Essays about: "Journalist s role"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words Journalist s role.

  1. 1. The Feminine Wasteland: Gender Roles and Women's Mental Health in Joan Didion's Run River and Play It As It Lays

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Hanna Jyrinki; [2023]
    Keywords : Joan Didion; Run River; Play It As It Lays; Betty Friedan; The Feminine Mystique; Gender Roles; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The American author and journalist Joan Didion was especially known for her non-fiction that pertinently described the culture she lived in, but her novels also offer a frank and realistic perspective on American society. In her two first novels Run River (1963) and Play It As It Lays (1970) Didion portrays the respective main characters, Lily Knight McClellan and Maria Wyeth, as fragile women who are failing to live up to the gender roles that were imposed on them. READ MORE

  3. 2. "Under pressure". A study of the Swedish Public Health Agency´s crisis - and reputation management during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation

    Author : Lina Karlsson; [2021-07-27]
    Keywords : COVID-19; crisis communication; societal crisis; public organizations; public agencies; reputation; reputational threat; Image Repair Theory; IRT; Bureaucratic Reputation Theory; BRT; rhetorical analysis; rhetorical criticism; kategoria; apologia;

    Abstract : This study examines the Swedish Public Health Agency’s (PHA) crisis communication regarding the COVID-19 pandemic during the year of 2020. Departing from a synthesis of the frameworks of Image Repair Theory and Bureaucratic Reputation Theory, the PHA’s online press conferences are critically analyzed to map out how the PHA’s representatives react to reputational threats that occur alongside and in connection to its management of the crisis at hand. READ MORE

  4. 3. Towards a generational transformation of the role and meaning of friendship

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Julie Kirketorp; [2021]
    Keywords : Friendships; individualization; biographical narrative; identity; life witnesses; intimacy; and care.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The thesis sets out to explore the role and meaning of friendships across two age groups. This is attained by a generational interview design where the groups are separated by nearly 20 years. READ MORE

  5. 4. Potential for Peace Journalism? : Exploring the factors that influenced the coverage of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition protests

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Maike Hansen; [2020]
    Keywords : Conflict coverage; peace journalism; war journalism; Hong Kong protests; Anti-Extradition protests; news production process; press freedom; media and conflict;

    Abstract : The coverage of news media on conflicts increasingly became the subject of criticism, accused of sensationalism, oversimplification, and underrepresentation of certain issues. While recognizing that it is the journalists and editors that make choices regarding the collection and framing of the stories and accounts published in newspapers and digital media outlets, this thesis sets to understand these choices against the background of the web of structural constraints pertaining to professional, organizational, economic and political contexts of their work. READ MORE

  6. 5. Conceiving a talk show and civic talk through young women’s eyes : gender in an audience study on Indonesian talk show ‘Mata Najwa’

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Rania Savitri Mafiroh; [2019]
    Keywords : audience engagement; citizenship; civic cultures; civic agency; civic talk; civic mix; female audience; Indonesia; Mata Najwa; Najwa Shihab; intimate public sphere; patriarchal culture; spectrum of engagement; talk show; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The thesis focuses on the agency of young Indonesian women audiences promoted by an Indonesia television talk show, Mata Najwa. The aim of the thesis is understanding the engagement of young Indonesian women with the programme and how they acquire knowledge from this public discussion talk show as their resource in having civic talk about political and social issues in Indonesia. READ MORE