Essays about: "rasism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 essays containing the word rasism.

  1. 1. Writing Your Way out of a Cage : Agency and Dehumanization in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2024]
    Keywords : antiracism; slavery; American history; assimilationism; agency; discourse; antirasism; slaveri; amerikansk historia; assimilationism; agency; diskurs;

    Abstract : This thesis analyzes the conceptualization of agency as a form of resistance against dehumanizing slavery discourses present in the narrative The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. For the historical contextualization and the theoretical background, the scholarly work Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is used. READ MORE

  3. 2. Exploring Swedish Values : A Comparative Study of Perspectives among International and Swedish Students in Sweden

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Elise Johansson; [2023]
    Keywords : Swedish values; nation branding; public diplomacy; soft power; intercultural communication; Swedish Institute; Svenska värderingar; nation branding; offentlig diplomati; mjuk makt; interkulturell kommunikation; Svenska institutet;

    Abstract : This thesis examines Swedish values from the perspectives of international and Swedish students residing in Sweden, with the collaboration of the Swedish Institute—a public agency focused on enhancing Sweden’s global image and attractiveness to researchers, students, and talents. The research explores the field of nation branding, public diplomacy, and soft power. READ MORE

  4. 3. Keeping tabs on GPT-SWE : Classifying toxic output from generative language models for Swedish text generation

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Isak Pettersson; [2022]
    Keywords : Active learning; Classification; Language models; Natural Language Processing; Swedish; Transformers; Toxic text; Aktiv inlärning; Klassificering; Språkmodeller; Språkteknologi; Svenska; Transformer nätverk; Toxisk text;

    Abstract : Disclaimer: This paper contains content that can be perceived as offensive or upsetting. Considerable progress has been made in Artificial intelligence (AI) and Natural language processing (NLP) in the last years. READ MORE

  5. 4. Examining Sinophobia and Racialization at the Nexus of News Satire and Public Engagement : The Case of Swedish Television SVT’s Svenska Nyheter News Satire of China in 2018

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Nini Huang; [2022]
    Keywords : Sinophobia; anti-Asian racism; liquid racism; liquid Sinophobia; Yellow Peril; Gook Humor; racialization; color-blindness; news satire; race humor; gulinghumor; sinofobi; rasism mot asiater; gula faran;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to understand Sinophobia in the context of post-racial, anti-racist and color-blind Sweden, specifically concerning news representations of China and racial caricatures of Chinese and other East-Asians through “Gook humor”. Sinophobia is examined through race humor and public engagement with satirical race representations using the controversial case of news satire of China produced by Swedish public television SVT in 2018. READ MORE

  6. 5. Racism is Not Getting Worse, it's Getting Tweeted. : A study of the impact of non-verbal cues in hashtag activism. Which emojis correlates with #blacklivesmatter and #alllivesmatter?

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Elin Erlandsson; Nora Kristoffersson; [2021]
    Keywords : #blacklivesmatter; #alllivesmatter; BLM; ALM; Emojis; Twitter; Hashtag Activism; CMC; Racial injustices; Senti Strength; Digital Communication; Semiotics; #blacklivesmatter; #alllivesmatter; BLM; ALM; Emojis; Twitter; Hashtag Aktivism; CMC; Rasism; Senti Strength; Digital Kommunikation; Semiotik;

    Abstract : Scholars are often studying emojis as pure visual elements or as essential textual parts. Theories in this study bridge these subfields and examine emojis in both fields. This bridging understanding of emojis is applied to hashtag activism in the discursive Black Lives Matter debate to increase the comprehension of the impact of emojis. READ MORE