Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal.

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal.

This project used a content analysis methodology to determine the agenda-setting capacity of the media to influence child welfare legislation in a state legislature. With a foundation in agenda-setting theory, this study identifies how the coverage of child abuse and neglect in the print media impacts decision-makers to introduce legislation related to child abuse and neglect. Through a comparison of the issues covered in the newspaper with the issues receiving legislative attention, this study showed that media influence varies by topic, with some topics being more open to media affects than others. A second component of this study analyzed how child abuse and neglect is portrayed in four newspapers circulating across the state. With an emphasis on identifying the types of issues that receive media attention in Virginia, this qualitative study showed key themes and patterns prevalent in child welfare coverage. The media demonstrates an affinity for covering episodic, micro-level instances of abuse, and thematic, macro-level systemic issues. These findings show media focus is concentrated on extreme and unusual cases of abuse and those issues that will evoke shock and emotion from the reader.

Syfte och frågeställningar: Uppsatsens syfte är att med utgångspunkt i hur en av dagens opinionsbildare kommer till uttryck i olika medieformat bidra till ökade kunskaper om hur unga vuxna uppfattar opinionsbildningsprocesser i dagens medielandskap. Utifrån syftet formulerades en huvudfråga och tre följande forskningsfrågor: “På vilka sätt beskriver unga vuxna att en av dagens opinionsbildares mediala uppmärksamhet haft för betydelse för synen på miljöfrågor i allmänhet och klimathotet i synnerhet?”, “På vilket sätt upplever unga vuxna nyhetspridningen och sociala mediers villkor?”, “På vilket sätt beskriver unga vuxna betydelsen av en av dagens opinionsbildare och dess roll?” samt “På vilka sätt beskriver unga vuxna betydelsen av opinionsbildning i sociala medier jämfört med opinionsbildning i traditionella medier?”. Metod och material: I uppsatsen har vi använt ett teoretiskt ramverk bestående av tidigare forskning om klimatfrågor, opinionsbildning samt internetanvändning. Ramverket utgörs av Agenda-setting Theory och tvåstegshypotesen. Uppsatsens metod baseras på kvalitativa fokusgruppsintervjuer, innefattande tre grupper med tre deltagare i vardera. Huvudresultat: Studiens resultat visar att de unga vuxna upplever att Greta Thunbergs uppmärksamhet i media kommit att få en större effekt på den yngre generationen likaväl som allmänheten, snarare än på dem själva samt politiken. Respondenter uttrycker att hennes engagemang och aktivism i medier bidrar till en ökad kunskap om miljöfrågor för befolkningen. Vidare upplever de unga vuxna att opinionsbildningen både snabbare, lättare och i större utbredning kommer till uttryck i sociala medier, jämfört med traditionella medier.

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.

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.

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.