Search for dissertations about: "Television"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 87 swedish dissertations containing the word Television.

  2. 6. TV FOR CHILDREN : How the Swedish Public Service Television Imagines a Child Audience

    Author : Åsa Pettersson; Anna Sparrman; Bengt Sandin; Cynthia Carter; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : Children; television; public service; child audience; TV programming; Barn; TV; public service; barnpublik; TV program;

    Abstract : The study explores how the Swedish public service TV institution imagines a child audience in a societal context where the broadcasting landscape hastransformed greatly over the past thirty years and where TV is seen to  constitute both risks and benefits for children. The concept of TV for children is established to broaden the scope for studying what has been broadcast for a child audience on public service TV. READ MORE

  4. 7. Dreams of a subversive future : sexuality, (hetero)normativity, and queer potential in science fiction film and television

    Author : Josefine Wälivaara; Per Ringby; Christina Svens; Stacey Abbott; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Science fiction; film; television; genre; sexuality; queer; storytelling; gender; subversive; intelligibility; Torchwood; Firefly; Star Wars; Star Trek; adult turn; Star’verses; dramaturgy; heteronormativity; film history; Hollywood; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : The aim of the thesis is to explore depictions of sexuality in popular science fiction film and television through a focus on storytelling, narrative, characters and genre. The thesis analyses science fiction as a film and television genre with a focus on the conventions, interpretations, and definitions of genre as part of larger contexts. READ MORE

  5. 8. The Triumph of Technology over Politics? Reconstructing Television Systems: The Example of Sweden

    Author : Lena Ewertsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; television; liberalisation; sociotechnical systems; entrepreneurship; innovation;

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  6. 9. Europe in Transition : Transnational Television News and European Identity

    Author : Andreas Widholm; Madeleine Kleberg; Anna Roosvall; Inka Salovaara-Moring; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Transnational television; BBC World News; Euronews; European identity; EU enlargement; Orange Revolution; globalization; news journalism; media; European integration; political transitions; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies;

    Abstract : Over the last two decades, Europe has experienced profound political transformations, resulting in new challenges for the relationship between national and transnational identities. In parallel with these changes, national media systems across the world have been put under pressure from globalization, reflected in the vast increase in the number of transnational news channels operating on the global market. READ MORE

  7. 10. Do You Have a TV? : Negotiating Swedish Public Service through 1950's Programming, "Americanization," and Domesticity

    Author : Tove Thorslund; Jan Olsson; Pelle Snickars; Mats Björkin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; television history; cultural history; public service; 1950s; television programming; intermediality; simulcast; program format; transnational; Americanization; domesticity; television set as furniture; everyday life; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

    Abstract : This dissertation presents a cultural history of early Swedish television. The focus is on the investigation of 1950s programming, intermedial connections, processes of “Americanization,” and domestic, socio-cultural change in direct relation to the new medium. READ MORE