Search for dissertations about: "media and sustainability"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 58 swedish dissertations containing the words media and sustainability.

  2. 1. Towards a sustainable media system : Explorative studies of emerging media consumption trends and media processes for content production

    Author : Malin Picha Edwardsson; Johan Stenberg; Nils Enlund; Åsa Moberg; Oscar Westlund; KTH; []
    Keywords : Future of media; media consumption; media production; environmental aspects; media and sustainability; Media Technology; Medieteknik;

    Abstract : Understanding the process of transformational change currently taking place in the media industry is an urgent challenge for people working in the industry as well as for media consumers and other stakeholders. There is a great need to deepen our general knowledge when it comes to what the future media landscape will look like. READ MORE

  4. 2. Transmedia experiences in the Magic Kingdom theme park : Branding, space, and (un)sustainability at Disney

    Author : Ana Carolina Almeida Souza; Renira R. Gambarato; Geane Carvalho Alzamora; Jönköping University; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; transmedial experience; branding; space; sustainability; Magic Kingdom; Disney; transmedial upplevelse; varumärke; plats; hållbarhet; Magic Kingdom; Disney;

    Abstract : Beyond being just a medium that supports other media, the contemporary theme park is a complex space that brings together material and symbolic features of different user-producer relationships. Although robust, the theme park is scarcely investigated, especially as an autonomous and potentially adaptable media for the maintenance of transmedia dynamics. READ MORE

  5. 3. Exploring the Effects of ICT on Environmental Sustainability: From Life Cycle Assessment to Complex Systems Modeling

    Author : Mohammad Ahmadi Achachlouei; Åsa Moberg; Göran Finnveden; Lorenz M. Hilty; Chris Preist; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Information and communication technology ICT ; sustainability assessment; electronic media; tablet; print media; magazine; Internet; energy; environmental impact; life cycle assessment LCA ; System Dynamics; agent-based modeling; differential equations; simulation modeling; complex and dynamic systems modeling; Informations- och kommunikationsteknik IKT ; hållbarhetsbedömning; elektroniska media; surfplatta; tryckta media; tidskrift; Internet; energi; miljöpåverkan; simulering; differentialekvationer; modellering av komplexa och dynamiska system; System Dynamics; livscykelanalys LCA ; agentbaserad modellering; Planering och beslutsanalys; Planning and Decision Analysis; Informations- och kommunikationsteknik; Information and Communication Technology; Industriell ekologi; Industrial Ecology; Tillämpad matematik och beräkningsmatematik; Applied and Computational Mathematics;

    Abstract : The production and consumption of information and communication technology (ICT) products and services continue to grow worldwide. This trend is accompanied by a corresponding increase in electricity use by ICT, as well as direct environmental impacts of the technology. Yet a more complicated picture of ICT’s effects is emerging. READ MORE

  6. 4. Charismatic leadership of media businesses : a case study of leaders of two media businesses in the post-Soviet states of Russia and Kyrgyzstan (1991-2016)

    Author : Dinara Tokbaeva; United Kingdom London Communication and Media Research Institute University of Westminster; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This is a comparative case study of two media business leaders, one from Russia and one from Kyrgyzstan. Alexei Kharitonov of the Abak-Press and Kylychbek Sultanov of the Computer Press both started media companies after the break-up of the Soviet Union and managed to grow them from small businesses into the present media holdings. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Informed Gaze : On the Implications of ICT-Based Surveillance

    Author : Baki Cakici; Magnus Boman; Nina Wormbs; Markus Bylund; Harald Rohracher; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; ICT; discourse; surveillance; design; sustainability; outbreak detection; Computer and Systems Sciences; data- och systemvetenskap;

    Abstract : Information and communication technologies are not value-neutral. I examine two domains, public health surveillance and sustainability, in five papers covering: (i) the design and development of a software package for computer-assisted outbreak detection; (ii) a workflow for using simulation models to provide policy advice and a list of challenges for its practice; (iii) an analysis of design documents from three smart home projects presenting intersecting visions of sustainability; (iv) an analysis of EU-financed projects dealing with sustainability and ICT; (v) an analysis of the consequences of design choices when creating surveillance technologies. READ MORE