Essays about: "issue-attention cycle"

Found 2 essays containing the words issue-attention cycle.

  1. 1. PORTRAYING COVID-19 VACCINES IN ALTERNATIVE MEDIA - A content analysis of the framing of COVID-19 vaccines in Swedish alternative news media

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik och masskommunikation

    Author : Wilhelm Golinski; [2022-09-30]
    Keywords : Alternative media; Sweden; framing; anti-systemness; issue attention cycle; quantitative content analysis; Fria Tider; Dagens ETC ETC; SVT; attribution of responsibility; COVID-19; vaccine;

    Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to gain insights into alternative news media in crisis communication by addressing the news media portrayal of COVID-19 vaccines, inoculation campaigns and the implementation of vaccine mandates by alternative news media outlets in Sweden (Fria Tider and ETC/Dagens ETC). With an exploratory and comparative approach, the study’s overall aim is to investigate how news regarding COVID-19 vaccines (including the vaccines themselves, vaccination campaigns, vaccine passports and mandates) has been portrayed in different Swedish alternative media outlets, and how this compares to traditional mainstream media. READ MORE

  3. 2. #MeToo in Germany: The Hashtag Campaign in the Issue-Attention Cycle

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

    Author : Julia Vanessa Hoffmann; [2018]
    Keywords : MeToo; hashtags; issue-attention cycle; Twitter; sexism; attention dynamics; social media;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to interrogate how “issue-attention cycle” theory corresponds to online debates that address the issue of sexism, specifically the hashtag campaign #MeToo, in German online media. The issue-attention dynamics of #MeToo on Twitter are analyzed in order to understand the relationship between mainstream media and hashtag activism in Germany, and it is demonstrated what the #MeToo coverage can tell about issue-attention theory on the one hand, and how the theory can help to understand #MeToo on the other hand. READ MORE