Essays about: "woman media"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 71 essays containing the words woman media.

1. 6. “We must be their voices!” : exploring Danish-Iranian women’s emotional engagement with the Woman Life Freedom movement on Instagram and beyond

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

   Author : Therese Thim; [2023]
   Keywords : civic engagement; diaspora; social media; emotions; affect; politics; sense of belonging; Woman Life Freedom movement; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The present study explores how Danish-Iranian Women living in Copenhagen witness and take part in the connective Woman Life Freedom movement, online and from afar. It seeks to investigate their emotional engagement with Instagram, their political participation and their sense of belonging in this process. READ MORE

3. 7. Media: Where the Voices of the Local and the Diaspora Meet : Women-led Protests in Iran from September 2022 to March 2023

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

   Author : Stefanie Mitchell; [2023]
   Keywords : Mahsa Amini; Iran; Protests; 2023; Rights; Hijab; Diaspora; Unity;

   Abstract : This degree project focuses on the representation and intersection of the voice of the Iranian local and the voice of the diaspora in international media, exploring the ‘unity’ of the local and the diaspora as put forth by media during the 2022 protests in Iran.  The death of Jinha Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman in police custody made international news headlines on 16 September 2022 and quickly became a transnational social movement for change against the repression of women in Iran. READ MORE

4. 8. Framing the YPG and YPJ : A Critical Discourse Analysis of Orientalist and Liberal Feminist Portrayals in United States’ Media and Politics

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

   Author : Råvan Talani; [2022]
   Keywords : YPG; YPJ; Orientalism; Postcolonial Feminism; Jineology; Critical Discourse Analysis;

   Abstract : This thesis analyses media portrayal of the People's Protection Units (YPG) and the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) in US media by making use of Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of critical discourse analysis. The thesis investigates if these portrayals have been used as a justification by the United States White House to intervene militarily in the conflict in Rojava. READ MORE

5. 9. Good Girl, Wife or Foreign Fighter - Danish Media Constructions of women in ISIS

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Camilla Gissel; [2022]
   Keywords : ISIS; Female foreign fighters; Social Problems Theory; Narrative Criminology; ISIS bride; Betrayal; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Women who have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, have been understood as serving passive and largely supportive roles in ISIS state-building by media and, to a far extent, academia. Academia has argued that the passive role evolves into active participation in weaponed combat and planning of attacks. READ MORE

6. 10. A Crisis Within a Crisis: A case study on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected women’sshelters and support services in Sweden and their work with men's violence against women

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Anna Persson; [2022]
   Keywords : Men’s Violence Against Women; COVID-19; Domestic Violence; Women’s Shelters; Shared Trauma;

   Abstract : As the number of cases of the COVID-19 virus spread across the world in the beginning of 2020, governments decided to take measures to stop the spread of the virus. These measures limited individual’s freedom of movement and soon thereafter, the number of domestic violence cases increased. READ MORE