ABSTRACT MEDIA, POLITICS AND SLANTED NEWS COVERAGE DURING THE ELECTION PERIODS &ndash / CASE STUDY OF NEWS ON AKP &Ccedil / AgLAYAN, Eda M.S. in Media and Cultural Studies Supervisor : Prof. Dr. RaSit KAYA May, 2010, 107 pages This thesis aims to study the attitude of media towards AKP (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi - Justice and Development Party) during the 2002 and 2007 general legislative elections in Turkey. Three national newspapers were selected in the scope of analysis: H&uuml / rriyet, Sabah an Yeni Safak in two months period before 2002 General Elections and 2007 General Elections (September, 1- October, 31 2002, June, 1 &ndash / July, 21 2007). Media are assumed to have a defining role on the formation of opinions due to the fact that the events of the external world to our immediate experiences is continuously interpreted and disseminated through them. Under these considerations, it is frequently claimed that world of politics is one of the most effected institutions. So, during the election periods campaigns are designed and carried out to direct opinions by means of media. Main question of the thesis is whether national daily newspapers were favorable to AKP, both before 2002 general elections when it was elected as first political party and before 2007 general elections when it was the ruling party. AKP news coverage of the selected newspapers in the defined periods were examined through qualitative content analysis. Selected newspapers&rsquo / news slant are revealed by way of reading AKP news critically to determine their dominant tone, gauging how much space they occupied in the newspapers and considering attitudes of the newspapers towards other political parties. Keywords: Media, Liberal Media Theory, News Slant, Qualitative Content Analysis

This study provides a new account of the evolution of the eighteenth-century British novel by reading it as a response to contemporary interest in, and self-consciousness about, print communication. During the eighteenth century, print went from being a marginal technology to being one with an increasingly wide circulation and a diverse range of applications. The pervasive adoption of print generated anxiety about its positive and negative effects, prompting a series of responses from writers. Examining the work of five British novelists from across the long eighteenth century, this dissertation investigates the influence of eighteenth-century philosophical thinking about human understanding and social interaction on the assumptions that these novelists made about the way their work would be received. In particular, this thesis explores the ways in which these novelists respond to contemporary philosophical ideas about the cognitive functions of the imagination by experimenting with the form of their work in order to generate new kinds of reception. But this study also shows that, while these five novelists drew on the tenets of eighteenth-century moral philosophy, their work exposed a number of the limitations of that philosophy by putting it into practice. Each chapter in this study focuses on a different aspect of the intersection of mediation and imagination. Chapter One considers the ways in which Locke's understanding of probability informed Richardson's attempts to promote specific affective reading practices with his epistolary fictions and editorial commentary. Chapter Two reads Sterne's manipulations of the material page in Tristram Shandy as an attempt to expose the limitations of print communication and to suggest new ways of reading that could overcome those limitations. Chapter Three examines the writing of Smith, Kames, Mackenzie, Reeve and Godwin in order to illustrate both the promise and the danger that these authors attribute to imaginative sympathy and to the reading practices that promote sympathetic reactions. Chapter Four explores Scott's experiments with a form of fiction that could collapse the distance between writing and orality in order to force readers to reevaluate the complex relationship of sound and writing in the establishment of communities in an age of print.

The purpose of this paper is to explore how masculinity and femininity are constructed in the magazine Veckorevyn, through a critical discourse analysis of 18 articles from six issues in 2011. This is done by using a variety of theories and previous research results, which is gender theory, the theory of late-modern society and media theory. The analysis shows that Veckorevyn depicts virility and feminine differently. Furthermore, pointing the results from the analysis that a change of manhood and womanhood takes place in the social practice. The selection of articles from the magazine also shows that Veckorevyn seems to promote gender equality.

This study provides a new account of the evolution of the eighteenth-century British novel by reading it as a response to contemporary interest in, and self-consciousness about, print communication. During the eighteenth century, print went from being a marginal technology to being one with an increasingly wide circulation and a diverse range of applications. The pervasive adoption of print generated anxiety about its positive and negative effects, prompting a series of responses from writers. Examining the work of five British novelists from across the long eighteenth century, this dissertation investigates the influence of eighteenth-century philosophical thinking about human understanding and social interaction on the assumptions that these novelists made about the way their work would be received. In particular, this thesis explores the ways in which these novelists respond to contemporary philosophical ideas about the cognitive functions of the imagination by experimenting with the form of their work in order to generate new kinds of reception. But this study also shows that, while these five novelists drew on the tenets of eighteenth-century moral philosophy, their work exposed a number of the limitations of that philosophy by putting it into practice. Each chapter in this study focuses on a different aspect of the intersection of mediation and imagination. Chapter One considers the ways in which Locke's understanding of probability informed Richardson's attempts to promote specific affective reading practices with his epistolary fictions and editorial commentary. Chapter Two reads Sterne's manipulations of the material page in Tristram Shandy as an attempt to expose the limitations of print communication and to suggest new ways of reading that could overcome those limitations. Chapter Three examines the writing of Smith, Kames, Mackenzie, Reeve and Godwin in order to illustrate both the promise and the danger that these authors attribute to imaginative sympathy and to the reading practices that promote sympathetic reactions. Chapter Four explores Scott's experiments with a form of fiction that could collapse the distance between writing and orality in order to force readers to reevaluate the complex relationship of sound and writing in the establishment of communities in an age of print. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

The aim of this master thesis is to contribute to a more profound knowledge of women's magazine reading by giving insights into the readerships’ interpretations of magazine texts. Three different dimensions of interpretation were thereby identified: the relation to the audiences’ own situations in life, the audiences’ reflections on their prior experiences, and the emerging emotions in the interpretation process. Audience and reception theory, as well as feminist media theory, form the theoretical framework of my research. As audience reception concerns the dynamic interaction between text and the audiences’ reception of it, I decided to concentrate on both text analysis and qualitative interviews. With my qualitative, methodological approach – comprising an analysis of three articles concerning texting advice and interviews with six regular readers, I was able to explore nuances and depths of the phenomenon. I identified four interpretative repertoires which the women used for making meaning of the texts: pleasure, rejection, self-reflection, and practical relevance. Pleasure and rejection were found to be the women’s predominant emotions in the interpretation process. Moreover, my research illustrates that women are interpreting the texting advice in a practical as well as in a self-reflexive way. Their own circumstances and prior experiences are thereby variables, which influence the reception. My work strengthens the perspective of readers as being empowered to understand, evaluate, and critique the media content they consume. This is an important finding influencing society at large. As my research outlines, critical readings were found to be superior to possible ideological influences of women’s magazines. Future research should focus on a further in-depth analysis of individual influencing variables in relation to the audiences’ interpretations as I was only able to evaluate some in my study.

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This thesis explores how gender inequality in the photographic staff of the main Colombian media outlets, has established a hegemonic view of representation and examines the way recent social outbursts in the country, have been the ideal setting for the rise of citizen journalism, visual activism, and new visual citizenships. It seeks to present how diverse individuals, including female photojournalists are producing alternative visual narratives and igniting a paradigm shift on traditional photojournalism. By embracing new digital visualities and depictions of the other, these individuals are confronting traditional media organizations, questioning their visual narratives, inclusion, and representation policies.   Positioned from a Phenomenological and Feminist Media Theory standpoint, this project aims to observe this phenomenon from the bottom up, building from the experiences of the subject’s study. This project will consider emotions, affections lived experiences of three Colombian female photojournalists in active exercise of their profession, who will take part of this study, and those experiences will be basic inputs of interpretation. I contend that not sufficient research has been done on this topic, and expose an evident research gap, existing in Latin-American and Colombian Media Studies, since it’s connected to new technologies, recent social change and in general, a phenomenon still developing. Drawing from a Phenomenological Psychology field methodology, data will be obtained through semi-structured interviews and examined with coding and interpretation tools provided by this discipline. This study concludes how the female body becomes a political and visual signifier exercising an embodied practice in photojournalism, but also by emotions connected to what they are seeing through their lenses, which in turn, produces affective visualities and narratives many times, opposed to the claims of objectivity, rationality and newsworthiness traditional journalism stands for.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:10:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jorge Miklos.pdf: 1926790 bytes, checksum: b122c9f222f89b68d11fafebd3a62c72 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research aims to compromise the phenomenon in the religious media and the mediatic religion in the conjuncture of the cyber-religion. The researched feature is to understand the religious media and the mediatization of the religion from the context of modernity and the usurpation through the religious media, specially the means of interactive and the electronic means of communication (most computers and other technologies that use the net) of the divine power and the religious and mediatic religions in the net religious experiences. The main problem in the research is set between two categories: the mediatic and the religious. The question that has motivated the research was: what changes religions have when they start their cyberspace virtual environment. The first hypothesis concentrates on the idea that there is a double contamination between religion and media, that is, the mediatic formats get the religious elements and religions use the media for their own benefits. There is a mutual interpenetration: religion gets into the media and simultaneously the media is sacralized. Thus, we observe two phenomena: the first one is that the interactive electronic means of communications get all the divine elements (the media sacralizes itself) and the religion mediates itself; the second testified phenomenon is that the religious experiences in the cyber-space (the cyber-religion) has the phenomenon of body abolition and space invalidation, two essential features not only for the religious experience but also for the communication events. The area of investigation is the Communication Science, a productive area for the interlacement of epistemological and different looks. On account of the hybrid nature of analysis objects, the theorical reference of the research uses, as a conceptual foundation, the theorical help planned by the Semiotics of Culture by professor Ivan Bystrina, Media Theory of Harry Pross and Vilém Flusser, in the formulation of communication concept for the cultural structure of symbolic texts as from the reading of processes of communication bonds by Norval Baitello Junior, the mediosfera studies, and its place in the mediatic religious imagination by Malena Segura Contrera. For the understanding of the religious phenomenon one should go to the delineated concepts by Mircea Eliade and Joseph Campbell. The research is also supported by works of cyber-culture theorists like Paul Virilio and Eugenio Trivinho, as well as in contemporaneity studious people, in areas linked to communication, such as Zygmunt Bauman and David Harvey. The concepts of sacred and profane space and time, religare, cyberculture, cyberspace, democracy, glocal, and compression of space and time are necessary for the understanding of the advent of religious experiences adapted to the cyberspace. The corpus of analysis referring to this feature has come through some communication practices that are in the virtual environments that allow religious experiences such as the constitution of new cyber-rituals as the virtual candles, virtual wakes, virtual beads and virtual pilgrimages / Esta pesquisa tem por escopo abarcar o fenômeno da mídia religiosa e da religião midiática na conjuntura da ciber-religião. O aspecto pesquisado volta-se para compreender a mídia religiosa e a midiatização da religião a partir do contexto da modernidade e a usurpação pela mídia religiosa, em particular, os meios de comunicação eletrônicos interativos (mais precisamente, os computadores e outras tecnologias capazes de rede) do poder divino e as implicações religiosas e midiáticas das experiências religiosas na rede. A problemática central da pesquisa assenta-se na relação entre duas categorias: o midiático e o religioso. A pergunta que motivou a pesquisa foi: Que alterações as experiências religiosas sofrem quando se deslocam para o ambiente virtual do ciberespaço? A hipótese inicial concentra-se na ideia de que há uma dupla contaminação (intradevoramento) entre religião e mídia, isto é, os formatos midiáticos se apropriam de elementos religiosos e as religiões instrumentalizam a mídia a serviço de seus interesses. Ocorre uma mútua interpenetração: a religião midiatiza-se e simultaneamente a mídia é sacralizada. Nesse sentido, observa- se dois fenômenos: o primeiro é que os meios de comunicação eletrônicos interativos devoram elementos divinos (a mídia sacraliza-se) e a religião midiatiza-se; o segundo fenômeno constatado é que ao ser importado para o campo midiático do ciberespaço, a experiência religiosa sofre profundas alterações. Na ciber-religião ocorre a abolição do corpo físico e a anulação do espaço material, dois fatores tradicionais tanto para a experiência religiosa como para os eventos comunicacionais. O campo de investigação é a Ciência da Comunicação,um território fecundo para o entrelaçamento de olhares epistemológicos diferentes. Devido à natureza híbrida do objeto de análise, o referencial teórico da pesquisa utiliza como alicerce conceitual o aporte teórico delineado pela Semiótica da Cultura do professor Ivan Bystrina, da Teoria da Mídia de Harry Pross e Vilém Flusser, na formulação de um conceito de comunicação pela estruturação cultural dos textos simbólicos a partir da leitura de processos de vínculos comunicativos, de Norval Baitello Junior, e dos estudos de mediosfera e o seu lugar no imaginário religioso midiático, de Malena Segura Contrera. Para compreensão do fenômeno religioso, recorre-se aos conceitos delinados por Mircea Eliade e Joseph Campbell. A pesquisa apoia-se também nas obras de teóricos da cibercultura como Paul Virilio e Eugênio Trivinho, bem como em estudiosos da contemporaneidade, em áreas ligadas à comunicação, como Zygmunt Bauman e David Harvey. Os conceitos de tempo-espaço sagrado e profano, religare, cibercultura, cyberspace, dromocracia, glocal, compressão espaço-tempo são necessários para compreensão do advento das experiências religiosas ambientadas no ciberespaço. O corpus de análise referente a esse aspecto deu- se no âmbito de algumas práticas comunicativas presentes em ambientes virtuais que possibilitem experiências religiosas tais como a constituição dos novos ciber-rituais como as velas virtuais, velórios virtuais, terços virtuais e peregrinações virtuais

The purpose of this Master's thesis is to analyse the image of Mexico in the media of the United States in the first half of 2010. First, the author gives an overview of selected media theories and describes the specifics of the U.S. media market. On the sample of the three media (El Paso Times, New York Times and Fox News) she analyses how were the U.S. media referring about Mexico and its citizens. She is validating hypotheses, which she based on characteristics of each of analysed media. She comes to a conclusion that reporting about Mexico varies among the selected media, which reflects specifics of each of them. In conclusion, she is applying some of the media theories presented in the first chapter. She finds that CNN effect and framing occur. Additionally, she argues that Baudrillard's simulacrum also appears.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:23:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Levy Henrique Bittencourt Neto.pdf: 3920216 bytes, checksum: 80847dd6801cc953366dc5479e5ede81 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-13 / The main objective of this work is to develop a comparative study of the signs that compose the narrative of the digital game trilogy God of War with that ones presents on Greek myths and tragedies. It is intended to understand the tragic narrative in God of War trilogy from the perspective of CS Peirce s semiotics, with the support off specific theories about the Greek tragic period. Were chosen philosophical theories, and historical literature about the tragic period of ancient Greece, by authors such as Albin Lesky, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet and Friedrich Nietzsche. To this end, it starts from a general discussion about the media, especially digital ones. The aim of this approach is to demonstrate how certain aspects of a media pass to another. The content of a medium is always another medium, and thus, over time, the media are in constant interplay. This is an important notion because it is how the tragic sign could reach our age. It is possible to understand this appropriation of a philosophical concept, distant in time and space, through the behavior of the media. The method used to verify the hypothesis of the tragic sign embodiment by the God of War franchise will be the second pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce, emphasizing phenomenology and the first branch of logic - the speculative grammar. With this support, we intend to map the signs of the narrative of God of War, as well as verifying the adequacy of theories of the Greek tragedy applied to the game. Though the game to do a free reading of mythology and Greek tragedy, it s possible to see similar elements between the narrative of God of War and the tragic period. Characteristic features of the tragedy appear many times in the trilogy, like the Ares immature to the Kratos dark victory / compõem a narrativa do jogo digital God of War II e os signos presentes nas tragédias e mitos gregos. Pretende-se com o trabalho compreender a questão da narrativa trágica na trilogia God of War, sob a perspectiva da semiótica de C.S. Peirce, ao mesmo tempo em que se utilizam teorias específicas sobre o período trágico grego. Foram escolhidas as teorias filosóficas, históricas e literárias sobre o período trágico da Grécia antiga, de autores como Albin Lesky, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet e Friedrich Nietzsche. Para tanto, parte-se de uma discussão geral sobre as mídias, em especial as digitais. O objetivo dessa abordagem é demonstrar como certos aspectos de uma mídia passam para outra. Todo o conteúdo de uma mídia é sempre outra mídia, e dessa forma, ao longo do tempo, as mídias estão em constante inter-relação. Isto é uma noção importante, pois é desta forma que o signo trágico pode alcançar a nossa era. É possível entender essa apropriação de um conceito filosófico distante no tempo e espaço através do comportamento das mídias. O método utilizado para se verificar a hipótese da corporificação do signo trágico na franquia God of War será o segundo pragmatismo de Charles Sanders Peirce, dando ênfase na fenomenologia e no primeiro ramo da lógica a gramática especulativa. Com esse suporte, pretende-se mapear os signos da narrativa de God of War, assim como verificar a adequação das teorias sobre a tragédia grega aplicadas ao jogo. Apesar de o jogo fazer uma leitura livre da mitologia e tragédia grega, é possível ver elementos similares entre a narrativa de God of War e o período trágico. Traços característicos da tragédia aparecem em muitos momentos da trilogia, da tolice imatura de Ares à sombria vitória de Kratos