Essays about: "National identity representation"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 42 essays containing the words National identity representation.

1. 21. Alienating Narratives - The professional Challenge of Preventing and Responding to Sexual Vulnerability Amongst Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Julia Degerkvist; [2019]
   Keywords : Unaccompanied refugee minors; Professional practice; Social Work; Sexual Violence; Trust Development; Media representation; Alienation; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the reception system for unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) in Sweden, with a focus on preventive and responsive measures to sexual violence. The aim is to understand the professional challenges of actively working against sexual vulnerability and violence. READ MORE

3. 22. Japanese National Identity and the Takeshima/Dokdo Dispute: Constructing National Identity Discourse around South Korea

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Inés Romero Wait; [2019]
   Keywords : National identity; Japan; South Korea; Discourse; Takeshima; Political symbol; Japanese government; Bilateral relations; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : National identity is used as a representation of what a country wants to transmit as its own impression of ‘self’, and usually it is formed around the concept of an ‘other’. Nonetheless, if two national identities are contradictory; it can hinder the development of desirable bilateral relations, which is the case of Japan and South Korea. READ MORE

4. 23. Finland's Biggest Dress Party : A Study of the Role of Women's Appearances at the Independence Day Reception

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Modevetenskap

   Author : Viivi Laakkonen; [2018]
   Keywords : dress; fashion; communication; media representation; Independence Day reception; fashion studies; media studies; semiology; fashion media discourse; Linnan juhlat;

   Abstract : Finland’s Biggest Dress Party – A Study of the Role of Women’s Appearances at the Independence Day Reception, aims to understand the role of dresses at Finland’s Independence Day Reception by focusing on how the reception has earned a title “Finland’s biggest dress party”, and meanings behind the dresses. The aims are studied combining fashion and media studies in three analytical chapters focusing on the media’s development and influence, how the dresses work as a communication tool and what kind of messages are sent through dresses, and Finnishness and national identity in the dresses. READ MORE

5. 24. Modern Comrades or Old Enemies? : A comparative study of the representation of Russia in Italian and Swedish Press

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

   Author : Sara Francesca Lindgren; [2018]
   Keywords : narrative analysis; national representation; Italian press; Swedish press; russia; Vladimir Putin; comparative study;

   Abstract : Starting from a personal, contemporary outlook on society today, it might be obvious for a reader to immediately think of media as global, an entity hovering over national borders, transcending geography and geo-politics. As such viewers, we ignore thus that media - and the press in particular - have for a long time in the past been associated and tightly linked with mechanisms of nation-building, as well as with concepts such as nation, national identity and nationalism. READ MORE

6. 25. Nation branding and the representation of a nation’s identity: the case of the Study in Sweden Facebook page

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

   Author : Heena Jeong; [2018]
   Keywords : Nation branding; Facebook; Study in Sweden; the Swedish institute; social media; imagined community; Swedishness; Swedish values; internationalisation of higher education;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to explore the Study in Sweden Facebook page, particularly about the use of nation branding identity and its representation on the social media channel during the period for application promotion for Swedish higher education institutions for Autumn semester 2018. Facebook page has been used as a centre for international marketing activities. READ MORE