Search for dissertations about: "sensory studies"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 406 swedish dissertations containing the words sensory studies.
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1. Digital Intimacies : Doing Digital Media Differently
Abstract : Digital media have become an integral part of many people’s everyday lives and constitute an intimate presence therein. Utilizing the concept of digital intimacy to focus on these recent developments, this doctoral dissertation takes the perspectives of feminist cultural studies and affect theory to analyze how digital media are becoming more intimate and how in turn intimacy is remediated within digital cultures. READ MORE
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2. Seven Senses of the City : Urban Spacetime and Sensory Memory in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction
Abstract : The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the narrative mechanisms and imagery that fictional works employ to conceptualize and communicate complex human experiences of space, time and memory. Furthermore, this study shows how contemporary cities change the way we think about such basic concepts by analyzing narratives that employ and encourage multisensory, spatiotemporal understandings of reality characterized by permeable boundaries between the material, social and imaginary domains. READ MORE
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3. Description and measurement of sensory symptoms in autism spectrum
Abstract : Unusual responses to sensory stimuli have been reported in nearly all children with autism spectrum conditions (ASC). A few studies on adults indicate that the sensory and perceptual problems persist into adulthood. READ MORE
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4. "Creating the Senses" : Sensation in the work of Shelley Jackson
Abstract : This monograph on the œuvre of contemporary American author and multimedia artist Shelley Jackson addresses the question of how literary works employ language to evoke sense impressions. Gilles Deleuze’s notion of aesthetic percepts is drawn on to develop a theory of literary phantom sensations which is then tested on the work of Jackson and related authors. READ MORE
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5. Artificial sensory evaluation : appearance-based analysis of ready meals
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