Essays about: "Media Semiotics"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 49 essays containing the words Media Semiotics.

  1. 11. ‘It is unfortunate that it cannot be resolved by peaceful means!’ : How the Dutch media represented the atrocities committed in Indonesia during 1945-1949.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Adriana Johanna Fransz; [2022]
    Keywords : Representation; mainstream; atrocities; the Netherlands; Indonesia; media; newspaper; discourse analysis; Indonesian National Revolution; postcolonialism; othering; semiotics;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the representation of atrocities committed by the Dutch in Indonesia between 1945-1949 in a Dutch mainstream newspaper in the Netherlands. This timeframe represents the decolonisation war between the Netherlands and Indonesia, which is referred to as the Indonesian National Revolution. READ MORE

  3. 12. Art history through a queer lens - Focalization and semiotics applied to two Instagram accounts dedicated to queer art history

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Leo Hildebrand; [2021]
    Keywords : art history; queer; instagram; semiotics; semiosis; narratology; discourse; representation; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how queer art history is created through the interaction between two Instagram accounts, the art they post, and their followers. This thesis has analysed how the semiotic meaning-making construct a representation of queerness and what the effects are of a queer focalization in a social media context. READ MORE

  4. 13. Online news media framing of the 2021 Israeli-Palestinian conflict by Al Jazeera, BBC and CNN

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Mihaela Panayotova; Hristiana Rizova; [2021]
    Keywords : Israeli-Palestinian conflict; online media; visual framing analysis; news headlines;

    Abstract : This thesis critically analyses the language and images used by international online news media to represent the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in May 2021. In total, 270 online news headlines and featured lead images, published on the English news websites of Al Jazeera, BBC and CNN, are analyzed. READ MORE

  5. 14. PICTURES AT AN ELECTION A visual semiotic analysis of Swedish political parties’ visual communication in the 2018 election

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Axel Karlsson; [2020-01-27]
    Keywords : Sweden; political communication; visual communication; political parties; visual semiotics; election posters; Facebook; social media;

    Abstract : The following thesis utilizes visual social semiotic analysis in order to investigate the usage of images by Swedish political parties during the election campaign to the Swedish Riksdag of 2018. Visual semiotics is used to identify the themes and the visual methodology used in images in election posters before comparing these to posts made by the parties on Facebook the week preceding the election in 2018 in order to ascertain whether there were differences in said themes and methodology in the posters compared to the Facebook posts or not. READ MORE

  6. 15. Visualizing the Invisible: An Exploration of the Radioactive Image within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Fannie Frederikke Baden; [2020]
    Keywords : Radioactive Image; Nuclear Disaster; Nuclear power; Chernobyl; Disaster Tourism; Visual tropes; radioactivity; semiotics; visualized natural phenomena; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the radioactive image and poses the multi-layered question: ‘(how) can radioactivity exist as an image, when it cannot be seen, heard or felt?’. By having no sensorial qualities, radioactivity is often narrated in popular media by metaphoric association. READ MORE