Search for dissertations about: "world order"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 1200 swedish dissertations containing the words world order.

  2. 1. Broken Order : Shapeshifting as Social Metaphor in Early Medieval England and Ireland

    Author : Gwendolyne Knight; Roger Andersson; Cordelia Heß; Lena Rohrbach; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Anglo-Saxon England; Early Christian Ireland; Shapeshifting; Historical Anthropology; Early Medieval European History; History; historia;

    Abstract : Shapeshifting narratives appear in cultures all over the world, throughout human history. At each point, these narratives give expression to culturally contingent anxieties and preoccupations. READ MORE

  4. 2. World Builders : A Study on the Development of a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

    Author : Peter Zackariasson; Anders Söderholm; Nils Wåhlin; Daniel Hjorth; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MMORGPG; development; video game; organizing; discourse; Business studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a study of the development of a video game called Anarchy Online. This game was developed by the Funcom company between 1995 and 2001, and is a so-called Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG). READ MORE

  5. 3. A World of Myths : World Literature and Storytelling in Canongate's Myths series

    Author : Malin Nauwerck; Johan Professor; Paula Docent; Torbjörn Forslid; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sociology of Literature; World Literature; Book History; Publishing Studies; Sociology of Translation; Marketing; Storytelling; Book Trade; Metafiction; 21st Century; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis discusses contemporary publishing within the global, literary system through the prism of the transnational publishing project the Myths series, initiated by Scottish publishing house Canongate Books in 2005. By combining the perspectives of world literature studies and sociology of literature, I explore the conception, development and communication around the Myths series (today published in forty countries) in relation firstly to the contemporary changes in the publishing industry, situated within a more general literary debate on globalisation and cultural diversity and secondly the rise of a social order epitomised under the umbrella term “new economy”, in which the practice of strategic communication or marketing storytelling has become increasingly common. READ MORE

  6. 4. Seizing the Opportunity : Power and Powerlessness in a Changing World Order. The Case of Mozambiqie

    Author : Hans Abrahamsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; international relations; world order; Mozambique;

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  7. 5. Order-preserving graph grammars

    Author : Petter Ericson; Henrik Björklund; Frank Drewes; Sebastian Maneth; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Graph grammars; graph parsing; graph series; hyperedge replacement; uniform parsing problem; abstract meaning representation; semantic modelling; order preservation; reentrancy preservation; minimally adequate teacher; weighted graph grammars;

    Abstract : The field of semantic modelling concerns formal models for semantics, that is, formal structures for the computational and algorithmic processing of meaning. This thesis concerns formal graph languages motivated by this field. READ MORE