Essays about: "biased media"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 35 essays containing the words biased media.

1. 6. GO BACK TO /R/CONSPIRACY: AN EXPLORATION OF METHODS FOR THE AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF AFFECTIVE POLARIZATION ON REDDIT

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

   Author : Klara Båstedt; [2022-10-06]
   Keywords : affective polarization; covid-19; social media; Reddit; NLP;

   Abstract : Affective polarization – the tendency to hold negative attitudes towards an out-group and biased, positive attitudes towards an in-group – is a hot topic in research and public debate. There are concerns that news media’s tendency to focus on political conflict rather than issues is causing polarization to increase, but researchers lack methods to automatically asses levels of polarization in online debates and correlate them with news articles. READ MORE

3. 7. The devil’s edit in Korean reality TV and audience and fan engagement : a case study of Street Woman Fighter (2021)

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

   Author : Debora Lee; [2022]
   Keywords : reality show; competition show; Street Woman Fighter; SWF; gender representation; backlash; devil’s edit; audience; fan; fandom; engagement; empowerment; push-pull dynamic; paratext; Korea; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the new and contemporary audiences and fans’ studies with the genre of reality competition shows, using the Korean show Street Woman Fighter (2021) as a case study. A qualitative interview method was used to collect the empirical data of the study, and qualitative data analysis was employed to understand the data. READ MORE

4. 8. Framing the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests: a socio-legal study of partisan news coverage

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Daniel Leander Clément; [2022]
   Keywords : Black Lives Matter; Protest Paradigm; Moral Foundations Theory; police brutality; racial bias; news coverage; CNN; Fox News; New York Times; framing; legal culture; socio-legal; sociology of law; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The 2020 Black Lives Matter protests brought national attention to the issue of police brutality against black Americans. Across the US, millions of people participated in the protests. This study was conducted with the aim to study news coverage of those events from a socio-legal perspective. READ MORE

5. 9. The Dissatisfied Right:A Micro-Level Analysis of Political Dissatisfaction in Supporters of the Populist Radical Right in Rural East Germany

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Franziska Höhne; [2021-10-14]
   Keywords : political dissatisfaction; populism; PRR; electorate; AfD; east Germany;

   Abstract : Contemporary election results of the populist radical right (PRR) reveal significant spatial variation of PRR support within countries. To a large extent, this variation is believed to be based on local and regional differences within the PRR’s electorate, which calls for the inclusion of micro-level analyses in our study of the PRR. READ MORE

6. 10. A Lexical Comparison Using Word Embedding Mapping from an Academic Word Usage Perspective

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Xuemei Cai; [2020]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : This thesis applies the word embedding mapping approach to make a lexical comparison from academic word usage perspective. We aim to demonstrate the differences in academic word usage between a corpus of student writings and a corpus of academic English, as well as a corpus of student writings and social media texts. READ MORE