Search for dissertations about: "COMMUNITY"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 2761 swedish dissertations containing the word COMMUNITY.
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1. Code begets community : On social and technical aspects of managing a virtual community
Abstract : What is reality beyond the hype of virtual communities on the Internet? This Ph. D. thesis is based on three and a half years of studies in a Swedish-speaking adventure mud - a text-based virtual reality system. The focus is not primarily on the players, but on the administrators and on the work to make this virtual community work. READ MORE
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2. Incalculable Community
Abstract : This thesis argues that the Western thinking of political community has assumed the community to require a unity or unifying principle that serves as delineation. It suggests that sameness, reflected in history, space, language, or reason, has been assumed as the condition of possibility of the political community. READ MORE
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3. Working with community : exploring community empowerment to support non-communicable disease prevention in a middle-incom country
Abstract : Background: Non communicable diseases (NCD) are recognized as a major burden of human health globally, especially in low and middle-income countries including Indonesia. This thesis addresses a community intervention program utilizing a community empowerment approach to study whether this is a reasonable strategy to control NCD. READ MORE
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4. Community detection : Lower bounds and axiomatic classification
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5. Creating a sense of community : Experiences from a Swedish web chat
Abstract : The Internet has opened up a wide range of new ways of socializing with other individuals. This is an explorative study, where the ultimate purpose can be described as to find out what web chat as activity is about. READ MORE