Essays about: "Behrang Kianzad"

Found 2 essays containing the words Behrang Kianzad.

1. 1. Media and Minority Rights. The role of media in promoting social cohesion and enforcing human rights of ethnic minorities in nation states

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Behrang Kianzad; [2008]
   Keywords : mass media; minority rights; social cohesion; Human rights; Mänskliga rättigheter; Social structures; Sociala strukturer; Press and communication sciences; Journalistik; media; kommunikation; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The aim of this essay is to investigate the role of media in shaping national identity, analyzed through the media practices on ethic minorities and the medias portrayal of these minorities. The thesis is that since the rise of the modern nation state, a false, imagined, homogenous picture of the nation has been disseminated, first through the printing process and books, and in our days, through massmedia outlets. READ MORE

3. 2. Media, Nation State and Minority Rights. How can media help promote social cohesion and human rights of ethnic minorities in nation states?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Behrang Kianzad; [2007]
   Keywords : Media; Nation-State; Minority Rights; Human rights; Mänskliga rättigheter; Press and communication sciences; Journalistik; media; kommunikation; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Although human rights may well be universal and eternal, but their exercise is an ever changing process and so are the threats or violations of those same rights. Today the violations of human rights in most western, democratic nation states have by large taken a sublime and physically non-aggressive form, best understood in a discursive and institutionalized perspective, when talking about racism and minority rights, that is. READ MORE