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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 uppsatser innehållade ordet Rallies.
1. Agents of Peace or Tension: Analysing Political Elites’ Electoral Rhetoric : A Qualitative Analysis of Campaign Rhetoric in the 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : How do some political elites, in unstable democracies with communal divisions, use ethnic, religious, and tribal affiliations for a rhetoric of polarisation and/or reconciliation when running for office? This thesis applies a framing analysis to explore how political elites employ these affiliations in speech acts, mainly political rallies, to construct narratives of polarisation and reconciliation during election campaigns. The theoretical framework is constructed by previous research on “Big Men” politics and the rhetoric used by ex-combatants turned politicians within a context embossed with electoral violence and division. LÄS MER
2. Flexible Organizational Structures of the Digitally Mediated Collective Actor - A Case of the Shame Movement in Georgia
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikationSammanfattning : Recent scholarship has challenged the notion that digital tools alone can sustain a social movement, emphasizing instead the importance of collective identity and organizational structures. However, there is still limited understanding of how organizational structures emerge and transform in a social movement. LÄS MER
3. The (non)democratic superhero? : A study of the reproduction of democratic society in character narratives in superhero films.
Master-uppsats, Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikationSammanfattning : This study uses political philosophy to understand how democracy is communicated as transmutating or transitioning in superhero narratives. The study combines a conflict-based conceptualisation of democracy with Anthony Giddens’ structuration theory to discuss the characters’ actions in relation to their respective society. LÄS MER
4. Creating National Relevance : A Qualitative Study on “Black Lives Matter Sweden”
Magister-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Sammanfattning : Black Lives Matter protests and rallies erupted in the summer of 2020 following several cases of police brutality in the US, including the death of George Floyd after video of him being killed by a police officer were shared in the media. These protests quickly spread internationally and pushed countries to face their own histories and structurally embedded racism, including Sweden. LÄS MER
5. The spark of a movement - A study of an online collective acts potentiality to grow into a social movement
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/SociologiSammanfattning : Social movements have become an integrated component in our western society with almost every contested issue having a social movement associated to it, on at least one side of the debate. When we think of social movements in practice, we might picture rallies and marches, chants, and demonstrations but with the emergence of social media more and more activists and movement adherents have moved to the online forums and are utilizing social medias features to quickly spread their messages and to easier mobilize. LÄS MER
