Media and Creative Industries Graduate Papers
Each year MA students in the Institute for Media and Creative Industries undertake original research for their dissertations, covering a wide range of topics and geographies.
The Institute for Media and Creative Industries Graduate Papers (2017-2018 and 2018-19) publishes some the outstanding research undertaken by student researchers in the Institute.
Marco Concer
"The narrative and tropes of the Italian anti-vaccination movement in their online communication in 2017"
MA Media and Creative Industries, 2017-18
Sofía González-Barboza
"Ethical considerations of machine learning based tools in media research: A case study on BBC Media Action’s Klahan-9 project in Cambodia and El Kul in Libya"
MA Media and Creative Industries, 2018-19
Luyanda Mfeka
"Tap and go (meet) – Examining identity construction in queer partner-seeking virtual environments within Johannesburg"
MA Global Communication and Development, 2019-20.
Kristeena Monteith
"Youth Leaders in Civic Media: The role of leading and creating civic media organisations in the youth civic engagement"
MA Media and Creative Industries, 2018-19.
Dainalyn Swaby
"An investigation of the lived experiences of youth in Jamaica and their response to climate change engagement"
MA Global Communication and Development, 2019-20.
Tina Tishev
"Re-Imagining Sports Reporting: Creating Social Change in the Area of Transgender Discrimination"
MA Communication and Cultural Policy, 2018-19
Kearn Williams
"Your carnival soca bible: Brand experience and brand export in the Trinidad carnival: The case of soca brainwash"
MA Media and Creative Industries, 2017/18
Chenyao Zhang
"Female solidarity based on Chinese social media Weibo during COVID-19"
MA Media and Creative Industries, 2019-20.
Siya Zhou
"Experiences of contemporary Chinese queer individuals: images of physical and online lives"
MA Media and Creative Industries, 2018-19