Through the commodification of nature, the framing of the environment as a ‘natural resource’ or ‘ecosystem service’ has become increasingly prominent in international environmental governance. The economic capture approach is promoted by international organizations such as the United Nations Environmental …

This dissertation explores whether the German news media framework that is constructed around the issue of trafficking in human beings (THB) is biased or framed in terms of gender. The past decade has seen major developments in efforts towards the eradication of THB on an international and national …

Within large service organizations there are currently two trends visible. These trends seem to be diametrically opposed. On the one hand organizations face increasing price pressure and thus a pressure to cut costs. One of the consequences of this trend is that organizations are increasingly encouraging …

Cities are becoming increasingly complex, both in terms of their social and cultural context, and in the technological solutions that are necessary to make them function. In parallel, we are observing a growing attention toward the public dimension of design, addressing societal challenges and opportunities …

​Het doel van dit onderzoek is om te achterhalen of de Zuid-Afrikaanse media op hetzelfde punt is gekomen als de politiek in het land met een hoge vertegenwoordiging van vrouwen. Om dit te onderzoeken wordt gekeken naar de berichtgeving over de twee mogelijke vrouwelijke presidentskandidaten rond de …

​Een onderzoek naar de toepassing van sportjournalistiek in tijden dat nationale sportteams ongebruikelijk slecht presteren. Dat is onderzocht aan de hand van het gebruik van framing en agendasetting.

In the present study, how crime scene investigators are informed before going to a crime scene was investigated. In order to gain more insight in the flow of information from emergency call to crime scene, semi-structured interviews were conducted in three different police regions with six crime scene …

In January 2016, several newspapers reported on the sexual assault of women at Dom Square in Cologne. The aim of this study was to find out, whether the sexual assaults that occurred in Cologne in 2015 were the result of facts or framing. The scope of this research is based on 87 letters to the editor, …

Vrouwelijke prostituees worden veelal negatief afgebeeld in protestants-christelijke berichtgeving, zo stellen verschillende vrouwelijke prostituees (Anna, 2016, Dee, 2015 & Zondares, 2016). Zij krijgen vaak de slachtofferrol toegewezen, terwijl zij deze zelf niet ervaren. Volgens deze bronnen is het …

Scriptie over vluchtelingen in de media. Onderzoek naar hoe vluchtelingen getypeerd worden door het NRC-Handelsblad, Trouw en de Volkskrant. Met een kwalitatieve data-analyse zijn er labels gemaakt, en er is gekeken hoe vaak die in verdiepende berichtgeving van deze drie dagbladen terugkomen.