Master Thesis (One-Year, 15 ECTS) Media and Communication Studies: Culture, Collaborative Media and Creative Industries _____________________________________________________________________ The influence of streaming services on the German television landscape – A comparative critical discourse analysis through the example of Netflix based on newspaper articles from: Süddeutsche Zeitung, BILD Zeitung and taz, die tageszeitung ______________________________________________________________________ Written by Melitta Capolei Student ID: 90009T268 Semester: 2 (Spring 2016) E-Mail:
[email protected] Submission: 25th of May 2016 Supervisor: Jakob Dittmar Amount of words: 16.057 Table of Contents Abstract .................................................................................................................................... 1 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Objective and aim of present thesis ....................................................................................... 2 1.2 Theory and existing research .................................................................................................. 4 1.3 Structure of the present thesis ................................................................................................ 5 2 The development of discourse studies ....................................................................... 5 2.1 Discourse theory by Foucault .................................................................................................