Search for dissertations about: "Youth Culture"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 43 swedish dissertations containing the words Youth Culture.

  2. 6. Taking it as a Man? : Music, Youth, and Gender, Outside and Within Mainstream Media Cultures

    Author : Linus Johansson; Lars Berglund; Alf Björnberg; Johan Fornäs; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Internet; mediatization; popular culture; ideology; persona; discourse; hegemony; articulation; authenticity; intersectionality; gender; youth;

    Abstract : Since the establishment of the Internet as an aspect of everyday life in the Western world, popular culture has generated new prospects for artists and other cultural agents to disseminate their creative outcomes. This thesis focuses on the early years of the new millennium, a time of pessimism and conflict around file-sharing and other illegal activities, but also a time for renewed thinking and enthusiasm regarding the potential of the prospering information and communication age. READ MORE

  4. 7. The Shadows of the Past : A Study of Life-World and Identity of Serbian Youth after the Milošević Regime

    Author : Jelena Spasenić; Hugh Beach; Lars Hagborg; Kjell Magnusson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; phenomenology; anthropology; socialization; life-world; identity; self; schema; memory; youth; school; Serbia; Yugoslavia; Milošević; family; society; post-war situation; popular culture; urban-rural; modern-traditional; social change; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Abstract : The thesis explores the consequences of the Milošević regime and the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s for young people in Serbia. It deals with the conditions under which recent history makes itself relevant in the lives of two high-school classes of eighteen- and nineteen-year-olds. READ MORE

  5. 8. Whores, hijabs and heart emojis : Affective explorations of aggression against girls online

    Author : Kim R. Sylwander; Lucas Gottzén; Linn Sandberg; Ringrose Jessica; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; girls; youth; online aggression; online hate; sexualized aggression; cyberbullying; netnography; social media; racialization; resistance; youth cultural studies; child and youth studies; affect theory; Deleuze and Guattari; new materialism; internet studies; barn- och ungdomsvetenskap; Child and Youth Studies;

    Abstract : This netnography studies the interactions of 150 interconnected users aged between 11 and 15 years old on a popular social networking site (SNS) among youth in Sweden. More specifically, the thesis explores articulations of and responses to aggression that target young girls online. READ MORE

  6. 9. Embedded in a context : the adaptation of immigrant youth

    Author : Ylva Svensson; Håkan Stattin; Frosso Motti-Stefanidi; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; immigrant youth; adaptation; development; settings; contextual features; linkage; Psykologi; Psychology;

    Abstract : With rising levels of immigration comes a need to know what fosters positive adaptation for the youth growing up in a new culture of settlement.The issue is increasingly studied; however, little of the research conducted has combined a developmental with a contextual approach. READ MORE

  7. 10. "We are like Chameleons" : Changing Mediascapes, Cultural Identities and City Sisters in Dar es Salaam

    Author : Ylva Ekström; Lowe Hedman; Bodil Folke Frederiksen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Media; Popular Culture; Africa; Tanzania; Gender; Globalisation; Youth; Ethnography; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies;

    Abstract : The consequences of expanding mediascapes and processes of cultural globalisation during the early 21st century is the focus of this thesis. The author has conducted extensive field studies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. READ MORE