Search for dissertations about: "Material-discursive"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the word Material-discursive.

2. 1. “The World at Your Fingertips if You Know the Computer”: Agency, Information and Communication Technologies and Disability

   Author : Rebecka Näslund; Elisabeth Berg; Åsa Gardelli; Sisse Finken; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Agency; Disability; Information and Communication Technologies; Intra-action; Material-discursive; Material Semiotics; Modes of ordering; Situated knowledges; Arbetsvetenskap; Human Work Science;

   Abstract : This thesis focuses on the relationships between agency, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and people with disability (in various ages). The aim has been to create an understanding by describing and analysing, and as such, to develop knowledge of how people with disabilities experience agency, ICT, and disability in their everyday lives. READ MORE

4. 2. Go with the flow : Post-humanist Accounts of how Matter Matters in Organizational Change

   Author : Lotta Hultin; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : This thesis contributes to our understanding of “how matter matters” in organizational change. Building on research grounded in an ontology of becoming and emphasizing and experimenting with various vocabularies grounded in this ontology, it challenges and moves beyond the normative enactment of separation between human and material, subject and object, structure and agency. READ MORE

5. 3. Why is it difficult to design innovative IT? : An agential realist study of designing IT for healthcare innovation

   Author : Siri Wassrin; Karin Axelsson; Ida Lindgren; Katarina Gidlund; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; IT design; innovation; sociomateriality; agential realism; healthcare; IT-design; innovation; sociomaterialitet; agentiell realism; hälso- och sjukvård;

   Abstract : It may seem strange to claim that it is difficult to design innovative information technology (IT) in a time when the technological progress leaps forward like never before. However, despite the numerous opportunities that this rapid progress provides, we often design IT that is similar to existing artifacts, making IT design incremental rather than radical. READ MORE

6. 4. Present absences : Exploring the posthumanist entanglements of school absenteeism

   Author : Linnea Bodén; Eva Reimers; Ann-Marie Markström; Maggie MacLure; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; school absenteeism; digital registration; software; practices; posthumanism; skolfrånvaro; digitala system; registrering; praktiker; posthumanism;

   Abstract : The aim of the study is to explore how school absenteeism as a material-discursive phenomenon is produced in the practices of humans and nonhumans, when absences and presences are registered and managed through digital technologies. How is the phenomenon of school absenteeism produced when absences and presences are digitally registered? How does the phenomenon of school absenteeism emerge when both human and nonhuman entanglements are included in the apparatuses of knowing?Through a posthumanist approach, the study engages empirically with two types of software for the registration of absences and presences at three Swedish schools. READ MORE

7. 5. Vocal Figurations : Technique, Technology, and Mediation in the Gendering of Voice in Twenty-First-Century Pop Music

   Author : Veronika Muchitsch; Lars Berglund; Elizabeth Gould; Nina Eidsheim; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pop Music; Pop Music Analysis; Music Criticism; Sound Studies; Auditory Cultures; Voice; Vocal Technique; Studio Technology; Electronic Media; Pop Music and Gender; Pop Music and Intersectionality; Feminist Figurations; Postfeminism; Popular Feminism; Lana Del Rey; Anohni; Antony and the Johnsons; Beyoncé; Musikvetenskap; Musicology;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the gendering of voice in twenty-first-century pop music and music criticism through the concept of vocal figurations. Embodying a thoroughly relational understanding of voice, it articulates vocal technique, studio technology, and electronic mediation as three primary dimensions through which voices come to signal gender as it intersects with other vectors of social identity. READ MORE