Essays about: "online discourses"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 77 essays containing the words online discourses.

1. 1. National Heroes, Digital Soldiers, Vulnerable Children and all the Others: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Videos Communicating the QAnon Conspiracy Theory

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Author : Cecilia Gatenheim; [2024-02-23]
   Keywords : conspiracy theory; far-right; emotions; video analysis; discourse analysis;

   Abstract : This thesis analyses the making of Us and Them in videos communicating the QAnon conspiracy theory, which have been circulating on online social forums. For this purpose, Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis is used, together with Sara Ahmed’s cultural theory of emotions. READ MORE

3. 2. Countering Terrorist Content Online: Removal = Success? : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the EU Regulation 2021/784

   University essay from Försvarshögskolan

   Author : Nina McCarthy Hartman; [2024]
   Keywords : Critical Discourse Analysis; Content Moderation; Counter-Terrorism; EU;

   Abstract : This thesis critically interrogates the underlying assumptions which legitimise the hard regulation of online platforms regarding terrorist content, by turning to the case of the EU Regulation 2021/784. Utilising qualitative critical discourse analysis, the study analyses how the EU's strategy against terrorist content online is discursively legitimised through the lens of Theo van Leeuwen's framework for discursive legitimisation strategies, focusing on moral and rational justifications. READ MORE

4. 3. Improving land tenure security by increasing access?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Freeman Gunnell; [2023]
   Keywords : land tenure security; international institutions; World Bank; legal tenure systems; customary tenure; exclusion; access; policy discourse.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Securing access to land around the world is an issue that pervades many development agendas. Often promoted through legal and administrative systems, secure land tenure is used in the battle against poverty and to reduce land based conflict. Conceptualizations of secure tenure tend to differ between international institutions and academia. READ MORE

5. 4. Ukrainian Refugee Women as The Subject of Images and Discourses in Swedish and Ukrainian Media

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Alina Perekrest; [2023]
   Keywords : Discourse analysis; refugees; media image; media representations; news media.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, resulted in a substantial displacement of people, most of whom were Ukrainian women and children. Given the vast number of Ukrainian refugees who have fled to other countries, the aim was to examine how the news media portrays their images and experiences. READ MORE

6. 5. Women at the Frontlines : Representations of Ukrainian female soldiers in online news media

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

   Author : Sara Stan; [2023]
   Keywords : Representation; discourse analysis; female soldiers; news media; stereotypical representations;

   Abstract : The focus of this paper is gaining a deeper understanding of the discursive ways in which Ukrainian female soldiers are represented in international news media by analyzing online newspaper articles. The research questions are centred around finding out what common discursive representations are predominant in the articles, how these representations are visible, and what discourses are meant to be favored by the authors or publishers. READ MORE