The 9th March 2014, there is a clash between the Nazis and feminists around Möllevångstorget, Malmö, where four people knife damage so serious that two of them had life-threatening injuries. Many people were there and witnessed the incident but as a citizen, you will be whitened about what happened following the news reports in the media. The press reports plentiful and follow up event but then there are major differences of opinion about what actually happened and about who is actually responsible for the attack arises many questions from the public. Can you trust what is written in the media? Is journalists and their sources credible?Journalists have long been considered the fourth estate whose task is to examine the other two; the government and the parliament. Previous research suggests that the sources and actors who are given space in traditional media in a way, has power over people's interpretation of reality, a reality that the individual before the new media development has not had the same opportunities to discuss and, or question. With the emergence of new media challenged journalists' exclusive right to disseminate information and news about the present. A platform that challenges journalism is Internet-based interactive community Flashback where the audience itself may influence and create media content.When the journalists no longer have the exclusive right to define an event, who has the power over the media landscape? Who should you trust? This has consequences that are worth studying and analyzing. In our study, we approach the explanation by studying the sources which the writers use when reporting about the merits of the case. In Anders Sahlstrands doctoral thesis "Visible" presented in 2000, he notes that elite sources dominate the news media which gives a misleading picture of the society. The purpose of this study is therefore to study the sources are heard when news is portrayed by a journalist in the traditional media versus when the news is portrayed by a citizen journalist on Flashback Forum to see if there is a difference.To obtain the empirical evidence as the basis for our investigation, we conducted a quantitative content analysis. The material that will be used to conduct the quantitative content analysis consists of two parts; traditional media in the form of four daily2newspapers and a medium which falls within the "new media" for user-generated journalism; Flashback Forum.In summary, we can conclude that the answer to our main question is clear. It is predominantly elite sources which may make its voice heard when news is portrayed in traditional media and it's especially non-elite sources that sounds when a news reported on Flashback Forum. The number of elite sources and non-elite sources differ depending on which media platform is studied and also the manner, how they are heared are different depending on the platform.

The advertising climate is very dynamic; media and the way companies advertise have evolved countless times since the end of the 19thcentury. Advertising spending in print-based media has been steadily decreasing in Europe during the past years, whereas advertising spending online and on television has been increasing.The emergence of social media as an advertising medium has significantly impacted the advertising climate. Even though it is not yet fully matured, some advertisers believe social media to be the ideal medium, and perhaps the primary medium, to be utilized as an advertising channel in the future. Others believe that the enormous amount of online clutter will be its Achilles heel, hindering its effectiveness in the future. The purpose of this degree project was to study how ad-space buyers perceive different media channels and understand how these perceptions influence the selection of media. Our aim was to fill the research gap of whether the task-media fit hypothesis is applicable in an advertising setting.During our research we have conducted a qualitative study, gathering data through semi-structured interviews from some of the largest media agenciesand ad-space buyersin Northern Europe. We have incorporated a deductive research approach, thus incorporating elements from both the inductive and deductive research approaches. During the course of our study, we have developed our theoretical framework based on communication theories.The purpose of this study is to investigate the role media richness has in advertising. We have striven to gain an understanding of how ad-space buyers perceive different media channels in terms of richness and how these perceptions influence the media selection process.We can conclude that ad-space buyers in fact perceive media types to possess different levels of media richness, and that these perceptions influencethe media selection process based on the communication strategy at hand. However, we can also conclude that regardless of how rich the media is,the ad-space buyer will not select it if the price is too high. Thus,the media selection is therefore not cost-effective.

Student Number : 9201317D - MA research report - School of Journalism and Media Studies - Faculty of Humanities / Johannesburg has seen a significant increase in its Ethiopian born population since the end of apartheid, which mirrors global patterns of cities being the primary destinations of international migrants. In addition the city is considered instrumental in shaping South Africa’s media landscape. It is this juncture between media and migration which forms the theoretical basis of this study, as they both recognise the work of the imagination. This study explores the local particularities and stylistic features of media consumption patterns of Ethiopian migrants in Johannesburg and the relationship this has with articulating their self-understanding. It argues that South African media informs the bulk of the Ethiopian migrant media experience and as a result it contributes in assisting their integration into Johannesburg society. On the other hand, South African media also plays an active part in enforcing the respondents’ sense of social exclusion, as the media highlights South African behaviours which they find offensive (such as xenophobia). In this way, Ethiopian migrant narratives and the ways in which they consume media serves both to rationalise their choice of leaving ‘home’ and the state of permanent transit in which they live.

This research explores Iranian audiences of Farsi Christian satellite channels. It considers what the narratives and interviews of participants of this research reveal about the way audiences interact and negotiate with both religious broadcasts and their socio-political or religious contexts. What are the motivating factors that led the audiences first to watch Christian channels and secondly, where relevant, to change or add to their religious belief system? For those whose faith was transformed, how did this process happen according to their self-declared stories? Expressions of belief are analysed in order to consider their different understandings of religion, faith and their own belief system. The research also studies the triangular relationships between the audience, Farsi Christian media, and the audience’s culture(s). It is therefore a study of Farsi Christian channel audiences, their motivations in viewing the Christian message, their methods of interpretation and negotiations with different media texts, and their process of changing or altering their religion, using the concept of conversion as a tool of analysis. More specifically, I investigate the motivations of those in the audience of the four Farsi Christian satellite channels who stated that they had become Christians through that medium. I will examine factors that influenced both their interpretations of and negotiations with the religious media message, and their process of changing, adding to or modifying their belief system, including their understanding of religious conversion. My research investigates the interactions and negotiations between meaning making and mediation, and the process of faith transformation within Reception Theory against the background of the sociology of religion and culture in contemporary Iran. This research contributes to three areas of study: media reception (largely religious television) and sociology of religion and culture, mostly from the point of view of selfidentified conversion; Media, Religion and Culture, mainly using audiences’ interactions and negotiations methods with the channels, and the religion of Islam and Christianity in the Iranian political-cultural context. This involved analysing three hundred narratives drawn from audiences of four Farsi Christian satellite television channels, during the period between 2010 and 2015, as well as fifteen semi-structured interviews, two focus group discussions and a telephone survey. The argument develops over nine chapters. Chapter one provides the socio-political and religious context of the Iranian audience as well as presenting literature reviews and methodology, while Chapter two gives the Iranian (state and society) understanding of religion (din and mazhab) and of globalisation, as well as discussing the satellite channel usage. Chapter three introduces the four Farsi Christian satellite channels using data from interviews channel directors. Chapter four analyses the two focus groups’ discussion of the central question: how do audiences interact and negotiate with the Christian message presented on the channels? Chapters five, six and seven examine the participants’ narratives and interviews using respectively experimenting, negotiating and resisting attitudes of participants. Chapter eight discusses and analyses the findings, the conclusion sets out the implications, contributions and limitations of the research.

The aim of this study was to examine pictures from the swedish morning newspaper Barometern regarding their publication about the summer drought 2018 on two of theirplatforms; the ordinary printed newspaper and their Instagram account. The purpose of the study was to track down if there were any obvious differences aboutthe pictures that Barometern publishes in their printed newspaper and Instagramaccount. This study was conducted through a quantitative analysis with help of ancoding scheme. A delimitation was made to investigate only the publications during the four summermonths may, june, july and august. This limit was necessary with the reason to give ourstudy a relevant starting point. The result of this essay shows that in the printed version of the newspaper are they morelikely to publish pictures about the summer drought, as in the Instagram account arethey more likely to publish pictures with a positive vibe instead. A another conclusionwith this study is that almost half of the pictures that Barometern published about thesummer drought is manipulated in some way.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oklahoma, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (341-358).

Thesis (Ph. D. (Sociology and Industrial Sociology))--Rhodes University, 2003.

It is imperative the public be made aware of major media policy decisions to help take part in and shape the industry that they rely on to be an informed citizenry in a democracy. However, in an increasingly concentrated media landscape where fewer owners control our channels of information and reign over a vast array of holdings, the system is firmly positioned to conceal or marginalize policy stories that negatively affect its business interests. This study explores mainstream TV news coverage of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA– legislation proposed to reduce counterfeit purchases online that came under fire from critics for potentially threatening the fabric of free expression on the Internet. By asking, “How much attention did major television news networks whose parent companies supported SOPA devote to the bill during their nightly broadcasts?” and “How much attention did major television news networks whose parent companies supported SOPA devote to the bill during their nightly broadcasts after the Internet Blackout protesting the Act?” it finds those networks whose parent companies sought to benefit from the Act’s passage failed to report on the legislation at crucial times before and after the SOPA debate. The results largely fall in line with the mainstream media– namely the broadcast industry’s– historical self-censorship of significant media policy stories. / text

Media play an important role in transmitting information for citizens in a country as large as Canada. Much of what Canadians know about the larger country comes to them through the media they view. What then, is the information that media carries forward. How do the media depict political movements and political actors who are not politicians? This thesis explores the implications of media coverage for feminist organizations in Canada, using as a case study media’s response to the cuts to the Status of Women Canada by the Harper government in the fall of 2006. This analysis specifically focuses on the image of feminism created in media and the importance (or lack thereof) communicated by media about such organizations. / Thesis (Master, Political Studies) -- Queen's University, 2007-10-23 20:03:09.21