Search for dissertations about: "technological mediation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words technological mediation.

  2. 1. Smartphoned Tourists in the Phygital Tourist Experience

    Author : Micol Mieli; Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; smartphone; tourism; phygital; mediation; tourist experience; tourist information search; tourist behaviour; digitalization;

    Abstract : The present thesis explores how the tourist experience is re-articulated through the mediation of smartphones. I adopt the postphenomenological theory of mediation as the overarching ontological position, placing the role of technologies on an ontological level, as mediators of perception and experience. READ MORE

  4. 2. Aesthetics of being together

    Author : Stoffel Kuenen; Erik Stolterman; Johan Redström; Dag Svanæs; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; design; interaction design; design theory; aesthetics; aesthetics of being together; aesthetics of interaction; design practices; design research practice; research through design; practice based research; constructive design research; social media; technological mediation; social platforms; digital interactions; social interaction; group interaction; social dynamics; perceptual crossing; intersubjectivity; Aesthetics; estetik; design; design;

    Abstract : Design deals with matters of aesthetics. Historically, aesthetics in industrial design refers to the designed artifact: aesthetics of objects. When designed artifacts include digital technologies, aesthetics in design refers to what happens between people and artifacts as well: aesthetics of interaction. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Technopolitics of Compassion : A Postphenomenological Analysis of the Digital Mediation of Global Humanitarianism

    Author : Daniel Møller Ølgaard; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; humanitarianism; digital media; technopolitics; postphenomenology; mediation theory; power; materiality; imaginaries; algorithms; social media; virtual reality; apps;

    Abstract : Humanitarian organisations are central actors in the mediation of humanitarian disasters as objects of public, political and moral concern. Consequently, if we want to understand this key dynamic of world politics we have to understand how aid organisations use media. READ MORE

  6. 4. Vocal Figurations : Technique, Technology, and Mediation in the Gendering of Voice in Twenty-First-Century Pop Music

    Author : Veronika Muchitsch; Lars Berglund; Elizabeth Gould; Nina Eidsheim; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pop Music; Pop Music Analysis; Music Criticism; Sound Studies; Auditory Cultures; Voice; Vocal Technique; Studio Technology; Electronic Media; Pop Music and Gender; Pop Music and Intersectionality; Feminist Figurations; Postfeminism; Popular Feminism; Lana Del Rey; Anohni; Antony and the Johnsons; Beyoncé; Musikvetenskap; Musicology;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the gendering of voice in twenty-first-century pop music and music criticism through the concept of vocal figurations. Embodying a thoroughly relational understanding of voice, it articulates vocal technique, studio technology, and electronic mediation as three primary dimensions through which voices come to signal gender as it intersects with other vectors of social identity. READ MORE

  7. 5. The mediating role of responsive digital materials : a conceptual investigation and analytic framework

    Author : Heather Wiltse; Erik Stolterman; United States Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Digital technologies have become thoroughly enmeshed in everyday life, forming a backdrop of experience. We live not only with these technologies but also through them as they mediate our engagement with the world. READ MORE