Essays about: "role of mass-media"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 33 essays containing the words role of mass-media.

  1. 26. A Civil Society Conundrum: Gaining legitimacy with stakeholders as a Vietnamese NGO working with gender and sexuality

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

    Author : Sao-Mai Dau; [2012]
    Keywords : organizational legitimacy; civil society; institutionalism; discourse; sexuality; gender; Minor Field Study; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Questions concerning sexuality and gender have only recently become the focus of social research and advocacy in Vietnam. Sexuality and gender are taboo subjects and non-heterosexual and trans persons often face discrimination, stigmatization or invisibility and civil society is in certain respects restricted. READ MORE

  3. 27. Beyond the Cultural Horizon- A study on Transnationalism, Cultural Citizenship, and Media

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Maria Erliza Lopez Pedersen; [2012]
    Keywords : Transnationalism; Migration; Diaspora; Cultural Citizenship; Media; Deskilling; Filipino Au Pairs; Denmark; The Philippines; Communication for Development; Deprofessionalization;

    Abstract : In many cases, the need to survive has been the reason for many individuals to leave their country and to start anew in a foreign land. Indeed, migration has played its role as one of the solutions to struggle against poverty among many migrants. READ MORE

  4. 28. Constructing National Identity through Media Ritual : A Case Study of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala

    University essay from Medier och kommunikation

    Author : YUAN GAO; [2012]
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    Abstract : National identity is an important social bond for the existence and development of nation-states. National identity is not an innate or unchangeable awareness; instead, it is continuously produced by historical and realistic contexts. READ MORE

  5. 29. Kränkande eller Yttrandefrihet : Nio länders medierapportering av Nerikes Allehandas "Muhammedteckning"

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Humanistiska institutionen

    Author : Karwan Tahir; [2008]
    Keywords : Muhammad cartoons; Prophet Muhammad; freedom of expression; Lars Vilks; Muhammedteckning; Lars Vilks; yttrandefrihet; kränkning; Nerikes Allehanda; muslimer; Islam;

    Abstract :       About two years after publishing so called Muhammad cartoons in Denmark, the Swedish regional newspaper Nerikes Allehanda in Orebro published an editorial on self-censorship. A drawing of Prophet Muhammad as a Roundabout dog, drawn by Lars Vilks, was illustrating the article. READ MORE

  6. 30. Media and Minority Rights. The role of media in promoting social cohesion and enforcing human rights of ethnic minorities in nation states

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Behrang Kianzad; [2008]
    Keywords : mass media; minority rights; social cohesion; Human rights; Mänskliga rättigheter; Social structures; Sociala strukturer; Press and communication sciences; Journalistik; media; kommunikation; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is to investigate the role of media in shaping national identity, analyzed through the media practices on ethic minorities and the medias portrayal of these minorities. The thesis is that since the rise of the modern nation state, a false, imagined, homogenous picture of the nation has been disseminated, first through the printing process and books, and in our days, through massmedia outlets. READ MORE