Search for dissertations about: "television studies"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 55 swedish dissertations containing the words television studies.

  2. 11. Risk, language and discourse

    Author : Max Boholm; Sven Ove Hansson; Niklas Möller; Terje Aven; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; risk; safety; concept; meaning; definiton; discourse; langauge; risk communication; corpus linguistics; content analysis; nanotechnology; nanoparticle; Planering och beslutsanalys; Planning and Decision Analysis; risk; safety; concept; meaning; definiton; discourse; langauge; risk communication; corpus linguistics; content analysis; nanotechnology; nanoparticle;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis analyses the concept of risk and how it functions as an organizing principle of discourse, paying close attention to actual linguistic practice.          Article 1 analyses the concepts of risk, safety and security and their relations based on corpus data (the Corpus of Contemporary American English). READ MORE

  4. 12. Extracting versatility : Films commissioned by the mining industry in postwar Sweden

    Author : Ole Johnny Fossås; Marina Dahlquist; Bo Florin; Zoë Druick; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; film history; swedish film; sponsored film; industrial film; useful cinema; mining; Sápmi; non-theatrical film; public service television; film distribution; the Swedish Film Institute; Radio Sweden; documentary film; film policy; filmhistoria; beställningsfilm; svensk film; industrifilm; informationsfilm; Sápmi; gruvindustrin; Svenska Filminstitutet; Sveriges Radio; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study investigates how films commissioned by Swedish mining companies were employed for institutional use between 1945 and 1965. A central aspect of what gave these films their versatility stems from circumstances that allowed commissioned texts to pass as non-partisan audiovisual aids, as educational and informative instruments and as occasional examples of film art through intermediaries. READ MORE

  5. 13. Europe in Transition : Transnational Television News and European Identity

    Author : Andreas Widholm; Madeleine Kleberg; Anna Roosvall; Inka Salovaara-Moring; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Transnational television; BBC World News; Euronews; European identity; EU enlargement; Orange Revolution; globalization; news journalism; media; European integration; political transitions; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies;

    Abstract : Over the last two decades, Europe has experienced profound political transformations, resulting in new challenges for the relationship between national and transnational identities. In parallel with these changes, national media systems across the world have been put under pressure from globalization, reflected in the vast increase in the number of transnational news channels operating on the global market. READ MORE

  6. 14. 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

  7. 15. Do You Have a TV? : Negotiating Swedish Public Service through 1950's Programming, "Americanization," and Domesticity

    Author : Tove Thorslund; Jan Olsson; Pelle Snickars; Mats Björkin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; television history; cultural history; public service; 1950s; television programming; intermediality; simulcast; program format; transnational; Americanization; domesticity; television set as furniture; everyday life; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

    Abstract : This dissertation presents a cultural history of early Swedish television. The focus is on the investigation of 1950s programming, intermedial connections, processes of “Americanization,” and domestic, socio-cultural change in direct relation to the new medium. READ MORE