Essays about: "U.S. media"

Showing result 36 - 40 of 63 essays containing the words U.S. media.

  1. 36. Storytelling techniques in protest reporting : A comparative analysis of narratives on the Ferguson unrest by AJE, BBCW and RT

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Madeleine Ceder; [2017]
    Keywords : Strategic narrative; protest; Ferguson; protest paradigm; global media; Al Jazeera English; BBC World News; RT;

    Abstract : In a global media environment characterized by change and conflict, narratives are especially useful to understand how the media form and distribute shared understanding of how the world works and who the important actors are. As the borders between local and global politics are blurred in the digital media landscape, protesters are in increased rate turning their placards to global broadcasters’ cameras, especially when political movements such as the U. READ MORE

  3. 37. Borrowed practices : renew or hold : examining the potential for the spreading of libraries of things in Mexico City through social practice

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Gabriela Duhart Herrera; [2017]
    Keywords : libraries of things; collaborative economy; practice theory; Mexico City; consumption; lending libraries; sustainability science; bibliotecas de cosas; economía colaborativa; teoría de la práctica; consumo; Ciudad de México; ciencias de la sustentabilidad; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Libraries of things, non-for-profit physical spaces where people borrow objects they would otherwise buy, have spread over Europe, the U.S., and Canada and have now emerged in Mexico City, where challenges to sustainability such as increased consumption levels and insufficient waste management abound. READ MORE

  4. 38. Looking Back : Racializing Assemblages and the Biopolitics of Resistance

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Christian Rossipal; [2017]
    Keywords : copwatch; counter-surveillance; sousveillance; race; biopolitics; embodiment; corporeality;

    Abstract : The topic of this thesis is the biopolitics of video activism vis-à-vis racialized police violence. It is written against the backdrop of recent developments in the critique of two central concepts in field of biopolitics, namely Giorgio Agamben’s bare life and Michel Foucault’s biopower. Offsetting their respective framework, Alexander G. READ MORE

  5. 39. Digital Memory of a Neglected Colonial Past: Visual Representation of Danish Colonialism and Slavery in the U.S. Virgin Islands

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

    Author : Diantha Jayananthan; [2017]
    Keywords : Colonialism; Memory; Representation; Art; U.S. Virgin Islands; Slavery;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how digital mediations of art and performances can contribute to shaping new memories and perceptions about the Danish colonization of the U.S. Virgin Islands. READ MORE

  6. 40. The Media Representation of Fictional Gay and Lesbian Characters on Television : A Qualitative Analysis of U.S. TV-series regarding Heteronormativity

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Ray Seif; [2017]
    Keywords : TV representation; gay; lesbian; gender; sex; heteronormativity; U.S.; content analysis;

    Abstract : There has been an increase in the portrayal of gay characters in several television series during the last decades, however they are still depicted in an odd way, derived from the heteronormative approach. Television programs constantly show that heterosexuality is the prevailing standard and that people that do not adapt to this heteronormative morale are regarded as eccentric and do not fit in American society. READ MORE