Search for dissertations about: "Discursive practices"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 138 swedish dissertations containing the words Discursive practices.
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16. Heterogeneous hybrids : Information Technology in Texts and Practices
Abstract : How could one understand and interpret the phenomenon of information technology, is the overall research question of this licentiate dissertation. The point of departure is the way some official texts in Sweden define the concept of information technology. It is possible to identify two dominating discourses; the technical and the social. READ MORE
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17. Framing Education : Doing Comics Literacy in the Classroom
Abstract : Interest in comics as Swedish school material has risen in the last few years and the publication of comics for children and adolescents has also increased. Meanwhile, although research around new literacies has taken an interest in combinations of image and text, there is still little research on comics as a literacy material, especially as part of school practices. READ MORE
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18. Discursive Decision-making in Meetings of the Global Justice Movements: Cultures and Practices
Abstract : Based on audio-recordings of 8 and participant observation in about 200 activist meetings in the Global Justice Movements in Europe (especially Attac and the Social Forum process), the thesis addresses two main questions: 1. In what way do the constraints of the meeting-form influence the discussion and hence the decision-making process? 2. READ MORE
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19. Radical Online Video : YouTube, video activism and social movement media practices
Abstract : This thesis explores contemporary modes of video activism for a radical politics of the Left. It offers an analytical contribution to media and communication that promotes an understanding of radical online video as modes of political engagement in contemporary online environments. READ MORE
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20. Close to the edge : discursive, gendered and embodied stress in modern youth
Abstract : Background Adolescent subjective health and mental problems have become a public health concern not only in Sweden but worldwide. The overall aim of this thesis is to deepen and widen the understanding of young peoples’ subjective health, psychosomatic and stress-related problems. READ MORE