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Strangled citizens- an exploratory study on the empowerment of citizen journalists

2012-04-11T08:31:21Z

Kfvallido:

Toraja, M.F.B. (2012). Strangled Citizens: An Exploratory Study on the Empowerment of Citizen Journalists. Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis, University of the Philippines, College of Mass Communication.

Nowadays, a growing number of people around the globe are accessing the Internet for various reasons. Through the years the Internet has played a major role in changing and improving the way people communicate. With the flourishing of the Internet, people could post anything on the Web which leads to the concept of empowerment in terms of expressing themselves online. At the present time, media practitioners are not the sole sources of news since people who were consumers of news then can now make and report news themselves.

This thesis explores citizen journalism (on the Internet) in the Philippine setting. To provide a better understanding of the phenomenon, this research delved on comparing the citizen journalism practice in the Philippines to the global practice. A comparative analysis of GMA 7’s YouScoop and OhmyNews, which is considered as pioneer in citizen journalism, is included in this research. Employing Hamelink’s concept of Empowerment, Political Economy Approach, theories such as Expectancy-Value, Framing, Gatekeeping , Systems, and Star, the researcher found out that empowered citizens journalists get disempowered. Due to the commercial character of the network and news making process, citizens get strangled. The mass becomes voiceless.

Keywords: empowerment, GMA 7, citizen journalism, movement

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How to save capitalism in 100 days

2012-04-11T08:29:17Z

Kfvallido: How to save capitalism in 100 days moved to How to Save Capitalism in 100 Days: An Ideological Analysis of the Concept of Salvation in ABS-CBNs Television Drama 100 Days to Heaven

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How to Save Capitalism in 100 Days: An Ideological Analysis of the Concept of Salvation in ABS-CBNs Television Drama 100 Days to Heaven

2012-04-11T08:29:17Z

Kfvallido: How to save capitalism in 100 days moved to How to Save Capitalism in 100 Days: An Ideological Analysis of the Concept of Salvation in ABS-CBNs Television Drama 100 Days to Heaven

This study examines how religion legitimizes the ideology and discourse of capitalism through the concept of second chances exemplified in the show 100 Days to Heaven. This aims to answer what salvation is offered, why there is a need for salvation, how this salvation is obtained and for whom this salvation is, all in the context of the show.

The episodes studied are chosen by purposive sampling. I selected parts of the drama that contain discussions of second chances and salvation.

Employing Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche’s concepts such as good and bad, good and evil, guilt, creditor-debtor relationship and mercy, Louis Althusser’s concept of the Ideological State Apparatus and Slavoj Zizek’s ideas on fetish, objets a, jouissance and liberalism, I will study three aspects of the show namely, its narrative and narratives, the characterization and the salvation offered to each character. First I will look at how Christianity, specifically Catholicism, paved the way for salvation and second chances and how its standards guide and constrain the characters to attain this salvation and second chances. Then, I will look at how all these demonstrate religion’s justification of the ideology and discourse of capitalism.
Keywords: religion, ideology, discourse, capitalism, salvation, second chances

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How to Save Capitalism in 100 Days: An Ideological Analysis of the Concept of Salvation in ABS-CBNs Television Drama 100 Days to Heaven

2012-04-11T08:03:05Z

Kfvallido: New page: This study examines how religion legitimizes the ideology and discourse of capitalism through the concept of second chances exemplified in the show 100 Days to Heaven. This aims to answer ...

This study examines how religion legitimizes the ideology and discourse of capitalism through the concept of second chances exemplified in the show 100 Days to Heaven. This aims to answer what salvation is offered, why there is a need for salvation, how this salvation is obtained and for whom this salvation is, all in the context of the show.
The episodes studied are chosen by purposive sampling. I selected parts of the drama that contain discussions of second chances and salvation.
Employing Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche’s concepts such as good and bad, good and evil, guilt, creditor-debtor relationship and mercy, Louis Althusser’s concept of the Ideological State Apparatus and Slavoj Zizek’s ideas on fetish, objets a, jouissance and liberalism, I will study three aspects of the show namely, its narrative and narratives, the characterization and the salvation offered to each character. First I will look at how Christianity, specifically Catholicism, paved the way for salvation and second chances and how its standards guide and constrain the characters to attain this salvation and second chances. Then, I will look at how all these demonstrate religion’s justification of the ideology and discourse of capitalism.
Keywords: religion, ideology, discourse, capitalism, salvation, second chances