Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis examines the development of Sinn Féin's communication strategies and considers how news coverage of the party has evolved in recent years, and in particular with the advent of the Irish peace process from the mid-1990s onwards. The aim of the research presented here is to establish the relationship between the development of the party's professional communication apparatus and the evolution of its news coverage and to determine the extent to which the emergence of a sophisticated approach to communication has impacted upon media coverage. The thesis argues that the development and implementation of the party's professional communication apparatus has been the result of a much wider process of republican reappraisal that took place during the 1980s. This culminated in the 1990s with the transformation of the republican movement into a more constitutional and negotiation-oriented party, while progressively moving away from the armed struggle as a means to achieve Irish re-unification. Moreover, in emphasising that there has been a considerable improvement in the reporting of Sinn Féin; namely that the news media have become progressively more interested in republican predicaments, less biased and more critical of unionism, it also suggests that the improved media coverage must be seen as a result of the political re-alignment of the movement itself. Ultimately, the main argument of this thesis is that we are now witnessing a new phase of the republican movement and, by proxy, of Northern Irish politics and its coverage in the media. This has meant that Sinn Féin has become more wiling to reach a political compromise and to find a peaceful solution to the conflct, and has attempted to affirm itself as a party with political and social interests, other than Irish re-unification. This has also forced the British government to reappraise its own view of the conflict and of Sinn Féin, recognising above all that the party and Northern Irish politics have evolved from a situation of war to one where it is dominated by careful and sensitive diplomacy. The result is that most of the common assumptions held about Sinn Féin including those of some academics, its political communication and its news coverage, must now be reconsidered in light of the radical transformations that have taken place.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 115-118).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong Baptist University, 2005. / Thesis submitted to Dept. of Communication Studies. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 221-238).

Univ., Habil.-Schr.--Zürich. / Literaturverz. S. 223 - 235.

Zugl.: Mainz, Universiẗat, Diss., 2007.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 359-388). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 359-388). Also available on the Internet.

Este trabalho explora novas maneiras de se pensar os Meios de Comunicação de Massa, suas relações de poder e sua relevância social. Através da filosofia de Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze e muitos outros pensadores que seguiram suas reflexões, adotando conceitos como Biopoder, Biopolíticas, Poder Pastoral, Sociedade Disciplinar e Sociedade de Controle, podemos obter novas perspectivas de como eles, os Meios de Comunicação, se inserem nas relações sociais, como operam, e como estão relacionados com a formação de um novo tipo de sujeito: o sujeito mediático. Estes estudos são um passo importante para se constituir uma abordagem pósestruturalista das ciências da comunicação, mas não se destinam a aproximar as teorias da comunicação da analítica pós-estrutural; o objetivo presente é de oferecer caminhos e ferramentas alternativas para se entender e/ou lidar com as relações produzidas através dos Meios de Comunicação. Infelizmente, todo o conhecimento das Ciências da Comunicação foi produzido sob o prisma estruturalista, e portanto, estabelecer uma nova abordagem neste campo é uma tarefa delicada já que todas as referências disponíveis não são adequadas a esta outra epistemologia. Neste contexto, a presente pesquisa se resume a um estudo introdutório sobre como abordar a comunicação mediática de forma pós-estrutural. / This work explore a new way of thinking about the mass media, its power and social relevance. Throught the philosophy of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and their followers, using concepts as Biopower, Biopolitics, Pastoral Power, Disciplinary Society and Society of Control, we can get a different perspective about what mass communication means to the society, how it works, and how deep mass media is related to the formation of a new kind of self: the mediatic self. These studies are an important step to reach a post-structuralistic approach of communication sciences, and are not intended to build bridges between communication theories and post-structural analytics, but to offer alternative paths and tools to understand, and to deal with the relationships and effects produced in conjunction with the mass media. Unofortunately, all the knowledge about communication sciences are in the estructuralistic form. Estabilishing a new approach to it is a very delicate task once all the reference avaliable is not exactly suitable. This, in fact, is only an introductory work in this issue.

Zugl.: Erlangen, Nürnberg, Univ., Habil.-Schr.