Search for dissertations about: "Technology on studies"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9394 swedish dissertations containing the words Technology on studies.
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1. A Poetics of Virtuality
Abstract : How is virtuality represented in fiction, and what does that say about our anticipations and fears about what the virtual is and will be? This text, a poetics of virtuality, explores fictional representations of virtuality, primarily in movies and literature, but also in media productions done by the author. The aim is to study the dream of virtuality. READ MORE
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2. Becoming Image : Perspectives on Digital Culture, Fashion and Technofeminism
Abstract : Departing from a technofeminist perspective, Becoming Image, places the digital image in a broader context of modern and postmodern technological discourses and fashion. In four articles, the compilation dissertation expands a contemporary and imagistic tech discourse by questioning the ideology of ”masculinity”―specifically the idea of it as a historically male domain. READ MORE
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3. Blurring the Colonial Binary : Turn-of-the-Century Transnational Entertainment in Southeast Asia
Abstract : This dissertation examines and writes the early history of distribution and exhibition of moving images in Southeast Asia by observing the intersection of transnational itinerant entertainment and colonialism. It is a cultural history of turn-of-the-century Southeast Asia, and focuses on the movement of films, people, and amusements across oceans and national borders. READ MORE
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4. On Men and Cars : An Ethnographic Study of Gendered, Risky and Dangerous Relations
Abstract : It is well known that young men constitute a high-risk group in terms of accidents involving both themselves and others. But comparatively little is known about the roles of gender, masculinity and automobility in reproducing or subverting such particularly risky performances of identity. READ MORE
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5. On optical methods for intracerebral measurements during stereotactic and functional neurosurgery : Experimental studies
Abstract : Radio frequency (RF) lesioning and deep brain stimulation (DBS) are the two prevailing surgical treatments for movement disorders within the field of stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. For RF-lesioning, a small volume of brain tissue is coagulated and knowledge of the lesion size and growth is of great importance for the safety and outcome of the procedure. READ MORE
