Essays about: "English Newspapers"

Showing result 36 - 40 of 57 essays containing the words English Newspapers.

1. 36. Making Democracy Work in Greece: The Indignant Citizens Movement, Media and Political Engagement

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

   Author : Christos Kostopoulos; [2013]
   Keywords : participation; democracy; Europeanization; cosmopolitanism; Indignant Citizens; media; media power; news frame analysis; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This research addresses the role that the media have in guiding public perceptions about social movements and also the importance of the media in a well functioning democracy. In order to do so, a case study of the Indignant Citizens movement of Greece is presented, using theories related to participation, including voice and deliberative democracy. READ MORE

3. 37. Violence against Christians in India. A discursive study of two Indian English newspapers

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

   Author : Julia Kuhlin; [2012-06-27]
   Keywords : Christianity in India; Violence against Christians; News Media; Critical Discourse Analysis;

   Abstract : Persecution of Christians in India has increased drastically during the last fifteen years, hundreds have been murdered, thousands injured and numerous driven from their homes. In this situation news media has an important role: they have the means to either reproduce an agenda that leads to persecution or resist such an agenda. READ MORE

4. 38. Media Representation of Climate Change in Uganda

   University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Alice Kiingi; [2012]
   Keywords : Global Journalism;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study was to explore how the Ugandan newspapers, The New Vision and The Daily Monitor frame climate change to become a familiar concept or topic that can be well understood by the public. The term framing in this context does not refer to the ideology of the frame analysis theory but rather defined in simple terms to put a concept into words that convey meaning. READ MORE

5. 39. Health in the headlines : How two Indian newspapers treat antibiotic resistance

   University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper

   Author : Rebecka Ramstedt; Susanna Ahnlund; [2012]
   Keywords : Antibiotics; Antibiotic resistance; Health; India; Journalism; Newspapers; Media.;

   Abstract : In India, there is no regulation of antibiotics and allegedly the use has doubled since 2006. Indiscriminate use of antibiotics gives rise to development of resistant bacteria. The media has, according to the theories used in this study, a responsibility to educate and empower the people to make personal judgments about health risks. READ MORE

6. 40. In Pursuit of a Healthy Public Sphere: A News Frame Analysis of the Farmer Suicide Phenomenon in Daily English-language Indian Newspapers

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Julie Jacobson; [2012]
   Keywords : citizen engagement; public sphere; deliberative democracy; participatory development; farmer suicide phenomenon; media; English-language dailies; India; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Author: Julie Jacobson Title: In Pursuit of a Healthy Public Sphere: A News Frame Analysis of the Farmer Suicide Phenomenon in Daily English-language Indian Newspapers Supervisor: Annette Hill Examiner: Yiannis Mylonas The motivation behind this thesis is to better understand the role of the media in the construction of the farmer suicide phenomenon in India. Through theories of communication and participation, particularly Dahlgren’s civic cultures framework, I shed light on the ways in which English-language daily newspapers in India seem to be promoting civic engagement and disengagement in its framing of the farmer suicide phenomenon. READ MORE