The purpose of this study was to explore how the Ugandan newspapers, The New Vision and The Daily Monitor frame climate change to become a familiar concept or topic that can be well understood by the public. The term framing in this context does not refer to the ideology of the frame analysis theory but rather defined in simple terms to put a concept into words that convey meaning. The study also examined how journalists present climate change during an interview that was conducted.The study answered the following research questions: (1.) How is the issue of climate change presented in the Ugandan press? (2.) How are the mechanisms of anchoring and objectification used in news reporting of climate change? (3.) How is domestication achieved in the news about climate change? (4.) How do the environment journalists represent the climate issue to become meaningful to the audience? (5.) What challenges do journalists face in reporting climate change?The thesis conducted the theory of social representations to help me understand how news about climate change is constructed in the press and by the journalists. The theory posits two communication mechanisms anchoring and objectification which were shown in the news texts and in the accounts provided by the environment journalists interviewed. The communication mechanisms in this study used representations to turn the abstract and complicated concept of climate change by either placing it in earlier representations or attaching it (climate change) to a concrete or visible object to become familiar. Domestication as a concept in media studies was employed to analyse how the media present climate change news into a local perspective.The study conducted a qualitative analysis in the Uganda elite English newspapers The New Vision and The Daily Monitor which are also confirmed to have the highest readership and the largest circulation.The study employed a methodological approach known as the lexical choices or style one of the linguistic tools of Critical Discourse Analysis to examine the hidden meaning in texts. The method was used together with the theory of social representations in particular anchoring and objectification mechanisms that turn abstract, unfamiliar ideas and concepts familiar.vThe second qualitative method employed in the study were the in-depth interviews that analyzed how the mechanisms of anchoring and objectification were visible in the reasoning provided by the environment journalists in presenting climate change. In other words, how is climate change presented by the journalists to become a meaningful topic or concept for public perception?The media represented climate change in a way which evoked emotions because it is argued that emotions ‘push’ an individual to react towards a situation. Climate change was represented in emotions of fear, threat, anger, helplessness, blame, worry, defiance, grief, compassion, hope and nostalgia, as well as in distinctions, metaphors and objectification through personification focusing in particular on the people facing the risks of climate change.The results of this study have shown that media depiction of climate change in Uganda was linked to the ordinary people facing the risks of climate change, in comparison to the previous studies carried out in the European media, the perception of climate change was linked to the elite and well known people such as celebrities, key political figures that have been used as spokes persons for understanding climate change.Climate change as a global event was presented into a local perspective through local voices of the ordinary people and domestic sources, nationalisation, national interests, the anchoring in distinctions of ‘Us’ (the developing, non industrialised countries) ‘suffering’ the impacts of climate change against the ‘Them’ (the developed and industrialised nations causing global pollution and hesitant to reduce the green house emissions). Anchoring in distinctions of the ‘Us’ against ‘Them’ the media showed that developed countries are largely responsible for the cause of climate change.

The balance of the world has been built on various empires, kingdoms, civilizations and economic systems for centuries. This study is written in the belief that the center of the world rule started to change. The determiners are not the leaders or the systems anymore but the individuals themselves. People are aware of that their voice can easily reach to the rest of the world. For most of the people it is not onlysharing their ideas on various social networks but also playing an active role in the world order. Since every human being has different ways of expressing themselves, their active role will also differ from each other. This study focuses on the active role of Art, which is one of the important ways when it is about self-expression. By this research, it is aimed to find answers to the following questions: "How can art be effective in the change of the world?" and "In what point activist art differs from propaganda?"

The 2014 Ebola Outbreak which is still ongoing in Sierra Leone and Guinea, in West Africa, have caught the attention of media globally. By exploring the coverage of the outbreak within the concept of global crisis reporting and global journalism as news style, this study compares two newspapers, one based in South Africa (The Mail & Guardian) and the other one from the United Kingdom (The Guardian). How we define ’global crisis’ from different media systems that cut cross, these two media motivate the study to dig in to explore similarities and differences in the Ebola news coverage from Cottle’s and Berglez’s point of views. A content analysis was used to analyze news story articles (text) published in both newspapers. A census selection of 72 articles from both “Mail & Guardian” and “the Guardian” digital newspapers was applied. The selection of articles was based on the news stories article published within the two months (July and August 2014). The time frame used was a critical moment for the outbreak since it had started expanding to other countries. Through the analysis, both notions of global crisis and global journalism as news style has been identified in the 2014 Ebola coverage.

The aim of this paper is to explain the concept of global journalism and to describe its presence in the Czech Republic. The development of journalism in the last years, which is connected to globalisation and digitalisation of media, and various global journalism theo-ries are introduced first to give the theoretical background. Then Peter Berglez's theory of global journalism is accepted as the main one for this work and it is described into greater details, including strong and weak points, criticism, problems and challenges. That is the core of the theoretical part of this work. The history and media of the Czech Republic are shortly addressed before the actual research. That is done with the help of mixed methods – quantitative surveys and content analyses and qualitative interviews – to answer four research questions: the awareness about the existence of global journalism, opinions about it, the influence of education and the presence of global journalism in Czech media.

Over the last 30 years, awareness of anthropogenic climate change has increased and quickly become the one of the most pressing issues facing our planet. Canada is both a nation that has contributed to the acceleration of the climate problem and one that aims to help address the issues through commitments to global climate accords and other accountability actions. Global journalism is both a theory and practice born of the evolution of our world into a more global collective. Climate change, as a problem that is faced by every nation in the world, is one subject matter area that has been difficult to report on in the past but more necessary than ever to discuss. It is crucial work for journalists to normalize the connections between people, places, problems, and how they are interrelated throughout the world. This thesis aims to explore the presence or absence of global journalism in two different regions of Canada: Alberta and Ontario, represented by the cities of Calgary and Ottawa. Through quantitative and qualitative analysis, articles that mention“climate change” or “global warming” over a six-month period in 2015 are collected and catalogued. The quantitative data provides a macro view of the amount and kinds of discourse taking place in each city around the topics of climate change and global warming, giving a sense of the scale and framing of the issue. Four of these articles and two headlines are then reviewed through the lens of critical discourse analysis for their choice of words, quotations, the voices that are present and absent, and the local coherence of the article. Collectively, this information is collated and reviewed to argue for the presence or absence of global journalism in the reporting. The final results should a stark difference in the representation of climate change in Calgary and Ottawa. There are promising signs of global journalism in action throughout the Calgary Herald, while the Ottawa Citizen has missed opportunities to reflect the same global perspective.

Confucianism is the doctrine that ruled Eastern Asian countries for thousands of years. The doctrine focused on the order of the society and the dependence among individuals in the society. One critique for Confucianism is the under-evaluation of women's role and presence in the society. In the thesis, I will detect Confucianism-related gender stereotypes appearing on feature interviews in the entertainment section of online newspapers in Vietnam, one of former Confucian countries. The thesis also makes the effort to connect the global journalism theory to the solution for removing gender stereotypes from journalism. Three methods namely critical discourse analysis (CDA), conversation analysis (CA) and interviewing are employed in the thesis to address three research questions. Four Confucianism-inspired gender stereotypes are pointed out and the connection between Confucianism-related gender stereotyping and global journalism is basically sketched out in terms of journalistic style.

One of the most controversial wars in contemporary history, both in terms of the ideological powers behind it and its continued struggle for over 60 years, is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The most recent outburst of the conflict, commonly known as the Gaza War, has attracted extensive global media coverage. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the thesis incorporates an extensive content analysis, to chart patterns and regularities within a large corpus of four broadcast media (namely BBC Arabic, BBC World, Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Jazeera English). It then integrates a more interpretative discourse analysis, to investigate the cultural ideas evoked linguistically and, to a lesser extent, visually throughout the coverage. Assuming a qualitative stance, it also draws upon focus groups conducted in Jordan and England to examine the public s knowledge and understandings of the events on the ground, in addition to their evaluation of both organisations levels of objectivity and impartiality. To allow for a comparative dimension, the thesis develops two frames of analysis that systematically looks at two recurring themes and scrutinises their discursive strategies and functions in the construction of meaning and ideology. These include Provocation, which examines questions of responsibility and culpability; and Proportionality which embraces matters of legitimacy and authority in relation to the humanitarian aspect of the war. The findings indicate that the actions of a protagonist may be deemed legitimate with regard to provocation, but illegitimate with regard to their proportionality. The peculiar circumstances of the war pushed the media in the direction of greater separation from the predominant ideologies ensued by the Israeli Army. It suggests that both networks lack a coherent discursive strategy at the level of the lexical in their reporting of Gaza. The empirical findings also confirm that meanings devised by viewers are pertinent to their behaviours, attitudes and beliefs. This conceptualisation formulated three readings shaped by political, cultural and social formations: an oppositional (counter-hegemonic) reading, a dominant reading and a subliminal (sub-conscious) reading.

Reflekterar en av Sveriges största tidningar, Dagens Nyheter världens intensifierande interrelationer och ömsesidiga beroenden? Syftet med den här studien är att finna uttryck för globalisering i Dagens Nyheters huvudbilaga under perioden 1988 till 2013. För att uppnå detta, har vi använt oss av en kvantitativ innehållsanalys, där vi analyserat 1492 nyhetstexter från Dagens Nyheter. I studien undersöks uttryck för globalisering på tre sätt: genom att mäta mängden utrikesmaterial, vilka länder, regioner och världsdelar som finns representerade i bevakningen samt huruvida nyhetstexterna innehåller nyhetsgenren ”global journalistik”. Av studien framgår att andelen utrikesmaterial har ökat på bekostnad av andelen inrikesmaterial, att inte alla länder, regioner och kontinenter finns representerade och att texterna innehåller global journalistik i viss uträckning. / Does one of the major Swedish newspapers Dagens Nyheter reflect the intensifying interrelations and interdependences in the world today? The aim of this study is to find expressions for globalization in the main section of Dagens Nyheter during the period between 1988 and 2013. To achieve this, we applied quantitative content analysis on 1492 news articles from Dagens Nyheter. Here, expressions for globalization are examined in three ways: the amount of foreign reporting, which countries, regions and continents are represented in the reporting and whether the news style” global journalism” is present in the reporting. This study finds an increase in foreign reporting at the expense of domestic reporting, that not all countries, regions and continents are represented and that global journalism is present to some extent.

This dissertation examines the agendas and frames used by the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) and Reuters in their coverage of issues and actors of the May 2005 Ethiopian Elections, by employing agenda-setting and framing theories. The study applies quantitative and qualitative methods and examined fifty news stories from each news agency, and forwards five main findings: One, ENA and Reuters differed in setting agendas. While ENA focused on the legitimacy, Reuters emphasised on the killings and arrests of the electoral process. Second, ENA and Reuters differed in their motives to make some actors more salient than others. Third, ENA framed Elections processes as rightful, while Reuters framed them as disfigured. Fourth, ENA framed government parties as visionary and indomitable, and the oppositions as wrongdoers. Contrastingly, Reuters framed the oppositions as victims, and the government parties as brutal actors. And finally, by so doing, both agencies reflected their respective interests. / Communication Science / MA (International Communication)

This dissertation examines the agendas and frames used by the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) and Reuters in their coverage of issues and actors of the May 2005 Ethiopian Elections, by employing agenda-setting and framing theories. The study applies quantitative and qualitative methods and examined fifty news stories from each news agency, and forwards five main findings: One, ENA and Reuters differed in setting agendas. While ENA focused on the legitimacy, Reuters emphasised on the killings and arrests of the electoral process. Second, ENA and Reuters differed in their motives to make some actors more salient than others. Third, ENA framed Elections processes as rightful, while Reuters framed them as disfigured. Fourth, ENA framed government parties as visionary and indomitable, and the oppositions as wrongdoers. Contrastingly, Reuters framed the oppositions as victims, and the government parties as brutal actors. And finally, by so doing, both agencies reflected their respective interests. / Communication Science / MA (International Communication)