AbstractThis thesis critically examines the impact of print and social media in a social movement by using Bring Back Our Girls as a case study, which depicts the abduction of girls by warlords in Africa. Today, due to social inequality, activists do not possess the same budget as larger companies for advertising and mass communications. Social movement campaigners depend on media coverage to gain public attention so that their voice can be heard. This study explores the role of print and social media in a social movement - the case of Bring Back Our Girls in Nigeria. A digital signage prototype was designed and developed to solve the issue of digital divide experienced by the Bring Back Our Girls advocacy group during the campaign. However, the digital signage turns the four stages of conventional social movements, which are Emergence, Coalescence, Bureaucratisation, and Decline. For example, if the movement is on bureaucratisation and a new channel is added, people will go back to emergence stage. This prototype, when fully developed, could be used to create awareness and to reach people in rural areas. This study used two research paths, primary and secondary. Primary research is conducted using two main methods: interviews (focus group interview) and a questionnaire. The focus group consisted of fifteen people, fourteen males and one female, although many female activists were invited, only one attended the meeting because of the socio-economic factor in Nigeria and the focus questions were open-ended. In addition, a questionnaire was designed for the evaluation of the prototype. The focus group interview focused on the examination of the role played by the print and social media platforms during the BBOG campaign and the questionnaire focused on the digital signage. The study also examined how a prototype of digital signage is designed by using the Microsoft PowerPoint Application. Secondary research was conducted using literature, online material, articles, e-books, etc., to gain an in-depth understanding of the role of print media, social media, social movement, design science, prototype design, resource mobilisation theory (RMT), social mobilisation, and digital divide. Specific research methods were identified based on the theoretical perspective chosen by the author. Both quantitative and qualitative data gathered in this study suggest that print and social media have some positive impacts on social movement and some of the participants claimed that they had been informed of Boko Haram’s rampage and the abduction of the Chibok girls through print media, such as newspapers, magazines, roadside posters, and billboards.Moreover, some participants claimed that they became aware of the BBOG campaign through social media like Facebook, Twitter, etc. The focus group interviews led to identification of six key themes. These were, information and intelligence gathering, social and print media education, information sharing, religious or tribal sentiment, communication, and networking and advocacy. Also, there are a number of sub-themes, which are discussed at length within the analysis of the report. The general findings are that the BBOG campaign movement was first noticed on electronic media, but became viral and sporadic in print and social media. Despite the cultural and religious differences in Nigeria, the campaigners came together to solicit for the rescue of the Chibok Girls.

Socially salient information (such as stereotypes and expectancies) can be transmitted amongst individuals in a variety of subtle ways. One of these is the Linguistic Expectancy Bias (LEB), in which patterns of linguistic abstraction indirectly indicate a speaker's attitudes toward a target. The LEB is a common feature of human communication, but research on it has largely been limited to the laboratory; its presence in news media reports is not well-studied. In three studies, I investigate the operation of the LEB in the print media domain. In the first, published reports of NFL games between intercity rivals were analyzed to determine whether or not hometown teams receive more favorable linguistic treatment than hated rivals; results indicate no evidence of a systematic LEB effect. In the second, news reports about the 2004 Presidential election were examined for differential coverage based on the party membership of the candidates, with no evidence of linguistic bias discovered. In the third, participants were exposed to a description of a politician that varies in the levels of abstraction used to describe his actions and asked to form impressions of him. Linguistic bias was found to have a subtly paradoxical effect, such that bias against a candidate resulted in greater explicit and implicit liking for him. Implications for both the social psychology and political science literatures are discussed. / Psychology

The Bachelor dissertation What do you mean national self-image? is a discourse analysis of the relationship between Swedish news providers. The study aims to investigate how Swedish-language print media interact with the main provider of Swedish news in English, The Local Sweden, and what it reports as the “essence” of the nation and its people.   The investigation has been conducted through the implementation of Ernesto Laclau’s and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse analysis and uses intertextuality, stereotypes, social representation, as well as nationalism and the imagined communities as its theoretical framework. The material selected for the analysis comprises publications by Swedish-language print media from the year of 2014, which engage in a dialogue with The Local Sweden beyond the generic interaction of news. The dissertation concludes that Swedish-language print media approach The Local Sweden’s news coverage in two ways: in agreement or in opposition of what has been reported. When The Local Sweden has published something with the intention of capturing the “essence” of Sweden and its people, they bring attention to the Swede’s hugging culture, their food and souvenirs, as well as their knowledge of language. The results of the study suggest that The Local Sweden manages to provide new information on the subjects, which then leads to Swedish-language print media responding with entire articles dedicated to these topics. The articles convey a sense of fascination and curiosity toward the findings and confirm that The Local Sweden has been correct in their observations. However, when The Local Sweden publishes something with the intention of presenting Swedish news rather than the specific “essence” of it, they find different angles in news stories than what has been covered by Swedish-language print media. The results of the study suggest that by doing so they set themselves apart and provoke Swedish-language print media into responding by incorporating a comment for and/or relating to them as a news provider. The comments convey that Swedish-language print media question The Local Sweden’s validity as a valuable member in covering Swedish news.

This study examines how news issues help frame telenovela plots and compares how the print media and telenovelas frame several key social and political issues. Secondary systematic sampling of the Brazilian leading daily newspaper O Jornal do Brasil and newsmagazine Veja/Veja-Rio from January 2007 to April 2008 generated 313 news stories along with 292 photos for analysis. A five-composite week sample of TV Globo’s 8 p.m. hit telenovela Duas Caras resulted in 31 episodes — including its premiere and finale — or a total of 1,051 scenes to explore. Applying framing theory (Reese, 2003) through a reciprocal and dynamic comparative narrative analysis (Berger, 2005; Berger, 1997) to this body of materials suggests the telenovela, compared to news, is a more progressive storyteller with regard to race, class and gender news issues. Salient latent news frames The Government is the family and Brazilian democracy is more social than racial emerge from this study’s news portion. These are compared with the emergent salient latent novela frames Family first, family forever and It’s not the position that rules, but the influence. For the first time in TV Globo’s history, an Afro-Brazilian is an 8 p.m. telenovela hero. In addition, Duas Caras highlights his successful municipal election campaign, right around the time municipal election campaigns in Brazil were gearing up and while U.S. citizens were considering then electing their first Afro- American president. Duas Caras also sanitizes favelas, or Brazilians shantytowns, contrasting the fictive locale of Portelinha against marginalized portrayals of favelas and their residents in the news. In a diversifying media environment where lines between fact and fiction are increasingly less apparent, Brazilian (alternative) news studies, such as social marketing themes in telenovelas, are critical measures of the state of media opening in Brazil (Porto, 2007). They also reveal from which source(s) Brazilians receive their news information, raising the question, Do telenovelas help frame news issues? / text

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Alors que la création de valeur demeure un objectif légitime et naturel de l’évolution d’une firme, cette recherche a montré que les éditeurs de presse d’information se trouvent, depuis le début du XXIe siècle, d’une part, dans une situation financière dégradée et subséquemment dans une spirale de destruction massive de valeur au point de mettre en péril leur pérennité – certains étant d’ailleurs en faillite virtuelle – et, d’autre part, dans l’incapacité à l’horizon 2016, au-delà du simple équilibre opérationnel, d’inverser la tendance, dès lors que le raisonnement se conduit à périmètre structurel constant. Pour autant, en considérant une interdépendance systémique de plusieurs facteurs d’influence – des déterminants de la performance qui puisent leur origine dans l’histoire et la nature même du bien informationnel et qui s’enrichissent d’éléments structurels et environnementaux –, et en acceptant que chaque industrie ne soit plus que le maillon d’une chaîne de valeur globale dans laquelle l’éditeur n’a plus le monopole, il ressort, par une mise en scène de différents scenarii construits, entre prévision et prospective, sur une période allant de 2010 à 2020, que les différentes conditions requises pour une dynamique vertueuse, malgré les pierres d’achoppement possibles, s’articulent autour de trois axes majeurs – reconquête des marchés, recherche de marges de manoeuvre opérationnelles et financières, changement de référentiel. La dynamique se construit dans un enchaînement de circonstances contraint, ajusté et structuré en trois grandes étapes, qui permet finalement à quelques groupes de se réorganiser pour constituer des firmes de taille critique et ainsi dégager, grâce à une équation de valeur efficiente, simplement réajustée et différenciée, les moyens de migrer vers ce nouveau paradigme informationnel né de cet univers numérique. / Creating value is the natural aim of any private company. This study shows however that from the beginning of the 21st century print media publishers have been losing money and getting into a spiral of value-destruction so vicious as to jeopardise their very survival. Some are practically bankrupt. Nor is there any sign they will have turned the corner or even be breaking even by 2016 if the industry doesn’t restructure. There are three ways for print media firms to turn this round and regain positive momentum: recapturing market-share, improving their operational freedom and their margins and changing market perception. To do this however they will need to understand and take account of some big and interrelated themes – the ways in which the new uses of data, its ‘history’, its location and its very nature have enriched the value of information itself. They will also need to accept that publishers no longer have a monopoly of information and that they are only a link in a global value chain. To reach this conclusion the study runs a range of scenarios comparing confident short term forecasts and foresights for the longer term, from 2010 to 2020. We find that there will probably be three key stages of constraint, change and restructuring. A few publishers probably will manage to reorganise themselves, reach critical size and create value in this new world. To do so they will have a profoundly new and efficient value-creation ‘equation’, readjusted and differentiated from what has gone before. It is this that will allow them to migrate into and flourish in the new informational paradigm born from this digital universe.

A travers le prisme d’articles parus dans la presse écrite française, nous réfléchissons à la question de l’opinion publique en Chine entre l’été 2007 et la fin 2010. L’objectif est double : d’une part appréhender l’opinion publique en Chine et d’autre part envisager l’opinion publique en France sur la Chine. L’opinion publique en Chine transperce dans des aspects sociaux. Pour mieux réfléchir à la question, il importe de comprendre les conditions mêmes de l’élaboration de l’opinion publique : l’évolution du contexte chinois et de son image internationale, la mouvance économique qui fait osciller la population entre tradition et modernité…Divisée entre capitalisme et communisme, la Chine est soumise à des inégalités importantes. L'analyse examine la vie sociale et politique, et l'opinion que les Chinois ont d'eux mêmes et du monde qui les entoure. Enfin, le regard occidental sur la Chine amène à la question de la démocratie. Le nombre récurrent d’émeutes est-il l’indice d’une volonté de démocratisation ? La Chine nourrit ainsi des illusions occidentales qui voient dans la démocratie la solution universelle. Le gouvernement chinois lui-même utilise régulièrement le terme de démocratie, mais « à la chinoise ». Dès lors une vision synthétique de la probabilité d'évolution de la politique chinoise est discutée. Est-il possible de conjuguer socialisme et démocratie ou bien la Chine s’achemine-t-elle vers une acculturation du Régime actuel ? Par ailleurs, l’étude étant basée sur les articles de la presse écrite française, il apparaît utile de se poser la question de la partialité de ce média. Qualitativement, quantitativement…quels sont les thèmes de l’opinion chinoise dans la presse écrite française ? Les articles sont-ils nombreux ? Qui écrit, à quelle fréquence ? Il saura apparaître que la Presse peut être assez partisane et structure l’opinion publique française. Or, une meilleure communication, plus ouverte sur la Chine, paraît absolument essentielle. / Through the prism of articles edited in the French print media, we think about the question of the public opinion in China between the summer 2007 and the end of 2010. The objective is double: on one hand understand the public opinion in China and on the other hand comprehend the public opinion in France on China. The public opinion in China pierces in social aspects. To think better about the question, it is important to consider the conditions of the elaboration of the public opinion: the evolution of the Chinese context and its international image; the economic sphere of influence which makes the population oscillate between tradition and modernity … Divided between capitalism and communism, China is suffering from important disparities. The analysis examines the social and political life, and the opinion the Chinese have of themselves and of the world which surrounds them. Finally, the western glance on China leads to the question of the democracy. Is the recurring number of riots the indication of a will of democratization? China feeds western illusions which see in the democracy the universal solution. The Chinese government itself regularly uses the term of democracy, but "Chinese-style". From then a synthetic vision of the probability of evolution of the Chinese politics is discussed. Is it possible to conjugate socialism and democracy either does China move towards an acculturation of the current Regime? Besides, the study being based on articles of the French print media, it seems useful to ask the question of the partiality of this media. Qualitatively, quantitatively what are the themes of the Chinese opinion in the French print media? Are articles many? Who writes, with which frequency? It will appear that the Press can be rather partial and structures the French public opinion. Yet, a better communication, bigger and more opened on China seems absolutely essential.

This thesis presents an analysis of the public sphere in the environment of two different media types. The analysis is performed on the basis of the extent of different participants in the media contents which were related to the declaration of the ban on selling alcohol spirits in the Czech Republic in September 2012. The theoretical part of the paper is focused primarily on the definition of the basic concepts, such as new and traditional media, the public and the public sphere, then also on normative theories in general, along with a more detailed view on the normative theory of the public sphere, within which the paper is focused on participatory and discursive model of Jürgen Habermas. The second part of the paper provides on the basis of quantitative research, which was preceded by qualitative analysis, an empirical comparison of the extent of different participants and their access to the content of both media types. It also provides an overview of applied topics and contextual frameworks through which was a declaration of the ban on selling alcohol spirits in the media reported. In the conclusion, there is a statement which is based on the evaluation of the collected data. It was concluded, that the public sphere in the internet environment is not, considering the extent of participation of...

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Atualmente, as artes gráficas vivem um momento de grande desenvolvimento tecnológico, principalmente em relação às novas tecnologias de impressão sem fôrma, popularmente conhecidas como impressão digital. O objetivo central desta pesquisa é compreender as mudanças dos métodos produtivos provocadas pela adoção da tecnologia de impressão digital pela indústria gráfica. Este trabalho propõe o levantamento dos principais sistemas de impressão sem fôrma adotados pelas gráficas, identificando as tendências tecnológicas de impressão sem fôrma desenvolvidas especialmente para a indústria gráfica. Visa, ainda, investigar quais recursos de impressão de dados variáveis foram viabilizados por esta tecnologia, analisando o impacto destes novos sistemas de impressão gráfica sobre a impressão de dados variáveis ou impressão personalizada. A pesquisa também apresenta um conjunto de trabalhos gráficos relevantes ou inovadores que utilizam a impressão de dados variáveis com o objetivo de apontar as possibilidades produtivas de impressão de dados variáveis viabilizadas por esta tecnologia. A análise dos resultados da pesquisa visa documentar o novo cenário da impressão digital dentro da indústria gráfica, as tecnologias de impressão sem fôrma mais empregadas por este setor, e as diferentes alternativas produtivas de impressão de dados variáveis. / Nowadays, the graphic arts are in a great moment of technological development, especially in new printing technologies without a printing plate, which is popularly known as digital print. The main objective of this research is to understand the changes in production methods by the adoption of digital printing technology for the printing industry. This paper proposes the research of the leading computer to press systems adopted by graphics and the identification of print technology trends without a printing plate, specially developed for the printing industry, as well as investigate which variable data printing capabilities were enabled by this technology, analyzing the impact of these new graphic printing systems on variable data printing and custom printing. The survey also presents a set of relevant and innovative graphic works that use variable data printing in order to point out the productive possibilities of variable data printing, enabled by this technology. The analysis of the survey results aims to document the new situation of digital printing in the printing industry, the printing technologies without a printing plate more used in this area and the different productive alternatives of variable data printing.