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Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the word info.

2. 1. Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism : Identity constructions in Arab and Western news media

   Author : Mahitab Ezz El Din; Stig-Arne Nohrstedt; Leonor Camauër; Åsa Kroon; Göran Eriksson; Peter Hervik; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Orientalism; Occidentalism; Arab; West; Othering; identity; media constructions; tolerance; multiculturalism; xenophobia; Peace Journalism; Global War on Terror; Media and Communication Studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Journalistik; Medievetenskap och journalistik; Media and Communication Science;

   Abstract : This study examines how the media construct the identities of the Other by creating various ‘us’ versus ‘them’ positions (Othering) when covering non-violence-based intercultural conflicts in Arab and Western news media. Othering in this study is understood as an umbrella concept that in general terms refers to the discursive process of constructing and positioning the Self and the Other into separate identities of an ‘us’ and a ‘them. READ MORE

4. 2. Swingin' Swedes: The Transnational Exchange of Swedish Jazz in the US

   Author : Mischa van Kan; Alf Björnberg; Bruce Johnson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; jazz; Sweden; Swedish jazz; music history; record industry; critics; transnationalism; cultural insiders; record covers; liner notes; borealism; racial imagination; hipness; nationality; ethnicity; race; gender; Musikvetenskap;

   Abstract : The thesis analyzes the dissemination and reception of Swedish jazz in the United States in the period of 1947 to 1963.... READ MORE

5. 3. Gene Regulation by Numbers: Steady-State and Equilibrium Binding Applied to Gene Regulation Systems

   Author : Antoine Buetti-Dinh; Switzerland USI; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Bioteknik; Biotechnology;

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6. 4. Receptor Upregulation and MAPK Activity in Arteries and Bronchi Following Secondhand Smoke Exposure

   Author : Lei Cao; Lund Medicin; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; coronary arteries; cerebral arteries; 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor; endothelin receptor; secondhand smoke exposure; bronchi;

   Abstract : Cigarette smoking is a major risk factor for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Contractile receptor changes have been observed in several vascular diseases. The intracellular mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathways are suggested to be associated with receptor upregulation. READ MORE

7. 5. Otherness and disease in Reunion : The politicisation of the 2005 to 2007 chikungunya epidemic

   Author : Karine Aasgaard Jansen; Tove Ingebjørg Fjell; Astrid Blystad; Line Alice Ytrehus; Pamila Gupta; University of Bergen; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

   Abstract : In this dissertation I investigate how decolonisation through inclusion instead of independence has affected processes of othering, and reactions to being othered. By othering I mean discursive colonial practices described by post-colonial theories, in which racial and cultural difference is produced as inferior vis-à-vis the “superior” West. READ MORE