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This master dissertation examines the representations of Greta Thunberg in the British Press. Using Jeffries' Critical Stylistics tools, this study aims at revealing the sexist discourses prevalent in the left- and right-wing media. The research focuses on articles published around the time of Greta Thunberg's speech at the UN, on the 23rd September 2019, as it corresponds to a period during which Thunberg received considerable attention. The dissetrtation will strive to find answers to the following question: 
•What are some of the main representations of Greta Thunberg in the British right-wing and left-wing newspapers? 
•How are these discourses inflected by gender?
•Can sexist instances be found, and how do they intertwine with the representations of Greta Thunberg?
•Do the representations of Greta Thunberg differ between the right-wing and the left-wing newspapers?

Linguistics --- Critical Stylistics --- Feminist Stylistics --- Greta Thunberg --- Language and Gender --- Media representation --- Climate change --- Arts & sciences humaines > Langues & linguistique

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In the past few years, U.S. politics have been at the forefront of many international newspapers. With the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016 to the one of Joe Biden in 2020, American politics have remained a widely discussed topic, even in other countries. However, when looking at the list of people who have been representing the country politically, it is noticeable that the great majority of them have been men. Although, over the past few decades, more women have been elected to political offices, most of these positions, especially the major ones, remain occupied by male politicians. As the media play such a big role in elections by informing the public on political candidates and their campaigns, it is important to look at the news coverage that female candidates receive, in comparison to one received by their male counterparts.

media representation --- female political candidates --- U.S. politics --- media coverage --- women politicians --- Sciences sociales & comportementales, psychologie > Communication & médias --- Arts & sciences humaines > Langues & linguistique

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As modern science and critical scholarship are beginning to recognize nonhuman animals as fellow subjects and conscious, sentient beings with interests and deserving of respect, moral dilemmas abound as humanity acknowledges the threats our activities pose to human and nonhuman animal life, including the sixth mass extinction, anthropogenic climate change, and widespread exploitation. In this 2022 Special Issue of the Journalism and Media journal, communication professors Carrie Freeman and Núria Almiron curated scholarship assessing the impact this environmental havoc is having on nonhuman animals living in nature (including those free-roaming animals who coexist in our urban spaces) and the vital role that media and communication play in contributing to and remedying these crises. Seven scholars across the USA and Spain contributed chapters exploring how issues affecting “wildlife” (such as octopuses, sharks, coyotes, parakeets, and fishes) are constructed in media and political discourses or are perceived and acted upon by public media, and the authors provide prescriptions to problems facing animals in nature, offering constructive guidance to communicators (from activists to journalists to film-makers).

Humanities --- Social interaction --- white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) --- shark–human conflict --- predators/carnivores and perceived threat --- fear --- science --- pseudoscience --- Jaws --- media representation --- Tiger King --- COVID-19 media --- popular culture --- zoos --- quarantine --- captive wildlife --- creative/critical animal and media studies --- rhetoric --- environmental communication --- eudaimonia --- ethos --- more-than-human --- sensitized compassion --- sixth mass extinction --- Racing Extinction --- Seaspiracy --- manta rays --- animal imagery --- colonialism --- fishing --- shark fin trade --- coyotes --- discourse --- neutralization techniques --- killing contests --- wildlife management --- monk parakeet --- Madrid --- press representation --- invasive species --- conservationism --- control methods --- speciesism --- framing analysis --- text analysis --- sentiment analysis --- n/a --- shark-human conflict