Essays about: "role of media in a democracy"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 52 essays containing the words role of media in a democracy.
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1. “Russian oppositional journalism is not an institution; it is a partisan movement” : Reconfigured professional identities among Russophone exile journalists in the Baltic States
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och EurasienstudierAbstract : Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, repressive legislative changes and tightened war-censorship prompted a new wave of media professionals leaving the Federation. This study explores how Russian journalists resettling in the Baltic states articulate their professional identity and view the Russian versus Baltic governments’ attitudes while adapting abroad. READ MORE
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2. Disinformation and political polarization: A pernicious association
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Political polarization can have pernicious consequences for democracy. Disinformation has been theorized to contribute to turning political polarization pernicious but the connection has not been thoroughly examined. Digital media have been proposed as the reason for increasing levels of both of these. READ MORE
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3. The implicit ideas behind ‘Valkompassen’ : An ideal type analysis of the democratic presuppositions in Voting Advice Applications
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : With Voting Advice Applications changing how people engage in democracy it has become more important to understand the work behind them. Much research has been given to the algorithm and methodology, but less has focused on the ideas that presupposes the development process. READ MORE
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4. Media Strategies of Russian Opposition in Exile: Values, Visibility, and Virtual Mobilisation
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : This thesis examines the media strategies employed by leading figures and organizations in the Russian political opposition landscape, namely Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF), Dmitry Gudkov's Secretariat of European Russians, Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Russian Action Committee, Feminist Anti-War Resistance, and Ilya Ponomarev. Using critical discourse analysis as its core methodology, the study aims to unravel the complex dynamics between stated values and media strategies. READ MORE
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5. Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Survey Response Annotation
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : Multilingual natural language processing (NLP) is increasingly recognized for its potential in processing diverse text-type data, including those from social media, reviews, and technical reports. Multilingual language models like mBERT and XLM-RoBERTa (XLM-R) play a pivotal role in multilingual NLP. READ MORE