Essays about: "“Imagined Communities”"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 essays containing the words “Imagined Communities”.
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1. Beyond the music : Exploring the Dynamics of National and European Identity in the Eurovision Song Contest
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)Abstract : This thesis examines how member nations manage their national identities within the supranational context of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) and the significance of the ESC in creating a shared European identity. Patterns of identification and attitudes relating to culture, ethnicity/nationality, religion/faith, and gender/sex are discovered by studying the winning submissions from 1998 to 2022 through content analysis and discourse analysis. READ MORE
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2. Streaming as a Virtual Being : The Complex Relationship Between VTubers and Identity
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : The boundary between offline and online worlds is rapidly shrinking with improvements in technology. Virtual Youtubers (VTubers) have emerged in recent years as a new Twitch streaming phenomenon. Replacing the use of webcams, VTubers obscure their true physical appearance and instead choose to represent themselves through a fictional character. READ MORE
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3. Foreign students, loneliness, and the Swedish language : Analysis of social and cultural experiences of creating a community in Uppsala
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : This Bachelor thesis is about international students, who travelled to Uppsala to study abroad during the autumn exchange term, which took place between September 2021 to January 2022. Four students from different countries were interviewed about their cultural and social experiences when the students studied abroad and how they oriented themselves in a foreign environment. READ MORE
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4. Barriers for Belonging in Fiction : The House on Mango Street as a Resource for Teaching
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Swedish curricula and syllabi constitute a richness of different considerations. Withinthis composition of principles, it is distinctly declared that all Swedish schools should counteract any inclination of discrimination and that intolerance must be answered with different measures, including knowledge (Skolverket, 2011b, 1). READ MORE
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5. The Imagined Community of Scotland in the Narratives and Rhetoric of the Scottish National Party from the Independence Referendum to the Brexit Referendum : A Case Study of the Construction of a National Identity Within a Nation Region
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : This thesis conducts a case study on how the idea of a Scottish nation and Scottish independence have been constructed and changed within the political discourse produced by the Scottish National Party during the period around the Scottish independence referendum in 2014 and around the Brexit referendum in 2016. This will be done by conducting a textual analysis with a set of operational questions on written material produced by the Scottish National Party during the period of time previoulsy mentioned, based on the theoretical framework of social constructivism and nationalism with a focus on "imagined communities". READ MORE
