Search for dissertations about: "practices"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 2206 swedish dissertations containing the word practices.

  2. 1. Television Practices Ethnography, Television and User Practices

    University dissertation from Stockholm : Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University

    Author : Elin Önnevall; Oskar Juhlin; Alexandra Weilenmann; Johan Lundin; [2014]
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Man-Machine-Interaction MMI ; människa-maskin-interaktion MMI ;

    Abstract : This thesis explores television practices in a time when new technology has made it possible to interact with and create your own TV content. The work is focused on how user practices need to be understood in a context of chan- ging technology. READ MORE

  4. 2. Shared practices social networks and fertility decline during the Swedish demographic transition, 1850-1950

    University dissertation from Umeå : Umeå University, Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies

    Author : Johan Junkka; Sören Edvinsson; Angélique Janssens; [2018]
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; historical demography; fertility transition; social interaction; social network; voluntary associations; historia; History;

    Abstract : This thesis studies how social interactions influenced the fertility decline during the Swedish demographic transition between 1850 and 1950. This, to gain insights into how and why norms and values affected married couples' birth control practices, and how this shaped the fertility decline. READ MORE

  5. 3. Physicians‟ information practices a case study of a medical team at a Teaching Hospital

    University dissertation from Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap/Bibliotekshögskolan Högskolan i Borås

    Author : Esther Ebole Isah; [2012]
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; activity theory; Artefacts; Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics CPT ; Contextual elements; Information practices; Information seeking; Physicians; Participation; Practice theory; Social learning theories; Work activity; Workplace learning; Library and Information Science; Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis is a user study within library and information science on participatory practices of a professional group in work activity. This has been investigated only to a minor extent in previous library and information science research. READ MORE

  6. 4. Transversal media practices media archaeology, art and technological development

    University dissertation from Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society

    Author : Kristoffer Gansing; Beryl Graham; [2013]
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; media archaeology; transversality; technological development; new media; media art; alternative media; practice-based research; cultural production; artistic research; overhead projector; television; remediation; imaginary media;

    Abstract : Transversal Media Practices work across specific situations of technological development, critically examining and redefining the terms of production in different media by bringing heterogeneous histories, institutions, actors and materialities into play with one another. This dissertation is all about trying out and refining the methodologies of such transversal media practices, in the end outlining a conceptual set of tools for further development. READ MORE

  7. 5. Online teaching practices Sociomaterial matters in higher education settings

    University dissertation from Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press

    Author : Karin Bolldén; Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren; Ann-Marie Laginder; Åsa Mäkitalo; [2015]
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Practice theory; sociomaterial; ICT; distance education; e-learning; online ethnography; internet research; higher education; virtual worlds; LMS; VLE; Praktikteori; sociomaterialitet; IKT; distansutbildning; e-lärande; onlineetnografi; internetforskning; högre utbildning; virtuella världar; LMS; VLE;

    Abstract : The aim of this study was to describe and analyse online teaching practices in the Swedish higher education context. The study had an online ethnographic approach and was based on empirical data on the teaching in two university courses. READ MORE