Human rights news in professional and citizen media : Comparative content analysis of Global Voices, The Guardian and Al-Jazeera

The thesis aims to analyse how human rights issues are reported by different types of transnational media channels – professional and citizen. More specifically, the human rights related articles published during 2016 in citizen media website Global Voices and two mainstream media channels – The Gua...

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Main Author: Razaityte, Vaida
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier 2017
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spelling ndltd-UPSALLA1-oai-DiVA.org-su-1504712020-10-08T05:27:16ZHuman rights news in professional and citizen media : Comparative content analysis of Global Voices, The Guardian and Al-JazeeraengRazaityte, VaidaStockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier2017human rights newsnetwork journalismprofessionalismcitizen journalismdigitalisationglobalisationMedia and CommunicationsMedie- och kommunikationsvetenskapThe thesis aims to analyse how human rights issues are reported by different types of transnational media channels – professional and citizen. More specifically, the human rights related articles published during 2016 in citizen media website Global Voices and two mainstream media channels – The Guardian and Al-jazeera English are analysed in a quantitative way and compared. The key focus of the analysis is drawn on theories about human rights representation in media, continuum of professionalism in the period of digitisation and globalisation of news. The quantitative content analysis helped to determine that there are more similarities in human rights representation in terms of content of information, than in the tools which are chosen to present human rights. Student thesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesistexthttp://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-150471application/pdfinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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topic human rights news
network journalism
professionalism
citizen journalism
digitalisation
globalisation
Media and Communications
Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
spellingShingle human rights news
network journalism
professionalism
citizen journalism
digitalisation
globalisation
Media and Communications
Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
Razaityte, Vaida
Human rights news in professional and citizen media : Comparative content analysis of Global Voices, The Guardian and Al-Jazeera
description The thesis aims to analyse how human rights issues are reported by different types of transnational media channels – professional and citizen. More specifically, the human rights related articles published during 2016 in citizen media website Global Voices and two mainstream media channels – The Guardian and Al-jazeera English are analysed in a quantitative way and compared. The key focus of the analysis is drawn on theories about human rights representation in media, continuum of professionalism in the period of digitisation and globalisation of news. The quantitative content analysis helped to determine that there are more similarities in human rights representation in terms of content of information, than in the tools which are chosen to present human rights.
author Razaityte, Vaida
author_facet Razaityte, Vaida
author_sort Razaityte, Vaida
title Human rights news in professional and citizen media : Comparative content analysis of Global Voices, The Guardian and Al-Jazeera
title_short Human rights news in professional and citizen media : Comparative content analysis of Global Voices, The Guardian and Al-Jazeera
title_full Human rights news in professional and citizen media : Comparative content analysis of Global Voices, The Guardian and Al-Jazeera
title_fullStr Human rights news in professional and citizen media : Comparative content analysis of Global Voices, The Guardian and Al-Jazeera
title_full_unstemmed Human rights news in professional and citizen media : Comparative content analysis of Global Voices, The Guardian and Al-Jazeera
title_sort human rights news in professional and citizen media : comparative content analysis of global voices, the guardian and al-jazeera
publisher Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier
publishDate 2017
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