This study is concerned with the problem of whether the public's attitudes toward economic well-being could be compared with the types of television programs made popular over a thirty-year period. Two measures were used to determine the public's attitudes toward economic well-being: 1) answers to questions of an economic nature; and 2) answers to questions that asked what was the most important problem. All data were compiled from Gallup polls administered during 1955 through 1984. The television genre data were compiled from sources by Brooks and Marsh, McNeil and Norback and Broadcasting magazine. No association existed among the three measures.

RuPaul's Drag Race is one of the few realilty television shows focusing on QLGBT (queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) identified individuals that has made it into mainstream consciousness. Drag Race provides a unique perspective on the ways that gender identity, sexuality, size, class, race, and ethnicity intersect and interact in people's lives.The television show augments many of these intersedtions and the challenges related to these identities while still reflecting the daily struggles that people experience.The show works to promote messages of self-love and acceptance ; however, it also promotes many problematic and damaging stereotypes. This thesis conducts a feminist analysis in order to answer the question: How does RuPaul's Drag Race relate to hegemonic and oppressive stereotypes and roles associated with gender identity, sexual orientation, size, class, race and ethnicity? Does it challenge or reinforce such hegemonies? In order to answer these questions, this thesis examines visual imagery, narrative, and dialogue in the show, utilizes theories from cultural and women's studies, English and communications. It concludes that although Drag Race does engage in some subversive behavior, it ultimately reinforces harmful hegemonic stereotypes. / by Sarah Tucker Jenkins. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013. / Includes bibliography. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / System requirements: Adobe Reader.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-08-09T12:32:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Paula Teixeira Guimarães Jardim.pdf: 6666761 bytes, checksum: 33e89de5a090c67b62e49975ae5bc403 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T12:32:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Paula Teixeira Guimarães Jardim.pdf: 6666761 bytes, checksum: 33e89de5a090c67b62e49975ae5bc403 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-06-29 / In the context of network cultures and transmissive communication processes, there is an increasing number of online programs and platforms that are designed to create spaces for conversation. Several of these projects are integrated systems that seek to assist their readers, spectators and followers in overcoming existential problems and thus, adopt motivational discourses. The present master 's research has as objective to carry out a cartography of the social imaginary constituted from the dialogues and the narratives of hope that circulate around a program of Catholic religious television. The corpus of analysis is composed of the transmissive discourses made by the production and presentation of the program and the testimonies sent by viewers via social networks. The theoretical foundation is composed by: Jung (relations between the idea of "hope" and the discourses of religions); Paulo Freire, (concept of hope as persistence); and Lucia Leão (network culture, cartography of the imaginary, method and processes of communication in transmedia). The research method involved: (1) bibliographic research; (2) empirical research composed of surveys of social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram; and (3) organization and analysis of the data according to the mapping method of narrative imagery. As a result, we have listed: (1) a review of the state of the art on the understanding of the idea of hope in digital social network discourses; (2) development of a system for collecting and mapping data from discourses in social networks; and (3) application, exercise and creation of a mapping of the data collected / No contexto das culturas em redes e dos processos comunicacionais transmidiáticos, observa-se a presença de uma crescente quantidade de programas e plataformas online que têm por objetivo criar espaços de conversação. Vários desses projetos são sistemas integrados que buscam auxiliar seus leitores, espectadores e seguidores na superação de problemas existenciais e, assim, adotam discursos motivacionais. A presente pesquisa de mestrado tem como objetivo realizar uma cartografia do imaginário social constituído a partir dos diálogos e das narrativas de esperança que circulam em torno de um programa de televisão religioso católico. O corpus de análise é composto pelos discursos transmidiáticos realizados pela produção e apresentação do programa e pelos testemunhos enviados por telespectadores via redes sociais. A fundamentação teórica é composta por: Jung (relações entre a ideia de “esperança” e os discursos das religiões); Paulo Freire (conceito de esperança como persistência); e Lucia Leão (cultura das redes, cartografia do imaginário, método e processos de comunicação em transmídia). O método de pesquisa envolveu: (1) pesquisa bibliográfica; (2) pesquisa empírica composta por levantamento dos discursos nas plataformas de redes sociais, como Facebook, Twitter e Instagram; e (3) organização e análise dos dados segundo o método de cartografia do imaginário das narrativas. Como resultados alcançados, listamos: (1) revisão do estado da arte sobre o entendimento da ideia de esperança nos discursos das redes sociais digitais; (2) desenvolvimento de um sistema de coleta e mapeamento de dados dos discursos nas redes sociais e (3) aplicação, exercício e criação de uma cartografia dos dados coletados

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Communication

The thesis examines American teen dramas on Australian television in the period 1992 to 2004. It explores the use of the genre by broadcasters and its uptake by teenagers in an environment where American popular culture has frequently been treated with suspicion and where there are perennial arguments about the Americanisation of youth and their vulnerability to cultural imperialism. The thesis argues concerns about Americanisation and cultural imperialism in relation to youth culture, young people and the media are misplaced. American teen dramas are investigated as an example of the ways imported programs are made to cohere with national logics within the Australian mediasphere (Hartley, 1996). Utilising Yuri Lotman's (1990) theory of cultural 'translation' this thesis argues teen drams are evidence of dynamic change within the system of television and that this change does not result in a system dominated by imported product, but rather a system that situates foreign programming amongst domestic frames of reference.

Bibliography: leaves 453-490. / 490 leaves ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, 1990

Universiẗat, Diss., 2007--Hamburg.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2005. / Includes bibliography.

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Communication, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-71).

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