Search for dissertations about: "Difference"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 5021 swedish dissertations containing the word Difference.

2. 1. Make difference : Deafness and video technology at work

   Author : Rebekah Cupitt; Ann Lantz; Per-Anders Forstorp; Minna Räsänen; Karen Nakamura; KTH; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; deaf culture; technology; intra-actions; video meetings; materiality visuality; alterity; dövkultur; videomötesteknik; intra-aktioner; videomöten; materialitet; olikhet; Människa-datorinteraktion; Human-computer Interaction;

   Abstract : Video meetings are a regular part of work at Swedish television’s editorial for programming in Swedish Sign Language (SVT Teckenspråk). In the process of creating television programming in Swedish Sign Language, SVT employees communicate with and through technologies. READ MORE

4. 2. After idealism and difference : subjects of yellow feelings and sentimental narratives of migration

   Author : Lan Kieu; Maria Carbin; Linda Berg; Lene Myong; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Idealism; difference; universality; ethics; ethnicity; love; migration; endurance; mimetic desire; monolingualism; power; gratitude; agency.; genusvetenskap; gender studies;

   Abstract : After Idealism and Difference is a critical and ethical project of reading the postcolonial other. Taking a void from postcolonial and poststructuralist feminist critique, my thesis aims to deconstruct the privilege of the “marginalia” as the beloved object of feminist scholarship. READ MORE

5. 3. Tracing Wolves : Materiality, Effect and Difference

   Author : Andrew Mitchell; Mark Graham; Bengt G. Karlsson; Samantha Hurn; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Wolf; trace; materiality; effect; difference; transspecies; post-human; material-semiotic; human-animal; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

   Abstract : As wolves are seldom seen in Scandinavia, Tracing Wolves utilises the ‘trace’ as both a theoretical and methodological tool to aid comprehension of what a wolf is and what a wolf does. Consequently, this enquiry examines human-wolf practices, such as tracking, genetic analysis, GPS tracking, hunting, and wolf necropsies, via which Scandinavian wolves in Sweden manifest. READ MORE

6. 4. Technology and Sexual Difference

   Author : Monica Obreja; Nina Lykke; Cathrine Egeland; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sexual difference; technology; gender-technology co-construction; gender; sex; arbitrary; contingent; historical association; masculin ity; weak thesis; strong thesis; Luce Irigaray; the feminine; Könsskillnad; teknik; genus-teknik-samkonstruktion; genus; kön; arbiträrt; kontingent; historical association; maskulinitet; weak thesis; strong thesis; Luce Irigaray; det feminina;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to interrogate a particular understanding of gender and technology as co-constructed from the standpoint of sexual difference theory by showing what this conceptualization of gender and technology excludes. It is also an attempt to enable an understanding of what is excluded by elaborating upon the conditions for thinking technology, gender and sexual difference differently. READ MORE

7. 5. Scattering of seismic waves in random velocity models : Finite difference simulation

   Author : Lena Frenje; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Earth sciences; Geovetenskap; Earth sciences; Geovetenskap; Geofysik med inriktning mot fasta jordens fysik; Geophysics with specialization in Solid Earth Physics;

   Abstract : The small-scale heterogeneities within the Earth's crust and the effect these heterogeneities have on seismic waves have gained increasing interest in the last 15 years. One approach to study seismic wave scattering is through numerical simulations in random media. READ MORE