This project engages theories of settler colonialism, biopower, and the state of exception to analyze the operations of rights-based narratives of citizenship in relation to political dissent in Canada. I argue that a normalized state of exception founds the white supremacist, settler colonial state, bringing Canadian citizenship into being as a (white) racialized, (cis)gendered, and (hetero)sexualized construct. By examining “resistance narratives” about the Toronto G20 that emerged in the post-G20 climate, my work argues that, in treating the policing practices employed during the G20 as exceptional and in (re)producing the exaltation of white heterosexual cis-masculine citizens, these narratives normalize and reinforce the daily operations of the exception, which targets Indigenous, racialized, and other “Others” in Canada. Finally, my work critically engages with the space of the Eastern Detention Centre (EDC) as a temporary camp set up to detain G20 arrestees, and with the narrative of “Torontonamo” that emerged to describe and explain the EDC. Reading the EDC in the context of other spatial organizations of the exception in Canada, I argue that the “Torontonamo” narrative reasserts race thinking in relation to the normalized operations of the exception. In so doing, it (re)produces white citizen-subjects as the proper recipients of national and international human rights, while abandoning racialized populations to the space of the camp. Ultimately, my work writes against the hegemonic view of the Toronto G20 as an exceptional event in Canadian history. I contend that G20 policing practices were only a hyper-visible example of the normalized operations of the exception within settler colonialism. / Thesis (Master, Gender Studies) -- Queen's University, 2012-09-29 21:16:51.694

This thesis performs a textual analysis of two for-profit science fiction texts in which the authors implanted queer content: Bryan Singer's X-Men films and James Robert's Transformers comic series, "More Than Meets the Eye". The argument incorporates queer (referring to attraction and gender variance) media representation and western identity politics lenses into its critique. By interrogating reality through the masquerade of an impossible universe, science fiction affects how subversive a text can be. When authors designate the natural and the unnatural in a strange universe, they designate what and who belongs in our society. Whatever they imagine has an effect on our reality.

The purpose of this study is to investigate binary discourses of self and other constructed by Canadian media in the representation of Saudi women. One of the modest aims of this research is to expound on the status of centralized media coverage in Canada. Drawing on Hegel’s model of dialectics, as framed by Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) and David Nikkel’s conception of a moderate postmodernism, this research also aims at contributing to the ongoing modern-postmodern discussion by delineating and examining the ways in which dialectical analysis can aid in the deconstruction of metanarratives in Western culture. Utilizing a qualitative research design that employs multidimensional modes of textual analysis, the thesis examined the changes in the portrayal of Saudi Women through a non-probability sampling of 88 Canadian newspaper articles selected from the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and National post between 2001-2009. One major finding was that the metanarratives guiding these representations did not change significantly despite changes in narratives as brought about by several major political events. The implications of this thesis revealed what the ideological influences framing these depictions, as well as whether or not the changes that they have undergone, were self-reifying in nature. The research also highlighted the implications resulting from assessing the ontological identities of Saudi women vis-à-vis a Western framework of values.

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-09-24T16:54:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 CAROLINA DE MOURA CORDEIRO PONTES - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCS 2011..pdf: 9822178 bytes, checksum: ad2984bbe193a45802506d71ccf9ce27 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-24T16:54:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CAROLINA DE MOURA CORDEIRO PONTES - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCS 2011..pdf: 9822178 bytes, checksum: ad2984bbe193a45802506d71ccf9ce27 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08 / Este estudo focaliza as maneiras pelas quais fatos classificados como criminosos são apresentados na imprensa escrita. Especificamente, analisamos um corpus constituído pelas notícias sobre crimes publicadas no Diário da Borborema (Campina Grande-PB), entre os períodos de junho a novembro de 2009. A perspectiva teórica se apoia na discussão sobre a função pedagógica da publicização de crimes e de suas punições, inspirada por Foucault, em "Vigiar e punir" e no debate sobre os processos sociais de estigmatização, feito por Goffman. A metodologia utilizada é a Análise de Conteúdo, pressupondo uma abordagem que junta o enfoque quantitativo e o qualitativo. Dentre as conclusões mais significativas deste estudo estão as seguintes: Nossa análise de conteúdo de um corpus constituído pelas matérias sobre crimes e criminalidade publicadas no Diário da Borborema (Campina Grande-PB), no período de junho a novembro de 2009, corroborou o que aponta a literatura pertinente sobre a associação midiática entre pobreza e criminalidade (cf. MISSE, 1995; SOARES, 2010) construída através tanto do maior número de matérias que descrevem os indivíduos criminosos como pobres, se comparadas com aquelas que descrevem os criminosos como ricos, quanto pelo espaço dedicado aos crimes cometidos por indivíduos das camadas populares e para aqueles cometidos por sujeitos das camadas superiores. Também observamos as diferenças na linguagem utilizada nas matérias em que se noticiaram crimes cometidos por indivíduos das diferentes classes sociais / This work focuses generally on ways by which facts classified as criminal are presented in the Press. We analyze specifically a corpus constituted by news about crimes as published in the Diário da Borborema (Campina Grande-Paraíba), during the period of June-November/2009. The theoretical perspective is based in the discussion done by Foucault on social functions of showing crimes and their punition on media presented in Discipline and Punish and in the debate on social stigmatization processes done by Goffinan. The methodology we used was inspired on Content Analysis, which put together the quantitative and qualitative approaches. The main outputs of this work are the following: The Content Analysis we carried out based on a corpus constituted by news about crimes and criminality published in the Diário da Borborema (Campina Grande-Paraíba), from June until November/2009, has confirmed what is stablished in the specialized literature on the association between poverty and criminality (cf. MISSE, 1995; SOARES, 2010), which has been built through a bigger ammount of news that describe the criminais as poor people than those which describe them as rich people, and the space devoted to crimes committed by poor than for those committed by individuais from the upper classes. We also observed differences in the language used in the subjects who reported crimes committed by individuais from different social classes

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T16:15:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EOF.pdf: 1791224 bytes, checksum: c5e7bca467374e6f42e9fcd3fb4baacd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-26 / This research is based on a psychosocial perspective of the Social Representations Theory, systematized by Serge Moscovici and Denise Jodelet, that aims to analyze how weekly news magazines (Veja and Carta Capital) represent themes related to teachers. This issue, from a theoretical point of view, justifies itself in the light of medias fundamental part in the contemporary society as caster and producer of information. Journalistic products that were published for a year in the countrys biggest and most important weekly news magazine (Veja) were raised, as well as in Carta Capital, about the issue teacher and its variants. The only criteria for the selection of the texts was that they should verse about the Brazilian teacher, regardless of their stage of academic development, including reports, interviews and/or opinionated articles. This investigation covers, still as a theoretical-methodological resource, the concept of media representation as elaborated by Sary Calonge CALONGE. Seventy nine journalistic products were analyzed between January 2012 and January 2013, that indicated that teachers are practically an invisible being in journalistic scripts and articles from these communication establishments. To talk about education the teacher must be from the economic area. In the few times that hes mentioned or even appears with some emphasis, the use of stereotypes and cliches is notable, which points to the existence of a naturalized speech by the media in which the teacher is sometimes pointed as villain and sometimes as victim of the circumstances that permeate the current educational situation in Brazil. / Esta pesquisa fundamenta-se em uma perspectiva psicossocial da Teoria das Representações Sociais, sistematizada por Serge Moscovici, Denise Jodelet e demais colaboradores, com o objetivo de analisar como revistas informativas semanais (Veja e CartaCapital) representam questões relacionadas ao professor. A temática, do ponto de vista teórico, justifica-se em face do papel fundamental da mídia na sociedade contemporânea como difusora e produtora de informações. Foram levantados produtos jornalísticos publicados, durante um ano, na maior e mais importante revista semanal de informação do País (Veja) e em CartaCapital sobre a temática professor e suas variantes. O único critério para seleção dos textos foi que versassem sobre o professor brasileiro, independentemente do grau de ensino, sendo incluídas reportagens, entrevistas e/ou artigos opinativos. Esta investigação abarca ainda como recurso teórico-metodológico, o conceito de representações midiáticas conforme elaborado por Sary Calonge. Foram analisados 79 produtos jornalísticos entre janeiro de 2012 e janeiro de 2013 que indicaram que o professor é praticamente um ser invisível nas pautas de reportagens e artigos desses veículos de comunicação. Professor para falar sobre educação, só se for da área econômica. Nas poucas vezes em que é mencionado ou até aparece com algum destaque, percebe-se o uso de estereótipos e clichês, o que aponta a existência de um discurso naturalizado na mídia que ora o aponta como vilão, ora o trata como vítima das circunstâncias que permeiam a situação atual da Educação no Brasil.

This research aims at finding how BBC and AJE media represented the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The study examines the news website, which reported the recent escalation of Jerusalem conflict in December 2017, where US President Trump have recognized Jerusalem as Israeli capital, and declared to move the US embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem. The study uses qualitative research, where it investigated the impact of ideology on media discourse by means of critical discourse analysis (DHA, Topoi, and Social actor’s representation). CDA was carried out for a sample of 8 news articles published on the websites of two networks: the British Broadcasting Corporation World news "BBCWN" and the Middle Eastern Qatari owned "Al Jazeera English". The articles were chosen within the month of December 2017. Articles were analyzed by means of the two-level analysis method, including the thematic and in-depth analysis. On the first, entry-level analysis, I focus on contents of texts and outline the discourse topics. While in the second phase I analyze the means of discursive strategies and the representation of social actors utilized throughout the text. The thematic analysis revealed that, both BBC and AJE have covered the incident similarly in general look. However, in-depth analysis showed that each network had portrayed the images of Israelis and Palestinians differently. On contrast of AJE, BBC tends to perceive Palestinians as a threat and the Israeli one as victims of the Palestinian violation. Moreover, the analysis revealed that each network had different ideologies and aims. The study concludes that AJE articles was biased pro-Palestinians, while BBC articles was biased pro-Israelis.

Finland’s Biggest Dress Party – A Study of the Role of Women’s Appearances at the Independence Day Reception, aims to understand the role of dresses at Finland’s Independence Day Reception by focusing on how the reception has earned a title “Finland’s biggest dress party”, and meanings behind the dresses. The aims are studied combining fashion and media studies in three analytical chapters focusing on the media’s development and influence, how the dresses work as a communication tool and what kind of messages are sent through dresses, and Finnishness and national identity in the dresses. The chapters are linked to each other by the importance of the communication between the dresses, the media and the audience during the hype around the Independence Day Reception. The study is based on interviews, which were conducted with seven reception guests and three dress designers, archival studies, visual culture studies and (fashion) media discourse. The study draws on theories by Roland Barthes, Malcolm Barnard and Erving Goffman.

This essay casts light on the quantitative aspect of the media representation of foreign news. The purpose of the essay is not only to describe the media representation of the countries of the world, but also to explain the representation out of structures that are mirrored by the mass media. Four hypotheses are stated that are operationalized in the research. These are treating four different factors that are believed to affect the representation, economy, geographical distance, cultural distance and the size of the population. A fifth hypothesis is stating that economy is the most influential of the factors. The factors are tested by using multiple regression analyses. Four Swedish newspapers have been selected for the study, two morning papers, one evening paper and one free daily newspaper. The representation is measured by the number of articles retrieved by searching a database containing the four newspapers. The search have included 183 countries and all articles from 2007 for these countries. The results shows that economy, geographical distance and size of population are the most important factors for the media representation. Economy is evinced to be the most influential of the factors.

The purpose of this study is to investigate binary discourses of self and other constructed by Canadian media in the representation of Saudi women. One of the modest aims of this research is to expound on the status of centralized media coverage in Canada. Drawing on Hegel’s model of dialectics, as framed by Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) and David Nikkel’s conception of a moderate postmodernism, this research also aims at contributing to the ongoing modern-postmodern discussion by delineating and examining the ways in which dialectical analysis can aid in the deconstruction of metanarratives in Western culture. Utilizing a qualitative research design that employs multidimensional modes of textual analysis, the thesis examined the changes in the portrayal of Saudi Women through a non-probability sampling of 88 Canadian newspaper articles selected from the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and National post between 2001-2009. One major finding was that the metanarratives guiding these representations did not change significantly despite changes in narratives as brought about by several major political events. The implications of this thesis revealed what the ideological influences framing these depictions, as well as whether or not the changes that they have undergone, were self-reifying in nature. The research also highlighted the implications resulting from assessing the ontological identities of Saudi women vis-à-vis a Western framework of values.

This diploma thesis deals with the media representation of celebrities, as it is designed within the framework of the adopted American television format of the late-night talk show. In the first part of the thesis, attention is focused on problems of understanding of the phenomenon of celebrities by various authors, as well as on the development of the late-night talk show itself and its characteristic features. The theoretical starting point is the theory of representation (Hall), three levels of representation (Trampota) and social construction of reality (Berger, Luckmann). The method of critical discourse analysis is chosen for the research and the four principles for the analysis are described: commoditization, infotainment, personalization, congeniality. The practical part presents an analysis of the typical representation of celebrities due to the principles mentioned above in selected talk shows which were broadcast in English and Czech languages in 2015-2016, namely American The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Czech Jan Kraus Show. Keywords: Celebrity, Late-night Talk Show, Media Representation, Personalization, Congeniality, Infotainment, Commoditization