Essays about: "Online News paper"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 30 essays containing the words Online News paper.

  1. 16. “Digital Woyane” – fighting the digital revolution : political activists, the use of social media and the construction of nationalist sentiments in Tigray, Ethiopia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Mirjam Zehnder; [2020]
    Keywords : Ethiopia; Tigray; Social Media Activism; Political Participation; Political Protests; Nationalism; Ethnicity; African Media Studies; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In recent years, digital technologies provided new affordances for movement leaders as communication strategies in political protests in order to advance democratisation processes, especially in less developed countries. In Ethiopia, numerous protests have been taken place lately, which were mainly organised along ethnic lines on the basis of nationalist sentiments. READ MORE

  3. 17. Stockpiling Behavior Impacted by Social Media Use Among Middle-aged Women Consumers in Sweden Amid Coronavirus Pandemic Outbreak

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för hälsa och välfärd

    Author : Biqiong Lin; [2020]
    Keywords : Social media; pandemic crisis; risk perception; stockpiling behavior; contagious effect; Sweden;

    Abstract : The research paper presents qualitative research and aims to examine the impact of social media on consumers’ stockpiling behavior under the situation of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Sweden since week 11, 2020. Data is collected by interviewing five middle-aged women in Sweden who are either native Swedes or permanent immigrants and who had experienced stockpiling behavior. READ MORE

  4. 18. Why Use Facebook? A Uses & Gratifications Study of Generation X in the UK

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Christopher Munns; [2018]
    Keywords : Facebook; Social Media; Collaborative Media; Social Networking; Uses and Gratifications Theory; Media Dependency Theory; Generation X; UK;

    Abstract : This paper explores the use of the social networking site, Facebook, by the GenerationX cohort (those born 1966-1980 inclusive) currently living in the United Kingdom(identified as a somewhat under-studied group to date). Utilising a ‘Uses &Gratifications Theory’ and ‘(Media) Dependency Theory’ approach and the quantitativeempirical data collection method of an extensive online ‘self-fill’ questionnaire, a totalof 233 individuals from this cohort voluntarily provided the sought-after information,with data collected during early September 2018. READ MORE

  5. 19. Nasty Peers and Smart Sceptics: The cognitive effects of low-quality discussions in comments sections on social media

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för marknadsföring och strategi

    Author : Olivia Backsell; Ellen Wallin; [2018]
    Keywords : social media; comments section; low-quality online discussions; priming; cognitive ability;

    Abstract : In the social media world of fake news, filter bubbles, and online bullying, people have a hard time navigating through, and keeping an objective distance to, what is right and wrong. So far, only a few researchers have examined the effects of social media on users' thinking, showing that people adapt to antisocial behaviour or poor writing in comments sections. READ MORE

  6. 20. Immigration in French Newspapers Post Terrorist Attacks : A study of the framing of immigration in Le Monde & Le Figaro after the Charlie Hedo attack

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Journalistik

    Author : Dahlia Marklund; [2018]
    Keywords : Framing; Immigration; Terrorism; Charlie Hebdo; Le Monde; Le Figaro;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explore how the topic of immigration was framed by the two French newspapers Le Monde and Le Figaro in their political online sections during the two weeks following the terror attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2015. Applying frame analyses on textual articles published during this time, this paper can conclude that five frames manifested themselves. READ MORE