Essays about: "news reports"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 138 essays containing the words news reports.
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16. TikTok Risk or Threat? Competing narratives about risk and threats in the US case
University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : TikTok a Chinese-based social media application, in the last five years has reached global success. It became the first non-American application to reach such massive popularity. This has sparked controversy in the US. Recent studies have highlighted the benefits and disadvantages of this social media app. READ MORE
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17. A Discourse Analysis of News Values in BBC Reports on Refugees from Ukraine and Afghanistan
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Ukraine and Afghanistan are two nations not unfamiliar with war, with thousands of their civilians fleeing the two countries. This study examines reports produced by the BBC and the use of news values when reporting on refugees from Ukraine and Afghanistan. READ MORE
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18. Hawkes Processes on Socialand Mass Media: : A Causal Study of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement inthe Summer of 2020
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statistik, AI och data scienceAbstract : In this work we study interactions in social media and the reports in mass media during the Black LivesMatter (BLM) protests following the death of George Floyd. We implement open-source pipelines to process the data at scale and employ the self-exciting counting process known as Hawkes process to address our main question: is there a causal relation between interactions in social media and reports of street protests in mass media? Specifically, we use distributed label propagation to identify such interactions in Twitter, that supported the BLM movement, and compared the timing of these interaction to those of news reports of street protests mentioning George Floyd, via the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) Project. READ MORE
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19. Regional Organizations and Conflict Management: A Critical Discourse analysis of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). : Why did ECOWAS’s AFISMA fail to Resolve the Malian Conflict between 2012 and 2013 ?
University essay fromAbstract : This paper seeks to investigate why did ECOWAS’s AFISMA fail to resolve the Malian conflict between 2012 and 2013. The idea is not to go over the different challenges that ECOWAS faced in handling the Malian conflict but to instead establish the single main challenge that inhibited ECOWAS from achieving its desired goals in resolving and managing the crisis in Mali. READ MORE
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20. When Good News are Bad News: Finding Value Relevant Information in the Sentiment of Annual Reports
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansieringAbstract : The qualitative aspects of corporate disclosures are rarely considered by stakeholders, meaning that a vast amount of potentially value relevant information goes to "waste". We study the sentiment contained in corporate disclosures, investigating the value relevance of its qualitative aspects to determine the potential value for stakeholders in considering this information. READ MORE
