Essays about: "moral transgression"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words moral transgression.

  1. 1. The complexity of cancel culture: : Unveiling the personal and social drivers that influences the decision to cancel

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

    Author : Najda Gvozden; Lovisa Zetterlind; [2023]
    Keywords : cancel culture; social media; canceled influencers; influencer marketing; social norms; moral transgression; social justice; social identity theory; theory of planned behavior;

    Abstract : The rise of social media has emerged the social phenomena called cancel culture, where individuals hold influencers and endorsed brands accountable for perceived immoral actions. Cancel culture originates from a desire for social justice, where the consequences of those cancelled could be temporary and long-lasting reputational damage. READ MORE

  3. 2. »CAUSA CAFFIER«: FAR-RIGHT CONNECTIONS IN GERMAN POLITICS AND SECURITY AGENCIES - Political Crisis Communication and its Representation in Legacy News Media

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik och masskommunikation

    Author : Merle Frederike Sontheimer; [2022-09-01]
    Keywords : Germany; Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania; right-wing radicalism; extremism; crisis communication; image repair; image restoration; political communication; CDU; Lorenz Caffier; Nordkreuz;

    Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of this case study is to add to research on crisis communication, accountability, and scandals in evaluating a German state Minister of Interior’s exoneration strategies through their representation in news media. Additionally, it aims to offer insights on German legacy news media’s treatment of a rightwing radicalist crisis and implications of its potential failures. READ MORE

  4. 3. A Grotesque and Gothic Corporeality : Queer Transgression in Closer and Frisk

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Elliott Berggren; [2021]
    Keywords : Transgression; Grotesque; Gothic; Queer; Closer; Frisk;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how two novels by Dennis Cooper, Closer and Frisk, conceive of queer sexuality as transgressing heteronormative notions of moral standards, and how they challenge these by elevating their subject matters to an excessive degree. Drawing on the concepts of the grotesque and the Gothic, this thesis explores the aesthetics of Closer and Frisk, focusing in particular on the way corporeality figures as a central aspect of how these texts explore the ways in which the body becomes a site for Cooper’s discourses of transgression. READ MORE

  5. 4. Rediscovering Beatrice and Bianca: A Study of Oscar Wilde’s Tragedies The Duchess of Padua (1883) and A Florentine Tragedy (1894)

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Minon Weber; [2020]
    Keywords : Oscar Wilde; Victorian Literature; Drama; Theatre; 19th Century Literature; Renaissance Drama; Theatre; Elizabethan Drama; Jacobean Drama; A Florentine Tragedy; The Duchess of Padua; Wilde; Wilde Studies; Transgression; Feminist Criticism; Historicist Criticism; Genetic Criticism;

    Abstract : Towards the end of the 19th century Oscar Wilde wrote the four society plays that would become his most famous dramatical works: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). The plays combined characteristic Wildean witticisms with cunning social criticism of Victorian society, using stereotypical characters such as the dandy, the fallen woman and the “ideal” woman to mock the double moral and strict social expectations of Victorian society. READ MORE

  6. 5. Animal ethics between theory and praxis : exploring differential ethical standards toward wildlife

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Sara Anderson; [2016]
    Keywords : ART; social constructivism; ethical codes; environmental communication; wolf;

    Abstract : In today’s human-impacted landscape with increasing encounters between the human and natural world it is essential to question humans’ ethical approaches toward animals to ensure a peaceful co-existence. The presence of wolf and its consequences in Sweden is a well-studied case focusing primarily on conflict, mistrust toward authority and a rural and urban divide, for example. READ MORE