Sökning: "Birgitta Höijer"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Birgitta Höijer.
1. Film och mening : En receptionsstudie om spelfilm, filmpublik och existentiella frågor
Sammanfattning : In what ways and under what circumstances can a movie be a resource for individuals and their thoughts about existential matters? This central research question has been investigated using a both quantitative and qualitative approach. First, a questionnaire was distributed amongst 179 Swedish students to provide a preliminary overview of film habits. LÄS MER
2. Hope and worry : exploring young people's values, emotions, and behavior regarding global environmental problems
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores young people’s engagement concerning global environmental problems. To be able to reverse these problems, it is vital to involve the public in the strivings for a sustainable society. However, environmental problems are complex, imbued with uncertainties and ambivalence. LÄS MER
3. Medborgarskap och globalisering : den diskursiva konstruktionen av politisk identitet
Sammanfattning : This study takes as its point of departure the theorizing on citizenship and globalization. Today it is common to discuss a “flexible” citizenship beyond the paradigm of the nationstate, which, besides its legal aspects of rights and obligations, also includes identification with and participation in various communities, primarily political ones. LÄS MER
4. Safety in the making : studies on the discursive construction of risk and safety in the chemical industry
Sammanfattning : This compilation thesis aims to analyse how risk and safety are constructed, reproduced, and negotiated by communicative means in safety-critical workplaces. It conceptualizes these communicative moments of shaping and reshaping risk and safety as enmeshed in multiple forms of governing. LÄS MER
5. Journalism at the borders : the constitution of nationalist closure in news decoding
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a contribution to the social analysis of nationalism. Its disciplinary context comprises the field of empirical studies that explore how forms of mediated quasi interaction can function in processes of reproduction and transformation of nationality. LÄS MER