Search for dissertations about: "amateur work"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words amateur work.

2. 1. IT Design for Amateur Communities

   Author : Cristian Bogdan; KTH; []
   Keywords : amateur; volunteer; community; work; amateur work; participatory design; software development; challenge; contingency; pioneering; public; personal development; learning; hands-on learning; self-sustainability; TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIKVETENSKAP;

   Abstract : The concept of community is receiving increasing attentionacross organizations and throughout the entire society.Voluntary association, creation of value, and solidarity incommunity contexts get more and more appreciated and nurturedwithin companies and other organizations. READ MORE

4. 2. The Therapeutization of Work : The Psychological Toolbox as Rationalization Device during the Third Industrial Revolution in Sweden

   Author : Hans Tunestad; Christina Garsten; A. Jamie Saris; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Self-help; psychology; psychotherapy; rationalization; organization; work; third industrial revolution; Sweden; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

   Abstract : The organization of work in the Western welfare states has made use of psychological know-how since the early twentieth century, for instance by making the practices of ‘psychotechnics’ and ‘human relations’ a part of the production apparatus. The last decades, however, have seen the development of a new economy based on information and communication technologies and with a related shift in organizational ideals from large hierarchical structures to networks of self-governing units – a change sometimes labelled the third industrial revolution. READ MORE

5. 3. Going Live : Collaborative Video Production After Television

   Author : Arvid Engström; Oskar Juhlin; Elizabeth Churchill; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Video; live; production; broadcasting; mobile; amateur; liveness; interaction design; collaboration; participatory media; Man-Machine-Interaction MMI ; människa-maskin-interaktion MMI ;

   Abstract : This thesis explores social and creative practices that emerge with new mobile video technology. The work frames a design space that spans across both the social and technical domains. READ MORE

6. 4. Myth Aestheticization

   Author : Ileyha Dagalp; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; aestheticization; myth-making; enchantment; aesthetic work; past- themed consumption; cultural branding; aesthetics;

   Abstract : This thesis theorizes the process of myth aestheticization for marketing and consumption. A concept of myth aestheticization springs from a simple yet complex idea: What if something is not “aesthetic” in and by itself, but it is made “aesthetic”? This thesis would like to refine the argument that aestheticization entails a process that typically translates myths into beautiful, sublime ideals and (re-)produces as something beautiful and/or sublime by brands and consumers, is a way through which consumer culture operates. READ MORE

7. 5. The Archival Life of Home Movies : Regional Reflections and Negotiated Visions of a Shared Past

   Author : Ashley Smith; Malin Wahlberg; Patrick Vonderau; Patricia R. Zimmermann; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Home movies; amateur film; non-theatrical film; moving images; archiving; film archives; American South; Mississippi; Jim Crow; race; whiteness; witnessing; ordinary; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Abstract : This study investigates the ways in which private home movies are transformed into curated archival objects. Through the concept of the archival home movie, it explores the impact of preservation and content description on access, use, and, thus, regional historiography. READ MORE