Essays about: "thesis of Blogging"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words thesis of Blogging.
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1. RELIGIOUS AMBIVALENCE AND THE PROBLEM OF AGENCY : A Qualitative Study on Cognitive Dissonance among Mormon Feminists
University essay from Umeå universitet/Sociologiska institutionenAbstract : The scholarly field of traditionally religious women has during the last decade gone from a so called “paradox-approach” which identifies women’s agency with the capacity of acting autonomously – something most clearly demonstrated through acts of resistance – to a nonparadox approach defining agency as a continuum encompassing both resistance to and compliance with traditionally religious structures. While the latter approach assumes that women’s participation in traditional religions is not necessarily a paradox – mainly because some women value religious submission – this thesis argues that the paradox of women and religion becomes essential when speaking about religious feminism. READ MORE
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2. New Media Travel Writing and the Renegotiation of Postcolonial Discourses - A Critical Discourse Analysis of Representations of the ‘Middle East’ on Travel Blogs
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to investigate the potential of travel blogs, as a form of popular new media travel writing, to renegotiate conventional discourses about the ‘Middle East’. By conducting a critical discourse analysis on six travel blogs authored by female writers from both the US and the ‘Middle East’, this thesis examines representational practices found in travel narratives, discloses their discursive tendencies, and interprets those in a sociocultural context. READ MORE
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3. A comparative study on credibility judgement of news related tweets between academic and non-academic young adults
University essay from KTH/Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC)Abstract : For many young adults, retrieving information and news from the internet is not an uncommon task. A large portion of said information is shared through social media. However, social media is not always a reliant news source, due to the fact that the content is largely crowdsourced. One of the social media and micro-blogging services is Twitter. READ MORE
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4. EXILE 2.0. An analysis of Afrah Nasser’s blog authorship
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : The thesis analyses how blogging in the Arabic blogosphere conditions political authorship in exile and how new digital media technologies create novel forms of presence at a distance. This purpose is fulfilled by an in-depth analysis of the works by Yemeni blogger Afrah Nasser. READ MORE
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5. ONLINE NEWS DISTRIBUTION METHODS AND CHANGING JOURNALISM PRACTICES : DIGITAL INFLUENCES, AUTHORITY, TRUSTWORTHINESS AND TRANSMISSION.
University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för teknik och estetikAbstract : My thesis focuses on the changes that digital culture has brought in to the news industry, especially through social media (such as blogging and Twitter for example) and open data. The aim of this thesis is to analyze how digital culture has transformed traditional news industry and its distribution methods in regard to flexibility, trustworthiness, authority and also the role of the journalist. READ MORE
