Essays about: "blame attribution"
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1. Ageing Into the Apocalypse : Exploring How Age and Institutionalisation Shapes Environmental Organisations through Apocalyptic Framing and Blame Attribution
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This study investigated how the age of an environmental movement organisation and its degree of institutionalisation impacted the usage of threat-related framing and blame attribution in regards to environmental issues. Environmental discourse has lately developed a rhetoric that embraces urgency and severity, but how different types of environmental movement organisations have approached this, historically and today, has not been widely studied. READ MORE
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2. What does the Fox Say? A mixed-methods framing analysis of Fox News’ coverage of domestic terrorism, 2012-2022
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This paper investigates Fox News’ television coverage of domestic terrorism in the United States from 2012 to 2022. This period spans the terms of both Republican and Democratic Presidents, the COVID-19 pandemic, large-scale civil protests, and the emergence of rightwing extremism as the foremost domestic terror threat. READ MORE
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3. Intergenerational blame attribution - a consequence of the perceived personal post-crisis economy of youth in Sweden?
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Motivated by recent claims from youth that older generations are jeopardizing their future, the purpose of this thesis is to study potential explanations for the variation of intergenerational blame attribution among Swedish youth. Ordinary least squares regression analysis is conducted on survey data, especially focused on young participants, to test several hypotheses about how perceived economic threats and one’s value orientation can impact young people’s motivation to blame elderly generations for economic difficulties. READ MORE
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4. PORTRAYING COVID-19 VACCINES IN ALTERNATIVE MEDIA - A content analysis of the framing of COVID-19 vaccines in Swedish alternative news media
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik och masskommunikationAbstract : Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to gain insights into alternative news media in crisis communication by addressing the news media portrayal of COVID-19 vaccines, inoculation campaigns and the implementation of vaccine mandates by alternative news media outlets in Sweden (Fria Tider and ETC/Dagens ETC). With an exploratory and comparative approach, the study’s overall aim is to investigate how news regarding COVID-19 vaccines (including the vaccines themselves, vaccination campaigns, vaccine passports and mandates) has been portrayed in different Swedish alternative media outlets, and how this compares to traditional mainstream media. READ MORE
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5. Do Not Blame it on Good Times, Blame it on The Attributions: A content analysis of attributions to wins and losses in match reports published by Swedish football clubs in Allsvenskan
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för marknadsföring och strategiAbstract : Football is one of the most followed sports globally and its communication reaches a large audience, including both fans and other stakeholders. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how Swedish football clubs in the top league, Allsvenskan, ascribe causes to their wins and losses in the match reports published online. READ MORE
