Author: Celebi, Aylin
Titel: Alles nur Show?: eine Analyse über die (Selbst-)Präsentation deutscher Rapperinnen in ihren Musikvideos
Publication: Salzburg, April 2019
Institution: Universität Salzburg, Kultur- und Gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Study program: Kommunikationswissenschaft
Level of Design:
The master’s thesis has a very simple and minimalistic design. It appears to follow a predefined layout rather than a custom design.
Degree of Innovation: The topic is quite innovative, focusing specifically on the self-presentation of German female rappers in music videos. The introduction highlights the intention to explore gender representation, specifically in a German context.
Independence:
The author has shown great independence, especially in the development of a customised coding scheme for video analysis. It was important to the author that all videos were analysed according to the same categories, so she developed her own scheme that took the themes of the videos into account.
Outline and Structure:
The introduction uses many quotations and sources and was not written in own words. Only at the end does it become clear what it is about. The indirect quotations are given in brackets after the text passages. This disturbs the flow of reading.
The table of contents could be organised more clearly in some sections. There are many recurring topics. Instead of the heading “Definitions”, “hip-hop” could be chosen as the heading, as it is only written about. Another thing I noticed is that the Abstract is at the end of the master thesis.
Degree of Communication:
The thesis is well-written, with a clear and professional tone. Sometimes, especially in the introduction, it jumps around between topics a bit quickly.
Scope of the Work:
The scope is appropriate for a master’s thesis, covering relevant aspects of gender studies, hip-hop culture, and media representation within a German context.
Orthography and Accuracy:
There are Accuracy mistakes such as missing page references for some images in the list of figures and tables at the beginning. The orthography seems fine at first glance.
Literature:
This work has used a lot of literature for research (13 pages bibliography). Some sources are from the last century, such as the book “Sexualisierung der Körper” (Sexualisation of the Body) from 1983. Current literature would be desirable for this topic.
Source: https://eplus.uni-salzburg.at/download/pdf/5061226.pdf
