20.500.12556/RUL-189420 Media as Sites of Learning about Ageing: A Critical Discourse Analysis of UK Online Newspapers Mediji kot mesta učenja o staranju: kritična diskurzivna analiza britanskih spletnih časopisov Ageing is not only a biological process but also a socially constructed phenomenon, with the media playing an important role in shaping and circulating representations of older people and later life. This thesis analyses representations of older people and ageing in British online newspapers using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and examines how these representations vary across newspaper genres, which discourses and discursive strategies construct ageing, how such representations may reproduce or challenge dominant understandings of later life, and the potential of newspapers as sites of informal learning. Older people were primarily represented through two broad and interconnected constructions: vulnerability, decline and dependence on the one hand, and activity, health, independence, productivity and resilience on the other. Discourses of decline, successful and active ageing, productive ageing, and anti-ageing were identified. Hard news more often associated older people with health, economic and social issues; human-interest articles foregrounded individual experiences and often exceptional forms of ageing; while lifestyle articles emphasised advice, health, activity, appearance and consumption. Representations that challenged negative stereotypes could then simultaneously establish new expectations of active, healthy and productive ageing. The study demonstrates the potential of newspapers as sites of informal learning and socialisation. The findings highlight the role of media discourse in shaping knowledge and expectations about ageing and connect the study of media representations with the perspective of informal adult learning. Staranje ni le biološki proces, temveč tudi družbeno konstruiran pojav, pri čemer mediji igrajo pomembno vlogo pri oblikovanju in širjenju predstav o starejših ljudeh. Ta raziskava s pomočjo kritične diskurzivne analize (KAD) analizira reprezetancije starejših ljudi in staranja v britanskih spletnih časopisih in preučuje, kako se le-te razlikujejo med žanri, kateri diskurzi in diskurzivne strategije se pojavljajo, kako te prispevajo k reprodukciji ali izpodbijanju dominantnih predstav o staranju, ter potencialno vlogo časopisov kot mest informalnega učenja o staranju. Ugotovitve kažejo, da so bili starejši predstavljeni predvsem na dva širša, medsebojno povezana načina: skozi ranljivost, upadanje in odvisnost na eni strani ter aktivnost, zdravje, neodvisnost, produktivnost in odpornost na drugi. Prisotni so bili diskurz upadanja, diskurz uspešnega staranja, ter anti-ageing diskurz. Med žanri so se pokazale razlike: novice so starejše pogosteje povezovale z zdravstvenimi, ekonomskimi in družbenimi vprašanji, članki o življenjskih zgodbah so poudarjali individualne zgodbe in pogosto izjemne oblike staranja, življenjskostilski članki pa nasvete, zdravje, aktivnost, videz in potrošnjo. Reprezentacije, ki so izpodbijale negativne stereotipe, so lahko hkrati ustvarjale nova pričakovanja glede aktivnega, zdravega in produktivnega staranja. Raziskava tudi prikaže potencial časopisov kot prostorov informalnega učenja in socializacije. Rezultati tako poudarjajo vlogo medijskega diskurza pri oblikovanju znanja in pričakovanj o staranju ter povezujejo preučevanje medijskih reprezentacij z vidikom informalnega učenja odraslih. ageing older people media representation online newspapers Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) informal learning staranje starejši medijske reprezentacije spletni časopisi kritična diskurzivna analiza (KAD) informalno učenje true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Magistrsko delo/naloga 2026-10-07 07:15:26 2026-10-07 07:16:01 2026-10-09 03:30:14 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 1970-01-01 642734 75330.pdf 75330.pdf 1 D1E2B3463A9DF5AFA2680AF2DBE8EF1B 129ec144b236391dabcf1cb9a051193f1944d81c1d18133dfce60fcccbae0cf7 1a16b23e-c20e-11f1-8bc5-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=249935 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0