Esta dissertação de mestrado é uma pesquisa sobre o weblog e a forma com que empresas jornalísticas utilizam-no. Empreendemos um exame histórico e etimológico para conhecer esse conceito de página de hipertexto, assim como procuramos encontrar convergências entre as duas formas. Nesse sentido buscamos, no teor polissêmico do blog, as acepções confluentes, constatando o uso mais freqüente como coluna, principalmente na forma de digesto. Em seguida observamos, nos exemplos disponíveis da imprensa brasileira, aqueles títulos que avaliassem, por meio da crítica de mídia, o sentido e a ação do fazer jornalístico, optando pelo exame detalhado dos enunciados de duas publicações: o Blog do Observatório da Imprensa (Bloi) e o No Mínimo Weblog, empreendendo tanto uma avaliação quantitativa da produção, disponível no Anexo A, quanto uma investigação hermenêutica por meio da Análise do Discurso. Para familiarizar aqueles que desconhecem os conceitos dessa disciplina, foi incluído um glossário. Na apuração dos resultados concluímos que as publicações, ao escolher o jornalismo como protagonista de suas narrativas, valorizam a atividade e remetem, na tessitura argumentativa, à tradição do fazer jornalístico. / The Master’s degree dissertation is a research about weblog and the way the journalistic firms use it. In the first part, we did an historical and etymological examination to understand this concept of hypertext page, as well as we look for convergences between the two forms. For that purpose we search, in the blog’s lexical ambiguity meanings, the confluent definitions, discovering the most usual way as a column, particularly in the form of digest. After that we watch, in the Brazilian’ press available samples, those that evaluate, as a kind of media criticism, the meaning and the action of journalistic procedures, choosing by the detailed examination of two cases: the Blog do Observatório da Imprensa (Bloi) and the No Mínimo Weblog, examining quantitatively the production, available in the Annex A, as well as qualitatively, by hermeneutics and the Discourse Analysis. To make familiar those that are unaware of the concepts of this methodology, was enclosed a glossary. In the verification of the results, we conclude that the publications, choosing the journalism as protagonist of its narratives, value the activity and sends, by the argumentative texture, to the tradition of journalistic praxis.

Esta dissertação de mestrado é uma pesquisa sobre o weblog e a forma com que empresas jornalísticas utilizam-no. Empreendemos um exame histórico e etimológico para conhecer esse conceito de página de hipertexto, assim como procuramos encontrar convergências entre as duas formas. Nesse sentido buscamos, no teor polissêmico do blog, as acepções confluentes, constatando o uso mais freqüente como coluna, principalmente na forma de digesto. Em seguida observamos, nos exemplos disponíveis da imprensa brasileira, aqueles títulos que avaliassem, por meio da crítica de mídia, o sentido e a ação do fazer jornalístico, optando pelo exame detalhado dos enunciados de duas publicações: o Blog do Observatório da Imprensa (Bloi) e o No Mínimo Weblog, empreendendo tanto uma avaliação quantitativa da produção, disponível no Anexo A, quanto uma investigação hermenêutica por meio da Análise do Discurso. Para familiarizar aqueles que desconhecem os conceitos dessa disciplina, foi incluído um glossário. Na apuração dos resultados concluímos que as publicações, ao escolher o jornalismo como protagonista de suas narrativas, valorizam a atividade e remetem, na tessitura argumentativa, à tradição do fazer jornalístico. / The Master’s degree dissertation is a research about weblog and the way the journalistic firms use it. In the first part, we did an historical and etymological examination to understand this concept of hypertext page, as well as we look for convergences between the two forms. For that purpose we search, in the blog’s lexical ambiguity meanings, the confluent definitions, discovering the most usual way as a column, particularly in the form of digest. After that we watch, in the Brazilian’ press available samples, those that evaluate, as a kind of media criticism, the meaning and the action of journalistic procedures, choosing by the detailed examination of two cases: the Blog do Observatório da Imprensa (Bloi) and the No Mínimo Weblog, examining quantitatively the production, available in the Annex A, as well as qualitatively, by hermeneutics and the Discourse Analysis. To make familiar those that are unaware of the concepts of this methodology, was enclosed a glossary. In the verification of the results, we conclude that the publications, choosing the journalism as protagonist of its narratives, value the activity and sends, by the argumentative texture, to the tradition of journalistic praxis.

This thesis draws primarily upon the work of Furedi (2001; 2002) and his notion of a culture of fear to explore contemporary parenting and childhood from a social psychological perspective. Furedi argues that contemporary society is dominated by a sense of anxiety which is ubiquitous and free-floating (2007) and it is arguable that this fear is particularly easily attached to issues around childhood as children are considered increasingly vulnerable - giving rise to the phenomenon of paranoid parents (Furedi, 2002). While these and related issues have been explored elsewhere in the social sciences (e.g. Jackson & Scott, 2000; Katz, 2008; Valentine, 1996) there has yet to be a study from a social psychological perspective which would seek to understand how these fears are articulated, constructed and managed in relational interaction. The first stage of analysis is a content analysis of newspaper articles, providing partial information about the socio-cultural backdrop of the study. This is complemented by focus group data from both parents and children (aged 12-13) which is analysed using strategies and tools drawn from discursive psychology (Edwards & Potter, 1992). This approach allows for an examination of how participants construct fears, anxieties and concerns that exist in and around modern parenting and childhood. Themes that emerged from this analysis include a focus on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a fear of hypothetical dangers, and a catalogue of potential risks. These concerns are also worked up in the participants talk as related to wider social changes (such as an increase in crime and changes in family structure) and connected with a nostalgia for a past which is constructed as safer, simpler and more liberated; even the children display a fondness for this utopian childhood. Hence the study begins to develop an empirical understanding of how aspects of a culture of fear may be worked up in relation to contemporary parenting and childhood, and so points toward some of its possible psychological implications.

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-160). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

This diploma thesis deals with home births and how they were referred to in the media regarding the medial cause with a midwife Ivana Königsmarková. The goal of this work is to describe approaches that can be traced on this cause, what is the gender dimension of these approaches like and how does the aspect of power manifest itself on them. To achieve that I've chosen a method of discourse analysis which is the best one to point out the relation between language, power and ideology. Analysed material is represented by the articles from Czech media that are associated with the given cause and on basis of which the most frequently occurring topics can be traced along with their tendencies throughout time. Last but not least I'm closely analysing two chosen articles which represent two dominant ways of thinking - the medical approach of labour and natural or alternative approach.

This article is to scrutinize Western media on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa by looking more closely at the largest Swedish newspapers. It is to investigate the otherization of Africa and the African, more specifically, whether there are Orientalist features within the media reporting that can construct an Africanness, the Africanization of Africa, as well as the reinforcement of West's own identity, the de-Africanization of the West, portarying it as non-African, and more importantly whether the Ebola disease has undergone this de-Africanization process. Thus, also investigating whether Orientalism is applicable on Africa. Mainly Edward Saïd's Orientalist theory is used as theoretical framework along with other scholars representing ideas that can support the Orientalist claim. What will be concluded is that there are certain news articles that can be interpreted in a way that reinforces the Orientalist discourse, but that these are well hidden and in some cases only implicitly understood due to the selective reporting on certain incidents.

This dissertation aims at identifying, taking as theoretical framework French Discourse Analysis, interdiscursivity elements on food. It will be examined discursive sequences in texts selected from Readers Digest , featured as enunciative instances of subjectivity. It is supposed that enunciative manifestations of media discourse are enunciativity indexes of enounces operating as interdiscourse and working in several discourses. Thus, analysis will focus such enounces as macro-instance, considering them in an enunciative conjunction and as micro-instance while enunciative potential (Santos, 2004). Regularities will be mapped in the so-called interdiscursivity matrixes. Such occurrences mark discursive spaces in which emerge meanings. This way, enunciation works as meaning positions taken by enounces in texts are under production conditions, result of an interdiscursive intercourse in the intersection of discursive formations inside enunciation (Santos, 2008, mimeo). / O objetivo deste trabalho é identificar, sob a fundamentação teórica da Análise do Discurso de corrente francesa, elementos de uma interdiscursividade sobre a alimentação, a partir de seqüências discursivas apreendidas em textos escolhidos da revista Seleções , enquanto instância enunciativa sujeitudinal. Supomos que as manifestações enunciativas do discurso midiático são índices de enunciatividade no funcionamento de enunciados operadores de interdiscurso. Assim, a análise empreendida visa focalizar as manifestações discursivas numa macro-instância, enquanto conjuntura enunciativa e numa micro-instância, estabelecendo o potencial enunciativo (SANTOS, 2004). O mapeamento das regularidades se faz mediante a disposição das manifestações discursivas em chamadas matrizes de interdiscursividade, que se configuram como variáveis na estrutura das ocorrências. Tais ocorrências demarcam espaços discursivos que, em sua diversidade, numa análise das seqüências enunciativas e as manifestações que nelas emergem, fazem explicitar significações que se efetivam por meio do enunciado operador. Dessa forma, chega-se ao lugar da enunciação enquanto tomadas de posição em nível de significação que um enunciado assume na configuração enunciativa de um texto sob determinadas condições de produção na decorrência da clivagem interdiscursiva na interseção com as formações discursivas constitutivas do processo enunciativo (SANTOS, 2008, mimeo). / Mestre em Linguística

This thesis deals with the qualitative text analysis of media discourses related to the 7th January 2015 terrorist attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's staff. In accordance with social constructionism theory, the term terrorism is here understood as a social construct and mass media is considered to be one of the social construction agents. The objects of analysis are journalistic texts published during the one-month period of 7th January - 7th February 2015. As a resource for the analysis I have chosen the daily newspaper Lidové noviny, the weekly magazine Týden, online newspaper IHNED.cz and TV programme Události, komentáře. The texts were analysed through the combination of grounded theory method and four steps of foucaultian discourses analysis described by Carla Willig. The aim of this paper is to discover and to interpret the most significant discursive constructions of Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack that appeared in the Czech media, to situate the same discursive object within wider or global discourses, to describe positions that discourses make available or attribute to the subjects and social actors, and to define the practices arising from these discourses. The media event of Charlie Hebdo attack has been closely related to the topics of freedom of speech, 9/11 terrorist...

This study is a critical analysis of translation-mediated Arabic news items on the “Arab Spring”. It explores the influence of social, historical, political, localic, and socio-ideological aspects of news translation via certain media agendas, by applying Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and qualitative descriptive methods in the analysis of the localised news items, interviews with translators, and a corpus of comments by the Arabic-speaking readership. The data analysed in this case study comprise a four-year (2010-2014) collection of news items that were localised by Al Jazeera and published on its website, as well as readers’ commentaries on said localisations, and interviews with two of Al Jazeera’s translators. Making use of this rich source of data, this study aims at finding answers for the questions: Are there discernible patterns in the translated texts? If so, how and for what purpose are they produced and re-produced through localisation in Al Jazeera’s translation-mediated Arabic news articles? Whose interests are served and whose interests are annulled by the reproduction and localisation processes? The three sets of data were thematically coded; then their most salient points and arguments were analysed. The localised news items were examined for clues to the localisation techniques, ideologies, and the agenda(s) of Al Jazeera. The readers’ comments were probed for the influence that the localised news items had on Al Jazeera’s target readership, and were examined to find out which of Al Jazeera’s ideologies resonate with which readers to form Al Jazeera’s target locale(s). The analysis of the interviews with Al Jazeera’s translators was undertaken with the aim of delineating the tasks of these translators, specifically to see to what extent journalism and translation meld, as suggested in much of the research done so far on translating news items. The tripartite analysis has provided a more comprehensive understanding of the processes involved in the production of translation-mediated news items as well as their effect on the readership. It also suggests relatively new insights into viewing the term localisation as a good alternative to acculturation in accounting for news translation. Within the umbrella of the social turn in translation studies (TS), this study suggests that current approaches to studying news translation question large-scale concepts such as culture and acculturation, and proposes they be replaced with the small-scale concepts of locale and localisation. Hence, this study suggests using localisation to extract and understand the underlying particulars of the processes involved in producing translation-mediated news items. The results of the analysis show that Al Jazeera ostensibly promulgates three major ideologies: anti-regimism, Islamistism, and pan-Arabism and embeds these ideologies in the messages it delivers to its target locales through the localised news items. The study concludes that Al Jazeera’s localisation techniques reflect the viewpoints of its benefactor the State of Qatar whose goal is to create a solipsistic identity that distinguishes it from its immediate rivalling neighbours within a dichotomy of the Same and the Other. These localisation techniques are driven by motives associated with the sociopolitical and sociohistorical circumstances of the founding of the State of Qatar and Al Jazeera.