Essays about: "imagined community"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 38 essays containing the words imagined community.

  1. 21. For the Love of the Game : The role of social media and strategic communication in developing women’s softball in Europe

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Linnea Goodman; [2018]
    Keywords : non-profit organizations; strategic communication; communities; social media; sports organizations;

    Abstract : This study explores how social media contributes to the relationship between community and non-profit organizational communication in the scope of marginalized women’s sports. The analysis of the data is based on a theoretical framework of social identity and self-categorization theories in imagined communities from a non-profit, strategic organizational communication perspective. READ MORE

  3. 22. Negotiating ‘Finnishness’ : The discursive construction of Finnish national identities in online discussions around immigration

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om migration, etnicitet och samhälle

    Author : Inna Sinersaari; [2018]
    Keywords : critical discourse analysis; national identities; discussion forum; immigration debate; Finland;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how national identities are discursively constructed in online discussions around immigration in Finland. The discursive construction of Finnish national identities is analyzed both in the light of the construction of ‘sameness’ and of ‘otherness’, drawing upon critical discourse analysis and the notion of a nation as an imagined community. READ MORE

  4. 23. 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

  5. 24. "Europe Starts Here!" A Cultural Discourse Analysis of the European Heritage Label

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Ingeborg de Vries; [2017]
    Keywords : heritage; culture; European Heritage Label; EHL; cultural analysis; discourse analysis; labelling; authorized heritage discourse; historicity; Laurajane Smith; Anne Eriksen; MACA; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses the discourse of cultural heritage by taking the European Heritage Label (EHL) as a case study. The European Heritage Label is an organization established in 2011 by the European Union (EU) and created an application process for historical and cultural sites to be labelled as “European Heritage”. READ MORE

  6. 25. "The Kurds are alive and their flag will never fall” - Nationalism and internal national dynamics in Kurdistan Regional Government

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Martina Berglund; [2017]
    Keywords : independency; nationalism; tribalism; national identity; KRG; Kurdistan; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Nationalism and the urge for independency has increased since the development of a Kurdish autonomous region in Iraq. The purpose of this study is to further our understanding of the internal national dynamics in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), and describe the political parties’ perspective on independency in relation to tribalism and national identity. READ MORE