This thesis deals with topics such as masculinity, stereotypes, social media and influencers. The area of interest for the authors is how masculinity and stereotypes can be represented within social media. To investigate this, six TikTok videos of Andrew Tate have been selected. According to a multimodal critical discourse analysis, these six analysing objects are analysed. A total of eight analysis categories have been selected that aim to analyse selected videos in an accurate manner. Videos of Andrew Tate are segmented to analyse more objectively. The concept of denotations and connotations from semiotics will be used to explain hidden meanings within the videos and to see representations that are not explicitly mentioned. The authors have used literature on masculinity, stereotypes and social media to easily obtain a theoretical framework for the results presented. This thesis has two research questions:  How are ideas of masculinity represented in TikTok videos of Andrew Tate? What different ideas of masculinity are represented within TikTok videos of Andrew Tate? The results showed that representations of masculinity were represented within several of the selected analysis categories. Categories, where representations were most clear, were in clothing, visual representation but also in language or what was said. Hierarchies that played on masculine stereotypes such as men being stronger and more independent than women were also found within the analysis. Ideas of masculinity that portray men as strong, warriors and independent were also found in the material. Therefore, the authors conclude that there are several different semiotic categories in which ideas of masculinity are represented within the material by Andrew Tate. The specific ideas represented within the material are based on older stereotypes regarding gender roles and masculinity. Thus, TikTok videos on Andrew Tate become an extension of old gender roles where ideas are reconstructed in new forms.

Diese Dissertation behandelt arithmetische Eigenschaften von Familien algebraischer Varietäten und deren speziellen Untervarietäten. Im ersten Kapitel definieren wir sogenannte absolut spezielle Untervarietäten mithilfe von Delignes Begriff der absoluten Hodgeklassen. Ausgehend von der Vermutung, dass alle Hodgeklassen absolute Hodgeklassen sind, erwarten wir, dass alle speziellen Untervarietäten absolut speziell sind. Wir beweisen diese Erwartung für Untervarietäten, die eine bestimmte Monodromiebedingung erfüllen. Das zweite Kapitel führt eine l-adische Version von speziellen Untervarietäten ein, die wir l-Galois spezielle Untervarietäten nennen. Wir studieren bewiesene und vermutete Eigenschaften dieser Untervarietäten und deren Zusammenhang zur Struktur des l-Galois exzeptionellen Locus und zur Mumford-Tate Vermutung. Im dritten Kapitel beweisen wir eine Rapoport-Zink Uniformisierung für den Modulraum der primitiv polarisierten K3 Flächen und kubischen Vierfaltigkeiten mit supersingulärer Reduktion. In beiden Fällen ist der Modulraum uniformisiert von einer explizit definierten rigid analytischen Untervarietät einer lokalen Shimura-Varietät von orthogonalem Typ. / This thesis studies arithmetic aspects of families of algebraic varieties and their special subvarieties. In the first part, we use Deligne's framework of absolute Hodge classes to define a notion of absolutely special subvarieties. The conjecture that all Hodge classes are absolute Hodge predicts that every special subvariety is absolutely special. We prove this prediction for subvarieties satisfying a certain monodromy condition. The second part introduces an l-adic analog of special subvarieties that we call l-Galois special subvarieties. We study the properties of these subvarieties and discuss how known and unknown properties of l-Galois special subvarieties are related to the structure of the l-Galois exceptional locus and to the Mumford-Tate conjecture. In the third chapter, we prove a Rapoport-Zink type uniformization result for the moduli space of polarized K3 surfaces and cubic fourfolds. We show that in both cases, the tube over the supersingular locus of the moduli space is uniformized by an explicitly described rigid analytic open subvariety of a local Shimura variety of orthogonal type.

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Dans la première partie de cette thèse, on étudie la structure et les dégénérescences du groupe de Mumford-Tate d'un 1-motif $M$ défini sur $\CC$, $MT(M)$. Ce groupe est un $\QQ\,$-groupe algébrique qui agit sur la réalisation de Hodge de $M$ et qui est muni d'une filtration croissante $W_\bullet$. On prouve que le radical unipotent de $MT(M)$, qui est $W_{-1}(MT(M)),$ s'injecte dans un groupe de Heisenberg ``généralisé''. Ensuite on explique comment se réduire à l'étude du groupe de Mumford-Tate d'une somme directe de 1-motifs dont le groupe des caractères du tore et dont le réseau sont de rang 1. Puis on classifie et on étudie les dégénérescences de $MT(M)$, i.e. les phénomènes qui causent la chute de la dimension de $MT(M)$. Dans la deuxième partie, on propose une conjecture de transcendence, qu'on appelle {\it conjecture elliptico-torique} (CET), et notre résultat principal est que (CET) {\it est équivalente à ${\rm (CPG)}_K$, appliquée aux 1-motifs de la forme $M=[ {\Bbb Z}^{r} \, {\buildrel u \over \longrightarrow} \,\prod^n_{j=1} {\cal E}_j \times {\GG}_m^s]$, où les ${\cal E}_j$ sont des courbes elliptiques deux à deux non isogènes}. Notre conjecture (CET) implique des conjectures de transcendance ``classiques'', parmis lesquelles les plus fameuses sont les suivantes~: la conjecture de Schanuel, l'analogue elliptique de la conjecture de Schanuel, une conjecture modulaire qui généralise un théorème de Y. Nesterenko, ... Mais à partir de (CET), on peut aussi construire d'autres conjectures de transcendance, qui, à ma connaissance, ne se trouvent pas dans la littérature. Chacune de ces conjectures, qui peuvent se déduire de (CET), est équivalente à ${\rm (CPG)}_K$ appliquée à un 1-motif bien choisi~: par exemple, la conjecture de Schanuel est équivalentes à ${\rm (CPG)}_K$ appliquée à des 1-motifs de la forme $M=[ {\Bbb Z}^{r} \, {\buildrel u \over \longrightarrow} \, {\GG}_m^s]$.

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