Magister Artium - MA

Rapporteringen av terroristattentat har fördubblats globalt sedan år 2011. För att motverka terrorismen i världen sägs det krävas en fördjupad kunskap om terroristnätverkens struktur och organisation, vilket kan uppnås genom en social nätverksanalys. Idag återfinns det ett internationellt behov av att jämföra olika typer av terroristnätverk genom social nätverksanalys. En sådan jämförelse kan skapa verktyg för myndigheters brottspreventiva arbete mot terrorismen samt bidra med ny och efterfrågad kunskap om att jämföra olika terroristorganisationer.Studiens syfte har varit att visualisera och undersöka nätverksförändringar över tid rörande nätverksstruktur för både islamistiska och vänsterextremistiska terroristnätverk vid genomförda terroristattentat. I denna sociala nätverksanalys har sex stycken terroristattentat utförda av den vänsterextremistiska terroristgruppen November 17 och den islamistiska terroristgruppen al-Qaida undersökts. Resultaten visade att både visualisering och nätverksstruktur för de enskilda terroristgrupperna har förändrats över tid. Studien har funnit ett flertal likheter mellan November 17 och al-Qaida rörande nätverksstruktur och sammansättning. Skillnaderna mellan terroristgrupperna är att al-Qaida består av fler antal noder och har en lägre densitet än November 17. Visualiseringen av nätverken visade även att November 17 efterliknar en clique. / The reporting of terrorist attacks has doubled globally since 2011. To counter and understand terrorism in the world, there is a need for an in-depth knowledge of the structure of terrorist networks and organizations, which can be achieved through social network analysis. Today there is an international necessity to compare different types of terrorist networks through social network analysis. Such a comparison can create tools for the authorities' crime prevention against terrorism and contribute with new and requested knowledge about comparing different terrorist organizations.The aim of the study has been to visualize and investigate network changes over time regarding network structure for both Islamic and left-wing terrorist networks during terrorist attacks. In this social network analysis, six terrorist attacks by a left-wing extremist terrorist group, November 17 and an Islamic terrorist group, al-Qaeda have been studied. The results showed that both visualization and network structure for the individual terrorist groups have changed over time. The study has found numerous similarities between November 17 and al-Qaeda regarding network structure and composition. The differences between the terrorist groups is that al-Qaeda consists of more numbers of nodes and has a lower density than November 17. The visualization of the networks also showed that November 17 mimics a clique.

The topic of this diploma thesis is the media image of the Velvet Revolution related to various conspiracy theories. This view can be traced in Czechoslovak (and later Czech periodicals) on the basis of predetermined storylines. The specified period for the analysis of individual elements of these theories is from November 17, 1989 to about mid-1993, or earlier if the periodical ceased to be published. The period of the Velvet Revolution is a fundamental period of our republic, which at this time underwent an economic, political, social transformation… And few aspects of everyday life remained the same as before the revolution. Because this change took place so suddenly and so quickly, a lot of rumors, misinformation, and conspiracy theories began to spread to explain to some extent what had happened, especially if they did not like the officially recognized version of events. It is these alternative explanations of the events of that time that are the subject of this work. I will analyze them in a total of 7 titles, in Rudé právo, Lidové noviny, Studentské listy, Respekt, Květy, Špígl and Analýza 17 listopadu by Miroslav Dolejší. First, I will introduce the theoretical basis of concepts such as conspiracy theory, misinformation, ect., with which I will continue to work. I will also outline the...

Studien består av en jämförelse av två simulerade läsningar och resulterande analyser av boken Sent i November. En med metafiktionellt perspektiv och en utan. Utifrån resultatet av dessa diskuteras begreppet metafiktions lämplighet i gymnasieskolans svenskundervisning i förhållande till dess läroplan. Metafiktion bedöms vara ett möjligt begrepp att använda i undervisning av gymnasieskolans senare svenskakurser.

This diploma work deals with the reflections of Slovak citizens for 1989's, focusing at the region of Košice city and the surrounding area, especially eastern Slovakia. The fall of the communist regime influenced the further development of the whole of Czechoslovakia. Diploma work focuses at the Slovak nation, which is an integral part of Czechoslovak history, but Czech knowledge of Slovak region is severely restricted. Memories and stories of Eastern Slovak habitants are building blocks of this thesis used to factually illustrate that time. In addition, thesis is based both on the available literature sources and archival materials from the collections of the State Regional Archives in Košice city. The theoretical part of work is based on historical sources and results of various researches on November '89. The research part of the diploma work deals with views, opinions and attitudes of Eastern Slovak's participants of November 1989. Interviews with narrators are analyzed and interpreted using oral history methods. This diploma work aims to reflect the everyday life of people, their work and living conditions before and after November '89. Author of the work wonders how narrators appreciate '89 revolution then and today, twenty-five years apart. Key words: Czechoslovakia, November '89, Eastern...

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:20:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vanessa_Silva_Devantier_Dissertacao.pdf: 5470706 bytes, checksum: a89d15fdc0f645d1016a5fd2da00975b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-18 / This work aims to study a cultural reference of Pelotas/RS, the 15th of November Street, in their central stretch, Coronel Pedro Osório Square to the Voluntários da Pátria Street, through periodic press, expressed in the newspapers A Opinião Pública and Diário Popularbetween the years 1920 to 1950. At the time focused, this stretch of the route was seen as the main area of commerce, culture and leisure in the city of Pelotas/RS. Three points were highlighted: trade, rides and carnival, elements that characterize this urban space as a benchmark of their history and culture.From the journals, columns, notes, chronicles and photographs are understood asvisions of urban, considerable parts of newspapers dedicated to the city in their daily lives, their problems and their transformations. As central street of Pelotas at least until the first half of the twentieth century, the 15th of November Street stood out as important focus for these different looks, understood as the window of a city that was intended modern, cultured and progressive / O presente trabalho tem por objetivo o estudo de uma referência cultural da cidade de Pelotas/RS, a Rua XV de Novembro, em seu trecho central, da Praça Coronel Pedro Osório até a Rua Voluntários daPátria, através da imprensa periódica local, expressa pelos jornais A Opinião Públicae Diário Popular, entre os anos de 1920 a 1950. Na época enfocada, esse trecho da via era visto como o principal espaço de comércio, cultura e lazer da cidade de Pelotas/RS. Três pontos foram destacados: o comércio, os passeios e o carnaval, elementos que caracterizam este espaço urbano como um referencial na história e na cultura pelotense. A partir dos periódicos, colunas, notas, crônicas e fotografias são entendidas como visões do urbano, partes consideráveis dos jornais dedicadas à cidade em seu cotidiano, seus problemas e suas transformações. Como via central de Pelotas pelo menos até a primeira metade do século XX, a Rua XV se destacou como enfoque importante para estes diferentes olhares, entendidacomo a vitrine de uma urbe que se pretendia moderna, culta e progressista

Although terrorism is an area that has been the subject of much research, systematic searches in databases reveal that a focus on actors and movements that find their motivation in Christian beliefs, is, by and large, lacking. Ever since the 9/11 terrorist attack, Islamist terrorism has been the major focus. The purpose of this thesis is to describe and compare Christian and Islamist acts of terrorism. This will be done by using the terrorist attack of the self-proclaimed Christian crusader Anders Behring Breivik in Norway 2011 and compare it to the terrorist attack in Paris November 2015 claimed by the terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS). A content analysis is used to explore the material. The analysis is conducted with an analytical framework created from previous research on religious terrorism to explore the similarities and differences of religiously motivated terrorist acts. The study reveals that there are a lot of similarities between Breivik and the Paris attackers. Both Breivik and IS strived to change society with violence justified by their religion. In a type of “God´s executioner” fashion. A final conclusion in this thesis is that Breivik and IS share Ideological core ideas in the form of exclusivity, however, the exclusivity is expressed differently. Breivik´s exclusiveness is linked to ethnicity and skin colour, while IS´s exclusivity is solely linked to faith.

Diploma thesis Ideology in the protectorate daily press discourse deals with the influence of ideology in the discourse of then legally published dailies České slovo, Lidové noviny and Venkov. The theoretical part refers firstly to the historical background of the state formation Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and its political and social status within the Greater German Reich. After having depicted the demonstrations of 28th October 1939 and the events of 17th November 1939 the media character in the protectorate era is introduced, a special emphasis is put on the press. After that the concept of discourse is clarified as well as its origin, meaning and current interpretation. Besides the critical discourse analysis, its origins, aims and three major approaches are described. The last chapter of the theoretical part is devoted to the discourse-historical approach which was developed by Ruth Wodak and her colleagues from the Vienna School. The ideal procedure of this approach is outlined and the discursive strategies of nomination, predication and argumentation are explained. With their aid an analysis of four newspaper articles is carried out in the practical part of the thesis. After having summarised the textual analysis the influence of ideology around the events of 17th November 1939 is compared...

Student Number : 9400560N - MA research report - School of Social Sciences - Faculty of Humanities / This research report critically analyses – through qualitative content analysis – how the Sowetan and the Mail&Guardian newspapers reported the alleged corruption in the arms deal in November 2001. The analysis includes a contextual discussion of factors shaping or influencing media coverage of important political topics in a transition to democracy. Theories of the role of the media in democratic transition inform the analysis of media coverage of the arms deal. ‘Transition’ in the context of this research report is used to refer to the process of South Africa’s ‘conversion’ from an undemocratic apartheid system based on unfair prejudices and practices grounded on class, race and gender to a ‘fair discrimination’ and application of remedial measures (political, social and economic) to correct the imbalances caused by apartheid policies. The research applies liberal pluralism, gatekeeping, public sphere, as well as Marxist-related media theories, including the critical political economy of the media approach and notes that it is not possible for a single approach to offer an absolute analysis of the role of the media in a transition to democracy. In addition, the research employs theories of news, language and society to show how social relations affect language used in news and ultimately affect notions of ‘bias’ and ‘objectivity’. The study observes that complete ‘objectivity’ as an ideal is unattainable, especially when one considers that news making processes are complex and influenced by diverse factors, some of which allow for anticipated processes of selection and inevitably, bias. This applies to the two publications under study. The report observes that through their reportage of alleged corruption in the arms deal during the month of November 2001, these newspapers attempted to open up, create and democratize the space for free inquiry. At the same time, however, it is noted that this space was dominated by certain voices and not representative of all civil society organizations and interests that had a stake in the arms deal. The report concludes that media should be encouraged to promote genuine diversity of voices. Diversity, within such a scheme, should be measured by equal and participatory dialogue from all the voices of all civil society institutions.

Esta dissertação tem o objetivo de analisar a implementação do feriado municipal de 20 de novembro, denominado Dia Nacional da Consciência Negra em homenagem ao Herói Nacional Zumbi dos Palmares. A simbologia histórica do Quilombo dos Palmares traz a problemática da subalternidade imposta às populações negras em África e na diáspora atlântica. O trabalho discute através das contribuições das Ciências Humanas, a integração social da população negra brasileira. Os movimentos sociais negros são discutidos à luz das teorias dos chamados novos movimentos sociais. Uma pesquisa documental analisa as legislações que implementaram o feriado 20 de Novembro no ABC Paulista. Posteriormente, uma pesquisa empírica com ativistas anti-racistas da região retrata o contexto político e a movimentação dos atores sociais favoráveis e contrários ao feriado. / This thesis aims to analyze the implementation of the municipal holiday of November 20, called the National Black Consciousness Day in honor of the National Hero Zumbi dos Palmares. The historical symbolism of the Quilombo dos Palmares brings the issue of subordination imposed on black populations in Africa and the Atlantic Diaspora. The paper discusses through contributions of the humanities, the social integration of black people. The black social movements are discussed in light of theories of so-called \"new\" social movements. Documentary research examines the laws that implemented the holiday November 20 on ABC Paulista. Subsequently, an empirical survey of anti-racist activists in the region reflects the political context and the movement of favorable and contrary to the holiday social actors.