This paper will address the topic of media and everyday life focusing on whether media technologi... more This paper will address the topic of media and everyday life focusing on whether media technologies in everyday life can be seen to create distinctions between public and private space. Here the term media technologies is used broadly collaborating smart phone technologies, tablets, laptops, applications as social media platforms, traditional media such as books, newspapers and magazines. Reference will be made to a small empirical case study based on the film and music library inside The Kulturhuset in Stockholm city centre and aimed to show how private spaces can be created in public spaces.
Communication plays a fundamental role in shaping our understanding of complex issues such as cli... more Communication plays a fundamental role in shaping our understanding of complex issues such as climate change. Too often scientists and journalists complain that the public does not fully comprehend climate change as they cannot see it. Adhering to calls for a need to propel away from media representations of climate change to a focus on more case-specific research, this Master Thesis analyses the aspect of visualisation within climate change communication with a focus on a contemporary example, the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), as a case-specific study. EIS give a visual voice to our planets changing eco-systems, where an emphasis is placed on visually documenting the adverse effects climate change has on the planets glaciers, through conventional photography and time-lapse photography.
Adhering to the need for further studies of visual representations towards the environment this thesis deploys an image analysis to investigate how meaning is framed through the EIS’s photographs and time-lapse videos. A collective reading between the photographs and their accompanying written captions highlighted contradictive frames of beauty and uncertainty. Additionally, as climate change is predominately seen as an abstract entity, a metaphor analysis was also applied to open further frames of thought into more comprehensible understandings. Integrating both still images and moving images into the study provided different results. Time-lapse videos were analysed to open up new developments of seeing and to extract potential frames of unfolding narratives, perspective and time.
A historical case study of Swedish nuclear energy policy and use, where the researchers will inve... more A historical case study of Swedish nuclear energy policy and use, where the researchers will investigate what kind of actors and events have shaped Swedish nuclear energy policy from the 1970’s up until the present day. A multi-discplinary approach is adhered to throughout with an application of theories from the fields of communication, political and environmental science to our source material, which include a wide variety of academic journals as well as previous research done on Swedish nuclear policy and public perception. The actors that we have focused on in this research includes the public, politicians, political parties, mass media and scientists & experts. The research shows that there is an on-going struggle for influence amongst the different actors, and that they all shape each other’s actions, messages and to an extent, also beliefs.
This paper is posed of two sections. The first addresses the question - what is environmental com... more This paper is posed of two sections. The first addresses the question - what is environmental communication? The second looks at the movement 'The Extreme Ice Survey', whereby their environmental communication strategies is analysed. The movement visualise the effects of climate change
This paper will address the topic of media and everyday life focusing on whether media technologi... more This paper will address the topic of media and everyday life focusing on whether media technologies in everyday life can be seen to create distinctions between public and private space. Here the term media technologies is used broadly collaborating smart phone technologies, tablets, laptops, applications as social media platforms, traditional media such as books, newspapers and magazines. Reference will be made to a small empirical case study based on the film and music library inside The Kulturhuset in Stockholm city centre and aimed to show how private spaces can be created in public spaces.
Communication plays a fundamental role in shaping our understanding of complex issues such as cli... more Communication plays a fundamental role in shaping our understanding of complex issues such as climate change. Too often scientists and journalists complain that the public does not fully comprehend climate change as they cannot see it. Adhering to calls for a need to propel away from media representations of climate change to a focus on more case-specific research, this Master Thesis analyses the aspect of visualisation within climate change communication with a focus on a contemporary example, the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), as a case-specific study. EIS give a visual voice to our planets changing eco-systems, where an emphasis is placed on visually documenting the adverse effects climate change has on the planets glaciers, through conventional photography and time-lapse photography.
Adhering to the need for further studies of visual representations towards the environment this thesis deploys an image analysis to investigate how meaning is framed through the EIS’s photographs and time-lapse videos. A collective reading between the photographs and their accompanying written captions highlighted contradictive frames of beauty and uncertainty. Additionally, as climate change is predominately seen as an abstract entity, a metaphor analysis was also applied to open further frames of thought into more comprehensible understandings. Integrating both still images and moving images into the study provided different results. Time-lapse videos were analysed to open up new developments of seeing and to extract potential frames of unfolding narratives, perspective and time.
A historical case study of Swedish nuclear energy policy and use, where the researchers will inve... more A historical case study of Swedish nuclear energy policy and use, where the researchers will investigate what kind of actors and events have shaped Swedish nuclear energy policy from the 1970’s up until the present day. A multi-discplinary approach is adhered to throughout with an application of theories from the fields of communication, political and environmental science to our source material, which include a wide variety of academic journals as well as previous research done on Swedish nuclear policy and public perception. The actors that we have focused on in this research includes the public, politicians, political parties, mass media and scientists & experts. The research shows that there is an on-going struggle for influence amongst the different actors, and that they all shape each other’s actions, messages and to an extent, also beliefs.
This paper is posed of two sections. The first addresses the question - what is environmental com... more This paper is posed of two sections. The first addresses the question - what is environmental communication? The second looks at the movement 'The Extreme Ice Survey', whereby their environmental communication strategies is analysed. The movement visualise the effects of climate change
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Adhering to the need for further studies of visual representations towards the environment this thesis deploys an image analysis to investigate how meaning is framed through the EIS’s photographs and time-lapse videos. A collective reading between the photographs and their accompanying written captions highlighted contradictive frames of beauty and uncertainty. Additionally, as climate change is predominately seen as an abstract entity, a metaphor analysis was also applied to open further frames of thought into more comprehensible understandings. Integrating both still images and moving images into the study provided different results. Time-lapse videos were analysed to open up new developments of seeing and to extract potential frames of unfolding narratives, perspective and time.
Adhering to the need for further studies of visual representations towards the environment this thesis deploys an image analysis to investigate how meaning is framed through the EIS’s photographs and time-lapse videos. A collective reading between the photographs and their accompanying written captions highlighted contradictive frames of beauty and uncertainty. Additionally, as climate change is predominately seen as an abstract entity, a metaphor analysis was also applied to open further frames of thought into more comprehensible understandings. Integrating both still images and moving images into the study provided different results. Time-lapse videos were analysed to open up new developments of seeing and to extract potential frames of unfolding narratives, perspective and time.