Essays about: "conflict narrative"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 93 essays containing the words conflict narrative.

1. 16. Media Objectivity and Bias in Western Coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

   Author : Henry O. Fisher; [2023]
   Keywords : peace journalism; objectivity; media bias; Russian-Ukrainian war; BBC; CNN;

   Abstract : The present study seeks to identify if journalistic objectivity is compromised in the coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian war and how the various media bias practices are incorporated into news reports. It provides a critical analysis of the portrayal of conflicting sides of the conflict in Western mainstream media, examining how the "us" versus "them" narratives were constructed and how the produced discourse aligns with the principles of peace journalism. READ MORE

3. 17. The Classification of Civilians as Human Shields: a Means to Justify Violence?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Coline Marie Proy; [2023]
   Keywords : Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Human shields have been increasingly documented in contemporary theatres of war. In this context, it is interesting to examine the circumstances in which the attacking party classifies the civilians they face as human shields. READ MORE

4. 18. Fake News in the Polish Information Sphere Following the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in February 2022

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

   Author : Sara Thompson; [2022]
   Keywords : fake news; Poland; Ukraine; Russia; framing; content analysis;

   Abstract : This thesis presents a qualitative study of fake news disseminated in Poland as a result of the outbreak of the war between Russia and Ukraine in February 2022. It aims to contribute to the public knowledge about the most prominent themes of the Polish fake news and the topics prone to be used as disinformation and as a weapon of war in a conflict setting. READ MORE

5. 19. Conflicts on Exploited Land

   University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

   Author : Anni Wagenius; [2022]
   Keywords : reindeer industry; Sami community; mining industry; green development; green colonization; exploitations; land use;

   Abstract : The North of Sweden is undergoing what’s called a green revolution, where new exploitations arehappening in the name of green development and growth and within the frame of eco-modernism. Thisrevolution is viewed as the solution to many of our problems, one being the climate change, another beingthe de-population of many towns in the North, such as Gällivare. READ MORE

6. 20. Dissonance in Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life and Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Kristian Jeremic; [2022]
   Keywords : Elizabeth Gaskell; Mary Barton; George Orwell; Down and Out in Paris and London; Marxism; class; class consciousness; historical materialism; Althusser; internal distantiation; unreliable narrator; intranarrational unreliability; extratextual unreliability; representations of poverty;

   Abstract : This essay identifies a type of narrative dissonance in the depictions of working-class conditions within Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life and George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London. In this thesis, the dissonance is argued in part to be the effect created when an author belonging to one social class attempts to portray a class separate from their own. READ MORE