Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Religious Education, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-149).

Print version of the author's thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Communication, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-71). Original thesis available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

The thesis introduces the media image of Africa in the public of broadcasting Czech Television from 2009 to 2013. Africa is the continent with huge potential but in the minds of people it is connected with coup d'etat, wars, poverty and famine. Czech Television is the public media which should offer viewers the most balanced broadcasting due to its position in the media market. The theoretical part of this thesis presents the theory of media construction of reality, the principle of agenda-setting and news values and some of these the analytical part has confirmed. The thesis also approches to the African continent from political-economic and geographical perspectives. The analytical part of this thesis was based on quantitative and qualitative content analysis. The thesis researches the news, opinion journalism and documentary with notion of Africa, also focuses on differences between the media image of each geographical area of Africa and distinguishes between Czech and foreign production.

This thesis considers the role of former politician and journalist Radek John in an investigative programme Bez cenzury on TV Barrandov. Even though John was a politician and leader of Czech political party Věci veřejné, he decided to return to journalism. He did so with no intention of resigning his chair in the Chamber of Deputies, part of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. With this in mind, this could be considered as a specific representation of political parallelism. This study describes specific cases where Radek John might have acted contrary to normative journalistic values and journalism ethics. Furthermore, the thesis analyses the possibility that Radek John's own political interests and opinions affected the television programme itself. The research is conducted using the method of a case study which combines qualitative and quantitative content analysis, qualitative interviews and other research methods. Consequently, the analysis found signs of biased reporting in the programme's introduction and some stories, which reflected Radek John's antipathy towards traditional political parties and their leaders. However, the research did not reveal any direct support of Věci veřejné or their representatives. Furthermore, the thesis also presents media, academic and political responses to...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:29:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariapg1_100 .pdf: 1203118 bytes, checksum: 3184709ebb6a797e24514a7f488f184b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-27 / Carlos Castello Branco has worked for the main newspapers in the country, living especially in Brasília, where he wrote, for 30 years, Coluna do Castello (Castello s post), an emblematic space in 20th century‟s Opinion Journalism. This paper intends to describe the characteristics of the remark format, based on the journalistic genre theory. This research has identified eight types of remarks in Journalism practiced by this North Eastern reporter born in the Brazilian state of Piauí, making it possible for us to understand the different characteristics related to the historical context and the political juncture. / Carlos Castello Branco atuou nos principais jornais do país, vivendo principalmente em Brasília, de onde escreveu, durante 30 anos, a Coluna do Castello, espaço emblemático do jornalismo opinativo no século XX. Esta dissertação busca descrever as características do formato comentário, tendo como base a teoria dos gêneros jornalísticos. A pesquisa identificou oito tipos de comentários no jornalismo praticado pelo repórter piauiense, possibilitando a diferenciação das características relacionadas ao contexto histórico e à conjuntura política.

In both western and Russian historiography the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-40 enjoys, at best, only a passing reference in any narrative of the period and is poorly integrated into existing scholarly analyses of the Soviet regime under Stalin. It is my contention that this conflict offers an invaluable opportunity to test for continuity and change in the form and function of the Stalinist system. Between the disastrous efforts of its forces and the condemnation of the international community, the Kremlin was confronted with the serious challenge of how to portray the events of the war in the media, while managing domestic and international opinion over the course of the fighting. This thesis examines the extent to which the Soviet regime under Stalin had the institutions and agents in place at the close of the 1930s to cope with the crisis of war in Finland; to be in command of the military campaign, while simultaneously controlling the direction of the official narrative about the fighting; and to censor conflicting interpretations, experiences and information channels, which might expose the Red Army's woeful performance on Finnish territory. This mobilisation of press, propaganda and censorship organs in the face of widespread international condemnation and domestic disquiet constituted a significant challenge for a regime still dealing with the sudden reorientation of the Communist International, required after the Soviet Union's conclusion of a non-aggression treat with Nazi Germany in August 1939. An international perspective is central to this thesis, with a view towards assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the public face and private practice of Soviet information controls.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation aims at understanding the meanings which were built on the financial crisis in editorials by two weekly news magazines between September, 2008 and December, 2009. For that, we use French Discourse Analysis and its theoretical-methodological framework. As a theoretical basis needed for the application of Discourse Analysis, we use literature review on topics grounding the magazines' Discourses. Therefore, correlated topics, such as opinion journalism and the editorial, economics journalism and magazine journalism, the economic models from the past decades, the crisis in itself, and a history of the Conditions of Production in the aforementioned magazines are observed. As a methodological tool, we use the concept of Paraphrastic Families, which assist in identifying meanings and their arrangement in Discursive Formations. Reviewing such concepts allied to the Analysis leads to some conclusions regarding the meanings which are constructed by both magazines in this period so as to organise them into four Discursive Formations two of them found in both magazines, and the other two solely in either one of the magazines. Consistently with their history, reviewed in this work, CartaCapital built Keynesian meanings by severely criticising neoliberalism and by considering the return of a strong State as the solution for the crisis whereas Veja built neoliberal meanings by giving the crisis less importance, by overlooking the augmentation of the State, and by defending the neoliberal model even during such time. Both magazines reacted alarmingly when the crisis burst, which brings part of these publications' discourse closer to the report on the event as it is usual in informative journalism. Another Discursive Formation found in both magazines was an emergent discourse, from 'Lulism', social-economic formulation of diffusive character which has, because of its very nature, gained space in editorials so as to defend Brazil as a strong country in the midst of the crisis albeit the ideological differences between both magazines. Thereafter, we were able to establish the Ideological Formations by magazine. In CartaCapital, there is subordination of ideological regions to the seek for equality within capitalism. Whereas, in Veja, we found subordination of ideological regions to market freedom. Both magazines, nonetheless, try to mask their emergent 'Lulist' discourse with their premises. Understanding the way in which editorials by both magazines construct meanings about a crisis of great proportions helps to evaluate how they understand society and its identities inasmuch as those are the moments which lead to the limit of possibilities at stake in the discursive plane. Ergo, the topic studied here is relevant to the research strand 'Media and Contemporary Identities' in the Postgraduate Programme in Communications at the Federal University of Santa Maria inasmuch as it represents a study into the role of Media Communications in the construction of social dynamics. / A presente dissertação tem como objetivo compreender os sentidos construídos sobre a crise financeira nos editoriais de duas revistas semanais de informação entre setembro de 2008 e dezembro de 2009. Para tal, utiliza-se a Análise do Discurso de corrente francesa (AD) e seu aporte teórico-metodológico. Como suporte teórico necessário para aplicação da AD utiliza-se a revisão bibliográfica de temas que dão base aos Discursos das revistas. Assim, temas correlatos como o jornalismo opinativo e o editorial, o jornalismo econômico e em revista, os modelos econômicos das últimas décadas, a crise em si e um histórico das Condições de Produção (CP) das revistas estudadas são observados. Como ferramenta metodológica utiliza-se o conceito das famílias parafrásticas (FPs), que auxiliam na identificação dos sentidos e seu agrupamento em Formações Discursivas (FDs). A revisão desses conceitos aliados à Análise leva a algumas conclusões quanto aos sentidos construídos pelas duas revistas nesse período ao estabelecer quatro Formações Discursivas, duas presentes em ambas as revistas, e duas presentes unicamente em cada uma delas. Em consonância com seus históricos, revisados nesse trabalho, CartaCapital construiu sentidos keynesianos ao fazer uma dura crítica ao neoliberalismo e considerar a volta de um Estado forte como solução para a crise, enquanto Veja construiu sentidos neoliberais ao dar menor importância à crise, não ver com bons olhos um aumento do Estado e defender o modelo neoliberal mesmo em meio à crise. Em ambas as revistas um sentido de alarme quando do estopim da crise foi encontrado, o que aproxima uma parte dos discursos dos editoriais dessas publicações ao relato do acontecimento como é prática no jornalismo informativo. Outra FD encontrada em ambas as revistas foi de um discurso em emergência, do Lulismo, formulação social-econômica de caráter difuso e que, por essa natureza, ganhou espaço nos editoriais enquanto defesa do Brasil como país forte em meio à crise apesar das diferenças ideológicas das revistas. A partir disso que se estabeleceu as Formações Ideológicas por revista, sendo em CartaCapital a subordinação das regiões ideológicas à busca pela igualdade dentro do capitalismo e em Veja a subordinação das regiões ideológicas à liberdade dos mercados, numa situação em que ambas procuram revestir de suas premissas o discurso lulista em emergência. A compreensão da maneira como os editoriais de duas revistas constroem sentidos sobre uma crise de grandes proporções auxilia na avaliação da forma que compreendem a sociedade e suas identidades, já que são esses momentos que levam ao limite as possibilidades em jogo no plano discursivo. Portanto, a temática aqui estudada tem pertinência à linha de pesquisa Mídia e Identidades Contemporâneas, do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da UFSM, já que um estudo do papel da Comunicação Midiática na construção de dinâmicas sociais.

La presente investigación tiene como objetivo principal identificar el aporte en la construcción de ciudadanía que propone la oferta programática de Radio Stereo Villa, específicamente en los programas de opinión. Al mismo tiempo, analizar si los contenidos de los seis programas radiales de opinión elegidos como muestra presentan un discurso orientado al fortalecimiento de la ciudadanía / Tesis

La presente investigación examina los mecanismos en que se puede evidenciar la desinformación y la posverdad en el periodismo de opinión. Para abordar este tema, se elabora un instrumento que identifica estos mecanismos en el contenido de las columnas de opinión de Aldo Mariátegui y Luis García, en los diarios Perú21 y Expreso respectivamente, que tratan sobre el segundo proceso de vacancia contra el expresidente Pedro Pablo Kuczynski desde que este proceso empezó hasta un día luego de que el presidente Martín Vizcarra entrara al cargo. El primer capítulo se dedica a la explorar el origen de la posverdad en la desinformación, así como a analizar qué elementos estos comparten y cómo se ha dado su traspase de uno al otro. Asimismo, se delimitan los mecanismos de la desinformación y posverdad que se relacionan al periodismo de opinión: falacias como la ad populum, la afirmación gratuita y la generalización precipitada; así como términos de descalificación personal y referencia a noticias falsas. En el segundo capítulo se explora y se da un recuento del estado del periodismo de opinión en Perú. Posteriormente, se elabora un instrumento para examinar las columnas escogidas, y se analizan los hallazgos de ese proceso. Estos hallazgos nos revelan que en las columnas analizadas se podía advertir que el uso de estos mecanismos de la desinformación y posverdad, falacias y términos de descalificación personal, reemplazaban la argumentación necesaria para sostener sus posturas. / The following research examines some mechanisms that can show the presence of disinformation and post-truth in opinion journalism. To address this issue, it develops an instrument that helps to identify these mechanisms in the content of the opinion columns of Aldo Mariátegui and Luis García, in the newspapers Perú21 and Expreso respectively, that comment on the second impeachment process against former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. The period of analysis took place since the process started until one day after President Martín Vizcarra took office. The first chapter explores the origin of post-truth in disinformation, as well as analyzing what elements they share and how they have transferred from one to the other. Likewise, the mechanisms of disinformation and post-truth that are related to opinion journalism are delimited: fallacies such as ad populum, gratuitous affirmation and hasty generalization, as well as name-calling (adjectives of personal disqualification) and reference to fake news. In the second chapter, this research explores the context and state of opinion journalism in Peru. Subsequently, an instrument is developed to review the chosen columns and analyse the findings of this process were discussed. These findings reveal that in the opinion columns that were analyzed, the use of these disinformation and post-truth mechanism, as fallacies and name-calling (adjectives of personal disqualification), replaces the arguments needed to defend their stances. / Tesis

The diploma thesis is devoted to freshly emerging TV shows about architecture and public space on the platforms of the two biggest internet TVs in the Czech Republic: Stream.cz and MALL.TV. The work specifically analyzes the following broadcasts: Gebrian VS, Gebrian: Surprising Buildings, Gebrian: PLUS/MINUS, in terms of their distinctive formats. The main purpose of the thesis is to point out the existence of these programs and to identify the formal and genre aspects that shape their unique form. The important part of the research is carried out by comparing the shows based on the platforms on which they are created and which provide different conditions for production. The following theoretical foundations were used: genre theory, presentation of specific genres related to the examined programs, media convergence and internet TVs and their recent production. The qualitative elements, including the visual communication means, which lead to the recognition of the genre construction of a specific TV show, are examined by combined visual and semiotic analysis. Quantitative elements such as tone and footage are analyzed by content analysis. The research reveals some significant differences in the examined TV shows based on a platform they are made on. These are identified as different approaches to...