Search for dissertations about: "photographs"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 110 swedish dissertations containing the word photographs.

  2. 1. Seeing What Is Not There : Essays on Pictures and Photographs

    Author : Mikael Pettersson; Staffan Carlshamre; Göran Rossholm; Robert Hopkins; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : depiction; photography; pictorial experience; perception; phenomenology; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

    Abstract : Pictures—paintings, etchings, photographs, CGI—let us see what is not there. Or, rather, since what pictures depict is not really there, we do not really see the pictorial contents. But we seem to see the depicted things: we “see” them “in” the pictures. READ MORE

  4. 2. Aesthetic Appreciation Explicated

    Author : Östen Axelsson; Mats E. Nilsson; Birgitta Berglund; Terry Hartig; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Aesthetic Appreciation; Information-Load Model; Photographs; Soundscapes; Theory Development; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; psykologi;

    Abstract : The present doctoral thesis outlines a new model in psychological aesthetics, named the Information-Load Model. This model asserts that aesthetic appreciation is grounded in the relationship between the amount of information of stimuli and people’s capacity to process this information. READ MORE

  5. 3. A History under Siege : Intensive Agriculture in the Mbulu Highlands, Tanzania, 19th Century to the Present

    Author : Lowe Börjeson; Mats Widgren; Yusufu Lawi; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Landscape; Environmental history; Geography; Land use change; Population pressure; Incremental change; Landesque capital; Self-reinforcing processes; Detailed mapping; Participatory mapping; Oral history; Farming practices; Aerial photographs; Landscape photographs; Iraqw; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis examines the history of the Iraqw’ar Da/aw area in the Mbulu Highlands of northern Tanzania. Since the late nineteenth century this area has been known for its intensive cultivation, and referred to as an “island” within a matrix of less intensive land use. READ MORE

  6. 4. Appearance and photographs of people in flight : A qualitative study of photojournalistic practices in spaces of (forced) migration

    Author : Rebecca Bengtsson Lundin; Miyase Christensen; Anna Roosvall; Myria Georgiou; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Photojournalism studies; photography; critical visual analysis; watching photography; appearance; encounters; photojournalistic practices; space; forced migration; flight; journalistik; Journalism;

    Abstract : This study explores photojournalistic practices by investigating how spaces of (forced) migration, as well as the people and objects moving in and across them, appeared in Swedish newspapers in 2015.Photographs are unique objects of study, as the presence of people in certain spaces becomes directly observable through them. READ MORE

  7. 5. Envisioning entrepreneurship : Using photographs to elicit students’ preconceptions of entrepreneurship

    Author : Katarina Ellborg; William B. Gartner; Tomas Karlsson; Gry Alsos; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Entrepreneurship didaktik; Entrepreneurship education; Studentcentred education; Phenomenographic didaktik; Visuality; Ledarskap; entreprenörskap och organisation; Ledarskap; entreprenörskap och organisation;

    Abstract : Nowadays, entrepreneurship is taught on a ‘university-wide’ basis, implying that thesubject is introduced to multiple students from a diversity of backgrounds. At thesame time, a student-centred movement has been noted in the field, focusing ontailored education based on students’ preconceptions of entrepreneurship. READ MORE