Sökning: "BBC News"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 46 uppsatser innehållade orden BBC News.

  1. 21. Victims, Exotic Warriors or Heroines? Framing the motivations of Kurdish female fighters in the war against Islamic State

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Författare :Bafrin Eskandari; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Kurdish female fighters; YPG; YPJ; PKK; Peshmerga; Media; Motivation; Framing; Orientalism; Women; Middle East; Political violence; Islamic State; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on investigating how the three British newspapers, The Guardian, The Telegraph and the BBC News, frame the motivations of the Kurdish female fighters joining armed forces in the war against Islamic State. It also explores, what are the reasons behind these portrayals and in what ways Kurdish female fighters challenge the existing discourse of Middle Eastern women. LÄS MER

  2. 22. Strategic Narratives in Media Representations of the Refugee Crisis of 2015 : A Comparative Study between RT and BBC World News

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/JMK

    Författare :Simona Andronaco; [2018]
    Nyckelord :strategic narratives; refugee crisis; global television; RT; Russia Today; BBC World News; soft power; new media ecology;

    Sammanfattning : As immigration turns into the scapegoat of political and social tensions all over the world and politicians that seem to be talking about migration flows communicate instead their conception of the world and where it should head, this study investigates the refugee crisis of 2015 as represented in the two global television channels RT and BBCW. Widely studied for the depiction the press gives of the refugees, for the first time the refugee crisis is analyzed as an arena where competing understandings of international relations are constructed, in a media ecology where a myriad of actors have a chance to foreground their truth and where wars are fought, and possibly won, through the weapons of values, culture and the attraction they exercise (Nye Jr. LÄS MER

  3. 23. CDA analysis of Jerusalem Conflict in BBC and AJE

    Magister-uppsats, Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Författare :Yasmin Aldadah; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Israeli-Palestinian conflict; media bias; BBCWN; AJE; US; Trump; Jerusalem; CDA; DHA; media representation; conflict reporting; ideologies; text analysis;

    Sammanfattning : This research aims at finding how BBC and AJE media represented the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The study examines the news website, which reported the recent escalation of Jerusalem conflict in December 2017, where US President Trump have recognized Jerusalem as Israeli capital, and declared to move the US embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem. LÄS MER

  4. 24. The Representation of the #Metoo Movement in Mainstream International Media

    Master-uppsats, Högskolan i Jönköping/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Författare :Nabila Nuraddin; [2018]
    Nyckelord :#Metoo; Mainstream media; Media Representation; Ideology; Power; Critical Discourse Analysis; Feminist Studies;

    Sammanfattning : The final months of 2017 have witnessed the birth of a movement, the #Metoo movement, which started after several Hollywood actresses have accused famed producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment. The movement is an ongoing prevalent phenomenon on social media where its aim is to demonstrate the frequency and widespread of sexual harassment in all sectors of work, whereas the movement Media has been widely reporting on the movement and has given a platform to several women to speak their truths. LÄS MER

  5. 25. Distant Suffering : A multimodal analysis of the politics of pity in news agencies’ mediation of the chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun

    Magister-uppsats, Försvarshögskolan

    Författare :Jack Thornberg; [2017]
    Nyckelord :distant suffering; mediation; global crisis; poststructuralism; discourse analysis; international relations; political science; communication; analytics of mediation;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores of how American and British television mediated the crisis that started with the 4 April 2017 alleged chemical attack in Syria and culminated with the subsequent attack on Syria by the United States 7 April 2017. It builds upon a rich literature and focuses on the politics of pity in the mediated representation of distant suffering as set out by Luc Boltanski. LÄS MER