Search for dissertations about: "reality TV"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words reality TV.

2. 1. Televisionization : Enactments of TV Experiences in Novels from 1970 to 2010

   Author : Claudia Weber; Claudia Egerer; Julia Faisst; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; televisionization; television culture; TV experiences; Tichi; teleconsciousness; Deuze; media life; reality TV; validation; Baudrillard; hyperreality; telemorphosis; English; engelska;

   Abstract : TV’s conquest of the American household in the period from the 1940s to the 1960s went hand in hand with critical discussions that revolved around the disastrous impact of television consumption on the viewer. To this day, watching television is connected with anxieties about the trivialization and banalization of society. READ MORE

4. 2. Pretend that it is Real! Convergence Culture in Practice

   Author : Marie Denward; Jay Bolter; Malmö högskola; []
   Keywords : media convergence; alternate reality games; broadcast television; pervasive games; culture of production; ethnography; game design; game development; transmedia storytelling; pervasive live action role-playing; fiction; reality; participatory culture; audience; interactivity; public service broadcasting; media studies;

   Abstract : Mediekonvergens definieras och förklaras oftast som en teknisk och industriell företeelse, som den process där ny teknik anpassas till den befintliga medieindustrin och dess produktionskulturer. I dagens hybrida medielandskap kan mediekonvergens också beskrivas som den sociala process och de aktiviteter som medieanvändare deltar i när de rör sig mellan olika medier i jakt på underhållning och erfarenheter. READ MORE

5. 3. Electronic Labyrinths : An Archaeology of Videographic Cinema

   Author : Jonathan Rozenkrantz; Trond Lundemo; Malin Wahlberg; Patricia Pisters; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; videographic cinema; video images in films; media archaeology; imaginary media; media imaginaries; live television drama; video therapy; video surveillance; video art; reality TV; mediated memories; media history; YouTube; retro; analogue nostalgia; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Abstract : This study scans six decades of film history in search for video images, the imaginaries within which they are framed, and (taking cues from the archaeological methods of Friedrich Kittler and Michel Foucault) their technical, historical, and institutional conditions of existence. The British experimental science fiction film Anti-Clock (Jane Arden and Jack Bond, 1979) revolves around a video device with the capacity to confront subjects with their own repressed memory images. READ MORE

6. 4. A systemic stigmatization of fat people

   Author : Susanne Brandheim; Clary Krekula; Arja Tyrkkö; Lars-Gunnar Engström; Martin Börjeson; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; obesity; fatness; systemic; stigmatization; medicalization; transformative; second-order reality; Socialt arbete; Social Work;

   Abstract : The aim of this work was to develop knowledge about and awareness of fatness stigmatization from a systemic perspective. The stigmatization of fat people was located as a social problem in a second-order reality in which human fatness is observed and responded to, in turn providing it with negative meaning. READ MORE

7. 5. Head-mounted Projection Display to Support and Improve Motion Capture Acting

   Author : Daniel Kade; Oguzhan Özcan; Rikard Lindell; Morten Fjeld; Mälardalens högskola; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Computer Science; datavetenskap;

   Abstract : Current and future animations seek for realistic motions to create an illusion of authentic and believable animations. A technology widely used to support this process is motion capture. Therefore, motion capture actors are used to enrich the movements of digital avatars with suitable and believable motions and emotions. READ MORE