Essays about: "Material Semiotics"
Showing result 31 - 35 of 37 essays containing the words Material Semiotics.
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31. East of Eden? : A Visual Analysis of Videos Advertising EU Enlargement
University essay from Lunds universitet/EuropastudierAbstract : The essay performs a qualitative study on political advertising clips available online in the official multimedia library of DG Enlargement. The sample material consists of the three video clips that at the time of writing focus on South Eastern European candidate countries as well as recently joined EU member states. READ MORE
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32. The Present Absence - the representation of immigrant women in the Swedish television news
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : This study on the representation of immigrant women in the news investigates three questions: How often do immigrant women appear in the news? In what roles are the immigrant women presented and what issues do they speak about? What are the relationships between those involved in the news features? The research has been conducted through the use of content analysis in combination with the qualitative approaches of semiotics and discourse within a framework of the theoretical perspective of intersectionality. Additional theories in the study are considering the global tendencies and the media, the social construction of news, us & them and stereotypes, as well as feminist media studies. READ MORE
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33. Consumption composites
University essay from Inredningsarkitektur & MöbeldesignAbstract : Consumption composites is a project in which I want to reflect about the concept of recycling, to explore the idea of a society result of recycling, to see if it could be helpful to think in it in another way. I explore the act of recycling as a statement, as a discourse not as a solution for industrial production waste, the relation between the semiotics of the discarded material and the recycled resulting piece but most the interaction between these two and the final user/ spectator[1]. READ MORE
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34. Abject and Liminal Bodies : The Dead Body in CSI: Miami and Six Feet Under
University essay from Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation (JMK)Abstract : This study researches fictional representations of dead bodies in two television series in which representations of dead bodies are prominent features. The study introduces a brief history of the human body as a societal metaphor. READ MORE
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35. FASHIONING THE FEMALE : An Analysis of the “Fashionable Woman” in ELLE Magazine –Now and Then
University essay from Medier och kommunikationAbstract : ABSTRACT Title: FASHIONING THE FEMALE - An Analysis of the “Fashionable Woman” in ELLE Magazine - Now and Then Number of pages: 57 (including diagrams and figures, excluding enclosures) Author: Heidi Marie Nömm Tutor: Ylva Ekström Course: Media and Communication Studies D Level, Master Thesis Period: Spring term 2007 University: Uppsala University Division of Media and Communication Department of Information Science Purpose/Aim: The purpose of this master thesis is to investigate how fashion can function as a communication channel and how the modern Swedish woman is represented in ELLE magazine within two different fashion decades, in 1992 and 2007. Material: Swedish ELLE magazines No. READ MORE
