Search for dissertations about: "ARCHIVES"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 135 swedish dissertations containing the word ARCHIVES.

2. 1. Para-Archives : Rethinking Personal Archiving Practices in the Times of Capture Culture

   Author : Jacek Smolicki; Joanna Zylinska; Malmö högskola; []
   Keywords : Archives; Personal archives; Media Art; Capture; Technology; Post-Digital;

   Abstract : This study explores possibilities for alternate modes of personal archiving in the context of contemporary techno-culture and dominant practices of personal data capture. An intensified proliferation of various capturing technologies concerned with collecting, storing and analyzing personal data allows to problematize personal archiving as one of the most prevalent everyday media practices that people engage in today, both voluntarily and involuntarily. READ MORE

4. 2. Closer Together or Further Apart? : Public administration and archives in the digital age

   Author : Ann-Sofie Klareld; Erik A. M. Borglund; Karen Anderson; Julie McLeod; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; archives; digital work processes; discourse; outsourcing; public sector agencies; recordkeeping; records continuum model; Sweden;

   Abstract : The research presented in this thesis is about recordkeeping in the public sector, focusing especially on the relationship between the public administration and its archives, and selected aspects affecting the way this relationship is developing in the digital era. Two research questions are addressed: RQ1: What are ‘archives’ and ‘recordkeeping’ in the digital context and the developing e-government? RQ2: What are the indications of current and future challenges regarding the cooperation between public administration and archives? Six studies resulting in six papers form the basis of the thesis. READ MORE

5. 3. Creating Value in Archives : Overcoming Obstacles to Digital Records Appraisal

   Author : Elisabeth Klett; Karen Anderson; Göran Samuelsson; Mittuniversitetet; []
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6. 4. Fleshing out the self : Reimagining intersexed and trans embodied lives through (auto)biographical accounts of the past

   Author : Marie-Louise Holm; Margrit Shildrick; Jens Rydström; Ailbhe Smyth; Ellen Feder; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; intersex; trans; autobiography; history; embodiment; selfhood; archives; Denmark; medico-legal contexts; psychiatry; rearticulation; liveability; lived experience; ethics; queer theory; postmodern; dialogical narrative analysis; micro-genealogical analysis; Danish Ministry of Justice; Danish Medico-Legal Council; intersex; trans; självbiografi; historia; förkroppsligande; subjektivitet; arkiv; Danmark; medicinsk-etiska sammanhang; psykiatri; omartikulation; levbarhet; livshistorier; etik; queerteori; postmodern; dialogisk berättande analys; mikrogenealogisk analys; Danska justitiedepartementet; Danska Medicinsk-etiska rådet;

   Abstract : This thesis explores how current ways of imagining possibilities for intersexed and trans embodied lives within medical contexts might be informed by and reimagined through the historical lived experiences of intersexed and trans individuals as they have been articulated in autobiographical accounts.Postmodern, queer, intersex, and trans researchers and activists have criticised existing standards of intersex and trans healthcare for limiting the possibilities for diverse embodied lives by articulating certain forms of embodiment and selfhood as more likely to enable a liveable life than others. READ MORE

7. 5. Bivalve shells as environmental archives

   Author : Elena Dunca; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Earth sciences; Geovetenskap; Earth sciences; Geovetenskap; Historical Geology and Paleontology; historisk geologi och paleontologi;

   Abstract : Bivalves can be used as environmental biomonitors by studying the growth rate and the structure of their shells, as well as by analysing elemental distribution in the shells. Information about water chemistry, temperature and pH, about precipitation, food supply and other environmental parameters are stored in the bivalve shells. READ MORE