This dissertation examines smugglers as they appeared in English print culture from their first appearance as "smuckellors" in a 1661 Royal Proclamation to 1766 when Parliament repealed the Revenue Act of 1764 amid protests over the government's crackdown on the vital molasses s…
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My dissertation employs Armenian media sources in Lebanon to track the shifting dynamics of internally and externally constructed identifications of the Armenians in Lebanon from 1946-1958. I describe and analyze the debates that informed evolving conceptions of individual and c…
The First World War spanned continents, mobilized vast resources and populations, and initiated new modes of contact within and among empires. For the British and the French the war brought colonial troops and supplies to Europe, involved fighting for colonies in Africa and Asia…
The mass media exercise unique and important roles in society. One of these is the media's potential to influence social change. By exposing social ills, supporting campaigns for the eradication of these ills, and suggesting solutions, the media often are instrumental in effecti…
The research reported here is a content analysis study of four major Bangladeshi newspapers to determine the quantity of development news items in them and to, thus, ascertain how much emphasis is placed by the media on contents that promote development. The four newspapers sele…
The need for understanding the audience as to who reads what for what reasons and what their reading are habits have always been of deep interest to the newspaper industry in Kuwait. Although some studies have been done in this area in Kuwait these were done by the newspapers th…
The dissertation examines Indonesian-American relations between 1953 and 1958 as they were treated in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Time magazine. The specific focus is the press role in reporting U.S. involvement with a major third world Asian na…
This study examines the impact of the introduction of new media technologies in Saudi Arabia on the country's advertising revenue. The study uses trend and functional analysis in evaluating data on the allocation of advertising revenue to various media. While the percentage of t…
This thesis examines and compares newspaper coverage of the first two general elections after Scottish devolution, looking at both the Scottish and English/UK press. By considering the coverage of a major political event which affects both countries, it contributes to debates re…
Issues concerning immigration and asylum have attracted considerable news media coverage in countries of the Global North such as the United Kingdom during recent decades. The UK national press famous for its longevity, mass appeal and partisanship has been uniquely placed to re…
Although lexical priming is claimed to provide a way 'forward' for textual critical discourse analysis (CDA) to update its paradigm (Hoey, 2004), not many priming CDA studies have yet been undertaken. Recent CDA research has just begun to appreciate the phenomenon but failed to …
My research into ethnic representations in the major newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee, the Commercial Appeal, between 1990 and 2006 looks at the relationship between changing patterns of immigration, particularly in Memphis, the dominant political ideologies during this period--n…
This study examined how the mass media depict democratic citizenship, how individuals think about what it means to be a democratic citizen, and how the two are related. To address these issues a content analysis of television news, cable talk news, late night comedy news, and ne…
This study deals with unplanned terminology development in the subject field of economics within media discourse. It examines how economic terms in Turkish newspapers emerge, are used, and cease. This developmental process is also analyzed through productivity of economic terms …
This research investigates how visual arts are used to engage dictatorial and ineffectual governments. It examines the traditional and contemporary manifestations of parody of power in Yoruba art from the pre-colonial to the postcolonial period of Nigerian history. It argues tha…
To better understand the role of the Kuwaiti news media, this research looked at the Kuwaiti audience's perception of the role of the news media in society using traditional media analogies, and the audience's perceptions of the press' performance in citizen involvement in publi…
Reactions to events of the past several years, including the attack on the World Trade Center and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, have reawakened public and academic concern with emancipatory politics, political freedom, and transformative or revolutionary change. In part…
The present research bases itself on a contrastive analysis of the news—political events in both Arabic- and French-language newspapers in Egypt, as much on the form thereof as on their content. More precisely, journalistic discourse in Egypt has historically been marked by cert…
This study investigates the relationship between the media and politics by analyzing the Iraq War coverage of two leading U.S. and Japanese newspapers: the New York Times and the Asahi. This dissertation reveals that these two print media, although both liberal in their general …