Search for dissertations about: "qualitative field studies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 339 swedish dissertations containing the words qualitative field studies.

2. 1. Designing with Urban Sound : Exploring methods for qualitative sound analysis of the built environment

   Author : Nina Hällgren; Katja Grillner; Björn Hellström; Gunnar Sandin; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Architectue; urban sound design; urban sound planning; soundscape; urban planning; artistic research; architectural research;

   Abstract : The licentiate thesis Designing with Urban Sound explores the constitution and qualitative characteristics of urban sonic space from a design-oriented and practice-based perspective. The act of lifting forth and illuminating the interaction between architecture, the creation of sound and a sonic experience aims to examine and develop useful tools and methods for the representation, communication and analysis of the exterior sonic environment in complex architectural spaces. READ MORE

4. 2. On the Visual (Re)production of ‘Refugeeness’ : Images, production sites and oppositional gazes

   Author : Jelena Jovičić; Vanessa Barker; Anna Lund; Nicole Doerr; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; visual sociology; visual discourse analysis; visual production; visual participatory methods; coloniality; racial capitalism; decolonial thought; feminist epistemologies; epistemic disobedience; refugees; refugee crisis; migration studies; critical border studies; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores ways in which images disseminate specific kinds of knowledge and shape the way we understand issues of migration and flight today. In the wake of the 2015/2016 ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe, there has been a vast proliferation of photography depicting flight and people fleeing. READ MORE

5. 3. The Development of Swedish Business Journalism : Historical Roots of an Organisational Field

   Author : Maria Grafström; Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson; Lars Engwall; Stefan Jonsson; Royston Greenwood; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business studies; institutional theory; organisational field; field emergence; institutional entrepreneurs; business journalism; business news; newspapers; Företagsekonomi;

   Abstract : Contemporary Swedish business journalism is an established organisational field with shared practice within and across organisations. Using a historical perspective, this dissertation investigates the early formation of this field and the formation of a shared meaning system for business journalism. READ MORE

6. 4. Selling and lending e-books : Changes in the Swedish literary field

   Author : Birgitta Wallin; Frank Huysmans; Högskolan i Borås; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; E‐books; Swedish book market; e‐book lending; Public libraries; e‐book selling; booksellers; subscription services; aggregators; bookshops; online booksellers; Library and Information Science; Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap;

   Abstract : This study explores the actors distributing e-books in the Swedish book market. The focus was on public libraries and booksellers, which included aggregators, subscription services, online booksellers and physical bookshops. READ MORE

7. 5. Of Imagined and Potential Futures : Speculative Fiction in Southern Africa, 2008-2018

   Author : Joanna Woods; Stefan Helgesson; Marina Kohnen Ludwigs; Adnan Mahmutović; Madhu Krishnan; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Southern Africa; contemporary literature; speculative fiction; short stories; digital; rhetorical studies; narratology; literary field; English; engelska;

   Abstract : This research project explores the rhetorical function of contemporary Anglophone speculative fiction (sf) in southern Africa. Focusing on short fiction produced between 2008 and 2018, the project delineates this literary production both theoretically and historically. READ MORE