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IDENTITY & TECHNO-UTOPIANISM. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Marketing Material and their Sociotechnical Imaginaries.
(2022-02-10)This research paper sets out to investigate the messaging present in a corpus of texts gathered from Acxiom’s, an American data-analysis and ‘Identity Solutions’-company, website. The paper applies a framework of Critical ... -
“THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY” The Ethnographic Content Analysis of the Negative Political Ads in the Post-Soviet Hybrid Democracy
(2021-09-13)Research in field negative campaigning has demonstrated an anglophone nature. Little is known about strategies of negativity beyond American and the Western European scope. Purpose of this paper is to investigate types of ... -
ORDINARY PEOPLE LEADING EXTRAORDINARY LIVES The Personalization of Politics on Swedish Party Leaders’ Instagram
(2021-09-13)The results showed that personalization was an integral part of how Instagram was used. The two main dimensions of personalization, individualization and privatization, proposed by Van Aelst, Sheafer and Stanyer, could be ... -
THE MURDER BUSINESS
(2021-07-30)The subject of my investigation, called “The Murder Business”1, if defined in one word, is corruption. On one hand this corruption depicts the vulnerability of Moldovan legal system to protect such fundamental rights (as ... -
THE EFFECTS OF OPEN SOURCE’S DUALITY ON DATA JOURNALISM
(2021-07-30)The purpose of this study is to find out how open source community influences the data journalism practices, and to what extent it contributes to solving the challenges that hinder the integration of data-driven journalism ... -
Mapped: How Activists Shaped the Face of the British Isles
(2021-07-30)This essay explores the methodology used to produce the investigative report Mapped: How Activists Shaped the Face of the British Isles, evaluating whether or not the project was effective in fulfilling its purpose, and ... -
Navigating deepest, darkest Peru: A seven-week investigation
(2021-07-30)This investigation began when curiosity was piqued in early January, after reading a Guardian article regarding the murder of an environmental defender of the Chaparri reserve. The headline included a new term, “Land ... -
FRAMING VACCINES IN THE MEDIA. An examination of the United States media coverage of the Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine and the Human Papillomavirus vaccine
(2021-07-30)This study examines the news coverage in two different online media outlets, the New York Times and Fox News, in their reporting on two different vaccines, the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and the measles, mumps and rubella ... -
News Media Consumption among Ideologically Leaning Groups. Examining the use of Alternative Media- and Mainstream Media.
(2021-07-30)This thesis takes its point of departure in the investigation of news consumption among ideologically leaning groups. The high choice media environment has led to people turning to multiple media choices and numerous ... -
Information Operations & The Rising Threat in the Cyber Domain. Case Study of Finnish Governments Addressing the Cyber Threat Environment and Policies Countering Information Operations
(2021-07-27)This research was inspired by two courageous Finnish women, journalist Jessikka Aro and PhD Saara Jantunen, who shined a light on Russian hostile behaviour on the Internet and started discussions about information operations ... -
"Un-masking the Mask-Issue". Examining People´s Meaning-Making Processes and Risk-Cultural Norms regarding Facemasks.
(2021-07-27)While most of the world quickly came to terms with covering their noses and mouths in crowded places, people in Sweden have mostly gone without, riding buses and metros, shopping for groceries, and going to school maskless, ... -
The Rally Effect and Covid-19. The case of Spain.
(2021-07-27)The rally effect arises at times of international crisis affecting the confidence of the prime minister. During the pandemic, the planet has faced a health crisis that each country has managed with different measures. This ... -
Corporations, Social Movements, and Social Media. Investigating Corporate Engagement with the Black Lives Matter Movement on Twitter.
(2021-07-27)The thesis investigates to what extent corporations engage with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement on Twitter. The purpose is to facilitate a better understanding of corporate communication on social media in general, ... -
The Tailors, Merchants, and Consumers of Misinformation. Unearthing the Patterns of Misinformation in Bangladesh.
(2021-07-27)Misinformation has always existed, though research suggests that their prevalence has increased in recent years in different forms (post-truth and alternative facts, for instance). Experts claim that it is now a global ... -
Digital Disconnection in Swedish News Media. A critical discourse analysis.
(2021-07-27)The use of new information- and communication technologies, and social media platforms in particular, has rapidly increased from 2010-2012, when social media ‘boomed’ in Sweden. Thereafter, these platforms have become ... -
"Under pressure". A study of the Swedish Public Health Agency´s crisis - and reputation management during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(2021-07-27)This study examines the Swedish Public Health Agency’s (PHA) crisis communication regarding the COVID-19 pandemic during the year of 2020. Departing from a synthesis of the frameworks of Image Repair Theory and Bureaucratic ... -
What triggers negativity in candidates´campaigns? Examining the importance of personal characteristics, the role of the media, and the election context.
(2021-07-27)Research in negative campaigning is growing throughout the years, however, the focus by researchers has been put into negativity’s effects. The present study seeks to address the research void detected in the negative ... -
Trust, performance, and compliance during crisis times. Longitudinal analysis of trust in authorities and performance evaluations as the predictors of compliance in crisis situations.
(2021-07-27)While the concepts of trust and performance often appear together in research, there seems to be little consensus on how they together relate to compliance. The purpose of this study is to examine this relationship, how ... -
When fake news make the news. A study of journalistic boundaries.
(2021-07-27)This thesis takes a spearheaded look at a modern, much-talked about concept of misleading information known as ”fake news”, and how traditional journalists have handled its emergence with regards to their professional ... -
Politics of(f) stage. Investigating the mechanisms of political theatre
(2021-07-27)This thesis takes its point of departure in the argument that theatre as a medium has largely been overlooked by the field of political communication. The focus of this study is therefore to place attention on theatre from ...
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