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From, Noah. "A New Mediea Reform : A field study on the New Rwandan Media Reform." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-26991.
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The central role of media in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has led to restrictive precautions from the government. Restrictive legislation due to the genocide has for long limited media freedoms and been target for domestic and international critique. In light of the new media reform adopted in 2013 this essay seek to examine the experienced impact of the reform on the journalistic role as watchdog, setting the agenda, nation builder, agent of empowerment and government partner. The empirical material is based on qualitative interviews performed in Rwanda with journalists, bloggers, reform implementers and international collaborators. The analysis constitutes a discussion regarding to what extent the new reform seems to reinforce these roles. Here I will use my theoretical framework, namely Development Journalism, and the answers from the respondents in order to understand and examine this particular problem. The final part of the essay deals with my specific case, which is Rwanda’s media landscape after the newly adopted media reform. Here I will analyze the experienced change introduced by the new media reform. My essay finds that an official narrative, which is enforced by the Rwandan constitution, restricts the impact of the reform on the role of media
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Zhang, Wenjie Stevenson Robert L. "The post-Soviet Russian media reform." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,142.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 10, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Curriculum in Russian and East European Studies." Discipline: Russian and East European Studies; Department/School: Russian and East European Studies.
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Du, Huizhen. "The changing strategies of media control in China's reform era." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2010. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.530838.
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Birkett, Gemma. "Media, politics and penal reform : the problem of women's imprisonment." Thesis, City University London, 2015. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/14049/.
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There has been limited empirical focus on the activities of the penal reform network in England and Wales, and less still concerned with those campaigning to reform women’s penal policy. Investigating the under-researched interrelationship between the women’s penal reform network, journalists, and policymakers at the crime-media nexus, this interdisciplinary study examines campaign strategies for women and how they have developed and augmented under changing governments and the media spotlight. While penal reform campaigners are able to rely on the discourse of vulnerability in relation to women offenders, this remains in the face of entrenched social constructions of the ‘ideal woman’ and a political climate that continues to talk tough on crime. Uncovering a number of inhibitors to their campaigning efforts, this study reveals that such actors operate on the periphery of both the media and policy agendas and campaign for a ‘lesser social problem’. Drawing on the work of Best (2013) and his research on social problems, claimsmakers and the policy agenda, this study also explores the agenda-setting models developed in the political sciences and media and communications. With unprecedented access to over thirty policy elites (including the Chief Executives of the major campaign organisations, former Prison Ministers, ex-civil servants from the Ministry of Justice, Members of the House of Lords and Commons, journalists, and a former Chief Inspector of Prisons) it integrates the viewpoints of key actors operating in this niche policy network for the very first time. With an explicit policy-focused orientation, it also provides a number of pragmatic and practical tips for those wishing to think more strategically about their ability to influence politicians, the media and the public.
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Chiang, Yao-Kuo Eric. "Regulatory reform in Taiwan, 1987-1996 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9617.
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Okon, Patrick Edem. "Changes in media policy in Sub-Saharan Africa : the role of community media." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2014. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/7556.
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This thesis considers the role of community media in contemporary media policy developments of Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa. The study is broadly located within the discourse on ‘shapers' of media policy developments. The empirical materials draw upon various case studies of media regulation and community press and broadcasting media campaigns in South Africa, Ghana, and Nigeria. The case studies were conducted using mixed methods approach in a qualitative way. The methodological logics underpinning data presentation and analysis are explanation building and cross-case synthesis. The thesis shows that there have been substantial media policy changes with progressive effects across Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa in the last two decades. Enabled by the growing deregulation of media environments, there is a robust and complex culture of community media in the region. Community media institutions, working alongside a plethora of allies and drawing on a range of communication and participatory platforms, are exerting significant impacts on media policy decisions. The degree of their effectiveness, however, is affected by political, legislative, and economic processes, as well as by differences in technology, business philosophies, available funding regimes, and structures for audience participation. The engagements of community media with governments in media deregulations have established a new model for understanding media policy and for media deregulations. But, regardless of the changes in media policy, there are still specific policy concerns that underline what brings additional pressures to community media. The study concludes, firstly, that the contribution of community media to policy making still requires greater public recognition. Secondly, that there is need for the pressures on community media to be quickly redressed in order to improve their effectiveness as policy activists. This could be achieved through: a new understanding of media policy as advanced by alternative media organizations; an ‘open' administrative approach to inform participatory policy decision-making; the expansion of protective frameworks for small media in a bid to preserve their emancipatory potency; and the use of social and digital media to strengthen campaigns for policy reforms.
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Kubacki, David. "News Reporting During the Healthcare Reform Debate." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1333319763.
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Buckle, Sebastian. "Homosexual identity in England, 1967-2004 : political reform, media and social change." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2012. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/367041/.
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The thesis concentrates on examining how images and representations have shaped a discourse on homosexuality, and how, in turn, this has shaped a gay and lesbian social and group identity. It explores the political, media, and social spheres to show how at any point during this period, images of homosexuality and identity were being projected in society, contributing to public ideas about sexual identity. This is broken down into three chronological time periods: a ‘gay liberation’ period during the 1960s and 1970s, a ‘visible subculture’ period during the late 1970s and 1980s, and a ‘becoming mainstream’ period in the 1990s and early 2000s. The central premise of this thesis is that identity is not just self-created, but is often the result of the images and messages we see around us. Thus while other historians have concentrated on how men and women have created and adopted their own sexual identities, this thesis looks at how images in society have influenced a public discourse on homosexuality which has helped create social and group identities. Taken together, these images help create a group identity, which often has much more relevance for how the majority of people understand what it means to define someone as a gay man or a lesbian in any of the three periods studied. Thus, a publically-perceived sexual identity is created which is used by both heterosexual people in forming ideas about gay life, and homosexual people in discovering their own sexuality and sexual identity. The political/legal sections of the thesis use a wealth of primary sources including Hansard, Government reports, oral testimony, lobbying papers, manifestos, memoirs, public statements, newsletters, minutes, and social surveys. The media sections use newspapers, magazines, films, and television programmes, while the social sections rely on oral testimony, the records of gay groups, pictures, newsletters, maps, health campaign literature, memoirs, and news articles. Taken together, they provide examples of the dominant images being projected in the three time periods, by these three media. While this thesis recognises that there is no single gay identity at any one point – with various exclusions and competing ideas being presented – there is a more general picture framed in each of these periods. The conclusion recognises the role of images in society in creating sexual identities, while also examining the overall development of a gay social and group identity from its inception at the beginning of this period, to its place at the end.
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Huang, Yu. "Media reform and democratization in post-Mao China : a television case study." Thesis, University of Westminster, 1993. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/94qv7/media-reform-and-democratization-in-post-mao-china-a-television-case-study.
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Social reform movements in the communist state are a simultaneous, dialectical Process of the revival of socioeconomic dynamism on the one hand, and the abandonment of Party-state praxes on the other. As a result, the Party-controlled media system is bound to proceed to organic transformation. However, by using the medium of television as a key example, this thesis seeks to demonstrate that, under the conditions of Deng Xiaoping's particular and contradictory reform programme and in the context of Chinese society, Chinese mass media have created their own pattern of media transition that is unparalleled by that of other communist states, particularly those under the Gorbachev-style reform programme. The main characteristic of the Chinese case is that the growth of the industry and the reform of the media institutions have spontaneously become a twofold theme governing the whole process of post-Mao media development. Therefore, its adopted policies and strategies, institutional transactions, media performance, structural changes and the ways of delivering resources and increasing productivity, have all been conducted and constrained within that framework. The style of media transition in post-Mao China is not radically revolutionary, but evolutionary. It entails growth that incrementally redefines reality, producing its own dynamics and conflicts. The evidence of the thesis suggests that Deng Xiaoping's reform formula for the Chinese mass media --- an unintended contradiction of promoting the growth of the media industry and rationalizing its performance without allowing the parallel development of institutional democratization and fundamental changes of the power structure of Party's media --- cannot obtain its intended objective. Rather, it tends to produce a boomerang effect: although it can protract the process of media democratization, the new social forces, the changing economic relations and political culture in post-Mao China have provided the solid foundation for a further change with the overall media reform tendency continuously gaining momentum. The historical logic and irony become explicit here: Deng's reform programme, as a desperate resort to save the Party-state system and to prevent the advent of democracy, has turned out to be the midwife of far-reaching societal transformation and democratization in China. Thus, despite the sufferings and frustration of the 1989 Beijing pro-democracy movement, the present course of social reform is almost impossible to reverse.
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Doyle, Daniel S. "A Discourse-Proceduralist Case for Election and Media Reform after Citizens United." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1339711190.
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Jones, Dyfrig. "Paul Lazarsfeld and the trajectory of the American media reform movement, 1922-1955." Thesis, Bangor University, 2016. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/paul-lazarsfeld-and-the-trajectory-of-the-american-media-reform-movement-19221955(f24425d3-6fbe-46d0-a9a7-e0c526cae53d).html.
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This thesis explores a previously neglected period in American public broadcasting history, that of the early- to mid-1950s. Engelman (1996) has described the 1950s as 'The Foundation Years', a time in which large philanthropic foundations - most prominently the Ford Foundation - invested in non-commercial broadcasting. While the importance of the Ford Foundation to the development of public broadcasting has been noted in the literature, it has never been explored in any detail. Where it is discussed, the focus tends to be on the practical support that the foundation offered, funding the production and distribution of programmes. My focus is not on the practical support offered by the Ford Foundation, but rather on the contribution that the foundation attempted to make to the philosophical debate regarding the place of broadcasting in American public life. I argue that the Ford Foundation intended, in the early 1950s, to breathe new life into the media reform movement that had been advancing the cause of public broadcasting throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Following the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) 1952 decision to reserve a portion of the broadcast spectrum for educational television, and at the behest of Robert M Hutchins, the Ford Foundation established a Television Advisory Committee (TAC). The purpose of the TAC was to undertake a wide-ranging, critical review of the place of television in American society, similar to that undertaken by Hutchins' own Commission on the Freedom of the Press. One of America's preeminent media scholars, Paul F Lazarsfeld, was appointed to Chair the TAC, yet its original aims would never be realised. In this thesis, I argue that Lazarsfeld himself was largely to blame for impeding the work of the TAC, to the long-term detriment of American public media.
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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
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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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Zurlinden, Martin. "Reform der Restschuldbefreiung /." Göttingen : Sierke, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015865097&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Zelaski, Edward O. "The State of American Media: Media Conglomeration in the United States and What Can Be Done to Fix the Media." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1275599442.
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Charoenpanich, Akarapat. "Information of social media platforms : the case of Last.fm." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3821/.
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Social media has become a global phenomenon. Currently, there are 2 billion active users on Facebook. However, much of the research on social media is about the consumption side of social media rather than the production or operational aspects of social media. Although research on the production side is still relatively small, it is growing, indicating that it is a fruitful area to study. This thesis attempts to contribute to this area of research to unravel the inner operations of social media with one key research question: How does social media platform organize information? The theory of digital object of Kallinikos et al. (2013) is used to investigate this question. Information display that users of a social media platform interact with is a digital object and it is constructed by two key components which are a database and algorithms. The database and the algorithms shape how information is being organized on information displays, and these influence user behaviors which are then captured as social data in the database. This thesis also critically examines the technology of recommender system by importing engineering literature on information filtering and retrieval. While newsfeed algorithm such as EdgeRank of Facebook has already been critically examined, information systems and media scholars have yet to investigate recommendation algorithms, despite the fact that they have been widely deployed all over the Internet. It is found that the key weakness of recommendation algorithms is their inability to recommend novel items. This is because the main tenet of any recommender system is to "recommend similar items to those that users already like". Fortunately, this problem can be alleviated when recommender system is being deployed in the digital information environment of social media platforms. In turn, seven theoretical conjectures can be postulated. These are (1) navigation of information display as assembled by social media is highly interactive, (2) information organization of social media is highly unstable which would also render user behaviors unstable, (3) quality of data aggregation casts significant implications on user behaviors, (4) the amount of data captured by social media platforms limits the usefulness of their information displays, (5) output from the recommendation algorithm (recommendation list) casts real implications on user behaviors, (6) circle of friends on a social network can influence user behaviors, and (7) metadata attached to items being displayed casts influence on user behaviors. Data from Last.fm, a social media for music discovery, is used to evaluate these conjectures. The analysis supported most of the conjectures except the instability of information display and the importance of metadata attached to items being displayed. Some kinds of information organization are more stable than initially expected and some kinds of user generated contents are not so important for user behaviors.
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Jenkins, Richard William. "Campaigns, the media and the insurgent success, the Reform Party and the 1993 Canadian election." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0015/NQ46362.pdf.
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Tröger, Michael. "Reform der Gewerbesteuer und Finanzausgleich /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015605120&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Tetteh, Dinah A. "U.S. Newspapers Coverage of The 2009/10 Healthcare Reform Debate: A Content Analysis." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1256.
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The aim of this study was to examine the extent to which U.S. newspapers covered the chatter surrounding the 2009/10 healthcare reform debate at the expense of the substance. Also of importance was how the political leanings of newspapers influenced the coverage they gave the issue in terms of tone and page or story prominence. Newspaper endorsement data from Editor & Publisher magazine were used to determine the political leanings of U.S. newspapers based on the candidate they endorsed in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Newspaper articles related to the topic were retrieved from the Lexis-Nexis database and analyzed. The results showed that overall the healthcare reform debate received substantial coverage in U.S. newspapers; but the major part of the coverage was dedicated to the arguments, protests, and thoughts of people concerning the issue (90.3%) rather than the substance of the issue (9.7%). Implications of the results for media practitioners, communication scholars, and researchers were discussed.
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Hua, Jun 1961. "Moving toward the information society in China : a case study on Shanghai's media reform since 1990." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23846.
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This thesis examines the impact of economic reform on the mass media system in Shanghai municipality since 1990. It attempts to portray that Shanghai, as the forerunner of China's economic reform and growth in the 1990s, is also a pioneer in China's media liberalization, media decentralization and transition toward the information society. Shanghai's case demonstrates that market forces are the principal factor that is reshaping China's former state-centered mass media system.
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Brito, Anna C. "Misuse of Executive Power as an Obstacle to Democratic Institutional Reform in Argentina." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1366.
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This thesis explores three different institutions that underwent proposed reforms during the President of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2015): the intelligence sector, the judiciary, and the media. Though the stated purpose of these reforms was to make more democratic institutions that had suffered under the military junta, in reality they were generally unsuccessful. Furthermore these institutions would be further changed under her successor, Mauricio Macri, still with little improvement to democracy. When examining these changes in the context of hyper-presidentialism, it is apparent that the misuse of executive power is a serious impediment to meaningful institutional reform.
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Okwelume, Obinna Charles. "Igbo caste practices : persistence and public attitudes in the media." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1012/.
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For over a century, several minority caste groups have suffered discrimination in eastern Nigeria. They include former slaves and servant groups known as osu or ohu as well as other names and are generally referred to as caste groups. Forbidden to associate freely with the freeborn, these groups still maintain their stigma. The origins of the caste groups lie in the past. However, after 1900, they started to struggle for emancipation. Since then, discrimination against them has been abolished many times. Yet the practice remains persistent. At the same time, the discrimination against the caste groups continues to exercise the public and private imagination and it is depicted and discussed in various ways in the media, from newspapers to films and even in internet forums. Using oral sources and commentaries in the media, this thesis argues that Igbo socio-political life has continued to sustain this practice even as it pretends to reject it. The general attitude to discrimination against the caste groups has been that it is barbaric. Yet, the freeborn still find it difficult to embrace them. Reasons for this include a range of fears, but most importantly fear of social ostracism. The thesis argues that the media has engaged in the struggle to change the situation by providing a platform for debate about the practice. However, this has had little impact because of the nature of Igbo socio-political life.
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Churchill, Andrew. "The praxis of critical pedagogy and educational reform: analyzing media coverage of the U.S. charter school movement." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104669.
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American charter schools are entering their third decade. What began in 1991 as a single piece of legislation in a single state has grown to include legislation in 40 states and the opening of over 5,000 schools. With the passing of No Child Left Behind legislation in 2002, and the 2010 Race to the Top stimulus funding bill, charter schools have been thrust to the forefront of legislation around educational reform, specifically educational reform of urban schools with large populations of minority students where there is a long history of a significant achievement gap. This dissertation uses critical pedagogy to analyze the media coverage of the American charter school movement.The dissertation has two sections. The first focuses on theory and develops a critical pedagogical framework to discuss understandings of education and education reform. This section begins with an autobiographical exploration of ideas about education and then explores critiques of neoliberalism and mainstream theories of intelligence to challenge these ideas. The section concludes by using postformalism and critical pedagogy to develop a critical pedagogical vision for education and education reform. The second section uses this vision to analyze selected media coverage of American charter schools by detailing the coding, analysis, observations and responses to articles appearing in Time, U.S. News and World Report, Newsweek, and The New York Times referring to charter schools. The dissertation concludes with summary observations detailing how the media coverage of charter schools reinforces common sense understandings of schools, while failing to critically interrogate systemic societal issues of social injustice. It also details an important consideration for critical scholars about how past “blame the victim” discourses appear to have shifted to be focused on blaming educational failures on teachers.Les écoles à charte américaines amorcent leur troisième décennie. Ce qui a débuté en 1991 comme un seul acte législatif dans un seul état s'est amplifié au point de régir 40 états et de conduire à l'ouverture de plus de 5000 écoles. Avec l'adoption de la loi « No Child Left Behind » (pas d'enfants laissés de côté) en 2002, et le projet de loi de financement pour stimuler la relance 2010 « Race to the Top » (course vers le sommet), les écoles à charte ont été propulsées à l'avant-plan de la législation en matière de réforme de l'éducation, plus précisément de la réforme de l'éducation des écoles urbaines qui comptent une grande partie d'élèves de groupes minoritaires qui accusent, depuis longtemps, un important déficit de réussite. C'est par le biais de la pédagogie critique que cette dissertation analyse la couverture médiatique du mouvement des écoles à charte américaines.Cette dissertation comprend deux sections. La première est axée sur la théorie, élaborant un cadre pédagogique critique qui va à l'encontre de la compréhension générale ayant trait à l'éducation et la réforme de l'éducation. Cette section débute par une exploration autobiographique d'idées pour ensuite explorer des critiques du néolibéralisme et des théories courantes de l'intelligence pour remettre ces idées en question. Cette section se termine en ayant recours au postformalisme et à la pédagogie critique pour élaborer une vision pédagogique cruciale pour l'éducation et la réforme de l'éducation. La seconde section reprend cette vision pour analyser la couverture médiatique choisie des écoles à charte américaines en expliquant le codage, les analyses, les observations et les réactions aux articles traitant des écoles à charte parus dans le Time, U.S. News and World Report, Newsweek et The New York Times.La conclusion de cette dissertation cerne des observations sommaires précisant comment la couverture médiatique des écoles à charte renforce de la compréhension générale des écoles alors qu'elle omet de se pencher de façon éclairée sur les problèmes sociétaux systémiques de l'injustice sociale. Cette conclusion décrit aussi en détail un élément important pour les érudits critiques, soit le fait que les discours d'autrefois sur « blâmer la victime » semblent avoir bifurqué pour rendre les professeurs responsables des échecs des étudiants.
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Gan, Lishan. "Die chinesische Reform und Transformation : ein Sonderweg /." Aachen : IZE, 1997. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=007810006&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Schütte-Leifels, Simone. "Die Grundsätze der Sozialhilfe nach der Reform /." Stuttgart : Stuttgart : Kohlhammer ; Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015865057&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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au, M. Stein@murdoch edu, and Michael Stein. "The Chinese Combat Film Since 1949: Variants of 'Regulation', 'Reform' and 'Renewal'." Murdoch University, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20061123.141154.
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This thesis examines variations of the Chinese combat film, from its origins within cinema in 1949, through to the contemporary period. My argument transposes the critical approach of genre, as a popular style within conventional film criticism, to a specific Chinese form. In particular, this study investigates the combat film as a prevailing mode in Chinese cinema, with a particular history, form of progression and set of aesthetics.
The argument initially applies the war film and combat genre categorisations to Chinese forms. Consequently three major variants emerge, manifest in the regulated (1949-1966), reformed (1980s) and renewed (1990s) styles, respectively. These modes are subsequently examined in rigorous narratological and cinematic contexts, resulting in an expanded conception of the Chinese combat film.
This thesis offers an integrative appreciation of variegations of the Chinese combat film since 1949, sutured to wider discursive and socio-political changes within the country. Moreover, this argument produces a framework for a more expansive and complex comprehension of Chinese cinema, one undergoing continual modes of re-negotiation as the medium progresses into the Twenty First Century.
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Zhang, Huanwen Carleton University Dissertation Journalism. "Of the party, by the party, for the party and people: Chinese news media in an era of reform." Ottawa, 1993.
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Lightfoot, Michael D. "Education reform for the knowledge economy in the Middle East : a study of education policy making and enactment in the Kingdom of Bahrain." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10021657/.
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The knowledge economy is a construct of a neo-liberal imaginary that is linked closely to the promotion of educational technology use in schools. In the belief that educational technology can assist in the rapid development and modernisation of the education systems in the Middle East, over the last 20 years, donor agencies, international conglomerates and supra-national organisations have encouraged governments in the region to embed information and communication technology into the policies for the reform and development of their education systems. Taking Michael Peters’ assertion that there are three elements to the knowledge economy – learning, creativity and openness, the study points to the paradox of promoting these concepts within the context of the deeply conservative authoritarian regimes in the Arabian Gulf. By way of an ethnographic case study into the formulation and subsequent enactment of education policy reforms in the small kingdom of Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf, this account analyses the historical context together with political and social conditions giving rise to the education reforms in this region and the conflicting pressures experienced by those in schools that are tasked with enacting the reforms. Comparisons are made with the situation in Jordan from whence much of the regional impetus for technology-led education reforms arose. The analysis of the findings uses the lens of New Institutional Economics as a way of focusing upon the conflicting cultural, social and political factors that influence the policy enactment. In this way a more satisfactory narrative is achieved than one simply centred upon a neo-liberal analysis or upon conventional models of technology adoption. Ultimately, the study concludes that it is only through a rebalancing of the conflicting forces of structure and agency that successful social reform and policy enactment can take place in this part of the world where autonomy and selfactualisation are novel concepts for the great majority of the population.
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Jiménez-Martínez, César. "Nationhood, visibility and the media : the struggles for and over the image of Brazil during the June 2013 demonstrations." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3550/.
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In June 2013, the largest series of protests that Brazil had experienced in more than twenty years erupted in cities across the country. News from Brazil and abroad reported that people protested against the money that local authorities spent on hosting the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, rather than on the provision of basic public services. The demonstrations, which journalists and academics called the June Journeys, challenged the Brazilian authorities’ efforts to construct and project an image of Brazil as a harmonious and modern nation. This thesis focusses on the reasons and conditions underpinning the media coverage of the June Journeys in relation to the image of Brazil. The study explores the tensions for and over the symbolic construction, projection and contestation of the nation in the current interrelated, transnational and contentintensive media environment. Theoretically, the thesis draws on scholarship on nationalism, media and nationhood, media and social movements, and mediated visibility. Empirically, the study analyses two datasets: (1) 797 newspaper articles, television reports, online videos and photos produced by Brazil’s main newspapers and television newscasts, alternative media collectives, and a selection of foreign media from the United States and Western Europe; (2) sixty-three interviews with Brazilian journalists, foreign correspondents, activists and government officials, who participated in the media coverage of the protests. The analysis of these two datasets suggests that the current media environment is a space of constraint rather than pluralism, in which traditional power imbalances are reproduced. The authorities, activists and journalists constructed competing images of Brazil and then employed strikingly similar strategies to make these images visible. The research also underlines how norms, routines, market imperatives and technologies shape and limit the type of images of the nation shown by these various individuals and organisations through the media.
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Weidlein-Crist, Philisa J. "The media's treatment of sexual assault by athletes in a post-rape reform era how do victims fare? /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 100 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1654499111&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Hoare, Lottie. "Secondary education in BBC broadcast, 1944-1965 : drawing out networks of conversation and visions of reform." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273980.
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This study examines the representation of Local Education Authority (LEA) secondary schooling in England and Wales as it was portrayed in non-fiction British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) programmes in the twenty-one years that followed the 1944 Education Act. The primary sources drawn on for this study include the surviving microfilmed radio scripts, dating from 1944–1965 and held at the BBC Written Archives (BBC WAC). The correspondence files from contributors to programmes also provide a key source from BBC WAC. The majority of the programmes considered are radio broadcast, however some documentary films on the topic of secondary education, made by the BBC and transmitted on television, are also analysed. Where audio-visual copies have survived, the programmes were viewed at the BFI Viewing Services. The study draws on 235 BBC programmes in total, made in the years 1944–1965. The details of these broadcasts can be seen in the three Appendices accompanying this study. The study also employs the use of drawing to present key ideas. This study explores how broadcasts are formed as cultural products. The research questions address: what was the content of these programmes? Who collaborated to create and edit these programmes and how were the programmes devised to inform the public about the provision of secondary education? What was the role of the All Souls Group (ASG) in this collaboration? The public included a domestic audience in England and Wales and an overseas audience for whom distinct broadcasts were usually created. A further element of the research is a scrutiny of the BBC as an organization that positions itself as neutral. The considered programmes enabled a group of eloquent educationalists to use their rehearsed and edited ‘conversation’ on a public stage. As the study unfolds it becomes apparent that the members of the informal education discussion group, the ASG, were lobbying to encourage the topic of secondary education to resurface sufficiently often on air. The study concludes with recognition that the reinforcing of loyalties between overlapping networks, such as the BBC and the ASG, should no longer be approached with reticence in academic research.
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Ferreira, Sonia Maria. "A Mídia e o MST: heróis e vilões na trama do discurso jornalístico." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2012. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5768.
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A presente pesquisa visa refletir, sob a ótica do discurso, a cultura noticiosa a respeito do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), no que se refere à cobertura jornalística dos jornais Zero Hora e Folha de S.Paulo das linhas políticas sobre as questões conjunturais apresentadas pelo Movimento em seus três últimos Congressos Nacionais (1995, 2000 e 2007), para comprovar o tratamento dado pela mídia ao MST e o modo como as formações discursivas em textualizações jornalísticas são indiciárias de permanente tensão em torno da luta pela terra, o que dificulta o diálogo do Movimento com a sociedade. Este trabalho pretende ainda debater qual a intervenção do MST na construção das agendas política e pública e por que o Movimento não consegue provocar mudanças em seu enquadramento noticioso e, assim, constatar o que o processo de saturação do discurso midiático, neste caso o do jornalismo impresso, é capaz de produzir sobre a sociedade, partindo da hipótese de que a mídia, em geral, funciona como aparelho político-ideológico, que elabora e divulga concepções de mundo, cumprindo a função de contribuir com orientações para exercer influência na compreensão dos fatos sociais. A mediação dos meios de comunicação de massa, em geral, produz um deslocamento na experiência pública e, ao mesmo tempo, dá forma aos saberes possíveis que essa experiência desenvolve sobre si mesma. Sabemos que as ideologias presentes nos discursos jornalísticos podem não produzir novos saberes sobre o mundo, mas produzem um reconhecimento do mundo tal como já aprendemos a apropriá-lo. Demonstrar-se-á que, na fase atual do capitalismo sistema que demanda maior valorização da informação , a reprodução ideológica se dá diretamente pelos meios de comunicação, por intermédio de pautas e agendas. Considerando o contexto apresentado pela pesquisa, o trabalho destaca também dois fios condutores para alcançar seus objetivos: a submissão da mídia à hegemonia neoliberal e a luta do MST pela reforma agrária diante da valorização do agronegócio latifundiário.From the standpoint of the discourse, this research intends to reflect upon the media culture surrounding Brazil's Landless Peasant Movement [Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra/MST], with focus on the journalistic coverage of the newspapers Zero Hora and Folha de S.Paulo regarding the political lines and conjuncture issues presented by the Movement in its last three national gatherings (1995, 2000 and 2007), the treatment given by the media to MST and how the discursive formations in textualizations indexing news have meant ongoing tensions around the struggle for land and made the dialogue between the Movement and the society even more difficult. This work also intends to discuss the intervention of the MST in the construction of political and public agendas and the reasons why the Movement is unable to produce changes in its media portrayal. Thus, it ascertains the saturation process of the mediatic discourse (specifically in the print media) and the effects that it may produce upon society beginning with the hypothesis that the media generally operates like a political and ideological apparatus that elaborates and divulges world concepts, carrying out the task of offering orientations that influence the comprehension of social facts. Mediation means of mass communication, in general, produces a shift in public experience and at the same time shapes the possible knowledge that this experience developes on itself. We know that the ideologies found in journalistic discourses can not produce new knowledge about the world, but produce a recognition of the world as we have learned to appropriate it. We shall demonstrate that, in the current phase of capitalism (a system that demands greater value for information), ideological reproduction occurs directly through the media, with their task assignments and daily agendas. Taking under consideration the context presented in the research, this work also emphasizes two guiding lines in order to arrive at its objectives: the submission of the media to the neo-liberal hegemony and the struggle of the MST towards land reform in face of the increasing value of large-scale agribusinesses.
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Trouille, Helen L. "Rights, responsibilities and reform : a study of French justice (1990-2016)." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/16020.
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The principal questions addressed in this portfolio of eleven publications concern the reforms to French justice at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. The portfolio is accompanied by a supporting statement explaining the genesis and chronology of the portfolio, its originality and the nature of the submission's distinct contribution to knowledge. The thesis questions whether the reforms protect the rights of the defence adequately. It considers how the French state views its responsibility to key figures in criminal justice, be they suspected and convicted criminals, the victims of offences or the professionals who are prosecuting the offences. It reflects upon the role of the examining magistrate, the delicate relationship between justice, politics and the media, breaches of confidentiality and the catastrophic conditions in which suspects and prisoners are detained in French prisons. It then extends its scope to a case study of the prosecution of violent crimes before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and discovers significant flaws in procedures even at international levels. In concluding, it asks whether, given the challenges facing the French criminal justice system, French courts are adequately equipped to assure justice when suspects charged with the most serious international crimes appear before them under the principle of universal jurisdiction. The research, carried out over a number of years, relies predominantly on an analysis of French-language sources and represents a unique contribution to the understanding and knowledge of French justice for an English-speaking public at the turn of the twenty-first century.
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Dowdle, Daniel Mark. "The internet as an anchor : a grounded theory model of internet advocacy and web site production in Japan and the issue of history textbook reform /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1114.pdf.
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Albin, Wolf. "Güteverhandlung und Mediation : Evaluierung der ZPO-Reform von 2002 /." Münster : MV Wissenschaft, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015667334&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Ljungwall, Christer. "Essays on China's economic performance during the reform period." Göteborg : Dep. of Economics, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg Univ, 2003. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=010454709&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Kubatta, Ziva. "Zur Reformbedürftigkeit der Verkehrsunfallflucht (142 StGB) /." Göttingen : Univ.-Verl. Göttingen, 2008. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016583865&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Wilfer, Tom. "Reform des Sparkassensektors in Deutschland : [Problematik, Gründe und mögliche Lösungsansätze] /." Saarbrücken : VDM-Verl. Müller, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015585222&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Šimečková, Barbora. "Komunikace státu: Jak u veřejnosti uspět s ekonomickými reformami." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-192749.
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This diploma thesis deals with the communication of state substantial economic reforms. Methodology is a case study that examines the governmental communication of the pension reform in 2013. The introduction of the thesis briefly outlines the socioeconomic situation in the Czech Republic after 2008. The theoretical part sets out the necessary basis in the fields of media and communication, public relations, political communication, psychology and public choice theory and it also provides an overview of pension system reforms development in the Czech Republic area from the time of Austro-Hungarian Empire. It notes that this issue is one of the constant governmental agenda, especially after 1989, and its enforcement is depends on the political settlement. Practical part of the thesis analyzes the communication discourse of governmental pension reform effective from 1 January 2013. For this purpose it uses structured interviews with stakeholders, quantitative content media analysis and public opinion polls. It concludes that there was no communication strategy for the pension reform and governmental information activities were insufficient and time inadequate. The thesis results in a set of recommendations for the government and its future economic reforms communication. It includes political consensus, clear message and target group identification, detailed timeline plan and the principle of simplicity in the reform explaining.
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Hahn, Simon. "Die organschaftliche Änderung der Stiftungssatzung nach der Reform der Landesstiftungsgesetze /." Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2010. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=020222364&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Cable, Jonathan. "Protest in action : an examination of the production, media representation and reflexivity of protest group communications strategies and protest tactics." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/33637/.
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This thesis analyses the media coverage and dominant institution responses to the media and protest tactics employed by three different protest groups. The three case studies examine the interactions between protest groups, their political targets, and the mainstream media. It pays particular attention to each group's media and protest tactics, and how their messages transition from protest action into media coverage and political debates. The three different protest groups comprise of a Cardiff community campaign to save a pub called Save the Vulcan, the environmental direct action group Plane Stupid and their protests against airport expansion, and the mass protests of G20Meltdown against the G20 summit held in London in April 2009. This thesis analyses the media coverage of each group using the concept of political opportunity structures to ascertain the influence of the political and media context on protest groups and their actions. Interviews with activists involved in all three protest groups, and ethnography conducted from within one of the groups, namely, the Save the Vulcan campaign revealed differing attitudes towards the choice of media and protest tactics. All three groups were aware of their portrayal in media coverage, and actively geared their tactics towards attracting media attention. The research analysed protester communications on the internet and leaflets to explore how they represented their issues. A content analysis of British newspaper articles examined the impact of each group's media and protest tactics on press coverage. Offical documents from the dominant institutions of the police and centralised political institutions were examined to ascertain the debates surrounding the issues. On the basis of these empirical findings and discussion this thesis argues for a revision of the theorisation of political opportunity structures. This grants increased recognition of media coverage and importance of protest group aims and goals in the assessment of their success and failure to communicate their messages. Finally, the thesis argues that political and media opportunities do influence the success and failure of protest groups, but it is the effective use of media and protect tactics that puts protest groups into a position to succeed or fail.
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Beer, Johannes. "Das Mahnverfahren nach der Zivilverfahrens-Novelle 2002 /." Linz : Trauner Verlag, 2004. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=010773762&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Osman, Idil A. "Re-creating conflict : an examination of Somali diasporic media involvement in the Somali conflict." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2015. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/86912/.
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Somalia has for more than two decades been in a perpetual state of conflict and more than a million Somalis have fled the initial civil war. Approximately 400,000 of them reside here in the UK. They have formed a large diasporic community and have set up their own websites and TV stations to remain engaged with the happenings of their homeland. Diasporic media is often hailed as a medium that allows immigrants to maintain their identity in their host country as well as providing a platform to sustain ties with their homeland. However, if these ties are being maintained with a homeland that is in a state of conflict, the potential to transport the dynamics of the conflict and re-create it amongst the diaspora audiences is very much a possibility. This thesis illustrates how diasporic media can re-create conflict through a theoretically developed and empirically informed argument that provides three analytically distinct approaches referred to as the three politics of non-recognition, solidarity and mobilisation. This thesis in essence, argues that diasporic media is more complex than what current scholars have demonstrated and that there is a need to broaden the scope of current academic debates concerning the interplay between diasporic media, transnationalism and conflict.
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Morton, Krystalyn Janay. "Communicating Food Reform Through Instagram: A Grounded Theoretical Assessment of Dialogic Engagement on Jamie Oliver's 'Food Revolution' Instagram Account." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/72903.
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British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has been an active voice among those striving for food reform, directly influencing attitudes and behaviors among the culture of food around the world. Oliver's most recent campaign, Jamie's Food Revolution, can be considered one of his most successful attempts at influencing modern day food practices. The mission of the campaign is 'to create a strong sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity' (Home Jamie's Food Revolution, n.d.). In addition to the campaign website, Jamie's Food Revolution campaign has a Facebook page, an Instagram page, a Twitter page, and a YouTube page, which are all used to contact with people around the world. The purpose of this thesis is to explore how the Instagram page, @foodrev, is used to post content that aligns with the mission and offers dialogic opportunities for publics to engage with the campaign through a grounded theory methodological approach and application of dialogic theory. More specifically, this thesis will: 1) highlight how the content of the @foodrev Instagram account represents the mission statement of Jamie's Food Revolution; 2) address whether the content posted to the Instagram account generates opportunities for dialogic engagement; 3)reveal whether the content posted to the Instagram account actually generates dialogic responses from other Instagram users; and4) reveal features of dialogic theory that transfer to social media, specifically Instagram, and what aspect of the platform provides dialogic affordances not already explained by dialogic theory.Master of Arts
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Litges, Gerhard. "Jugendhilfe in Deutschland : Vorurteile und Wirklichkeit ; empirische und systemische Rekonstruktionen /." Hamburg : Kovač, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015783569&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Suksai, Ousa, and n/a. "Media and Thai civil society: case studies of television production companies, Watchdog and iTV." University of Canberra. Communication, 2002. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050602.143439.
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The study concerns the inter-relationship between media reform and civil
society in Thailand between 1995-2000. It examines case studies of two selected
television organisations - the production company Watchdog and the broadcast
channel Independent Television (iTV) - and analyses their internal production
decision-making processes, their public affairs programs and their urban and rural
audiences.
Debates about civil society and media reform between 1995-2000 influenced
the government's media regulation policies to the extent that more attention was paid
to media freedom as intended by Articles 39, 40 and 41 in the 1997 Constitution.
Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) took an important role in monitoring
government policies on media reform under the Constitution and issues about media
re-regulation and ownership were canvassed, although the drawn out National
Broadcasting Commission (NBC) selecting process delayed media reform. The
transparency of the selection process of the NBC has been widely debated among
NGOs, media scholars and media professionals. Most Thai public affairs programs in
the period were shown on iTV, Channel 9 and Channel 11 and were in the minority
compared with entertainment. Thai television stations normally screened
entertainment programs to make profits, while they usually would not allow producers
to air open debates critical of the government. Also, public affairs programs that were
screened often were given inappropriate airtimes.
Watchdog and iTV treated public affairs programs in different ways.
Watchdog, originating from an NCO, the Creative Media Foundation, emphasized
public participation in local community-oriented programs - such as Chirmsak
Pinthong's Lan Ban Lan Muang - which exemplified civic journalism on television.
In contrast, iTV was created in 1996 to meet the promise made in 1992 after Black
May that a non-state commercial channel would be introduced. It was organised by
journalists from the Nation Multimedia Company and focused on current national
news issues which seldom allowed public participation. Both organisations attempted
to maintain their professionalism despite political and business pressures. Chirmsak
and Watchdog were accused of bias favoring the Democrat Party and often
encountered program censorship. ITV staff, especially in the news department led by
Suthichai Yoon and Thepchai Yong, unsuccessful fought. Shin Corps 2000-2001
takeover of the station that had been brought on by the financial problems of iTV and
the Siam Commercial Bank after the economic crisis of 1997.
There were three main concepts of civil society in the period 1997-2000 -
Communitarianism, Self-sufficiency and Good Governance. These ideas were
advanced by reformers such as Dr. Prawase Wasi and Thirayut Boonme, and were
reinforced by His Majesty King Bhumibol's December 1997 Birthday Speech that
endorsed the ideal of national self-sufficiency. Thai civil society debates often were
involved with rural people, while the 8th National Development Plan and the Chuan
government's policy on decentralisation aimed to strengthen the rural sector as an
antidote to the 1997 crisis. However, the aims of civil society reformers were at times
too idealistic and were viewed with skepticism by some middle class urban critics.
The continuing influence of electoral corruption in rural areas also obstructed civil
society ideals, while decentralisation and community development still maintained a
top-down way of development and depended on government support.
These difficulties in implementing pro-civil society reforms in the political
process were paralleled by difficulties in developing public interest programs on Thai
television. Current affairs and investigative journalism programs, such as iTV Talk,
Tod Rahad and Krong Satanakarn, did not often open public discussion on the
programs. Rather, the regular format of panel discussions, consisting of elites and
some celebrities, tended to focus on national topics rather than local issues. The hosts
of many of these public affairs programs depended on their own celebrities status and
tended to invite well-known guests, whereas community-oriented programs such as
Lan Ban Lan Muang and Tid Ban Tang Muang promoted civic journalism and
deliberative democracy more effectively. The latter programs allowed the public to
participate in the programs as the main actors and even proposed their own agendas.
However, a limited study of three audience focus groups - an expert urban
group, a young middle class urban group, and a rural group - found considerable
scepticism about the possibility of developing public interest awareness via television
programs. The expert and young middle class groups criticised both the hosts and the
style of a selection of current affairs programs, which they thought were too serious
and also biased. Some also considered that current affairs programs were a platform
for the people in power rather than providing a space for the public. Therefore, they
rarely watched them. In contrast, the rural group who participated in Lan Ban Lan
Muang, believed that the program was useful for development communication. The
audience gained information about other communities and used the media as the
means to publicise their own community. However, they rarely watched it because
the airtime of the program was the same as a popular entertainment program on
Channel 3.
The researcher used qualitative research methods to collect data, including indepth
interviews, focus groups, participant observation, program recording and
document analysis. Theoretically, the study has attempted to combine the approaches
of western and Thai scholars. The main approach used to explain the relationship
between the media and civil society is media and public sphere theory, as introduced
by Habermas, and combined with the perspectives on media re-regulation of the Thai
scholar Ubonrat Siriyusak. In terms of analysing Watchdog and iTV, the researcher
used political economy perspectives to understand decision-making in both
organisations. In addition, an organisational culture approach was used to explore
conflicts of interest that arose in both organisations due to their different sub-cultures.
Civic journalism, framing theory and development communication theory were
further employed to examine the television programs and their roles in promoting the
public interest and development projects, while the audience groups were considered
in the context of participatory communication theory and reception theory.
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Turner, Holly D. "Examining the Concepts, Situation and Inner Contradictions of the Chinese Media Through the News Reporting of Sudden Incidents in 2008." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1237941394.
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Birkendahl, Christoph Fabian. "Reform des GmbH-Rechts : die Abschaffung der Rechtsprechungsregeln durch das MoMiG /." Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2009. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=017085292&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Diers, Philipp. "Konzerninnenfinanzierung durch Darlehen zwischen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs und Reform des GmbHG /." Aachen : Shaker, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016029822&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Schwarz, Holger. "Die reformierte Berufung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Tatsachen- und Revisionsinstanz : erstinstanzliche Sachverhaltsrekonstruktion und Auslegung individueller Vertragserklärungen im Fokus berufungsgerichtlicher Urteilskontrolle nach der ZPO-Reform /." Remscheid : Gardez!-Verl, 2008. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016495238&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Santos, Paula. "Neue Instrumente der Stadtplanung in Brasilien : das Ende der illegalen Stadt? /." Münster : Lit, 2004. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=012931232&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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