Search for dissertations about: "world"

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  2. 1. The Signified World : The Problem of Occasionality in Husserl's Phenomenology of Meaning

    Author : Karl Weigelt; Staffan Carlshamre; Steven Crowell; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Husserl; phenomenology; meaning; objectivity; ideality; intentionality; indexicality; situation-dependence; facticity; reference; content; subjectivity; internalism; constitution; individuation; horizon; world; noema; species; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

    Abstract : This study offers the first comprehensive account of the problem of situation-dependence and facticity in Husserl's phenomenology of meaning. On the basis of a reconsideration of the central ideas of Husserl's phenomenological approach to meaning and intentionality, it presents a reconstruction and assessment of Husserl's revised conception of empirical meaning. READ MORE

  4. 2. World Builders : A Study on the Development of a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

    Author : Peter Zackariasson; Anders Söderholm; Nils Wåhlin; Daniel Hjorth; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MMORGPG; development; video game; organizing; discourse; Business studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a study of the development of a video game called Anarchy Online. This game was developed by the Funcom company between 1995 and 2001, and is a so-called Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG). READ MORE

  5. 3. Apple world : core and periphery in a transnational organizational culture

    Author : Christina Garsten; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Apple Computer; Interkulturell kommunikation; Organisationssociologi;

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  6. 4. A World of Myths : World Literature and Storytelling in Canongate's Myths series

    Author : Malin Nauwerck; Johan Professor; Paula Docent; Torbjörn Forslid; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sociology of Literature; World Literature; Book History; Publishing Studies; Sociology of Translation; Marketing; Storytelling; Book Trade; Metafiction; 21st Century; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis discusses contemporary publishing within the global, literary system through the prism of the transnational publishing project the Myths series, initiated by Scottish publishing house Canongate Books in 2005. By combining the perspectives of world literature studies and sociology of literature, I explore the conception, development and communication around the Myths series (today published in forty countries) in relation firstly to the contemporary changes in the publishing industry, situated within a more general literary debate on globalisation and cultural diversity and secondly the rise of a social order epitomised under the umbrella term “new economy”, in which the practice of strategic communication or marketing storytelling has become increasingly common. READ MORE

  7. 5. In a Man´s World : Tolkninger av lovbrudd gjort i langtransportens yrkeskontekst

    Author : Vanja Lundgren Sørli; Henrik Tham; Eva Tiby; Kjersti Ericsson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : structures; gender; masculinity; normalization; Key words: Long-distance trucking; occupational crime; techniques of neutralization; ; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Abstract : Criminological studies have shown that economical and/or occupational crimes are committed within all examined trades and occupations. This is also a fact in the gendered occupational context the Norwegian and Swedish long-distance trucking trade constitutes. READ MORE