Essays about: "Domestic terror"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words Domestic terror.

  1. 1. 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 School

    Author : Jesse Wiles; [2023]
    Keywords : Domestic terror; ontological security; framing; television; news media; rightwing extremism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : 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

  3. 2. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Otherness and The Abject in Alice Munro's "Dimensions" and "Child's Play"

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Sara Frigerio; [2023]
    Keywords : Otherness; Abjection; Critical Discourse Analysis; Lacan; Kristeva;

    Abstract : This thesis is aimed at investigating the concepts of otherness and the abject/abjection in the various characters' discourses in the two short stories "Dimensions" and "Child's Play" in Alice Munro's collection Too Much Happiness from a psychoanalytic perspective in conjunction with a Critical Discourse Analysis. Both texts share features of otherness which manifest in various forms in the characters. READ MORE

  4. 3. Community Perception of Flood Risk in Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Beatrice Lundquist; [2022]
    Keywords : floods; risk perception; experience; Sweden;

    Abstract : Natural hazards, paired with affected communities’ exposure and vulnerability, have caused numerousfatalities and great economic losses worldwide in recent decades. Floods represent about one-third ofall natural hazards, and together with storms they comprise 77% of economic losses caused byextreme weather events from 1980 to 2006 in Europe and have been the main natural hazards inEurope for more than a century. READ MORE

  5. 4. From Victory to Defeat? How Human Rights Infringements in Foreign Policy During the War on Terror Contributed to the Decline of Democracy in the US

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Marco Bouwmans; [2020]
    Keywords : decline of democracy; foreign policy; human rights infringements; War on Terror; equality; historical institutionalism;

    Abstract : As democracy globally declines according to the indices that measure the level of democracy around the world, existing literature lines up a wide spectrum of explanations for this decline. However, the impact of foreign policy on the domestic democratic system is widely overlooked. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Stockholm Terror Attack 2017 : How Domestic and International Online News Media Framed the Act and Empowered Involved Actors

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Katja Væver Kronborg; [2018]
    Keywords : Framing; Terrorism; Media; Power; Risk Society; Media Representation;

    Abstract : The aim of this comparative study has been to identify similarities and differences in Swedish and British media’s framing and empowerment of actors in relation to the 2017 Stockholm terror attack. Theories on the risk society, framing, power and CDA have been used to create a framework that gives a deeper understanding of media’s role in framing actors and events, and how this can potentially affect the public. READ MORE