Search for dissertations about: "teknik- och vetenskapsstudier"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 22 swedish dissertations containing the words teknik- och vetenskapsstudier.

2. 16. Exploring material things in family life : Morality and intimacy in sibling- and child-parent interaction

   Author : Emilia Zotevska; Asta Čekaitė; Ann-Carita Evaldsson; Anna Martín Bylund; Susan Danby; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Family; Children; Materiality; Interaction; Everyday life; Familj; Barn; Materialitet; Interaktion; Vardagsliv;

   Abstract : This study examines the everyday family life of 12 families across Sweden. The study aims to explore the ways in which material things figure in the enactment of everyday family life, that is, how family life is accomplished in interaction between children, parents and material things during everyday activities. READ MORE

4. 17. The Triumph of Technology over Politics? Reconstructing Television Systems: The Example of Sweden

   Author : Lena Ewertsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; television; liberalisation; sociotechnical systems; entrepreneurship; innovation;

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5. 18. Governable Air. Studies on the Science and Politics of Air Pollution in Europe

   Author : Martin Letell; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; air pollution; environmental government; science and politics; sociology of expertise;

   Abstract : How are associations between the scientific and the political articulated into the activity of international environmental government? This is the focal point of discussion and empirical observation in this dissertation. How is it possible to analyse such associations as an effect of articulation rather than a tectonic clash between preconstituted social realms? How can one identify moments of association and describe their quality without resorting to some absolute frame of reference? Drawing on poststructuralist discourse theory and actor network theory, the general purpose is to move the analysis of the association between the scientific and the political in the direction of th event rather than explaining any such association by imposing the deus ex machina of social structures supposedly given by defult. READ MORE

6. 19. Free software to open hardware: Critical theory on the frontiers of hacking

   Author : Johan Söderberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; hackers; constructivism; innovation; free software; critical theory; immanent critique; technology; lay expertise; open hardware;

   Abstract : Starting from the experiences of hackers developing free software and open hardware, this thesis addresses some key and recurrent themes in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). It poses the question: how are technologies conceptualised, constructed and used in ways that render some aspects of them transparent, while leaving others opaque? This question is complicated by the fact that what is visible and transparent to some will remain opaque to others, depending on the level of technical expertise commanded. READ MORE

7. 20. Experimenting for change? : The politics of accomplishing environmental governance through smart energy pilot projects

   Author : Fredrik Envall; Harald Rohracher; Dick Magnusson; Josefin Wangel; Matthew Cashmore; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; environmental governance; political rationality; experiment; smart energy; socio-technical perspective; knowledge politics; power relations; infrastructure.; miljöstyrning; politisk rationalitet; experiment; smarta nät; socio-tekniskt perspektiv; kunskapspolitik; maktrelationer; infrastruktur.;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates how smart energy experimentation arranges environmental governance in Sweden, focusing on the politics of such processes, against the background of an escalating environmental and climate crisis that necessitates urgent energy transformation. Empirically the thesis includes case studies of pilot projects in Stockholm, Malmö, Västerås, and on Gotland, and analysis of the policy landscape, mainly through text analysis and interviews. READ MORE