In my master's thesis, I explored the media discourse of in vitro meat in Europe and whether it has the potential to become the food of the future in response to the global food crisis. The central theory was the theory of technological utopianism, which claims that technological intervention can solve all social problems. I emphasized that technology is increasingly an inappropriate entity offered by the elite as one of the solutions to support sustainable development. The empirical part of the master's thesis was analyzed from the BBC, The Guardian and The Economist blogs, exploring how the ideology of technological utopianism in the European media discourse on in vitro meat seemed to be needed. I used the method of critical discourse analysis when analyzing texts. Findings have shown that technological utopianism is the dominant ideology in all texts; the fundamental emphasis was on mediating technology as the remedy to solve social issues. The technocratic aspect of technology represents the dominant ideology, for the idea of in vitro meat was represented as an inevitable developmental path that the global population would have no choice but to follow.
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