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Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2016-02-19T11:52:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Natália Ledur Alles_.pdf: 1618961 bytes, checksum: 9bbed6191e7f0836d04c6a3f0077dfb4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-19T11:52:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Natália Ledur Alles_.pdf: 1618961 bytes, checksum: 9bbed6191e7f0836d04c6a3f0077dfb4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-21 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A pesquisa busca compreender como a prostituição e as mulheres prostitutas são visibilizadas em espaços comunicacionais digitais brasileiros, relacionando essas percepções às narrativas elaboradas por prostitutas sobre si mesmas e sobre suas experiências. Partindo da proposta do projeto de lei 4.211/2012, que propõe a regulamentação da prostituição como profissão, pretendemos identificar os enquadramentos comunicacionais existentes nas notícias e discussões que enfocam a questão na internet, bem como observar os espaços destinados às experiências e opiniões das pessoas que vivenciam o fenômeno. Pensando que interagir com integrantes deste grupo estigmatizado pode suscitar compreensões para além das representações hegemônicas e dos estereótipos que definem o que é a prostituição, a pesquisa procura privilegiar as vozes das prostitutas e relacioná-las aos conteúdos comunicacionais selecionados. Teoricamente, buscamos articular estudos sobre prostituição, gênero e sexualidade aos conceitos de narrativa e enquadramentos comunicacionais. Para a pesquisa empírica, estabeleceu-se um percurso metodológico dividido em diferentes fases. Em um primeiro momento, efetuou-se uma investigação de inspiração etnográfica junto ao Núcleo de Estudos da Prostituição, entidade que congrega trabalhadoras do sexo em Porto Alegre, onde foi possível acompanhar o cotidiano de militantes e conhecer trajetórias e histórias de mulheres prostitutas. Durante esse período, foram realizadas entrevistas com oito profissionais do sexo que frequentam o NEP. Em outra etapa, objetivando identificar os enquadramentos comunicacionais presentes nos debates sobre o tema circulantes na internet, analisamos 65 textos de distintos autores publicados em portais de notícias, sites feministas, portais religiosos, blogs de temática variada, sites de ONGs e partidos políticos e sites governamentais. A partir das entrevistas e da convivência com as prostitutas, destaca-se a percepção da necessidade de refletir sobre o fenômeno sem partir de explicações fixas sobre seu significado na vida dessas pessoas. A análise nos permitiu traçar aproximações e distanciamentos entre as narrativas das prostitutas e os entendimentos sobre a prostituição divulgados nos espaços comunicacionais, assim como visualizar a existência de uma disputa sobre os sentidos da prostituição em nossa sociedade. / This work aims to understand Brazilian digital media visualization of prostitution and female sex workers, relating these perceptions to women’s narratives about themselves and their experiences. Focusing on 4.211/2012 Law Project, which proposes sex work regulation as a profession, we intend to identify internet media frames about this discussion as well as the existence of some space for sex workers experiences and opinions expressions. Considering that interaction with these stigmatized group members may give rise to sex work understanding beyond hegemonic representations and stereotypes, sex workers’ voices are privileged in this work, attempting to relate them to the valuated communicational content. Theoretically, sex work, gender and sexuality studies are articulated to narrative and media framing concepts. Empirical research methodology was divided in three phases. First, we did an ethnographically inspired survey on Porto Alegre’s Núcleo de Estudos da Prostituição (Sex Work Studies Centre), a NGO supporting and congregating prostitutes, where collection of several sex workers stories and trajectories was possible. This first-part work also consisted of interviewing in a deeper way eight sex workers. Aiming to identify internet media frames about prostitution’s regulation, second-part work consisted of 65 media texts analysis, written by different authors and publicized on news’, feminists’, religious’, blogs’, NGO’, political parties’ and governmental websites. Interviews and social interaction with sex workers lead us to highlight the urgency of thinking this phenomenon without tracing steady explanations about its meaning in these people lives. Analysis allowed us to draw similarities and divergences between sex workers’ narratives and communicational understandings about prostitution, as well as visualizing our society dispute regarding sex work meanings.

1 Annotation This master's thesis focuses on a specific area of mass media functioning, with reference to a particular social problem - homelessness. Descriptive analysis is used to investigate media content by original research, and to identify frames, which typically accompany the topic of homelessness in the Czech nationwide media. Therefore, the main theoretical framework is outlined by the paradigm of social constructivism and the theory of media framing. The major part of the presented text is the research itself, initially inspired by the foreign media studies of T. G Shields (2001) and C. Zufferey (2014). The method of quantitative content analysis is used to explore the contents of six selected nationwide media, covering three various media types. To be exact, the contents considered are media news issued by daily Právo and Blesk, by television channels ČT 1 and Nova, and radio channels Radiožurnál and Impuls, within the decade of January 1st 2007 to December 31st 2016. Primary attention is drawn to the media space dedicated to reporting on the topic of homelessness, to the manner in which homeless people are represented in the media, to framing of causes and treatment of homelessness, and to the speakers, who are given the chance to explicitly speak in the media. Last but not least, the scope and...

The thesis "Analysis of political news in Czech newspapers during the parliamentary elections of 2017" examines the media coverage of the election in the daily newspapers Lidové noviny, Hospodářské noviny, Mladá fronta DNES, Právo and Blesk. This will be done using content analysis. The theoretical part outlines the role of the media in the political life of society and social responsibility which results from it and becomes even more important before an election. On the basis of the theoretical knowledge of the available literature, normative media requirements are described and I focus on normative requirement of objectivity and its criterion of impartiality, which is based on balance and neutrality. Furthermore, I will analyse the compliance with legislative normative requirements, in particular the regulation Zákon č. 247/1995 Sb. o volbách do Parlamentu České republiky which relates to media reporting pre- election. Another part of the thesis is devoted to the framing of media content, which can lead to a departure from informing society about the relevant political issues crucial for political decisiveness. An integral part of the theory is foreign research of a similar vein, which was the basis for the operationalisation and the making of my own research.

The aim and purpose of this study is to explore how the Western media, more precisely six British newspapers, portrays the Kurdish female fighters of the Women’s Protection Units and the Peshmerga, who today are fighting against Deash in Northern Iraq and Syria. There have been a growing media interest in the Kurdish female fighters since the rise of Daesh, and they were an often recurring subject in newspapers and other media platforms during 2014 and 2015. I have collected 32 articles from six different newspapers, and applied a framework consisting of six different frames developed by Brigitte L. Nacos together with theories of media framing and social constructivism. The methodology is conducted as a critical discourse analysis, inspired by Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional model.     In the articles, the Kurdish female fighters are portrayed as a different phenomenon, however, the articles still describes them as brave and dignified fighters who are rational in their understanding of what they are fighting for and what they are sacrificing. They are portrayed as being motivated by issues such as equality and female liberation in contrast to Deash anti-female values. The previous research conducted by feminist scholars often focuses on that the media portray women, who conduct acts of political violence, in a negative ways, such as deviants who are lacking traditionally stereotypical feminine characteristics or that their looks are in focus instead of their motivations. However, I have drawn the conclusion that there is more to how the Kurdish female fighters are portrayed then what one would think.

Master of Science / Department of Journalism and Mass Communications / Joye C. Gordon / Global warming and its implications have astounding consequences for the global community. Although some research has been done on the trends within environmental reporting, few studies have looked at the issue of global warming in particular. Global warming is a troublesome issue for reporters for a number of reasons, and hence, it is important that we delve into how newspapers cover the topic. Latin America, especially the Caribbean region, is expected to suffer extreme consequences due to global warming, yet no studies regarding global warming coverage have been done in these regions. The first purpose of this study was to discover how a Mexico newspaper frames the issue of global warming. Next, this study sought to expand the current knowledge of global warming coverage by the media. Lastly, this study sought to expand on existing literature to discover how journalists outside of the United States communicate, to the public, the issue of global warming. Based on previous studies on global warming a frame analysis was conducted to explore how the Mexico City-based newspaper Reforma covers the issue of global warming. This study identified that ecology/science and consequences are the most frequently occurring themes of coverage, while scientific conflict and North/South conflict are present, but in low frequencies and near the end of stories. This study also identified international relations as the most frequent solution to global warming, while global warming story frequencies peaked during international conferences. These results confirm previous research, which has found that news media outside of the United States tend to emphasize international relations and de-emphasize conflicts and controversies.

Diploma thesis Visual framing of terrorist attacks over the years focuses on how the selected terrorist attacks are presented in four Czech daily newspapers. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on visual framing - which is based on the theoretical grounds of the concept of framing - and the visual presentation of terrorist attacks in the media. The aim of the research is to compare the visual framing of the attack in London in July 2005 and in Paris in 2015 using a quantitative content analysis of photographs accompanying the news coverage of attacks. The emphasis was on general frames of photographs accompanying the news coverage of both attacks and the difference between the framing of both events, the extent of the violence displayed, the differences in the visual framing of quality and tabloid press with a focus on photographs of victims and injured, and the relation of the title and the caption with the visual frames of analyzed visuals. Other research papers and studies of visual framing of terrorist attacks and related topics are also presented.