Essays about: "news satire"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words news satire.

  1. 1. Parallel Reality. A Freaky Freaky Broadcast.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Högskolan för scen och musik

    Author : Eirini Konstantinou; [2023-01-24]
    Keywords : Performance; shared opinion; theatre; news bulletin; reporters; dark clowns; satire; current affairs; grotesque; opposition; fake news; acting; humour;

    Abstract : My research was on how news is being presented to the public and the means of manipulation that are being used to patronise the public in the intended direction. The product was a performance based on a fictional news bulletin. Fake news but also true facts behind the words. Exaggeration was my main tool to convince. READ MORE

  3. 2. Examining Sinophobia and Racialization at the Nexus of News Satire and Public Engagement : The Case of Swedish Television SVT’s Svenska Nyheter News Satire of China in 2018

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Nini Huang; [2022]
    Keywords : Sinophobia; anti-Asian racism; liquid racism; liquid Sinophobia; Yellow Peril; Gook Humor; racialization; color-blindness; news satire; race humor; gulinghumor; sinofobi; rasism mot asiater; gula faran;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to understand Sinophobia in the context of post-racial, anti-racist and color-blind Sweden, specifically concerning news representations of China and racial caricatures of Chinese and other East-Asians through “Gook humor”. Sinophobia is examined through race humor and public engagement with satirical race representations using the controversial case of news satire of China produced by Swedish public television SVT in 2018. READ MORE

  4. 3. Copyright implications of computer-generated imagery using the likeness of real people

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Emmi Leinonen; [2020]
    Keywords : Copyright law; Parody; CGI; personality rights;

    Abstract : The Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 27 shows that copyright law has two functions. ‘everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. READ MORE

  5. 4. Identifying and Understanding Anti-Immigration Disinformation : a case study of the 2018 Swedish national elections

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Laura Asperholm Hedlund; [2019]
    Keywords : disinformation; immigration; immigrants; elections; media; far-right; populism; polarization;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to understand to what extent and how anti-immigration disinformation was utilised in Swedish online news media before the 2018 Swedish national elections. Disinformation is intentionally misleading or false information that benefits the creator and aims to influence how people think, feel and act regarding a certain issue. READ MORE

  6. 5. Credibility in Comedy is No Joke : A multimodal study of the credibility of, and communication campaign manifested in, the political satire program Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Journalistik

    Author : Emma Andersson; [2018]
    Keywords : communication campaign theory; Last Week Tonight with John Oliver; multimodality analysis; source credibility theory; subjective news;

    Abstract : Research into political satire programs show that they can be informative in the same way traditional news inform citizens and that the audience trust the information told by satirists. The political satire program Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has inspired the phenomenon ‘the John Oliver Effect’ due to comedian John Oliver’s ability to influence the world of politics and beyond with his in-depth investigations in serious subjects. READ MORE