Search for dissertations about: "Miyase Christensen"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words Miyase Christensen.
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1. Telecommunications Policy and the Emerging Information Society in Turkey: An Analysis within the Context of the EUs Information Society Policies
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2. Appearance and photographs of people in flight : A qualitative study of photojournalistic practices in spaces of (forced) migration
Abstract : This study explores photojournalistic practices by investigating how spaces of (forced) migration, as well as the people and objects moving in and across them, appeared in Swedish newspapers in 2015.Photographs are unique objects of study, as the presence of people in certain spaces becomes directly observable through them. READ MORE
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3. Video letters, mediation and (proper) distance : A qualitative study of international development communication in practice
Abstract : This study scrutinizes the trajectory of an international development communication intervention aimed at mediating, rendering public and mobilizing processes of reconnection among estranged citizens across the former Yugoslavia. The intervention, which took place between 2000 and 2005 in the wider context of post-conflict international development assistance and peacebuilding operations in the region, was known as the Videoletters project. READ MORE
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4. Cosmopolitanism in a Mediatized World : The Social Stratification of Global Orientations
Abstract : The contemporary media landscape invites us to experience a belonging to various distant places, mourn the victims of faraway disasters, expose ourselves to foreign cultures and engage in political issues in places far from our local context of living. In other words, we are invited to become citizens of the world – cosmopolitans. READ MORE
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5. “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” : Activist Practices in an Era of Mediatized Surveillance
Abstract : One of the defining features of contemporary zeitgeist is that we live in an era of mediatization – a metaprocess, through (and by) which all everyday relations increasingly depend on networked media technologies and online communication channels.Due to rapid developments in digital electronics, all these Internet- or mobile-enabled platforms, and devices, are prone to the processes of quantification and datafication, and as such, surveillance is a principal dimension that lies at the core of mediatization. READ MORE