Search for dissertations about: "mediatization"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the word mediatization.

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. “This is the Face of an Atheist” : Performing Private Truths in Precarious Publics

   Author : Evelina Lundmark; Mia Lövheim; Amanda Lagerkvist; Lynn Schofield Clark; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; atheism; non-religion; nonreligion; non-religious; nonreligious; deconversion; deconverts; YouTube; social media; media; performativity; publics; mediatization; re-publicization; gender; Sociology of Religion; Religionssociologi; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies;

   Abstract : The primary aim of this dissertation is to gain a greater understanding of the particular vulnerabilities attached to wo/men publicly performing atheist selves on YouTube. The purpose is to examine lived non-religion as a performance of a personal and stigmatized identity in a digitally mediated public. READ MORE

5. 8. Under the influence? Understanding media’s coverage of opinion polls and their effects on citizens and politicians

   Author : Per Oleskog Tryggvason; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; opinion polls; public opinion; political coverage; political communication; mediatization; bandwagon effects;

   Abstract : News media’s use of horse race polls is a defining feature of contemporary political reporting. This thesis investigates how the news media use these opinion polls and how this coverage can influence two of the most central actors in representative democracies: citizens and politicians. READ MORE

6. 9. Painting the City : Performative Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Space and Art

   Author : Tindra Thor; Miyase Christensen; André Jansson; Toby Miller; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; graffiti; street art; performance ethnography; aesthetic cosmopolitanism; performative cosmopolitanism; urban space; regimes of cosmopolitanism; hyper mediatization; Media and Communication Studies; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

   Abstract : Understanding everyday urban practices as performative, political, and potentially transformative, this dissertation aims to explore how graffiti- and street art use, subvert, and, via media, extend urban space in Stockholm. Drawing upon a performative ethnographic approach, the study focuses on both the practice of and the various forms of social commentary and critique generated by graffiti and street art in Stockholm. READ MORE

7. 10. 'Stay Awhile and Listen' : Understanding the Dynamics of Mediatization, Authority, and Literacy in Swedish Religious Education

   Author : Maximilian Broberg; Anders Sjöborg; Malin Löfstedt; Mia Lövheim; Geir Afdal; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sociology of Religion; Religionssociologi;

   Abstract : The aim of this article-based dissertation is to explore the role media play in Swedish Religious Education (RE). The purpose is to study Swedish RE teachers’ practices and how these can be related to various dynamics of mediatization, authority, and literacy. READ MORE