This study asks how the media perpetuates the cycle of racism, colonialism and stereotyping of Indigenous youth in Thunder Bay, and how Indigenous news sources participate in giving voice to Indigenous peoples. The research methodology is a discourse analysis examining both mainstream and Indigenous newspaper articles on the subject of the First Nations youth deaths in Thunder Bay. The methodology is also influenced by critical and decolonizing theories. Findings show that Indigenous newspaper articles are overall more inclusive of Indigenous voice, therefore providing an Indigenous perspective on the issue of First Nations youth dying in Thunder Bay and leaving out racist portrayals. On the other hand, non-Indigenous newspaper articles include less Indigenous voice and use the opinion of individuals in powerful positions. They also tend to portray Indigenous people in a negative light when compared to Indigenous newspapers. Outcomes from this research include implications for social workers such as: developing an understanding of how the media perpetuates racism, colonialism and stereotyping against Indigenous youth, advocating for and empowering Indigenous youth so they can come together and fight for change in First Nations education, and improving education within schools of social work regarding advocacy in the media. / Thesis / Master of Social Work (MSW)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:16:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Beatriz de Araujo Britto.pdf: 515141 bytes, checksum: 41630fb51e967b104dfaca949b5894cb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-03-28 / Analyze the relation between media´s discourse and the action of the theatral group Ói Nóis Aqui Traveiz, from Porto Alegre. The media which tries to territorialize the Ói Nóis´s practice throught the use of clichés and words of order, orders and commands which enforce an order; and the actions´s group as a minor mode, movement of deterritorialization where the sense becomes production, to go beyond representation´s idea. The anaysis was based on philosophy of difference, more precisely the Deleuze and Guattari´s work, A Thousand Plateaus, with concepts such as becoming, ritornelo, body without organs, rhizoma. The work trying also to detect some procedures of Ói Nóis´s theatrical language as means to produce new subjectivisations´s forms. The creation´s act and the art as a becoming space, which breaks the fixed significations and the values established by the majority / O foco desta tese é o estudo da relação dos discursos da mídia com a ação do grupo teatral Ói nóis Aqui Traveiz, de Porto Alegre. Em nossa abordagem a mídia será considerada aqui por suas estratégias de biopoder poder sobre a vida , em contraposição à ação de alteridade, de desterritorialização em que o sentido torna-se produção para além da idéia de representação a biopotência. É do contrachoque entre estes dois territórios, o fixo e o móvel, que brechas podem surgir, potencializando os pontos de resistência do grupo presentes também nas redes de poder. Mais especificamente, a tese analisa a relação do grupo com a mídia jornalística; como se processa a reação da imprensa em relação à linguagem do grupo e à intervenção em diversas manifestações culturais e políticas da cidade, aspectos sócio-culturais e políticos que influem na recepção da mídia em relação à atuação do grupo dentro da comunidade . Para pensar este contraponto a tese se vale da filosofia da diferença, mais precisamente da obra de Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari quando estes expõem a fórmula do devir e sua concatenação, sobretudo, com a idéia de ritornelo e corpo sem órgãos, tal qual apresentada em Mil Platôs. Para dar concretude à dinâmica dos conceitos implicados, a tese traz a análise da natureza dos diferentes discursos na relação cenamídia. Busca também detectar alguns dos principais procedimentos da prática cênica do grupo e seu histórico, investigando também até que ponto tais procedimentos podem potencializar uma estratégia de biopotência através da linha de fuga dos processos de subjetivação. Partimos do princípio de que a ação do grupo pode se tornar uma possibilidade de fuga das potências de controle (Estado, Comunicação, TV), uma estratégia de resistência a essas potências, à homogeneização do pensamento, na medida em que busque liberar os automatismos da percepção e os hábitos perceptivos já cristalizados. O ato de criação e a arte serão vistos como espaço do devir, que rompe com os significados pré-fixados, os códigos e valores estabelecidos pela razão do aparelho de Estado, devir-minoritário como desvio padrão dominante, processo pelo qual o grupo se subtrai à maioria. Outras referências importantes para a tese são a obra de Michel Foucault, no que tange à relação entre discurso, dispositivos de normalização e estruturas de poder, bem como a subversão destas mesmas estruturas como prática de resistência às estratégias de biopoder. A noção de metafísica da linguagem como signos de forças, da obra de Artaud. Por fim, também serão referências as obras de Peter Pál Pelbart referentes ao contraponto biopoder-biopotência

The main objective of this thesis called "Language Innovations in Mass Media" is to identify and compare language innovations in articles produced by major printed mass medium with language innovations in news programme broadcasted by public TV channel. Thesis aims to describe actual trends of language innovations, specifically lexical and word-building process. Overall, author analysed language of 17,723 reports and 1,174 articles from TV programme Události (produced by Česká televize and broadcasted daily at 7pm) and front pages of daily newspaper (MF DNES) from one-year period. Author detects similar patterns in terms of language innovations in both sources, however, the realization of the innovations is different.

PhD (English) / Department of English / Language, in general, has always been evolving and dynamic; the same can be said of the English language. Spontaneously, but not unexpected though, since the beginning of this 21st century which saw the introduction of the internet, there have been noteworthy manifestations in the structure and use of varied forms of the English language on social media. This study aimed at exploring, describing and explaining the linguistic features associated with the new communicative order – social media – and their communicative functions, vis-à-vis their impact on Ghanaian university students’ acquisition of academic literacy. To do this, the study adopted a qualitative method and an ethnographic approach in understanding the netnographic realities on social media. In addition, the sociocultural theory and the theory of error analysis served as the philosophical underpinnings which guided the research. Participants of the study (largely undergraduate students) were drawn from two universities in Ghana – the University of Ghana, and Valley View University. The total sample size was one hundred and eighty eight (188). It was found that frequent and prolonged use of social media discourse does impact negatively on the academic literacy of students. The findings also indicate that social media use overtime becomes addictive and this directly results in limited time span and low attention span of students. Again, the study found that over engagement on social media discourse leads to a general breakdown in both sentence and discourse structure of academic writing resulting into uncontrolled deviant spellings, omission and misuse of punctuation marks and capitalisation, as well as a high level of colloquialism. Despite these negative influences, it was found that there are some positive potentials of social media that can be harnessed to support academic literacy. The study, thus, recommends that the affordances of social media communication should be retooled to support the teaching and learning of academic literacy.

The thesis 'The role of the Czech public media in the pension reform discourse' aims to provide a critical reflection on the role of the Czech Television and the Czech Radio in the debate over the changes in the pension scheme of the Czech Republic. The principal method used for that is the discourse analysis, which comprises quality and quantity analysis of the media output, interviews and personal observation. The research project focuses on the context the debate over the pension reform occurs and how it is presented in the public media. The theoretical part summarizes the theoretical concepts used in the research project, i.e. concepts from the field of public policy, social policy, mass communication and discourse analysis. The empirical part examines the institutional development of the pension reform, its variations in political, scholarly (Czech and international) and public discourse. The major part of the research project is based on the discourse analysis of the pension reform discourse in the Czech public media. The role of the public media in the pension reform discourse is deduced on the basis of the theoretical and empirical parts.

Auf die Tagung insgesamt zurückblickend, kann festgestellt werden, dass der begriffliche und methodische Austausch zwischen den Ansätzen und Disziplinen nicht nur nötig, sondern bereits rege im Gange ist. Der klassischen hermeneuti- schen Analyse, wie sie für die Linguistik weithin üblich ist, werden dabei vielfach sowohl quantitative Methoden als auch ethnografische Methoden zur Seite gestellt, um den Herausforderungen des verstehenden Nachvollzugs angemessen zu begegnen. Gerade was das Spannungsfeld zwischen Gesprächs- und Textlinguistik betrifft, zeichnete sich in Mannheim einmal mehr die nahtlose Übergängigkeit zwischen den vermeintlich kategorial verschiedenen Phänomenen ab. Das große Spektrum an Kommunikationsformen einerseits und der graduelle Interaktionsbegriff andererseits zeigten deutlich, wie Gespräche und Texte nicht kategorial verschiedene Gegenstände sind, sondern vielmehr dass Sprache in ihren ver- schiedenen Ausprägungen von denselben grundlegenden Prinzipien bestimmt ist. Zwei dieser Prinzipien sind mit Sicherheit die Unhintergehbarkeit der material fundierten Medialität sprachlicher Formen und die Unaustilgbarkeit ihrer interaktionalen Qualitäten.

Critical media pedagogy - theoretical underpinnigs and contribution to media education Dissertation Mgr. Petr Valenta Keywords critical theory, critical media pedagogy, media literacy, critical pedagogy, media, ideology, discourse, power, symbolic power, knowledge Abstract The theoretical dissertation analyzes the traditional media education model issues, which derives from the orientation of media literacy on the dominant paradigm of media effects research in media studies. Media education takes the "media effects concept" and uses it to organize its own teaching practice. Theoretical dependence on media studies and the concept media effects leads media education to protectionism and normativity, which is reflected in the directive establishment of knowledge, skills and values pupils may acquire. This situation has negative effect on efforts of developing critical media thinking as independent on social authorities. Moreover, media education potentially reproduces the dominant modes of knowledge about media and society, without revealing them as social constructions. The theoretical basis for changing the paradigm of media education to become more critical and transformative practice able to form the student's personality as an autonomous, critical- thinking and committed citizen is presented in the second...

Работа посвящена исследованию тактик дискредитации и способам их реализации во французском журнале политической сатиры «Charlie Hebdo». Объектом данного исследования выступают текстовые фрагменты аналитических статей и комментариев, опубликованных во французском журнале «Charlie Hebdo». Цель данного исследования заключается в изучении коммуникативных тактических схем и способов их реализации, используемых для дискредитации политических деятелей в журнале «Charlie Hebdo». Материалом исследования послужили 156 текстовых фрагментов, извлечённых из 112 статей, опубликованных в электронных версиях и на официальном сайте журнала в период с конца 2021 г. по апрель 2023 г. В общей сложности во французском журнале «Charlie Hebdo» нами было выявлено 187 случаев употребления тактик дискредитации политических деятелей (50 универсальных, 88 прямых и 49 косвенных). Наибольшую продуктивность показали прямая тактика создания образа «тёмного настоящего» и её разновидности (17 случаев употребления), а также прямая тактика разоблачения (14 случаев употребления), универсальная тактика доказательного умаления авторитета (16 случаев употребления) и косвенная тактика «ловушка на противоречиях» (13 случаев употребления). Анализ эмпирического материала убедительно показывает, что в политическом медиадискурсе тактические схемы часто переплетаются и образуют гибридные формы реализации. Как показало исследование, универсальные дискредитирующие тактические схемы в большей степени разворачиваются за счёт применения метафор, гиперболы, междометий, иронии, эмоционально окрашенной и разговорной лексики, риторических вопросов, восклицаний, эллипсов и ассонанса. Имплементации прямых тактик дискредитации способствует употребление большого количества экспрессивной и инвективной лексики, метафор, антифразиса, иронии, риторических вопросов и восклицаний, параллельных и однородных конструкций. Косвенные дискредитирующие тактики реализуются при помощи обращения, в первую очередь, к синтаксическим возможностям языка (риторические вопросы и восклицания, повторы, параллелизм, сермоцинация, отрицательные конструкции, ряды однородных членов), а также за счёт использования большого количества метафор, аллюзий, иронии и перифраза. / The research is devoted to the study of tactics of discrediting and ways of their implementation in the French magazine of political satire "Charlie Hebdo". The object of the research is text fragments of analytical articles and comments published in the French magazine "Charlie Hebdo". The objective of the research is to study the communicative tactics and ways of their implementation used to discredit politicians in the magazine "Charlie Hebdo". The research material consists of 156 text fragments extracted from 112 articles published in electronic versions and on the official website of the magazine from the end of 2021 to April 2023. In total, in the French magazine "Charlie Hebdo", we identified 187 cases of implementation of tactics of discrediting politicians (50 universal, 88 direct and 49 indirect). The most productive are the direct tactics of creating the image of the "dark present" and its varieties (17 cases of use), as well as the direct tactic of exposure (14 cases of use), the universal tactic of evidential diminution of authority (16 cases of use) and the indirect tactic "trap on contradictions" (13 cases of use). The analysis of the empirical basis convincingly shows that in the media political discourse, tactical schemes often intertwine and create hybrid forms of implementation. According to the study, universal discrediting tactical schemes are mostly with the help of metaphors, hyperbole, interjections, irony, rhetorical questions, emotionally colored and colloquial vocabulary, ellipses and assonances. Direct tactics are implemented through the use of a large number of expressive and even invective vocabulary, metaphors, antiphrases, irony, rhetorical questions and exclamations, parallel and homogeneous constructions. Indirect tactics are implemented by referring to rhetorical questions, repetitions, parallel and negative constructions, metaphors, allusions, irony and paraphrases.