This report is a preliminary exploration of the issues concerning traditional media and weblogs at two points in time. It examines the difference between the American mainstream media’s utilisation of weblogs during the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, and the utilisation of weblogs in the hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005. The mainstream media’s response to the weblog form during the attacks in September 2001 and the hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005 are examined, together with an exploration of the traditional coverage. It reveals how weblogs have become a more significant part of disaster coverage by mainstream media in the United States. These processes and the implications of these changes are explored for an understanding of how the weblog is altering our understanding of the construction and dissemination of news for the traditional media institution in the United States.

Thesis advisor: William Stanwood / The Daily Show with Jon Stewart's ascendance into the mainstream consciousness has reached a point where many not only consider it to be a source of news, but also Stewart to be one of the most respected and important journalists in the country. This study investigated The Daily Show’s impact on the general public using the theoretical framework of agenda-setting. After grounding the study in existing scholarly research, data, content and textual analyses were performed on 12 Daily Show episodes, as well as data analysis on the corresponding network news broadcasts. It was then concluded that The Daily Show has no significant impact on what people think about no matter what variables were analyzed. Thus, Stewart likely has been right all along in his claim that he and his team are not journalists – rather, they are merely producing a comedy show that happens to involve news and parodies news broadcasts. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2011. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: College Honors Program. / Discipline: Communication Honors Program. / Discipline: Communication.

Colombia is a country with a most controversial reputation, carrying associations of drugs, violence and terrorism. In 2016, following 52 years of civil war and violence Colombia finally found itself in a state of peace, since the government and one of the largest and most active guerrilla groups of all times FARC-EP agreed to lay down arms.Two and a half years later there are still many of us that associate Colombia with all these negative factors that are tied to its history. In this study I will be looking into how Colombia have been portrayed in Swedish media since the signing of the peace-agreement. I have also created a survey in an attempt to find out how people in a small Northern- European country like Sweden think of this diverse place on earth.

Kvinnliga och manliga politiker porträtteras olika utifrån sitt kön i frågor om deras privatliv i de traditionella medierna (SVT nyheter 2017). Syftet med denna uppsats är att få en överblick över de stereotypa könsrollernas framställning i det moderna mediet poddradio. Vi undersöker de manliga respektive kvinnliga politikernas talutrymme och hur många frågor de får gällande deras privatliv. Tidigare forskning slår fast att kvinnliga politiker får färre frågor kring deras yrkesroll och den politiska dagordningen men desto fler frågor om yttre attribut och hur de får ihop vardagspusslet. Uppsatsen bygger på en kvantitativ innehållsanalys där vi undersökt våra olika variabelvärden ur 40 poddavsnitt i fem olika poddar. Poddarna vi valde att undersöka var Ekots Lördagsintervju, Framgångspodden, Roos möter partiledarna, Söndagsintervjun och Värvet. Undersökningen tar avstamp utifrån två teorier; gender agenda setting och personifiering som ska konkretisera vårt underlag. Resultatet pekar på små marginaler mellan de olika könen, där den största skillnaden var de olika ämnena inom privatlivet som tilldelades de olika könen. De kvinnliga politikerna fick  flest frågor kring psykisk hälsa samtidigt som männen fick flest frågor kring familj/släkt, vilket var ett oväntat resultat om man jämför med tidigare forskning. Kan vi utifrån detta se en tendens till förändring inom medievärlden där även de traditionella medierna går i en mer jämställd riktning, eller är det medieformatet poddradion som är unik i sitt slag? Detta är något som framtida forskning får utvisa.

Propomos o uso da análise de redes sociais para entender efeitos de agenda-setting. Para tanto, recuperamos a evolução dos estudos sobre a teoria da agenda-setting, desde as aplicações relacionadas à mídia tradicional até os estudos contemporâneos sobre mídias sociais. Em seguida, apresentamos o conceito de agenda-setting interpessoal e descrevemos métodos da análise de redes sociais para investigação desse conceito. A operacionalização empírica da proposta foi feita pela comparação de dois tipos de redes: 1) um grupo de indivíduos que publicou mensagens no Twitter sobre um tópico transmitido na TV nacional e 2) um grupo de indivíduos que publicou mensagens no Twitter sobre um tema que não fez parte da mídia broadcast. Nosso objetivo foi investigar as diferenças entre as redes de indivíduos que experimentaram efeitos de agenda-setting advindos da mídia de massa e indivíduos que experimentaram efeitos de agenda-setting interpessoal. Nossos resultados ainda são preliminares, mas indicam diferenças estruturais entre os grupos e evidências de que indivíduos mais centrais são impactados antecipadamente por mensagens transmitidas interpessoalmente. / We propose the use of social network analysis to understand agenda-setting effects. To achive that purpose, we recover the evolution of studies on agenda-setting theory, from applications related to traditional media to contemporary studies on social media. Next, we present the concept of interpersonal agenda-setting and describe methods of social network analysis to investigate this concept. The empirical operationalization of the proposal was made by comparing two types of networks: 1) a group of individuals that tweeted about a topic broadcasted on national TV and 2) a group of individuals that tweeted about a non-mainstream topic. We aim to investigate differences between networks of individuals that experienced mass media agenda-setting effects and individuals that experienced interpersonal agenda-setting effects. Our results are still preliminary but indicate structural differences between the groups and also indicate evidence that more central individuals are impacted in advance by interpersonally transmitted messages.

Thesis advisor: James Keenan / Public health is of critical importance in the world today, and particularly in the South, where developing states, unable to provide for the health of their citizens, continue to carry the global burden of disease. There is more funding available to global health than ever before. If these assets are going to be effective in advancing the health of the developing world, then they must be directed towards comprehensive measures that address the needs of entire populations, rather than disease-specific programs which do little to confront the challenges facing the world's poor. The latter approach may be dominating the field of public health, but horizontal, capacity-building programs can become the norm in this arena. In order to transform the global health-giving infrastructure, the public and political agendas in the United States and every other donor country must be reset. By transposing the tactics employed by activists of the most successful health campaign in history—that of the HIV/AIDS pandemic—onto the global health movement, proponents of this approach can position it on the agendas of states throughout the world, and construct sustainable healthcare systems that will attend to the plight of the current generation, as well as provide for the well-being of those to come. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2008. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: International Studies. / Discipline: International Studies Honors Program.

Este estudo de caso inscreve-se no campo da saúde pública e das ciências sociais e teve por objetivo investigar por que e como se deu o processo de descentralização no Estado de Santa Catarina, especialmente na área da saúde, tendo como ponto central da análise os momentos de decisão e pré-decisão referentes aos problemas e às políticas que constituíram o objeto do processo decisório. A compreensão desse processo perpassou pela identificação dos principais atores envolvidos e suas distintas posições, dos mecanismos de negociação, das alianças estratégicas de apoio e oposição à política e das arenas utilizadas como cenário desse processo. A base empírica deste trabalho, colhida por meio de análise documental e entrevistas semiestruturadas, foi analisada pelo modelo teórico Multiple Streams Framework, de John W. Kingdon (2003), dada a sua capacidade em explicar como as agendas governamentais são formuladas e alteradas. Os dados empíricos revelaram que os processos de discussão, de negociação e de aprovação das políticas são tão importantes quanto o conteúdo específico que elas encerram, e que o processo de formulação das políticas públicas não deve ser desvinculado do processo político. Em relação ao modelo de Kingdon (2003), observamos que a sua utilização agregou importantes contribuições teórico-metodológicas aos dados coletados, uma vez que permitiu lidar com a complexidade do setor da saúde para além das questões epidemiológicas e da racionalidade técnica. Por fim, concluímos que o objetivo de analisar a formação da agenda governamental da saúde torna possível a identificação de relevantes fatores que, historicamente, conferem a circularidade (não resolução) de temas caros à saúde pública, incluindo a descentralização do SUS. / This case study is part of the field of public health and social sciences and aimed to investigate why and how was given the process of decentralization in the state of Santa Catarina, especially in the health field, having as the central point of analysis the moments of decision and pre-decision related to the problems and policies that were the object of the decision-making process. The understanding of this process passes by the identification of the key stakeholders and their different positions, the negotiation mechanisms, the strategic alliances for support and opposition of the policy and the arenas used as setting for this process. The empirical basis of this work, collected through documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews, was analyzed by the Multiple Streams Framework theoretical model of John W. Kingdon (2003), given its ability to explain how government agendas are formulated and changed. The empirical data revealed that the processes of discussion, negotiation and approval of the policies are as important as the specific content they enclose, and that the process of formulating public policies should not be detached from the political process. Regarding the model of Kingdon (2003), we noted that its use added important theoretical and methodological contributions to the collected data, since it allowed to handle the complexity of the health sector beyond the epidemiological issues and technical rationality. Finally, we conclude that the objective of analyzing the formation of the government health agenda makes it possible to identify important factors that historically give the circularity (not resolution) of themes dear to public health, including the decentralization of SUS.

The purpose of this essay was to examine how eight Swedish newspapers reported on a trade union conflict between dock workers and a employer organisation in the winter of 2019. Further it will examine how the conflict is portrayed in the newspaper and if both of the organisations gets their voices heard in the newspapers. We will also examine what context the conflict mention within. We analyzed eight Swedish newspapers that wrote about the conflict, at the time 7 January - 14 Mars 2019, with help of a quantitative content analysis.  The result of this study showed us that the newspapers in Sweden in generally used Primary Definers to get their information so they could write articles about this conflict. It also showed us that the two parties in this conflict, the trade union and the employer, get the chance to speak in the newspaper almost as much as each other. Other findings were made and one of those was that two of Sweden’s largest newspaper barely wrote about this conflict. But when they were writing about this conflict they wrote that this conflict has a big impact on the Swedish economy.

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Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-14T14:42:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 390080.pdf: 12875992 bytes, checksum: bc980660acd72e0401bb159ad554b831 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-01-15 / Verificou-se, tamb?m, as transforma??es do conceito da liberdade de express?o e suas vari?veis no tempo e no espa?o, atrav?s de uma revis?o hist?rica a partir dos cl?ssicos da livre express?o at? os estudos atuais sobre a constitucionaliza??o do direito ? informa??o, com base em John Milton (1644,1999), Stuart Mill (1859, 1978), Barbosa Lima Sobrinho (1977, 1980), Freitas Nobre (1968, 1998), Darcy Arruda Miranda (1994), Alberto Andr? (2000), Jos? Marques de Melo (1973, 2003a, 2003b) e Norberto Bobbio (1999, 2002, 2003). O entendimento do Poder Judici?rio ─ em todas as inst?ncias processuais ─ fundamentou-se na Revista de Jurisprud?ncia, publicada pelo Tribunal de Justi?a do Rio Grande do Sul, em edi??o especial sobre o caso, em 2004. As interfer?ncias resultantes da an?lise de conte?do da Decis?o Judicial ─ interpretadas com base nos estudos de Freitas Nobre (1998), de Alberto Andr? (2000), de Nilson Lage (2001) e de Nelson Traquina (2001) ─ possibilitaram o entendimento das articula??es e influ?ncias, bem como a compreens?o dos limites da liberdade de express?o na Decis?o Judicial sobre o Caso Editora Revis?o, considerado paradigm?tico para as duas ?reas de pesquisa.