Essays about: "essay on role of media"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 22 essays containing the words essay on role of media.

1. 16. Trapped in Consumption - a Qualitative Content Analysis of How Lyxfällan Portrays the Consumer Society

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

   Author : Marika Nilsson; Michaela Engström; [2013]
   Keywords : consumers; fools; experts; identification; Lyxfällan; risks; reality TV; consumption; Consumer society; consumerism; insatiable needs; overconsumption; konsumtion; överkonsumtion; köpvanor; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Today’s society is a consumer society where consumption is dominated by the consumption of commodities. Consumption is a common theme seen on television, which is one of today’s major media channels. Reality TV is a growing genre in television production. This essay discusses how consumer society is portrayed in reality TV. READ MORE

3. 17. Cultural racism without race : an exploratory insight into the discrimination and self-perception of the Sweden Democrats

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

   Author : Michael Bossetta; [2012]
   Keywords : political correctness; reverse racism; immigration; new racism; cultural racism; racism; populism; Sweden; nationalism; Sverigedemokraterna; Sweden Democrats; censorship; media; politics of migration; politics of difference; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study presents a fresh, humanistic perspective into the worldview of a rarely studied group: The Sweden Democrats. Having entered the Swedish Parliament in 2010, the Sweden Democrats are a controversial nationalist-populist party, and they are currently the only major party in Sweden rejecting the country’s famed multiculturalism model. READ MORE

4. 18. Dancing for your Self Exploring the theories of Gender Trouble by Judith Butler through homemade dance videos on YouTube

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för planering och mediedesign

   Author : Petra Krigström; [2011]
   Keywords : Identity; gender; performativity; remediation;

   Abstract : In my essay I explore the theories on performativity by Judith Butler and her book Gender Trouble and apply her theories from the early nineties on today’s Web 2.0 and YouTube. READ MORE

5. 19. The Social Structure of Massive Multiplayer Online Communities : Investigating the social network of a World of Warcraft guild

   University essay from Sociologiska institutionen; Stockholms universitet

   Author : Einar Stensson; [2009]
   Keywords : MMO Communities; Social Network Analysis; World of Warcraft; Guilds; Social Media; Computer Mediated Communication; Social Relations;

   Abstract : The growing role of communication using computers in people’s everyday lives is reflected by the debates about massive multiplayer online role playing games (MMOs) like World of Warcraft and the Internet as a whole. While people may be driven by the same psychological drives that have spurred interaction between people in the past, this interaction is increasingly facilitated with the use of computer mediated communication (CMC). READ MORE

6. 20. Kränkande eller Yttrandefrihet : Nio länders medierapportering av Nerikes Allehandas "Muhammedteckning"

   University essay from Örebro universitet/Humanistiska institutionen

   Author : Karwan Tahir; [2008]
   Keywords : Muhammad cartoons; Prophet Muhammad; freedom of expression; Lars Vilks; Muhammedteckning; Lars Vilks; yttrandefrihet; kränkning; Nerikes Allehanda; muslimer; Islam;

   Abstract :       About two years after publishing so called Muhammad cartoons in Denmark, the Swedish regional newspaper Nerikes Allehanda in Orebro published an editorial on self-censorship. A drawing of Prophet Muhammad as a Roundabout dog, drawn by Lars Vilks, was illustrating the article. READ MORE