Essays about: "media killing"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words media killing.

1. 1. Killing women, making headlines : Exploring the representation of femicide in Chilean online news media

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Valentina Bravo Jara; [2023]
   Keywords : News reporting; Femicide; Gender-based violence; Feminist Discourse Analysis; Chile; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Femicide is the lethal form of gender-based violence (GBV) and is a reflection of our unequal societies and power relations between women and men. This present study is investigating how femicide is represented in the online news media with the argument that it has the ability to shape and form the perceptions and understanding of femicide in the public debate, hence either contributing or counteracting its existence. READ MORE

3. 2. ”The shrieking of nothing is killing me” : Representations of society of the spectacle and hyperreality in David Bowie’s lyrics

   University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Mariann Gabrielsson; [2023]
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   Abstract : This text explores how the lyrics of David Bowie can be applied as supporting the critique against hyperreality and society of the spectacle, as articulated by Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard. This is done by focusing on three questions: 1) what elements in Bowie’s lyrics support Debord and Baudrillard, 2) how can these elements function to portray Bowie as primarily a sociologist and secondly an artist, and 3) what are the benefits of using fiction (in this case lyrics) as empirical material? From a theoretical framework building on Debord’s society of the spectacle and Baudrillard’s focus on hyperreality, I will apply a two-folded methodology of sociology through literature and socio-poetics. READ MORE

4. 3. The Killing Agent : A comparative transitivity analysis of US news headlines regarding killings of and by the civilian and the police officer

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Wendela Rikardsdotter; [2023]
   Keywords : Agency; America; Authority; News; Critical Discourse Analysis; CDA; Media; USA; Police Brutality;

   Abstract : Due to its status and reach, media discourse can shape its reader's perspective on social actors and events, for good and for worse. This thesis investigates 100 headlines retrieved via searches in the NOW corpus, of which 50 portray killings of police officers by civilians and 50 portray the opposite, killings of civilians by police officers. READ MORE

5. 4. Dare to dive in? Antibiotic resistant bacteria in recreational water in Gothenburg, Sweden

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutioen för biomedicin

   Author : Julia Vilderstorm Bengtsson; [2022-10-05]
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   Abstract : BACKGROUND Antibiotic resistant bacteria constitute a major global public health threat. Certain environments and settings contribute to the dissemination of such bacteria, and of antibiotic resistance genes. READ MORE

6. 5. “Das Problem ist das Patriarchat” A qualitative Analysis of Framing and Counterframing of Femi(ni)cides in contemporary Germany

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Siri Krobjinski; [2022]
   Keywords : femicide; feminicide; activism; Germany; framing theory; patriarchy; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : According to the Federal Criminal Police Office, 139 women were killed by their (ex-)partner in 2020. That year, Germany was ranked second highest in estimated number of femicide victims in Europe. READ MORE