Search for dissertations about: "A new world"

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2. 1. 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

4. 2. A world reformed? : the United States and European security from Reagan to Clinton

   Author : Mike Winnerstig; Erik Beukel; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; United States of America; realism; geopolitics; liberalism; constructivism; Cold War; balance of power; democratic peace; NATO; European Union.; statsvetenskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : The research aim of this study is to answer the following question: What kind of security strategies did the United States conduct toward Europe during the period 1981 through 1997 ( and why? In order to answer this question, three auxiliary questions are asked. Firstly, what was the U.S. READ MORE

5. 3. The Social World Through Infants’ Eyes : How Infants Look at Different Social Figures

   Author : Clara A. Schmitow; Gunilla Stenberg; Gustaf Gredebäck; Annika M.D. Melinder; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; infant social looking; emotional facial expressions; experience; identity; behavior regulation; head-mounted cameras; eye-tracking; Psychology; Psykologi;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to study how infants actively look at different social figures: parents and strangers. To study infants’ looking behavior in “live” situations, new methods to record looking behavior were tested. Study 1 developed a method to record looking behavior in “live” situations: a head-mounted camera. READ MORE

6. 4. Brussels – the Emergence of a Political World City : Social and Economic Change in a New Historical Context

   Author : Camilla Elmhorn; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Brussels; political world city; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

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7. 5. In Romance with the Materials of Mobile Interaction : A Phenomenological Approach to the Design of Mobile Information Technology

   Author : Daniel Fällman; John A. Waterworth; Pieter Jan Stappers; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Människa-dator-interaktion; Mobile Interaction; Embodiment; Phenomenology; Design; Human-Computer Interaction; Människa-dator-interaktion; Information technology; Informationsteknologi; människa-datorinteraktion; människa-datorinteraktion;

   Abstract : This thesis deals analytically and through design with the issue of Human­Computer Interaction (HCI) with mobile devices; mobile interaction. Specifically, it is an investigation into and a capitalization on the multistable kinds of relations that arise between the threefold of human user, artifact, and world, and how dealing with this kind of technology and these relations in many ways must be regarded as different from mainstream HCI. READ MORE