School of Media and Communication Masters dissertations

MA dissertations

Below you can download dissertations written by our Masters students. These dissertations are the originals submitted, with personal data and any information regarded as confidential removed, including acknowledgements, the Ethics Form and research participant information, which may have resulted in unavoidable changes to the formatting. Please note that these are dissertations of distinction, but all demonstrate strengths and limitations in relation to the marketing criteria. The examiners’ feedback and marks are not available to view. All students consented to the publication of their work on these pages.

2021

A longitudinal analysis of media framing surrounding economic migration, from the 2016 EU Referendum through to COVID-19 - Marta Portalska, 2021

An analysis of representations of women in Chinese menstrual product advertising - Haichao Xu, 2021

Cancel Culture Online: Digitisation’s influence on public shaming - Quanisha Virginie, 2021

“FAILURES OF THE WORLD, UNITE!” Towards a broader understanding of failure in Disco Elysium and roleplaying games - Eryk Sawicki, 2021

How did fake news affect health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic in China? - Mingke Rao, 2021

How did the loss of local language newspapers impact the 2021 general elections and democracy in Uganda? - Pascal Kwesiga, 2021

How successful was the government’s digitised Covid-19 communication strategy with the elderly? - Casey Magloire, 2021

“Motherland, drip on me”: Exploring diasporic identities, feelings of displacement and Blackness in Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’ - Roxana Caia, 2021

Subjectivity and Representation: Investigating the contemporary female dilemmas in Chinese TV series Ode to Joy - Danqing Fan, 2021

Trump and Bolsonaro: Disrupting Liberal Democracy- A Communicative Approach to the Strategies of Populists in Power - David Cohen, 2021

“We're just playing into their system” A qualitative exploration of the relationship between conspiracy theories and political efficacy, and the role community plays in the creation and spread of conspiracy theories - Patrick Heselwood, 2021

Who gets to be a citizen?: Citizenship Discourse on Twitter during the 2019 CAA-NRC movement in India - Manasa Narayanan, 2021

2018

If part of a dissertation above is used in other academic work, then due acknowledgement of authorship is required.