusion I address the Watchmen prequel-series Before Watchmen and raise questions regarding how paratextual narratives function for media franchising.
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Wilkinson, Clare Elizabeth. "Multiple experts : scientific, medical, media and lay discourses on 'new genetics'." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1629.
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The significance of public relationships with scientific and medical expertise has increasingly been highlighted as an area of importance in governmental policy formulation and scientific activities. Central to this relationship has been the role of the media, frequently depicted as increasing the strained communications between science, medicine and the public in the present UK 'crisis' of expertise. Sociological research has contributed to our understandings of science, medicine, the media and lay knowledge. The research presented in this thesis correlates these contributions. It focuses on 'new genetics' to elicit the views towards communication and understanding expressed by three groups; media professionals, members of the public and medical and scientific experts. Utilising a range of quantitative and qualitative methods, this research reflects on the relationships and identities created during interactions between these three groups, ignored by prior studies that have frequently focused on one or two participants in such relationships. This thesis contributes to present debates surrounding the role of the media and public, concluding that the present climate for dialogue is a politically motivated, theoretical context, challenged by a lack of practical methods to confront long-held notions of understanding and communication between expertise and lay persons. This offers original insight into the identities members of the media, public and scientific and medical experts create, maintain and displace in their interactions. The 'crisis' in science and trust instead comes 10 represent a manufactured perception of the public and media, which continues to exclude the public from true dialogue with medical and scientific experts and maintains traditional notions of the media as incompetent.
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Nothnagel, Ignatius. "Conceptual metaphors in media discourses on AIDS denialism in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1653.
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Thesis (MA (General Linguistics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.According to Nattrass (2007:138), the denial and questioning of the science of HIV/AIDS at government level by, amongst others, Thabo Mbeki (former State President) and Manto Tshabalala-Msimang (former Minister of Health) resulted in an estimated 343 000 preventable AIDS deaths in South Africa by 2007. Such governmental discourse of AIDS denialism has been the target of criticism in the media and by activist groups such as the Treatment Action Campaign. This study investigates the nature of this criticism, specifically considering the critical use of metaphor in visual texts such as the political cartoons of Jonathan Shapiro, who works under the pen name of “Zapiro”. The purpose is to determine whether the nature of the criticism in visual newspaper texts differs from that of corresponding verbal newspaper texts, possibly providing means of criticism not available to the verbal mode alone. A corpus of texts published between August 1999 and December 2007 that topicalise HIV/AIDS was investigated. This includes 119 cartoons by Zapiro, and 91 verbal articles in the weekly newspaper Mail & Guardian. The main theoretical approach used in the analyses is Conceptual Metaphor Theory, developed by Lakoff and Johnson (1981), and its extension to poetic metaphor, developed by Lakoff and Turner (1989). Because of the socio-political nature of the problem of HIV/AIDS, the study also draws on Critical Discourse Analysis, including complementary concepts from Systemic Functional Linguistics. The study reveals that visual and verbal texts make use of similar sets of conventional conceptual metaphors at similar frequencies, which confirms the predictions of Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The study further reveals that the cartoons enrich these metaphors through four specific mechanisms of poetic metaphor, which the verbal articles do not. This indicates a significant difference between the two types of texts. Furthermore, it is found that the use of such poetic metaphors directly contributes to the critical power of the political cartoons. The study indicates that multi-modality in cartoons, which triggers single metaphoric mappings, adds a dimension to the critical function of the text that is absent in the verbal equivalent. The finding that the visual texts enable a form of cognition that is not available to verbal texts, poses one of the most significant avenues for future research. Thus, cartoons apparently achieve a type of criticism that is not found, and may not be possible, in the verbal texts alone. This makes the political cartoon a text type with an important and unique ability to articulate political criticism.
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Yoong, Melissa. "An analysis of professional discourses and gendered identities in Malaysian media." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52275/.
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This thesis analyses the professional discourses and gendered identities of working women manifested within Malaysian media targeting a female audience. It also interrogates the ideologies of gender that inform, and are espoused by, these discourses and identities. Through the integration of feminist critical discourse analysis and feminist conversation analysis, it examines career advice texts and interviews with high-achieving women produced over a 12-month period in three print and broadcast media: Her World, a Malaysian magazine; Clove, a Sunday pullout in a mainstream newspaper; and Capital FM, a commercial radio station. The analysis of discourses expressed in the conception of women’s professional selves and occupational lives fills a discernible gap in gender and language research, as previous empirical work on media directed at women has largely emphasised on beauty, relationships, sex, and parenting. By interrogating which professional discourses find expression across the different media genres, this thesis makes another key contribution to the field, given that earlier studies often focused on a single media source. In this research, the similarities and variances in the discourses and identities produced by the three media outlets are related to the tensions and relations between wider sociocultural norms, media commodification, institutional roles, and women’s agency. While the radio has been relatively under-valued in gender and language research, in this study, we shall see the potential it holds for disrupting established hegemonic discourses, which is significant in a media landscape where the production of oppositional and alternative discourses is rare. The analysis identifies a range of mutually reinforcing and oppositional professional discourses that work together to articulate paradoxical female subjectivities that are empowered yet deficient, and strongly associated with stereotypical femininity and motherhood. These discourses and subjectivities mobilise postfeminist and neoliberal ideas in service of the status quo, as the resignification of freedom, choice and agency depoliticises women’s work issues in the media. With the widespread proliferation of neoliberalism and postfeminism, this thesis makes a timely contribution to understanding their effects on discourses on women and work in an under-researched socio-cultural context.
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Zeno, Basil. "Nationalism, Identity, Social Media and Dominant Discourses in Post-Uprising Syria." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1439414162.
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Bromley, Helen. "Discourses and narratives of difference : 'race', rurality and illness : the case of the Hokianga, New Zealand." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/eaa176ee-c3f4-473a-971a-908d0c9afecb.
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Mullins, Sharon L. "Narrative, education policy and the newsprint media : A critical discourse analysis of the construction of young people's participation in education or employment." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/60858/1/Sharon_Mullins_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis used Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate how a government policy and the newsprint media constructed discussion about young people’s participation in education or employment. The study found that a continuous narrative across both sites about government as a noble agent taking action to redress the social disruption caused by young people’s disengagement. Unlike the education policy, the newsprint media blamed young people who were disengaged and failed to recognise the barriers they often face. The study points to possibilities for utilising the power of narrative to build a more fair and rigorous discussion of issues in the public sphere.
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Svensson, Erika, and Jessica Göransson. "10-åring spårlöst borta : En studie om hur försvunna barn konstrueras i svensk press." Thesis, University of Kalmar, School of Communication and Design, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-1121.
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The purpose of our study was to examine how missing children are portrayed in media. We wanted to see if there are any recurring story patterns and characters in the texts. We also wanted to examine how the relationship between children and adults are framed and which comprehensive view of children is mediated in journalistic texts.Our questions were: how do Swedish newspapers write about missing children? Which narrative pattern are there in the texts? How are children and adults represented in the texts? What relationship between children and adults are made visible in the texts? What a comprehensive approach to children is constructed in the texts?For this study, we used the media discourse, theories of representation, stereotypes and characters. And theories of narrative, dramatic turns and opposites.We chose to make three case studies in which children suddenly disappeared, the case of Bobby Äikiä, the case of Engla Höglund and the case of Sebastian Hedman. We analyzed 93 news articles from Swedish newspapers, which were published in connection with the events. Our method was discourse analysis. We examined the characters and relationships between them, and looked at the dramaturgical construction of the articles.In our conclusion we established that the children are portrayed as helpless and weak in contrary to the adults, who are portrayed as strong and as they who are in power. The mothers of these children all play a major part in these articles while their fathers are made invisible. These texts contribute to a discourse about the vulnerability for the children. The texts construction of children mediates an image that says that children are helpless, innocent and unprotected. Children are represented as an inferior group to adults, and without authority in the society.
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Mustafa, Balsam Aone Mustafa. "Translating 'Islamic State' : multimodal narratives across national and media boundaries." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8612/.
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This thesis provides an original contribution to ongoing research on so-called Islamic State (‘IS’) by using a multiple case-study approach to offer an in-depth analysis of Arabic and English language narratives related to four atrocities committed by the group: (1) the mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers, known as the Speicher massacre, (2) the captivity and sexual enslavement of Ezidi girls, known in Arabic as sabi, (3) the executions of a number of western, Arab, and Kurd victims, and (4) the destruction of cultural artefacts in Nineveh province. The analysis engages with the discourses of ‘IS’, western, Arabic, Iranian, and Kurdish media, survivors, ‘IS’s’ religious opponents, and other actors. The dissertation uses a social narrative theory as its conceptual framework that I seek to develop by focusing on the fragmentation in narratives, on one hand, and on the multimodal resources through which narratives circulate, on the other. To this end, I combine the theory with Boje’s (2001) notion of antenarrative and Kress’(2009) understanding of the three resources of discourse, genre, and mode, to investigate ways in which narratives first unfold and how they later change as they are translated. Translation is understood in the thesis as a multi-directional movement that simultaneously takes place across multiple resources without necessarily crossing language boundaries. The findings of this study reveal that the aforementioned resources contribute to transforming narratives. In translation, ‘IS’s’ narratives can be delegitimized and confronted, or the opposite. Examining the changes in these narratives as they are translated in multiple directions is a novel contribution to the field of translation studies in relation to the digital media environment.
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Plugh, Michael. "Team Japan: Themes of ‘Japaneseness’ in Mass Media Sports Narratives." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/343328.
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This dissertation concerns the reproduction and negotiation of Japanese national identity at the intersection between sports, media, and globalization. The research includes the analysis of newspaper coverage of the most significant sporting events in recent Japanese history, including the 2014 Koshien National High School Baseball Championships, the awarding of the People’s Honor Award, the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup, wrestler Hakuho’s record breaking victories in the sumo ring, and the bidding process for the 2020 Olympic Games. 2054 Japanese language articles were examined by thematic analysis in order to identify the extent to which established themes of “Japaneseness” were reproduced or renegotiated in the coverage. The research contributes to a broader understanding of national identity negotiation by illustrating the manner in which established symbolic boundaries are reproduced in service of the nation, particularly via mass media. Furthermore, the manner in which change is negotiated through processes of assimilation and rejection was considered through the lens of hybridity theory.
Temple University--Theses
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Shourie, Shiva. "Land Grabbing : Media discourses on land acquisition in India and by India." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-345986.
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To this day, land is a source of survival for billions of people around the globe. However, industrialization and the rush for natural resources has immensely commodified land. As colonialization in the past was based on the violent and forceful confiscation of lands, modern day colonialism called as neo-colonialism, operates by the domination of powerful countries over less-developed countries through economic or political influence and control. Hence, land stealing popularly known as land grabbing, in modern times is done most of the times by the native governments themselves for the national and international capitalists by adopting the strategy of neo-liberalism which in simpler terms, supports privatization by allowing freedom of trade, capital and investments. Land grabbing over the last couple of years has come under utmost scrutiny as it has impacted millions of rural people in Asia and Africa. Nonetheless, this study does not aim to examine the phenomenon of land grabbing itself rather focuses on exploring how two countries- India and Ethiopia, affected by land grabbing are presented by the media. A total number of twenty-five news articles are analysed by using discourse analysis as the method, and discourse, ideology and postcolonial theory as the theoretical framework. The results drawn from the articles showed that the media presented the issue in a bold manner by unveiling the darker side of the governments and capitalism. The study served the purpose as well as the aim of comprehending the media´s understanding of the phenomenon and the entities involved in it.
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Hamer, Naomi Elana. "Reading tween franchises : cross-media practices and the discourses of tween girlhood." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2010. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10007385/.
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The 'tween' age group, particularly preadolescent females between the ages of 8 and 12, constitutes a heavily targeted niche for the branding and cross marketing of products. Consequently, books aimed at tween readers are often part of cross-media franchises that may include film and television adaptations, affiliated music albums, online fan clubs, video games, clothing, and cosmetics. In this context, representations may be adapted across a number of media forms, and conversely, responses to texts may be facilitated by engagement with diverse media. In light of these trends, this research explores how intersecting discourses of tween girlhood are negotiated through crossmedia practices by both producers and consumers of tween franchises. The thesis begins with a review of research from the fields of children's literature criticism, cultural and media studies, girlhood studies, and New Literacies. Building on this review, I outline a theoretical and methodological frame rooted in theories of discourse as articulated through multimodal design and cross-media play. The analysis traces a cultural history of key discourses in Anglo-American texts for and about preadolescent girls. In the following chapters, two tween-oriented cross-media worlds, The Chronicles ofNarnia and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, are used as case studies to examine the roles of multi modal design and cross-media play in the articulation of these discourses of tween girlhood. Each case study addresses the design of franchise texts (i.e. books, DVDs, tie-in texts); fan cultures related to these texts; and the responses of eightyear- old participants during fieldwork in Toronto, Canada. The conclusion of this thesis discusses the potential application of this doctoral study in future research on crossmedia texts and practices.
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Buiten, Denise. "Gender transformation and media representations : journalistic discourses in three South African newspapers." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24497.
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Despite apparent feminist advancements within contemporary South Africa, media representations continue to reproduce discourses that inhibit processes of gender transformation. As such, the media represents an important site of continued struggle over gendered meanings and power. While prolific research on gender and the media has been undertaken, there is still a need in South Africa to explore the ways in which media professionals themselves perceive their role in generating gendered media texts. This research therefore aimed to unpack media professionals’ perceptions of gender transformation through their work. Furthermore, given the perceived limitations of certain approaches to gender and the media in South Africa, feminist theory conceptualised as “progressive” was applied in the study towards strengthening engendered media production research. The study involved a thematic, critical discourse analysis of newspaper texts and interviews with journalists and editors from three weekly news publications. The study revealed a high level of discursive contradiction in gender representations, especially in the tabloidised newspapers. Gendered meanings were effected through different discursive devises, namely complicit, advocate and spatial discourses, which played out variously within different spaces of the newspapers. In particular, gender transformative representations of the “private” sphere lagged significantly behind those related to the “public” sphere. In addition, important negotiations over gendered meaning were being undertaken in the more “informal” newspaper spaces, such as columns and jokes pages, often neglected in news media research. The interviews further highlighted lags in feminist trajectories pertaining to the “private sphere”, with liberal-inclusionary feminist conceptions of gender transformation, focused on women’s public participation, predominating. With a few exceptions, progressive feminist perspectives, moving beyond numerical representation towards greater attention to symbolic, relational and integrated understandings of gender, were generally lacking. In addition, many participants conveyed a largely positivistic discourse of objectivity through the media. However, various discursive strategies through which social transformation values were imbibed into newspaper texts were identified, and the research highlighted potential discursive opportunities for gender transformative change. The central strategy identified was the need for the development of a progressive gender lens and the decentralisation of a liberal-inclusionary feminist paradigm within the media and broader society.Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2009.
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Banner, Jack. "Exploring narratives of exclusion from school : how adolescent boys and educationalists negotiate schooling, family and gendered discourses." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2015. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/912/.
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This thesis explores constructions of masculinity, deviancy and educational failure through an examination of policy and the discursive accounts provided by teenage boys, all of whom had been excluded from school, and educational practitioners working with such boys. This topic is of interest because the exclusion of boys with behavioural problems has been of significant concern to schools and policy makers for some time. Although the numbers of exclusions has reduced recently it remains a significant social justice issue because permanent school exclusion is directly related to deviancy and unemployment and disproportionally affects those who are already disadvantaged, such as the poor working-class and those with special Educational Needs. This thesis contributes to understanding how boys’ peer interactions contribute towards perpetuating particular myths about masculine behaviour and its domination over females and alternative masculinities. It shows how some boys through drawing on discourses of hegemonic masculinity and gender binary asymmetries construct themselves in ways that contribute towards school confrontation. The voices of practitioners show how they contribute towards tensions and how education policy is considered as prohibiting staff from working effectively with some boys. Consideration was given to literature discussing the social construction of parenting, childhood, and children’s "needs". Literature regarding the persistence of the role model discourse as both a cause and solution to boys’ problem behaviours in school is also investigated. Literature examining hegemonic masculinities was drawn on to further understand how it is performed and enforced through peer interaction, resulting in problematic behaviours which dominate particular constructions of masculinity. The theoretical framework used for this study draws on the work of Foucault (1970, 1977, 1980) who theorised that people construct truth through the dominant discourses which they draw on. It also explains how and why power is afforded to one discourse at the expense of another. The methodology adopted for this research utilizes this theoretical framework. 35 narrative interviews were undertaken and examined using discourse analysis as discussed by Gee (2011) and Taylor (2001). The data collected was contrasted with literature to further understand the discourses respondents employed in their discursive constructions. This thesis exposes the challenges that boys and practitioners face as they negotiate the dominant masculine discourses at large in both school and home. It also shows that respondents’ understandings of masculinity rely on outmoded discourses of masculinity, essentialist gender binaries and constructions of childhood, which contribute towards problem behaviours in school. Tensions in school are also exacerbated by policy discourse and practitioners’ constructions of childhood. However, these normative discourses are challenged by respondents’ acknowledgment of alternative versions of masculinity and the coexistence of gender heteroglossia.
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Ross, Jon. "Conflicting Discourses of Masculinity in the Military Community of Practice| Narratives of Afghan/Iraq War Combat Veterans." Thesis, Union Institute and University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3664099.
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Aaron Belkin argues that military men must navigate "binary oppositions" of masculine and anti-masculine or feminine behaviors, mostly of a physical nature, to be considered good soldiers/good men. Embracing these polar behaviors of strong and weak, expressing the masculine aggressiveness expected of them hand-in-hand with the non-masculine submissiveness of obedience to superiors, creates "double binds," he argued. This study expands on and challenges Belkin's theory by identifying how soldiers' navigation of conflicting gendered discourses may extend beyond the body and the barracks. The study identified physical/psychological toughness and leadership and duty/respect as core masculine military discourses consistent with the literature. It also uncovered soldiers'/veterans' conflicting expectations around the expression of emotions, particularly in how they must navigate a military community of practice that breeds deep bonds and affection among men yet conditions them to defer or compartmentalize expression of emotions about their comrades. This conflict between the subjugation of the individual and the deferral of emotions may create more contradictory discourses when combat soldiers re-enter mass culture and its expectations of self-made masculinity. The study's findings raise interesting questions about how participants experience and articulate "being a man" both in the military and civilian worlds and may contribute to better understanding the difficulties some veterans face, including psychological/mental health issues, upon their return to civilian life. The study has potentially important ramifications for policy at many levels, particularly around how the military and society at-large facilitate and ease re-entry and re-engagement of veterans.
Keywords: Masculinity, public policy, military, veterans, communication, mental health