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This is a selection of the best dissertations authored by students from our MSc-programme

These MSc dissertations have been selected by the editor and deputy editor of the Media@LSE WP-Series and consequently, are not the responsibility of the WP-Series Editorial Board.

2015

No 172 Boundary Work between ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Global News Agencies’ Double Standard on the Construction of Forced Migrants by Geographical Proximity
Woo-chul Kim
No 171 Why Did Our Watchdog Fail? A Counter Perspective on the Media Coverage of the 2007 Financial Crisis Tran Thuy-Anh Huynh
No 170 Unmasking ‘Sidekick’ Masculinity: A Qualitative Investigation of How Asian-American Males View Emasculating Stereotypes in U.S. Media Steffi Lau
No 169 The Silence of the Lamb: Animals in Biopolitics and the Discourse of Ethical Evasion Sana Ali
No 168 The Tartan Other: A qualitative analysis of the visual framing of Alex Salmond and the Scottish National Party in the British Press Ross Alexander Longton
No 167 The Unmasking of Burmese Myth in Contemporary Thai Cinema Pimtong Boonyapataro
No 166 Neoliberal Capitalism, Transnationalism and Networked Individualism: Rethinking Social Class in International Student Mobility Nguyen Quynh Tram Doan
No 165 The New Media Elite: How has Participation been Enabled and Limited in Leaders Live Online Political Debates Matilde Giglio
No 164 Constructing a Sense of Place through New Media: A Case Study of Humans of New York Mariele O’Reilly
No 163 The failure of cosmopolitanism and the reinforcement of hierarchical news: managing the visibility of suffering throughout the Multimodal Analysis of the Charlie Hebdo versus the Baga terrorist attacks Maria Paola Pofi
No 162 Imagining (In)security: Towards Developing Critical Knowledges of Security in a Mediated Social World Kathryn Higgins
No 161 Tweens Logged In: How Social Norms and Media Literacy Relate to Children’s Usage of Social Media Kalina Asparouhova
No 160 Finding Ferguson: Geographic Scale in the United States’ National Nightly Network News John Ray
No 159 Solidarity as Irony: Audience Responses to Celebrity Advocacy Isabel Kuhn
No 158 Phantasmagoric Nationalism: State power and the diasporic imagination Felicia Wong
No 157 Investigating Music Consumption ‘Circuits of Practice’ Eva Tkavc Dubokovic
No 156 A complex history turned into a tale of reconciliation: A critical discourse analysis of Irish newspaper coverage of the Queen’s visit to the Republic of Ireland Ciara Spencer
No 155 Economic power of e-retailers via price discrimination in e-commerce: price discrimination’s impact on consumers’ choices and preferences and its position in relation to consumer power Arina Vlasova
No 154 Exploring the Boundaries of Crowd Creation: A study on the value of voice in neoliberal media culture Ana Ecaterina C. Tan
No 153 “Songs of Guilt”: When Generosity is to Blame - A Content Analysis of the Press and Social Media Reactions to U2’s “Songs of Innocence” Giveaway on iTunes Alessandro Volonté

2014

No 152 Hybridity within Peer Production: The Power Negotiation of Chinese Fansub Groups Zongxiao Rong
No 151 Writing On the Wall: Conversations with Beirut's Street Artists Zeina Najjar
No 150 'Gaining Control with the Power of the Gun and Maintaining Control with the Power of the Pen': A Content Analysis of Framing the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) in the People's Daily Yuanyuan Liu
No 149 Let My Voices be Heard: A Qualitative Study of Migrant Workers' Strategies of Mediation Resistance in Contemporary China Yijun Chen
No 148 'Popular Politics': A Discourse Theory Analysis of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa's TV/radio Program Citizen Link Veronica Leon Burch
No 147 A Comparative Analysis of Chinese, Western and African Media Discourse in the Representation of China's Expansion of Economic Engagements in Africa Tong Wei
No 146 Ideological Trafficking of God and the Other Sultana Haider
No 145 The Maasai and the Internet: Online Civil Participation and the Formation of a Civic Identity in Rural Kenya Stine Ringnes Wilhelmsen
No 144 Wood in Water Does Not a Crocodile Make: Migrants Virtual Place-making, Ontological Security and Cosmopolitanism in the Transnational Social Field Sheetal Kumar
No 143 Droning On: A Critical Analysis of American Policy and News Discourse on Drone Strikes Sadaf Khan
No 142 The Impact of Mass Media Sentiments on Returns and Volatility in Asset Markets: Evidence from Algorithmic Content Analysis Panu Kuuluvainen
No 141 Problematising the Self-Representation of Race and Gender in Vines: Who has the Last Laugh? Shaikha Nurfarah Mattar
No 140 Corporate Public Apologies, or Capitalism in Other Words Nina M Chung
No 139 Agenda Setting and Framing in the UK Energy Prices Debate Nicholas Davies
No 138 'It is of Inestimable Benefit': Communicating American Science Policy in the Post-Cold War Era Mercedes Wilby
No 137 Beyond Twenty Cents: The Impact of the Representation of Violence on the Coverage of the Brazilian Protests of June 2013 by the Mass Media Margarida Gorecki Telles
No 136 Framing Françafrique: Neo-colonial Framing Practices in Le Monde's Coverage of the French Military Interventions in Mali and the Central African Republic Lucie Gagniarre
No 135 Representing Persia: A Discourse Analysis of The American Print Media's Coverage of Iran Kyle Bowen
No 134 From Fat Cats to Cool Cats: CEOs and Micro-celebrity Practices on Twitter Julia Regina Austmann
No 133 Critically Imagining Ineternet Governance: A Content Analysis of the Marco Civil da Internet Public Consultation João Carlos Magalhães
No 132 The Ambiguous ICT: Investigating How Tablet Users Relate to and Interact with Their Device Jessica Blank
No 131 Threats, Parasites and Others: The Visual Framing of Roma Migrants in the British Press Grace Waters
No 130 Fifty Years of Negativity: An Assessment of Negative Compaigning in Swedish Parlimentary Election Campaigns 1956-2006 Gustav Gidenstam
No 129 The Talking Dog: Representations of Self and Others in Japanese Advertising Eryk Salvaggio
No 128 The Selfie Protest: A Visual Analysis of Activism in the Digital Age Clare Sheehan
No 127 Negativity and Australian Political Discourse: A Case Study of the Australian Liberal Party's 2013 Election Television Advertising Clare Creegan
No 126 What are You Laughing at? A Social Semiotic Analysis of Ironic Racial Stereotypes in Chappelle's Show Cindy Ma
No 125 Reconsidering Agenda Setting and Intermedia Agenda Setting from a Global Perspective: A Cross-National Comparative Agenda Setting Test Christoph Rosenthal
No 124 Big Data Exclusions and Disparate Impact: Investigating the Exclusionary Dynamics of Big Data Phenomenon Charly Gordon
No 123 Tabloidisation of the Norwegian News Media: A Quantitative Analysis of Print and Online Newspaper Platforms Celine Storstad Gran
No 122 Red, White and Afro Caribbean: A Qualitative Study of Afro-Caribbean American Identity During the Olympic Games Ashley Gordon
No 121 The City without Gates: Facebook and the Social Surface Andrew Crosby
No 120 Yes I Do Mind: Constructing Discourses of Resistance against Racial Microaggressions on Tumblr Abigail Kang

2013

No 119 Tensions in Urban Street Art: a Visual Analysis of the Online Media Coverage of Banksy Slave Labour Elisabetta Crovara
No 118 The Sticky Case of Sticky Data: An Examination of the Rationale, Legality, and Implementation of a Right to Data Portability Under European Competition Law Paul T. Moura
No 117 Pinning Pretty: A Qualitative Study of Pinterest Users' Practices and Views Elizabeth White
No 116 Comparing Perceptions of NGOs and CSR: Audience Evaluations and Interpretations of Communications Gitanjali Co Devan Anderson
No 115 What is Web-Populism doing to Italian Politics? The Discursive Construction of 'Grillini' vis-a-vis the Antagonist Other Isadora Arredondo
No 114 Yellow Skin-White Prison: A Content Analysis of French Television News Broadcast Ngo Bossoro
No 113 A Revisionist Turkish Identity: Power, Religion and Ethnicity as Ottoman Identity in the Turkish series Muhteşem Yüzyıl Esra Doğramacı
No 112 Behind the Curtain: Women's Representations in Contemporary Hollywood Reema Dutt
No 111 From Liberal Conservative to Conservative Conservative: David Cameron's Political Branding Ignacio José Antonio López Escarcena
No 110 'Micropolitics' and Communication: An Exploratory Study on Student Representatives' Communication Repertoires in University Governance Nora Kroeger
No 109 Ideology No More: A Discourse of Othering in Canadian Mainstream Newspaper Representations of the Idle No More Movement Christian Ledwell
No 108 Media Representation of Nationalism and Immigration: A Case Study of Jamie's Great Britain Xin Liang
No 107 You're Not Alone: Virtual Communities, Online Relationships & Modern Identities in the Military Spouse & Blogging Community Elizabeth M. Lockwood
No 106 Harperist Discourse: Creating a Canadian 'Common Sense' and Shaping Ideology Through Language Mashoka Maimona
No 105 The Spiral of Silence and Social Media: Analysing Noelle-Neumann's Phenomenon Application on the Web during the Italian Political Elections of 2013 Cristina Malaspina
No 104 Participatory Culture on YouTube: A Case Study of the Multichannel Network Machinima Bryan Mueller
No 103 Up the Cascade: Framing of the Concession of the Highway between San Jose and San Ramon Marie Garnier Ortiz
No 102 Science in the Headlines: The Stakes in the Social Media Age Sasjkia Otto
No 101 Representing Disease: An Analysis of Breast Cancer Discourse in the South African Press Lauren Post
No 100 Blob and Its Audience: Making Sense of Meta-Television Giulia Previato
No 99 Streaming the Syrian War: A Case Study of the Partnership between Professional and Citizen Journalists in the Syrian Conflict Madeline Storck
No 98 Immigration Policy Narratives and the Politics of Identity: Causal Issue Frames in the Discursive Construction of America's Social Borders Felicity P. Tan
No 97 Behind 'gift-giving': The Motivations for Sharing Fan-Generated Digital Content in Online Fan Communities Mengchu Wang
No 96 Smartphone Location-based Services in the Social, Mobile, and Surveillance Practices of Everyday Life Carey Wong
No 95 The Impacts of Design on Voluntary Participation: Case Studies of Zimuzu and Baike Li Zeng

2012

No 94 Mediated Politics and Ideology: Towards a New Synthesis. A case study from the Greek General Election of May 2012 Angelos Kissas
No 93 E-Arranged Marriages: How have Muslim matrimonial websites affected traditional Islamic courting methods? Ayesha Ahmed
No 92 Hospitality in the Modern Mediapolis: Global Mediation of Child Soldiers in central and east Africa Bridgette Bugay
No 91 Media Framing of the 2009-2010 United States Health Care Reform Debate: A Content Analysis of U.S. Newspaper Coverage Christina Brown
No 90 Behind the Laughter: Mediating Hegemony through Humour Ningkang Wang
No 89 Saving Europe online? European identity and the European Union’s Facebook communication during the eurozone crisis Johannes Hillje
No 88 Like it? Ritual Symbolic Exchange Using Facebook’s ‘Like’ Tool Kenneth J. Gamage
No 87 Understanding representations of low-income Chinese migrant workers through the lens of photojournalists Lee Zhuomin
No 86 T he Modernization of Irish Political Campaigning: The 2011 General Election Liam Murphy
No 85 Online Freedom? Film Consumption in the Digital Age Luane Sandrin Gauer
No 84 Audience Reception of Charity Advertising: Making Sense, Interpreting and Decoding Advertisements That Focus on Human Suffering Magdalini Tsoutsoumpi
No 83 Beneath the Anthropomorphic Veil: Animal Imagery and Ideological Discourses in British Advertising Manjula Kalliat
No 82 Mobile Discourses: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Reports of Intergovernmental Organizations Recommending Mobile Phones for Development Maria Paola de Salvo
No 81 We the People: The role of social media in the participatory community of the Tea Party movement Rachel Weiler
No 80 SOPA Deliberation on Facebook: Deliberation and Facilitation or Mere Mobilization? Ray Wang
No 79 Discerning the Dominant Discourse in the World Summit on the Information Society Ria Sen
No 78 The impact of online health information on the doctor-patient relationship. Findings from a qualitative study Susanne Christmann
No 77 The Influence of Weibo Political Participations on the Political Efficacies of Weibo Users Wenxu Wang
No 76 In what Forms and Patterns does Inequality Exist in the Weibosphere? Xiao Han
No 75 Creating Scandal to Avoid Panic: How the UK Press Framed the News of the World Phonehacking Scandal Zuzanna Natalie Blaszkiewicz

2011

No 74 Measuring media pluralism in the convergence era: The case of News Corp’s proposed acquisition of BSkyB Davide Morisi
No 73 Observers, Witnesses, Victims or Activists? How Inuit Voices are Represented in Mainstream Canadian Newspaper Coverage of Global Warming Patricia H. Audette-Longo
No 72 Global journalism, local realities: Ugandan journalists' views on reporting homosexuality Rachael Borlase
No 71 Why pay if it's free? Streaming, downloading, and digital music consumption in the "iTunes era" Theodore Giletti
No 70 Peacebuilding and Public Service Media: Lessons from Star Radio and media development in Liberia Elizabeth Goodfriend
No 69 The Discourse of Protest: Using discourse analysis to identify speech acts in UK broadsheet newspapers Stefan Brambilla Hall
No 68 Life With or Without the Internet: The Domesticated Experiences of Digital Inclusion and Exclusion Mark Holden
No 67 We are all well (and undisrupted) in the shelter - the 33 of us: Narratives in the rescue of the Chilean Miners as a Live Media Event César Antonio Jiménez Martínez
No 66 Critical Failure: Class, Taste and the Value of Film Criticism Moses Lemuel
No 65 The Story of Egypt: Journalistic impressions of a revolution and new media power Thomas Ledwell
No 64 Political Fandom in the Age of Social Media: Case Study of Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign Komal H. Parikh
No 63 Against all odds: Evidence for the 'true' cosmopolitan consumer A cross-disciplinary approach to investigating the Cosmopolitan Condition Saskia Scheibel
No 62 Relating to 'Ohio' in Political Advertisements: Interpreting Representations of Culture in Narratives, Myths, and Symbols from Democratic Spots in the 2010 Gubernatorial Campaign Daniel Schwarz
No 61 Youth Understanding of Climate: Towards a theory of social adaptation to climate change in Africa Hardi Shahadu

2010

No 60 Translating China:A case study of Chinese-English translation in CCTV international broadcasting Yueru Zhang
No 59 From watchdog to lapdog?The impact of government intimidation on the public watchdog performance of peace media in processes of democratisation Michael Spiess
No 58 From Hardback to Software: How the Publishing Industry is Coping with Convergence Lauren Christina Sozio
No 57 Witnessing War: Blogs from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan Jessica Siegel
No 56 Mediated Cosmopolitanism? The Other’s Mediated Dialogical Space on BBC World’s Hardtalk Andrew Rogers
No 55 Reconceptualising IT? Policy Learning and Paradigms of Sustainability in the ICT Policy of the European Union Jussi Nokkala
No 54 ‘Alive with Possibility’: Brand South Africa and the Discursive Construction of South African National Identity Yasuko Murai
No 53 The Journalistic Identities of Liveblogging A Case Study: Reporting the 2009 Post-Election Protests in Iran David McDougall,
No 52 Blogging the Gap: A survey of China bloggers Kerry Arnot
No 51 Young People’s Adoption and Consumption of a Cultural Commodity – iPhone Hui Jiang
No 50 Preserving the Liberal World Order in an Age of Globalization: Representing the People’s Republic of China in the American Prestige Press Jasmine Chan
No 49 In the Name of Allah? Alison Jarrett
No 48 An Investigation into the Meaning of Locally Produced Entertainment Media to Lebanese Women:A Concentration on the Film Sukkar Banat (Caramel) Carol Haidar
No 47 ‘Discuss This Article!’ Participatory Uses of Comment Sections on SPIEGEL ONLINE: A Content Analysis Eilika Freund
No 46 Fleeting Racialisation?: Media Representation of African Americans During the California Proposition 8 Campaign - App 1 - App 2 Tiana Epps-Johnson
No 45 The Big Society Will Not Take Place: Reading Postmodernism in Contemporary Conservative Discourse Matthew Eisner Harle
No 44 Situating the imagination:Turkish soap operas and the lives of women in Qatar Dima Issa
No 43 guardian.co.uk: online participation, ‘agonism’ and ‘mutualisation’ Mariam Cook
No 42 Freedom or intervention: What is the role of the regulator in achieving competitive pay-TV markets? Yi Shen Chan
No 41 The united states of unscreened cinema: The political economy of the self-distribution of cinema in the U.S. Bajir Cannon
No 40 Constructing the virtual body: Self-representation, self-modification and self-perfection in pro-eating disorder websites Gillian Bolsover
No 39 The Altruistic Blockbuster and the Third-World Filmstar Olina Banerji

2009

No 38 The Modernisation of Australian Political Campaigns: The Case of Maxine McKew Evie Watt
No 37 Platform-based Open Innovation Business Models: Bridging the gap between value creation and value capture Michael Seminer
No 36 Transmit/Disrupt: Why does illegal broadcasting continue to thrive in the age of liberalised spectrum? Justin Schlosberg
No 35 Domestic Conflict or Global Terror? Framing the Mumbai Terror Attacks in the U.S. Print Press Kamla Pande
No 34 Information plurality, the financial sector, and the fate of Reuters News agency: Policy and problems surrounding the Thomson Reuters merger Leila Lemghalef
No 33 The Contested Framing of Canada’s Military Mission in Afghanistan: The News Media, the Government, the Military and the Public Brooks Decillia
No 32 UK community radio: policy frames and outcomes Helen Charles
No 31 Bunny Talk: Teenagers Discuss The Girls Next Door Jennifer Barton

2008

No 30 Psephological Peer Production Tim Watts
No 29 Domestication of the Cell Phone on a College Campus: A Case Study Madhuri Shekar
No 28 The Visuals of Violence Sofie Scheerlinck
No 27 All Work and No Play - Does it Make Jack a Dull Boy? Ece Inanç
No 26 Perusing Perez: How do Taste Hierarchies, Leisure Preferences and Social Status Interact among visitors to Perez Hilton's Celebrity Gossip Blog? Ellen Hunter
No 25 Exploring the 'Americanization of Political Campaigns: Croatia's 2003 and 2007 General Elections Milly A. Doolan
No 24 Acts of Negotiation Rajana Das
No 23 Banal Environmentalism: Defining and Exploring an Expanded Understanding of Ecological Identity, Awareness, and Action Ryan Cunningham
No 22 Letting the Other Solitude be Heard: On the Media's Role as a Forum for Multilingual Conversation in Canada Marc Chalifoux
No 21 Multilateral Institutions and the Recontextualization of Political Marketing: How the World Intellectual Property Organization's Outreach Efforts Reflect Changing Audiences Sandra Bangasser
No 20 Branding in Election Campaigns: Just a Buzzword or a New Quality of Political Communication? Manuel Adolphsen

2007

No 19 A Study on Self-regulatory Initiatives in China's Internet Industry Lijun Cao
No 18 An Exploration of the 2006 Electoral Campaign for the Re-election of Walter Veltroni for Mayor of Rome Maddalena Vianello
No 17 Creating Global Citizens? The Case of Connecting Classrooms Mandeep Samra
No 16 Audience Reception of Health Promoting Advertising Cristian Raftopoulou
No 15 The Game of (Family) Life: Intra-Family Play in the World of Warcraft Holly Peterson
No 14 Global TV and Local Realities: Constructing Narratives of the Self Sunandini Pande
No 13 Twitter: Expressions of the Whole Self Edward Mishaud
No 12 Crowdsourced News: The Collective Intelligence of Amateurs and The Evolution of Journalism Melissa Metzger
No 11 To Support or Distort: An Analysis of Ontario Referendum Campaign Websites Anna Mather
No 10 Political Handbags: The representation of women politicians Eva Markstedt
No 9 Free Speech, Political Correctness and the Public Sphere in a Talk Radio World Michele Margolis
No 8 Propaganda, Grassroots Power, or Online Public Sphere? Zheng Liu
No 7 Preventing Drug Abuse in China: Anti-Drug Campaigns in the Eyes of a Drug User Bo Li
No 6 Taming Technology: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Families and Their Domestication of the Internet Josh Hack
No 5 Keeping up Appearances: Candidate Self-Presentation through Web Videos in the 2008 US Presidential Primary Campaign Nisha Gulati
No 4 The End of the Media's '"War on Terror"? An Analysis of a Declining Frame Dominik Cziesche
No 3 Fantasizing Reality: Wetware, Social Imaginaries, and Signs of Change Jennifer Cross
No 2 The Colbert Nation: A Democratic Place to be? Kristen Boesel
No 1 Media Constructions of Extreme Female Thinness Nelly Abranavel