BA Communication and Media student dissertations

Below you can download dissertations written by our undergraduate students.

A Populist’s Playground: How Reform UK Candidates Used TikTok to Appeal to the People - Maia Barrett

"You Need to Embrace It - It’s Coming" Perceptions of AI, Creative Autonomy, and Precarity in UK Animation - Florence Gaskell

Breaking the Silence: How Digital Activism Shapes Undergraduate Women’s Emotions and Actions towards Social Issues, with reference to #MeToo - Rosie Husson

How do UK newspapers engage in Gendered Mediation when covering female political leaders in 2024? – Annie Spragg

“Stay in your lane, sweetheart”: Investigating the Gendered Experiences and Identity Negotiation of Female F1 Fans on Social Media Platforms –  Grace Taylor 

The emblem of the Sudanese Revolution: A social semiotic analysis of online activists’ creative manipulations of a photograph as a tool of political dissent on Twitter and the subsequent iconization of Alaa Salah - Laura Malaussene

The Grindr grid: Exploring how masculinities are visually and linguistically constructed on the World’s largest gay social networking and dating app - Gabriel Mcstravick

Assessing the engagement of reality show audiences: an analysis of audience responses in fan culture to Produce 101 China - Siting Zhang

The need for human touch: An exploration into social responsibility during the COVID-19 pandemic through a case study of the NIVEA Care for Human Touch campaign - Anouk Stricher

“Come on, It’s just a joke.” Are persons with disabilities provided adequate protection from disablist speech online? A Case Study of Harvey Price Memes - Caroline Morris

Democracy Playing Catch Up: How do non-party organisations and political parties make use of online political advertising related to Brexit, on Facebook’s advertising platform? An analysis of The Facebook Ad Library for United Kingdom Online Political Advertising - Somya Mehta

Evaluating the transformative power of political consumerist talk online: A content and micro-linguistic investigation into the public response to the 2015 Volkswagen emissions scandal on Twitter - Lina Baumstark

Exploring the double bind facing female political party leaders: An analysis of Party Election Broadcasts in the 2017 General Election in Britain - Nicole Perretta

Generation Z’s Tweeting Thumbs and Marching Feet:  A study of how the ‘March for Our Lives’ student activists’ discursive solidarity on Twitter strives to achieve gun control by mobilising and politicising American youth - Amanda Flint

Innocent or Guilty? An exploration into what extent the filmmakers of Making a Murderer use specific techniques to advocate innocence of the convicted killers, and how these have influenced audience’s reactions in popular culture - Sadie Fox

The Commodification of Empowerment: Confusing the power of consumption with the power of equality - An exploration of Femvertising - Olivia Woollam

The Politics of Partying: Electronic Dance Music as Collectivist Experimentation and Subversion - Isobel Moloney

Beyond race, within media. How third culture audiences engage with whitewashed films of a Japanese origin - Annette Kari Ydia Medalla

"For you and you alone". Investigating the construction and reception of female empowerment and feminity in cosmetics advertisements - Holly Miller

"I'm so into voguing right now". An exploration into drag culture's shift from fringes to mainstream - William Sidi

Investigating the changing ontology of local British journalism - Kathryn McLady

Is blood 'normal'? A semiotic analysis of Bodyform's #BloodNormal campaign - Amelia Gill

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